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Get the Picture: How to Capture the Spirit and Success of your Hunts

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By Nancy Anisfield Originally published in Covers magazine – Spring 2019 Get creative with your photos! For example, interacting with dogs can show more than a typical pose. Photo: Nancy Anisfield Many of us have been seduced by the convenience of cell phones and pocket-sized digital cameras. Unfortunately, we take our smart phone cameras for granted and as a result, we snap away without careful thought. We end up with a few blurry shots of a dog’s head, lots of empty skies, a skanky grouse hanging off a post or a grainy indoor photo too dark to see who’s who. We also...

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Don’t Let the Feet Be Your Defeat

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Foot care can save your season by Lisa Price Covers magazine – Summer 2019 I tried again to persuade my friend Chuck: “All I need you to do is hook the suburban up to the trailer,” I said. “And if you could go to the store and get me some ice, I’ll be good to go.” I had some dogs in training and was entered in an AKC event the next day – four hours away. But he was already shaking his head. “No,” he said. “You need to go to the doctor.” During some dog training that morning, I had taken a misstep into...

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Establish Soft, Hard Mast for Gamebirds and Improve Your Hunting in the Bargain

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by Mark Herwig Originally printed in Covers magazine – Spring 2019 A few years ago, a buddy and I made an interesting “discovery of the grouse kind” while hunting a state forest near my recreational land in northern Minnesota. We discovered what we later named “The Mountain Ash Covert.” Every time we passed a single, mature mountain ash tree on the trail, we flushed grouse and sometimes even bagged one. They were both in and around the 30-foot tree, eating its nutritious red berries. The covert inspired me. “I should establish some mountain ash on my land!” Give to the grouse, and they will...

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President’s Message – Spring 2021

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by Benjamin C. Jones Some believe that ruffed grouse transcend the natural world – that they’re a bellwether of forest health and beyond. Three such conservationists, Seybert Beverage, Bruce Richardson and Dixie Shumate, founded the Ruffed Grouse Society sixty years ago. That’s a big deal, and the milestone has been at the forefront of my mind as we cross into 2021. How do we appropriately honor 60 years? Stay True to Our Core Tenets Without question, learning about ruffed grouse conservation was always at the forefront. “When we got involved in the Society, we weren’t [only] interested in promoting grouse shooting. Even back then,...

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24 Ways to Miss a Woodcock

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Respect for a gamebird born from the tribulations of crazy flight and thick cover. by Jay Hanson Originally published in Covers magazine – Spring 2019 We’re all introduced to bird hunting in various ways. If wealth is measured in long-haired bird dogs and access to an abundance of wild birds, some of us are born into fortune. Others were introduced into wingshooting later in life by being invited to a posh Dakota pheasant lodge, maybe a corporate shindig or by a fast-talking brother-in-law. In my neck of the woods, my dad and his cohorts made up a small circle of hunters that walked...

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