Cuz’s Corner

I make no claims to be better at turkey hunting than the next guy and in reality I’m not. That’s why (for me anyway) when you pull off a zone 1 miracle it’s sweet. I’ve been hunting with many of the so called “best” turkey hunters in the nation and none of them kill or call in a longbeard on each and every hunt and would not claim too. I have had many hunts where

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Wounded Veteran Finds Another Chance at Life Outside

Marine Cpl. Christian Brown, of Mumford, Tenn., grew up in the outdoors and learned his earliest life lessons while following his father through the woods. Nature’s greatest rewards didn’t come to his attention, though, until he returned years later, missing his legs and looking for the person he had been.

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Lions and Tigers and Bears

You hear it a lot lately, on hunting shows and in magazine articles, “take a kid hunting.” It’s a theme that we as hunters should be proud is getting much needed attention. It’s by no means a new concept but in my opinion, it was put on the shelf for a while during the “big” period.

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Food for the Soul

At least half the tall tales from hunting camp will be about the food. Ol’ Joe’s fried tenderloin or big John’s chili will get as much air time as someone’s buck story. There are many common threads intertwined in these camps, cooks and tales but the one constant is good people. There’s something about these folks; these hunting, fishing, camping out, charcoaling, camo clad smiling nimrods that sometimes eat too much that raises them to

I Hate Field Turkeys

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m pretty laid back. I get along with just about anybody and can think of very few people and only a few things that I really dislike. Of course snakes rate at the top of my dislike chart. Actually hate would be a better word to describe that emotion. For some reason milk has always been a big problem for me. I don’t know how I got

Getting Ready Season

I made it my business to run through a visual checklist of everything we either could not or would really rather not do without and ensure it was on the boat or truck before we left: Ice chests, ice, trotlines or trotline mending gear, trolling motor battery, fuel, bait, paddle, drain plug and life jackets. At one point or another we’d left one or more of these items at home, some of them more than

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