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OutdoorFrontiers Members - A NEW CONTEST!
We've been growing and traffic has been good lately. I'd like to reward our members and continue the growth. So we've come up with a new contest.
Have a new member sign up and be active in the forums. Both of you send me a PM as to who you are and the member who brought you here (or visa versa) and BOTH of your names will be entered into a drawing.
Each week during the month of April, I'll be drawing two names and sending you a prize just for signing up and participating in the forums!
The prize this time is a four-pack of JJ's Magic, a great product for adding color and scent to soft plastic lures!
So come on everyone, let's see the traffic really jump!
And the spam attacks continue. Chris2Fur has been helping moderate the site, cleaning up the trash that gets posted. In the course of doing this, we might inadvertantly delete legitimate posts or members. If this happens, please contact me at the address below.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
As always, if there are any issues, or if you do have any ideas on things that will improve the site please contact me either via Private Messenger or email me at (steve@outdoorfrontiers.com) for assistance.
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I have been wild turkey hunting now for over 20 years now and I love everything about it (with the exception of getting up so early). I, in no way consider myself an expert, but I do feel confident going each year that I will fill my tag. As anyone who turkey hunts can attest, that feeling often goes south on you more times than not, especially when those darn birds just don’t want to cooperate!
For the last 5 years things have been tough for me here in Illinois (not being a landowner) and just trying to find someone that will let you hunt can be as tough as bagging a bird. If you do find such a person it's hard to get to know the land you will be hunting in time to have any sort of a plan to bag your bird. Creeks, rivers and fences that I wasn’t aware of have killed me the last three years!
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Posted by Steve on Wednesday, April 29 @ 19:11:20 EDT (210 reads)
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A recent post here in the forums got me thinking while I was posting the reply. I thought, that by the time I got done, I’d have an article written, which got me thinking that maybe I should just write an article! So here goes...
I know, everyone’s been cleaning their guns for years, and everyone knows how to do it, right? Well, maybe, maybe not. So, with the hunting seasons for the most part over, it's time to store away the rifles, and what else do you have to do? Make sure your guns have been cleaned properly before putting them away. Most people have the trusty old, three piece cleaning rod kit. They’ll pour a cup of coffee, stick a Hoppe’s #9 soaked patch on the end of the rod, run it down the barrel from the muzzle a couple times, run a dry patch, finally they’ll run an oiled patch and call it good, putting it away until next year.
This method, other than the cup of coffee part, quite frankly sucks! Read More Here... |
Posted by Steve on Sunday, February 08 @ 11:30:18 EST (882 reads)
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It was long after dark – Dad and my sister Liesl were still not back. Those of us at Base Camp weren't worried (at least, not yet). They had left around 10:00 in the morning taking with them 7 mules and 8 horses to pick up our backcountry hunters after a week-long adventure. Little did they know, their adventure was just beginning. We were short a packer that particular week and it is always a good Idea to have at least two people with the “pack train” – one guide and one packer. I had gone with dad as the packer last time, so it was my little sister's turn. They should have gotten to our remote Roaring Ridge Camp around noon, would have lunch then load the mules and 2 packhorses. After that, it should take them about three hours to ride back. Then you add two hours to that for emergency time – a pack saddle rolls, a lead rope breaks, that new pack mule isn't what they said he was..... By the time you count all of the variables of working with animals it was not uncommon for our riders to return in the later hours of the evening. No big deal. |
Posted by Steve on Tuesday, January 27 @ 16:57:31 EST (692 reads)
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On June 11, 2002, 13 months after I had begun my first safari and had taken a fantastic Cape Buffalo, and 7 months after my second safari, when I managed to take a huge male Leopard and break my ankle, I found myself getting off a South Africa Airways airplane at Johannesburg Airport. I was once again greeted by my good friend and veteran Professional Hunter Danie Clifford Sr. Over the previous seven months, Danie and I had worked out a plan that would allow me to complete my quest for the African Dangerous Game Big Six over a four week Safari. During those fabulous four weeks I would have to take an Elephant, a Rhinoceros, a Hippopotamus, and a Lion. None of this would be easy and we knew going into it that it was problematic that we would finish our objective. Each of these four fantastic animals is different in temperament, location, size, aggressiveness, behavior, and most of all, what I will call "findability!" As before, I would be using my 45-70-lever action Marlin rifle loaded with 540 grain Garrett Cartridge Hammerheads for the elephant, rhino, and hippo, and 420 grain Hammerheads for the lion. Ambitious to say the least!
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Posted by Steve on Saturday, February 28 @ 20:51:53 EST (513 reads)
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YOUR ICE-FISHING SUCCESS DEPENDS UPON YOU
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I've been on the water often enough over the decades to know that the barometer will affect your fishing success, but the degree to which it plays a part, often depends upon the fisherman him/herself. The need to slow down one's presentation is often difficult to recognize, much less make a very necessary, immediate transition, especially when you've been out several days in a row with the fish banging your lure or minnow as soon as, or before it hits your favored fishing depth.
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Posted by Steve on Friday, February 06 @ 21:03:25 EST (650 reads)
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