I am going to write about wild turkey problems during the summer as I had promised, but an outdoor writer can’t skip over the fishing that gets so good this time of year… I went fishing …
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5/25/22
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There is only one answer to bringing wild turkeys back to the numbers seen many years ago! Hunters will have to do it! The Missouri Department of Conservation is too inept now to do much of …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/18/22
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I don’t get to a modern church very often today. That was something I did since I was young and had no choice in the matter. But I love to spend Sunday mornings out in the woods somewhere or …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/11/22
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Sometimes, to be a successful fisherman you have to become a diligent hunter. A friend and I did just that a few days ago, going up a swollen and muddy Sac River, looking for some tributaries where …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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5/4/22
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You have no idea how it hurts an old time outdoorsman like me to roam the Ozarks and witness what is happening to the wild turkey. What hurts most is to know it is likely to be this way for years and …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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4/20/22
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I never thought I would see wild turkey flocks in the Ozarks drop to the level I have witnessed this past winter. It is a serious situation and state conservation departments from Oklahoma to Alabama …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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4/13/22
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Bought some fishing line at Walmart the other day and took it up to that place where they have computers which you are suppose to operate on your own so they can hire fewer people. I ask a lady if …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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4/6/22
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There is no more efficient predator than a great horned owl. Silent and deadly, he can eat whatever he wants, up to and including a roosting wild turkey. Their flight is completely silent, and they …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/30/22
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I know that folks in Houston Missouri have doubts about the Big Piney-Old Time Ozarks museum I am going to build. But it is going to happen, in time, and here is why.
Logs, lumber and fireplace …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/23/22
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Many, many years ago I bought a 12-year collection of old Forest & Stream outdoor magazines, from 1910 through 1922. Occasionally I read through some of them, always finding something new. In the …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/9/22
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I will swear with both hands on two bibles that this is the truth, but heck, I wouldn’t blame you for not believing it. It was the first week of March maybe a half dozen years ago when three of …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/2/22
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When I am fishing in February and March, I like water just a little bit above normal, with not so much mud in it, or floating debris. I like it green colored and gently flowing, enough so that …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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2/23/22
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I never caught a walleye when I was young because the Big Piney, where I grew up, didn’t have any. That seems strange to me now because so many Ozark streams have plenty of those glass-eyed …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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2/16/22
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Last week I wrote about my dream to create a museum along Highway 63 between Houston and Licking, dedicated to the early history of the old-time Ozarks and the Big Piney River where I grew up. I was …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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2/9/22
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It is a sad time for us hunters. The last of the duck season ended Monday. But there is still some of the Canada goose hunting season remaining as you can still hunt them until Feb. 6 in Missouri, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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2/2/22
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What I would like to leave behind me when I am gone and forgotten, originated in a dream from 30 years ago. That is when I began to think about a special museum somewhere between Cabool, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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1/26/22
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It is hard to describe the feelings and emotions you have watching an old companion you have raised from a puppy make his last retrieve. Unable to see now, Bolt, my 12-year-old chocolate Labrador, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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1/19/22
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What happened to the ducks this fall? Well we had far too little water here in the lower Midwest, but the big problem was the lack of water in northern breeding grounds of Canada and the Dakotas. Way …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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1/12/22
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I wonder sometimes if common sense in our nation is a thing of the past. At a meeting of outdoor writers some greatly admired turkey hunter who worked for the Forest Products Institute told …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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1/5/22
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We had several New-Years Eve celebrations at the pool hall in the sixties. If you want to call it that! Nobody was all excited about seeing the year behind them gone for good, and the worst of winter …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/29/21
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