The Top 60 Hunting Blogs

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Hunting is far more than a ‘hobby’, and far closer to a way of life. From scouting out the area to finding your prize after making the perfect shot, hunting is more than a cheap thrill. Since hunting skills are gained mostly by experience, you can read all of the books you want, but it will never prepare you quite like a day spent out pursuing game. But that’s not to say that isn’t worth reading about!

These days, you can find a wealth of hunting information online. The internet has become a treasure trove of valuable information that can help you improve your hunting skills and connect you with other hunting enthusiasts. From novice hunters who are documenting their journey into the sport, to expert hunters who are fully qualified to offer training and tips, a wide variety of people at different skill levels are now sharing their love for hunting with millions of others around the world.

Hunting Blogs are excellent sources of information when it comes to searching for hunting tips, getting information on this season’s best locations, and reading stories of other people’s hunting experiences. Need to find a new gun? Want to know the best place to hunt in Montana? You can find all of this information and more on the blogs found below, the best of the best hunting blogs currently online!

Here at Veterans Benefits GI Bill, we know that hunting enthusiasts are always searching for the latest news and information about the sport, so we’ve scoured the web to bring you the absolute best Hunting Blogs currently online. If you’re looking for any hunting-related information, you’d be hard pressed to need to search beyond the 60 Blogs we’ve compiled below.

We are thrilled to share the list of winners with you, and we hope you find them as entertaining, insightful and helpful as we did.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Marian’s Hunting Stories
  http://mariandeer.blogspot.com/
• Ben G. Outdoors
  http://beng-outdoors.blogspot.com/
• The Hunter’s Wife
  http://www.thehunterswife.net/
• A Blessed Crazy Life
  http://crazydogslife.blogspot.com/
• Deer Camp Blog
  http://bodocktimes.blogspot.com/
• Low Country Hunting
  http://lowcountryhunting.com/
• Michael Waddell’s Blog
  http://www.michaelwaddell.com/mw-blog/
• My Hunting Buddies
  http://www.myhuntingbuddies.com/
• The Suburban Bushwacker
  http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/
• Hunting Legends in Africa
  http://www.huntinglegends.com/
• Outdoors International
  http://gothunts.com/
• The Buck Hunter’s Blog
  http://www.buckhuntersblog.com/
• The Hog Blog
  http://www.buckhuntersblog.com/contact
• Deer Hunting Big Bucks
  http://www.deerhuntingbigbucks.com/
• Bill Howard’s Outdoors
  http://www.billhowardoutdoors.com/
• Give em’ the Shaft
  http://giveemtheshaft.blogspot.com/
• TK14 Ranch
  http://www.tk14ranch.com/
• Kill More Ducks
  http://killmoreducks.com/
• Big Buck Zone
  http://mikehanback.com/
• Bright Idea Outdoors
  http://www.mattcoughlin.typepad.com/matt_coughlins_weblog/
• Camo Underground
  http://www.camounderground.com/
• The Hunt and Fish Blog
  http://www.thehuntandfishblog.com/
• Annie Got Her Gun
  http://www.skinnymoose.com/annevinnola/
• Outdoors with Othmar Vohringer
  http://outdoorswithothmarvohringer.blogspot.com/
• Hunting Life
  http://www.huntinglife.com/blog/
• King’s Outdoor World
  http://blog.kingsoutdoorworld.com/
• Deer Slayer
  http://deerslayercom.blogspot.com/
• NY Bowhunter
  http://www.nybowhunter.com/
• My Hunting Fishing
  http://www.myhuntingfishing.com/
• Bushmen Safaris Blog
  http://bushmensafaris.blogspot.com/
• Doubletough Outdoors
  http://doubletoughoutdoors.com/
• Whitetail Woods
  http://whitetailwoods.blogspot.com/
• Hunting News Daily
  http://huntingnewsdaily.com/
• NorCal Cazadora
  http://norcalcazadora.blogspot.com/
• The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles
  http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/
• Rob’s Hunting Journal
  http://robshuntingjournal.blogspot.com/
• Scent Free Lip Gloss
  http://www.scentfreelipgloss.com/
• Simply Outdoors blog
  http://www.simplyoutdoors.net/blog/
• The Outdooress
  http://www.outdooress.com/
• The Wild Life
  http://thewildlife2.blogspot.com/
• Wild Ed’s Texas Outdoors
  http://wildedtx.blogspot.com/
• Wildlife Callers
  http://www.wildlifecallers.com/blog/
• Winded Bowhunter
  http://blog.windedbowhunter.com/
• Wired to Hunt
  http://wiredtohunt.com/
• Bowhunting Blog
  http://www.bowhunting.com/blog/
• Basecamp Legends
  http://www.basecamplegends.com/
• Outdoor Freaks
  http://www.outdoorfreaks.net/
• High Country Archer
  http://highcountryarcher.blogspot.com/
• Hunting with Mike
  http://www.blogsmonroe.com/hunting/
• Deer Passion
  http://deerpassion.blogspot.com/
• Okie Rednecks
  http://brodricks.blogspot.com/
• Cocked and Loaded
  http://fillyourhands.blogspot.com/
• Shed Hunting
  http://goshedhunting.com/index.php
• Goon’s North Dakota Redneck
  http://redneckndgoon.blogspot.com/
• Montana Elk Hunting
  http://montanaelkhunting.blogspot.com/
• My Hunting Spot
  http://steveshunting.blogspot.com/
• Women’s Hunting Journal
  http://womenshuntingjournal.blogspot.com/
• A Mindful Carnivore
  http://www.tovarcerulli.com/
• Great White Hunter
  http://greatwhitehunter.wordpress.com/
• Hunter 4 Life
  http://hunter4life.com/
• Hunting in Georgia
  http://www.huntingingeorgia.info/
• Fred’s Hunting and Fishing blog
  http://hunting-fishing-fred.blogspot.com/

THIS is a BIG DEAL Colorado!!!!

The Reapportionment issue is a HUGE deal to Colorado Conservatives and your voice is needed NOW is really a time to fight for your state!!

This is from Colorado State Senator Kevin Grantham District 2

Greetings all:

As you may well already know, the Reapportionment committee is traveling the state taking public input on their proposed maps for redrawing the State House and Senate district lines.

If you have not seen the maps they can be found at the following links:

House Maps: http://1.usa.gov/oTGLwE

Senate Maps: http://1.usa.gov/pOeQ73

I encourage you to review each of the maps and how it affects your county and the area as a whole. If you are not aware of the changes in Senate District 2 they are significant. They have created a monstrously sized district (currently renumbered to #31) that stretches from Mineral County (west of Alamosa) all the way to the Kansas line (including Kiowa, Prowers, and Baca counties). This district would be 26,887 square miles in size. For a little perspective, that is over a quarter of the land area of the entire state (104,100 sq. mi.) and is larger than 10 US States.

It also removes Fremont County (where I live) and adds in the six counties of the San Luis Valley as well as Prowers and Kiowa on the eastern end. The removal of Fremont and the addition of the San Luis Valley creates a dramatic shift in voter registration numbers. As it sits now it is a registration advantage for Republicans at 40.11% to 35.44%. This shifts it to a 5 point advantage to the Democrats (41.09% D to 36.72% R). A 10 point swing!

The other main issue is the violence that it does to our communities of interest. Fremont County has a common bond with the Lower Ark area because of its ties with the Ag community, farming, ranching, water, etc., as well as other economic drivers such as Corrections. The replacing of Fremont with the San Luis Valley does not improve the communities of interest aspect of the maps but does significant violence to it. Can they actually keep a straight face and say that Mineral and Rio Grande counties have a stronger community of interest with the Lower Ark than Fremont? Or is this simply a ploy to turn over a current Republican seat to a Democrat?

If you have the same or similar concerns with these maps please find the time to come testify at one of the following meetings. Share this information with other concerned citizens in your county so that they can make their voice heard.

Also, here is an OpEd from the Pueblo Chieftain this morning (8/17) regarding this issue:

http://www.chieftain.com/opinion/editorials/don-t-fix-it/article_a9d3bf6e-c872-11e0-97c7-001cc4c002e0.html#user-comment-area

MORE….

My note from earlier today dealt primarily with the Senate District changes for SE Colorado. This note will address the House districts. Again the links to the maps are as follows:

House Maps: http://1.usa.gov/oTGLwE

Senate Maps: http://1.usa.gov/pOeQ73

The changes to the House districts in our area cover several issues and I’ll address them accordingly.

For Fremont County, the split in the county goes from three districts down to two: we actually lose the portion of HD47 (Swerdfeger) that is in SE Fremont and the Lincoln Park area of Canon City. Those precincts are essentially split between 60 and 21. This remaining split is unnecessary. All of Fremont could easily be put in 60 and kept whole. Rep. Gardner (21) could easily retract into El Paso County with minor line adjustments to the other districts in El Paso to adjust for population. I would encourage all of our Fremont residents to attend the meeting and testify for keeping Fremont whole. At the very least a split could happen that actually makes sense this time around such as following the line between RE1 and RE2 school districts instead of the current or proposed hack jobs.

Las Animas County: You’re county has been severed from the rest of SE Colorado and included with HD 47 in Pueblo County. I don’t believe that this is even remotely in the best interest of LA County. Given the issues and nature of the county including ranching, Pinon Canyon, oil & gas, etc., it is far better served remaining with the SE area counties such as Otero, Bent, Baca, and Prowers.

Others: The above are just a couple of issues that have an end result of negatively affecting you as well through diluted representation. There are other options for how these lines can be drawn that would keep communities of interest together. If LA County stays with the SE area then 47 must find its population elsewhere from adjoining counties, possibly Custer, Crowley, and a more sensible split of Fremont. The loss of Crowley and gain of Las Animas in HD 64 would result in an oversized district and the need to drop some population – possibly from Elbert County. There are several ripple effects like these that would need to be addressed if the necessary changes are made to the proposed maps.

If you are from one of these other counties and are so inclined I would encourage you to come and testify on these issues and for the integrity of SE Colorado – especially in regard to the treatment of Las Animas and Fremont counties.

If you have the same or similar concerns with these maps please find the time to come testify at one of the following meetings. Share this information with other concerned citizens in your county so that they can make their voice heard.

Thank you all and I look forward to seeing you at the meetings.

Kevin Grantham

Senator, Colorado District 2

kevin.grantham.senate@state.co.us

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Editorial by Don Bendell
 
WHAT WE  MUST DO ABOUT TERRORISM!
 
            Without being seen by our seemingly half-asleep national security forces, eight members of al-Qaida, trained in both Pakistan and Yemen, took over the midwest American high school armed with AK-47s, pistols, rocket propelled grenades, two machine guns, and remote-controlled Claymore mines. Within minutes of the school take-over, even before the local police and sheriff’s deputies arrived in force, the radical jihadists started screaming “Alluyah Ahkbar!” over and over while mowing down dozens of screaming innocent students and teachers. Firing their automatic weapons, they also tossed hand grenades down hallways and into some rooms filled with hiding children. Hundreds of children and teachers were executed even before the first SWAT team was in place.
            This is horrible and inexcusable, isn’t it? It is fictional but similar happened in Russia. Alarmingly, it is the exact scenario which has been practiced in al-Qaida training camps over and over, just waiting to launch such attacks in America. Shall we wait for our children to die to then act decisively?
            In life or death confrontations, second place never works. Many people are yelling and complaining about stopping terrorists, but very few  offer solutions. I do. If there is one thing in this world that I know as an expert and understand very well: That is fighting, protecting your loved ones, and winning. How must we stay ahead of the terrorists and stay alive?
            We must first, overcome denial, now. We have tried our nice feel-good tactics to suck up to the fanatical jihadists, such as electing a President with a Muslin name, adding a few Muslims to Hollywood and Beltway A-Party lists, and other stratagems to prove we are not prejudiced. It did not work with bullies on the playground taking our lunch money, and it will not work now. The al-Qaida, a fanatical well-organized, well-equipped, and well-trained guerilla army; secretly backed by both Iran and China, has one mindset, Dar el Islam, the Nation of Islam,” meaning world domination by Islam under Sharia law, where women wear burqas, are beaten regularly, and have zero rights, and all human rights are a joke. They want to convert or kill all Christians and kill all Jews, period. The only thing that will deter that is winning the supposedly non-existent Global War On Terrorism.          Usama bin Laden has stated many times that his number one goal is to detonate nuclear devices in two major American cities simultaneously with large Jewish populations during daylight hours for maximum terror affect. This is well-documented. He was behind 9-11, eight years after the first World Trade Center attack that was not quite as successful. Another eight years has passed and Flight 253 was a protected blessing from God and a warning for us, a divinely-inspired two by four across our head to get our attention. We must think post-9-11 not pre-9-11 for our survival.
            To that end, write to the White House and your congressman and insist that the President fires Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and replace her with someone who is not in over their head, such as House Armed Services Committee Chair Duncan Hunter or Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, and then let them do their job. By the same regard, insist that the President allow his generals and admirals to do their job without any interference by him or other politicians, as it was done in World War II where we won with unconditional surrender. In like manner, those same generals and admirals are to be ordered to allow their field commanders, who have been trained at a high cost, and with “boots on the ground” to be allowed to command their battles and combat situations without micromanagement from air-conditioned staff and command offices.
            Next, we MUST take the handcuffs and shackles off of our troops. According to the NY Times, the rules of engagement in Afghanistan state the following:
   “1. No night or surprise searches.
    2. Villagers have to be warned prior to searches.
    3. ANA or ANP must accompany U.S. units on searches.
    4. U.S. soldiers may not fire at the enemy unless the enemy is
    preparing to fire first.
    5. U.S. forces cannot engage the enemy if civilians are present.
    6. Only women can search women.
    7. Troops can fire at an insurgent if they catch him placing an IED
    but not if insurgents are walking away from an area where explosives
    have been laid.”
            This is insane! It is absolutely ludicrous and our troops will certainly be killed and can never win operating under such rules. Further, several Navy SEALs are charged and being court-martialed because a prisoner accused them of abuse with only a bloody lip to show for it. In POW training as a young Special Forces officer, I was water-boarded, given a black eye, split lip, broken rib, numerous cuts, tortured; and it probably made me a much safer and more effective officer in Vietnam. Guess what? I am still alive and in my sixties now and would go through the training again for my nation, gladly. The Commander in Chief should court-martial any senior officers who would even bring up such ludicrous charges against these fine brave warriors or any in similar circumstance. Why would any brave young American desire to go into specops or into combat if their commanders will not back them up? This thinking lends itself to the governmental mindset which has filtered down through every over-crowded branch of our giant bureaucracy.   
            Since Barack Obama took office, the Beltway mindset has been to cover you’re a*#, and not protect our homeland or our military. The President made it clear, we would become a kinder, gentler nation, so everybody in government positions are unwilling to stick their necks out to issue warnings, protect our citizenry, or speak out against possible terrorists for fear of being labeled a racist, intolerant, or too aggressive. Our Commander-In-Chief stated that the war does not exist, even though the al-Qaida declared jihad (Holy War) and started waging it when Jimmy Carter was President. Afraid of losing their lucrative bureaucratic jobs in a bad economy, many Beltway staffers have become Obamaphobes.
            Finally, regarding our airways. Muslims are not often terrorists but terrorists are always Muslims. Target mideasterners between 18 and 40 years of age in airport security. Search them thoroughly and not white-haired, white-skinned grandmothers. In other words, protect us, use common sense, and STOP the social experimentation crap and political correctness in airport security. Any pilot, co-pilot, or navigator riding in a locked cockpit and responsible for propelling hundreds safely through the atmosphere at 30,000 feet in a machine, should have enough common sense to be taught gun safety and proper gun handling and should be allowed to carry concealed weapons in the cockpit, in accepted calibers and nomenclature that will not penetrate the aircraft skin if fired.  
            Anybody in national security, law enforcement, airline security, and border and port security in supervisory positions needs to be able to communicate with each other with no concern about jurisdictional dispute, and also must be held totally accountable for any and all lapses.
            You will never win any fight, war, or self defense situation by acting wimpy, indecisive, or bowing down to your enemy. This only empowers them. They see it as weakness, and our nation is now viewed that way by other nations. They see us as naïve, weak, and easily-manipulated. We are not. We are Americans, but that is how our leaders have been presenting us to the world. It must first start with overcoming denial.
 
Don Bendell is the author of 27 books, including his newest novel, DETACHMENT DELTA, about modern day Delta Force(Jan, 2009, Berkley Books), with over 2,000,000 copies of his books in print worldwide and the new western novel STRONGHEART, (Berkley Books, 2010) which will be released this year. Don is a popular editorialist who has appeared on FOX NEWS LIVE, and many national radio shows. A 70% disabled vet, Don served as an officer in 4 Special Forces (Green Beret) Groups, including a 1968-1969 tour on an A-team in Vietnam, as well as the Top Secret Phoenix Program and has two sons in Special Forces.  A 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame and a Grandmaster in 5 martial arts, he and his Master wife, Shirley, also own karate schools in southern Colorado and are the first couple in history BOTH inducted into the Hall of Fame. Don is “a real cowboy with a real horse and real ranch” and lives outside Florence, Colorado. Write him at don@donbendell.com.
 
 
 
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