For WS Journal Readers and Anyone Else who Missed Dan Kibler this Past Sunday

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WS Journal fired Dan as we talked about in an earlier post. Since then the outcry from sportsmen has gotten the WS Journal to continue an outdoor section minus the local connection. This week’s stories came out of Virginia and another one out of New York, both fine states but it seems to me that during the height of the hunting season that some local stories would have been included. I’m sure the local advertisers are happy to see stories from those states and can expect orders from Virginia and New York to pour in over the coming days but I digress. Dan did have a story in the Fayetteville Observer about Fox Squirrels and I hope you follow the link and read it. I’ve yet to see one and would love the chance to hunt them sometime.

http://skinnymoose.com/moosedroppings/?p=230 Moose Droppings » The Art of Blood Trailing

[...] Dan Kibler has a good article in today’s Fayettvile Observer on “Tracking Wounded Deer”. A good article on a task that can be difficult at times; the reality is, the deer of your dreams doesn’t always collapse at your shot, not the way they do on those TV shows. More often than you care to admit, a well-shot deer will still leave in a hasty fashion, getting out of sight in a handful of leaps and bounds that doubles your heart rate and leaves your chest heaving. That’s where the real work begins — finding him. It’s a task that can be a light walk in the woods or a real labor, depending not only on how accurate your shot was, but on how you approach the job of focusing on droplets or blood spatters on leaves and broom straw and knee-high brush. [...]

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