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I’m generally asked four or five times a week, “Where do you hunt?”

Hunters and fishermen never divulge their honey holes — it has taken them far too much time to acquire hunting or fishing privileges, and they’re not about to share them.

I’ve sent dozens of hunters to Medicine Lodge, Kan. through the years. Pheasant hunters will starve to death there before they run across a pheasant. The really good things to come out of the Medicine Lodge area are the treaty with the Comanche Native Americans and Martina McBride of country music fame.

Hunting anything, anywhere is by invitation only, and you must take a blood oath not to return with anyone else and also to forget where you’ve been. However, with old age and retirement having weakened me, I’m going to share with you the Mecca for upland bird hunting in the entire United States — “Highway 83.”

From Manitoba, Canada all the way to Laredo, Texas, more upland game birds fly across “83” than the total number of promises you’ve heard during this election season.

Winner, S.D., claims to be the pheasant hunting capital of the world — it’s just a little east of “83.”

Valentine, Neb., is about an hour southwest of Winner. I’ve taken many grouse around Valentine thanks to Glenn Clasen. I visited with Glenn at the Comfort Inn where he works. We also had a nice visit after Mass at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Platteville. Glenn directed us right to some of our best grouse hunting.

If you decide to grouse hunt there and stay at the Comfort Inn, tell the manager, Anne Clark, that I sent you. She takes good care of us.

Further south on “83” is North Platte, Neb. Just northeast of North Platte is Broken Bow, where you’ll find a combination of pheasants and grouse. Hunt the irrigation pivots.

Continuing south to McCook, Neb., again right on “83,” you may be in the best pheasant hunting part of the Cornhusker state. We visited St. Catherine Catholic Church near there in Indianola, Neb. Many, many corn pivots to hunt around there. At times, the bobwhite quail get in the way of my pheasant hunting.

About 60 miles south of McCook, just a bit off “83,” is Leoville, Kan., and the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. We’ve been to a wedding and Mass there a few times. All you’ll find there is the church and about four other buildings, but Leoville is surrounded by some really good dryland upland bird hunting.

Oakley, Kan., is at the intersection of Interstate 70 and “83.” St. Joseph Catholic Church is a good place to take a break on your way to hunt quail, prairie chickens and turkey in the Flint Hills.

Forty-five miles south of Oakley, you’ll run through Scott City, Kan. Scott City is the home of another St. Joe’s, but it is also home to several feed yards. Feed yards mean row crops; corn and milo, miles and miles of row crops. Row crops are also great feed and cover for upland birds.

Another 35 miles south on “83,” you will be at our home away from home, Garden City, Kan. I’ve run into St. Dominic in my hunting clothes just as the priest was starting Mass.

Liberal, Kan., is almost to the Oklahoma border. Liberal boasts a beautiful St. Anthony’s parish along with Dorothy’s home at 567 Yellow Brick Road. The pheasant hunting is best out toward Meade where you can also visit the Dalton Gang’s hideout. I could barely squeeze through the getaway tunnel.

Once you hit the panhandle of Oklahoma and then Texas, you’re better off hunting quail. I’ve heard that South Texas is home to the nation’s best quail populations this year.

I have come to one conclusion after visiting all of these wonderful communities over the past three to four decades: the ladies must be better shots than the guys! The vocalists in every one of those churches has been a female; the guys are still out hunting trying to fill their bag limits.

And for those of you that are wondering — yes, I did neglect to mention my favorite churches along Highway 83.

Jim Vanek is a longtime hunter (though you couldn’t tell that by this article) who lives with his family in Greeley.

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Television viewers soon will have the chance to watch Pat Stashek’s dream hunt, but a few challenges almost kept it from being a success.

Television viewers soon will have the chance to watch Pat Stashek’s dream hunt, but a few challenges almost kept it from being a success.

Footage of his September caribou hunting trip to Manitoba, Canada, will be aired starting Sunday on the “Escape to the Wild” program on the Versus network.

Nominated for the trip by his wife, Kay, Pat, 53, of Wisconsin Rapids, got an all-inclusive trip from the hunting show, joining 30 other hunters at Noname Lake.

Each hunter was given two tags, and by the end of the second day, only four tags were filled.

“Nobody in camp was really seeing caribou,” Pat said.

“It was actually too warm for caribou hunting, because temperature triggers the caribou migration.”

The hunt was even more challenging for Pat because it was being filmed for the show, and certain criteria had to be followed.

By midafternoon of the last day, Pat and the filming crew boarded the float plane to scope the area for a bull.

“There is no cover out there, so you can see for miles,” he said.

And there it was. When all was in place, Pat dropped the caribou with one shot.

“I ran across the tundra to get to the animal,” he said. “I was just so happy.”

He and the show’s host, Tom Ackerman, exchanged “handshakes and the old man hug.”

“I don’t think you could have wiped the smile off my face at that point,” Pat said.

Pat was told he got the biggest bull in camp during the three-week season, and it should qualify for the Boone and Crockett Club, which maintains records of native North American big game.

The men had to quarter and remove the hide in the field, no easy chore.

“I (carried out) the antlers, the head and the cape, and that was well over 100 pounds,” Pat said.

The meat, which he and his wife have been enjoying since his return, was estimated to weigh about 100 pounds.

“It’s the best game meat you’re going to eat,” he said. “Tastes a little sweeter than venison.”

While that taste will someday be a memory, he has other treasures as reminders. He received warm and cold outerwear, a wool sweater with wind-block lining, and a Beretta rifle.

Upon his return, he received a buck knife engraved with his name.

“I was supposed to get that in caribou camp, but they couldn’t spell ‘Stashek,’” he said.

Despite the challenges, the trip lived up to the outdoorsman’s dream.

“It was more than I thought and more than I expected,” he said.

Pat is having the head and antlers — estimated to be about 5 feet tall with a 3- to 4-foot spread — mounted in Canada, and sent to him at home.

“It’s a huge rack,” he said. “I told my wife we’re going to have to build a new house, or add on.”

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Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said.

File picture shows two Polar Bears in Manitoba, Canada. Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said.

Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice made the announcement during a conference call from Kangerluusuaq, Greenland, where he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Friday with Greenland’s Minister of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture, Ane Hansen and Prentice’s Nunavut territory counterpart Daniel Shewchuk.

The deal proposes the creation of a joint committee that would recommend a total allowable — and sustainable — annual polar bear harvest and a fair division of the harvest.

Hunting polar bears has been banned since 1973 but the Arctic’s indigenous peoples are exempt out of respect for their ancestral traditions, despite scientists’ objections over how the quotas have been divided.

The committee, to include members of remote northern Canada’s aboriginal Inuit organizations, would also coordinate science, traditional knowledge and outreach activities.

“The government of Canada is committed to working collaboratively to protect one of Canada’s true natural, and national, symbols. An iconic animal, whose rare and rugged beauty stands as a stark reminder that Canada is one of the world’s true Nordic nations,” Prentice said.

Hansen stressed it was “important that traditional knowledge is used together with science” in the process, while Shewchuk said the MOU “will help us make the wisest possible management decisions for our polar bear populations.”

Canada has some 15,500 polar bears, divided into thirteen distinct populations. Two of them, living on the ice sheets of Kane Basin and Baffin Bay, are trans-boundary and shared between Nunavut and Greenland.Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said.

File picture shows two Polar Bears in Manitoba, Canada. Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said.

Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice made the announcement during a conference call from Kangerluusuaq, Greenland, where he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Friday with Greenland’s Minister of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture, Ane Hansen and Prentice’s Nunavut territory counterpart Daniel Shewchuk.

The deal proposes the creation of a joint committee that would recommend a total allowable — and sustainable — annual polar bear harvest and a fair division of the harvest.

Hunting polar bears has been banned since 1973 but the Arctic’s indigenous peoples are exempt out of respect for their ancestral traditions, despite scientists’ objections over how the quotas have been divided.

The committee, to include members of remote northern Canada’s aboriginal Inuit organizations, would also coordinate science, traditional knowledge and outreach activities.

“The government of Canada is committed to working collaboratively to protect one of Canada’s true natural, and national, symbols. An iconic animal, whose rare and rugged beauty stands as a stark reminder that Canada is one of the world’s true Nordic nations,” Prentice said.

Hansen stressed it was “important that traditional knowledge is used together with science” in the process, while Shewchuk said the MOU “will help us make the wisest possible management decisions for our polar bear populations.”

Canada has some 15,500 polar bears, divided into thirteen distinct populations. Two of them, living on the ice sheets of Kane Basin and Baffin Bay, are trans-boundary and shared between Nunavut and Greenland.

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Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said.

File picture shows two Polar Bears in Manitoba, Canada. Canada and Greenland agreed on a series of measures aimed at protecting shared populations of polar bears which roam between the Nunavut territory and the huge arctic island, officials said.

Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice made the announcement during a conference call from Kangerluusuaq, Greenland, where he signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Friday with Greenland’s Minister of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture, Ane Hansen and Prentice’s Nunavut territory counterpart Daniel Shewchuk.

The deal proposes the creation of a joint committee that would recommend a total allowable — and sustainable — annual polar bear harvest and a fair division of the harvest.

Hunting polar bears has been banned since 1973 but the Arctic’s indigenous peoples are exempt out of respect for their ancestral traditions, despite scientists’ objections over how the quotas have been divided.

The committee, to include members of remote northern Canada’s aboriginal Inuit organizations, would also coordinate science, traditional knowledge and outreach activities.

“The government of Canada is committed to working collaboratively to protect one of Canada’s true natural, and national, symbols. An iconic animal, whose rare and rugged beauty stands as a stark reminder that Canada is one of the world’s true Nordic nations,” Prentice said.

Hansen stressed it was “important that traditional knowledge is used together with science” in the process, while Shewchuk said the MOU “will help us make the wisest possible management decisions for our polar bear populations.”

Canada has some 15,500 polar bears, divided into thirteen distinct populations. Two of them, living on the ice sheets of Kane Basin and Baffin Bay, are trans-boundary and shared between Nunavut and Greenland.

The state of South Dakota has fielded very high absolute duck game bird waterfowl counts.  It seems that mallard ducks , bluewing teal  , as well as  gadwallsbirds – which are by far the most common breeders of the waterfowl birds , in the geographic regions in and around South Dakota – are at very high count values.

Next in line are “pond numbers”  , which are yet again another critical index when it comes to waterfowl levels.  It can be well said that with all the ducks in the state and good reports coming as well from North Dakota and Manitoba Canada as well as the various Canadian hunting regions that waterfowl biologists point to another excellent , exceptional hunting season afoot in 2009.

In South Dakota itself it can be said that there is more than enough room to hunt and for avid hunters to roam and enjoy their days shooting.  The bulk of the waterfowl producing holes – and waterfowl producing areas are generally listed as being in the eastcentral ,  northcentral  and northeastern parts of th state.  There aer both state Game Protection Areas and federal waterfowl protection areas.   Lastly areas scattered throughout the pothole country are finding that hunting pressure is relatively light that is once you get away from the major population centers and areas of population such as Sioux Falls and Watertown.

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I’m Steven Wintemute, Your Travel Manitoba Fishing Ambassador.

Welcome to Manitoba, home to over 100,000 lakes and an angler’s paradise! It is an honor to be the fishing ambassador for Travel Manitoba. As owner of Hooked Media and publisher of Hooked magazine I have the opportunity to meet lots of great anglers and I even get to fish with them. What a thrill it is for me to take these anglers to some of my favorite lakes in Manitoba and watch them catch world class fish! Actually Manitoba is a world class fishing destination for anglers from ALL around the world. For proof, head over to It’s My Moment, a site dedicated to celebrating amazing Manitoba travel stories from people just like you (hint: there’s an amazing prize for the best story, so get yours up there soon). I’ve got a few stories posted there, and will be adding more all the time. This will definitely be another season to remember!

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If your consicence or vanity does not permit you to shoot a bird or hen of the year, you can always be counted to call up a fat longbird.  It can be said that hunters can shoot hens in the fall time simply because they can make acceptable hen calls,  However on the other hand if you wish to shoot fall longbeard then you have to employ and use “gobbler talk”  well.

Goblers “yelps” can be said to not always sound like the traditional  long , low croaks that you can hear in avid outdoorsmen tournaments and conferences in gobbling contests or on instructional tapes.  Actually they are most similar to hen yelps but each call is “drawn” out and gobblers can be said to call at a slower cadence rate.  Like hens, gobblers will also putt and cutt when they are excited.  For gobbler calling,  a call can be used with a clear as well as somewhat “raspy” tone and tones.

Spring hunters can be called on to know well , that gobblers will be near and nearby to hens.  However come the Mantioba falltime and this may not be so.  Gobblers can be said to be little different than mature whitetails.  These keep to themselves.  It can be said by experienced Lake Manitoba Hunting Lodges outdoorsman Jadran Transcona that come the Manitoba Canada falltime you will not fiind longbeards in the same places and locales that you would expect to see hens , jakes as well as poults.

Fall gobbler hunters should look for 4 to 4 1/2 inch tracks , big droppings and black edged breast feathers.  Find the roost and their food source, and get in between them on the bird’s line of travel.  It can be said that if you are pushy enough on the call, six or seven mature gobblers might just take a run at you, beards swinging ready for the big time fight.  Make them really mad and angry and they can be sure counted on to be strutting and gobling as they come on strong.

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You slip on a sidehill and to crashing down on the rocks with your rifle underneath you.  The scope is badly damaged and gouged and is obviously took a whallop of a hit – bigger than if some hoodlum stole 2 laptops.  You are now faced with a choice or choices.  You can assume that the scope has not been knocked out of whack and continue to hunt. or you can fire your rifle to check its zero and risk spooking any game around .  What is a wise and recommended course of action ?

The experienced Lake Manitoba Canada outdoorsman J. Transcona recommends that a good scope can take an awful course of abuse and still hold its adjustment.  Still it is not worth assuming that this is the case.  Pick a spot – a few inches off a dead tree, pace off 25 yards,  and fire a single shot.  If you are “zeroed’ to hit 3 inches high at 100 yards , the shot should to 1 inch at 25.  If that checks out and the windage is still okay , then keep hunting at Lake Manitoba Narrows.  If the bullet goes high or wide – then it is back to the hunting Lodge or camp at the narrows to rezero.   Do not worry about inadvertently spooking game with your shot.  Jadran remarks that he has personally watched “critters”  react to a nearby gunshot.  The animals and game will pick up their heads, listen and sniff or a moment , a minute or two and then go about their business.  Its all in a days hunting.

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Canada only has one place in the entire country that allows you to see uninhabited islands, beluga whales, and polar bears all in one trip. This place is also the only sub-Arctic seaport in the country. You can enjoy the Arctic tundra and tour the Eskimo Museum here before settling in for an amazing nighttime show staring Aurora Borealis. Do you know where you are?

If you guessed Northern Manitoba, Canada and the town of Churchill, you are right! This expansive region of Manitoba has a low population making it one of the wildest areas in the country that shows very little evidence of civilization outside of the small towns and villages.

Outdoor enthusiasts looking for adventure flock to Churchill, Manitoba for its rugged terrain and unusual wildlife. During the months of October and November, travel tours in a specialized tundra vehicle give visitors the chance to watch polar bears on their way back to Hudson Bay for the winter. Travelers can also get a closer look at the incoming floe ice and beluga whales by renting a see through kayak or going snorkeling.

The beautiful Wapusk National Park of Canada is also nearby. The park is certainly beautiful, but it is also the largest polar bear maternity den sites in the world. This being said, it’s not the best place to hike through, but if you would like to see the park, Hudson Bay Helicopters are a fun way to enjoy the park at a safe distance.

The little village of Hecla Island and Grindstone National Park is a haven for travelers looking for a taste of the true Canadian wild. Walking and bike trails are available for those looking for a more structured tour of the area, but for more grass roots hikers, the uninhabited Black Island is fantastic. You can wander through the area for days and not see another human being. Golfing and world-class fishing is also available in the area. Before you leave the island, be sure to ask the locals about the many mystical stories involving subjects such as sunken ship that give an entertaining history of the area.

If you would like more information on travel in the area or any other location in Manitoba, visit Travel Manitoba at http://www.travelmanitoba.com/.

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