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By Martin W. Duke and Renee Nolan Coyote behavior is interesting, and one of my goals in writing this calendar, while chronicling seasonal hunting tips and tactics, is to also share certain anticipated wildlife behaviors based on the time of the year. Most of us approach predator hunting from an altruistic perspective and hope that…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee Nolan The coyotes’ big meal wagon of summer is nigh, and we humans are serving the appetizer. With summer’s heat rapidly approaching, we hardly think back to six months ago when we shared our fabulous, warmly unifying Thanksgiving tradition with our families and friends and gave thanks for all…
113 Critters Trapped On 210 Acres Is A Game Changer Dear GON, After reading cover to cover yet another fine edition of GON, I wish to briefly relate a predator control operation that I helped implement on a friend’s 210-acre tract. After this friend had noticed years of decline of all his small game populations…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan Spring is waning, and summer is waxing. The dogwoods have lost their blooms, and the crappie rush has ended. This can be a challenging month of the year for consistently being successful at taking coyotes by calling. Their annual life cycle is in transition from late winter and…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee Nolan After enduring winter when the chill holds coyotes closer to their dens, early spring’s warmer weather can bring forth different predator responses. Calling critters is universally fun, and distress is the celestial love language for constantly hungry predators. In our world, mammals with eyes on the front of…
Nope. Georgia is not the West. But trout fishing in Georgia is not unlike the West… where nimble fly-rodders test technical skills on small, wild trout streams. Where trolling for large lake-bound trout is executed with electronic aids and flashy rigs. Where driftboats carry anglers over long river glides and rocky shoals. Where dams pour…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan Like a proverbial tick on a dog’s ear, similarly joined in biology are coyotes and cattle. With the shift that happens in our outdoor world when spring practically bangs on our doors, the coyote world enters a period of change. Mid-winter pecking-order fights and late-winter mating that make…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan The intensity of the coyote’s annual breeding cycle is in full swing in early February and diminishes greatly toward the month’s end. It can be the most action-packed time of the year for the predator hunter. The younger males, which are not yet paired, will sheepishly come around…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan A childhood friend of mine and I have often spoken about how much we enjoyed the occasional short, school-night cast of the hunting dogs to which our patriarchs treated us back when we were young. Given that it gets dark so early this time of the year, the…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee’ Nolan Along with Thanksgiving’s feast, the peak of the annual whitetail rut has come and gone, and autumn’s bright colors and amber air give way to post-frost predominance of browns and grays and shorter days. Each day is a little chillier. Plant life is bowed, broken or harvested, and…
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