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Go Charger and Quikpod® Dynamic Power Selfie Stick by re-fuel Featured Product
If you love to document your adventures with video and photos, you need to check out these new innovative products by re-fuel. The Power Selfie Stick is no ordinary selfie stick, it is a built in power pack that charges your GoPro, camera batteries, phone and tablet. For [...]Read more
Wild Turkey Kill Video – A Textbook Example of Patience
It takes dedication, stealth and most of all patience to kill a wild turkey. And that’s what Jason Hobbie demonstrated recently during the 2016 Illinois spring wild turkey season. I love hunting wild turkey in Southern Illinois in the spring. But a cold snap gave the birds [...]Read more
The Science of Tracking Wounded Deer – 5 Good Blood Trailing Tips
Tracking a wounded deer is more like forensic science or an exercise in CSI than it is an art form as some people think. By understanding how an animal bleeds from different wound types, you can better recognize blood trails after each shot. But in order to successfully recover [...]Read more
THANKSGIVING PHEASANT HUNTING ACTION
Nothing beats the sound of a cackling rooster as he explodes from under your feet. And we saw plenty of that on our annual family Thanksgiving pheasant hunt. My sons Logan and Kyle, my sister Lynn and I put a serious smackdown on a pile of pheasants. Everyone was cold, but our [...]Read more
AWESOME LAKE OF THE WOODS WALLEYE FISHING WITH JOE HENRY
Watch this great video as I talk about the incredible walleye action on our trip to Lake of the Woods Minnesota with Joe Henry, Executive Director of the Lake of the Woods Tourism Bureau. I took my sons up recently and fished with Joe. In three days on the Lake we caught over 130 [...]Read more
Portable Gourmet Camp Kitchen by GSI is Perfect for Hunters and Fisherman
The GSI Camp Kitchen is exactly that, and more. It’s a portable kitchen that serves as a multi-use food processing station that is perfect for outdoorsmen. We used it on a recent camping trip and it gave us the ideal, convenient set up to clean fish, wash and slice wild morels [...]Read more
ROLLAWAY CUTTING MAT BY DEER DUMMY- PRODUCT REVIEW
The folks from Deer Dummy produce these rollaway cutting mats for deer hunters, with photos depicting step-by-step photos of the various cuts of meat. Well, it also works great in the spring. I used the mat to cut up a pile of morels, as well as filet some fish. The mat works [...]Read more
ZIPPO 4-in-1 WOODSMAN PERFECT FOR DEER HUNTERS
If you thought Zippo just makes lighters, think again. I had the opportunity to try out the coolest camp tool, or should I say tools, to come out in a while. The 4-in-1 Woodsman is exactly that — four awesome tools rolled into one mega multi tool — a camp axe, hammer/stake [...]Read more
CHEVY SILVERADO PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
In this Illinois Outdoors TV Featured Product segment, Dan Stefanich of Dan Stef Outdoors reviews a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado. This is a great pick up truck that offers great mileage, a quiet and comfortable ride along with plenty of room for passengers and cargo. Learn more about [...]Read more
INTERVIEW WITH MARC MILLER, DIRECTOR OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
I had the opportunity to talk to our Illinois DNR Director Marc Miller about the state of the Illinois deer herd. The State has been working hard to manage this awesome resource and the privilege of whitetail deer hunting. Even though our firearm deer permit system is on a [...]Read more
