Cluck and Chuck: How to Hunt Turkeys by Canoe

The first flush of daylight brought forth a cacophony. Rooster pheasants began cackling. A beaver slapped its tail. Sandhill cranes trilled overhead. Mallards squawked back and forth. Cinnamon and green-wing teal joined the chorus, along with widgeon whistling by. Honkers honked. Blackbirds, both red-wing and yellow, screeched their dissonant car horn calls. Only one sound was missing. Dan and I crept away from the river through the rising dawn...

Whitetail Hunting by Doug Duren

Words by Doug Durren Mooching is a term that my friends and family use to describe a form of deer hunting that combines the best of 3 different deer hunting techniques, stand hunting, deer drives, and still hunting. The basic idea of a mooch is to take advantage of the terrain, wind direction, and deer travel routes to gently bump, rather than forcibly drive, deer in the direction of your fellow hunters. Mooching works best if you have a few...

Video: Beaver Crushed by Falling Tree

MeatEater viewer Shanen Pitzer came across this gruesome scene while foraging morels in Illinois. While beavers are known for being incredibly resourceful engineers, the talented sawyers of the animal kingdom, they didn’t get that way by accident. Or maybe they got that way because of accidents—adaptations in an ongoing evolution of survival of the fittest. If you can’t successfully fell a tree, your DNA doesn’t get passed along. Many of us have...