"It’s pretty cool to be able to stack a bunch of shrimp, a bunch of crabs, some specks, and some puppy drum, all in the same day."
All tagged Big Game
Paula Smith: Top of the Food Chain
“You should see us butcher a deer sometime… We got two freezers; they’re stocked.”
Larry Case: West Virginia Game Warden
“Taking a guy out of a blind turns out to be one of the most dangerous things you can do.”
Pete Aheron: Virginia Coyotes
“Calling in game is like a chess match, and pound for pound, nothing is tougher game than coyote.”
Jeff Phillips: Star City Whitetails
“Virginia is now on the map as far as being a big buck state.”
Appalachian Wildlife Foundation: Kentucky Elk
“When I got involved in it, I saw these big mined landscapes, and I really quickly learned that the best deer hunting, turkey hunting, and small game hunting was on the old coal mines.”
Chris Dollar: Chesapeake Four-Season Sportsman
“If it’s got fins or feathers, I write about it, and chase after it.”
Marcia Pradines: Chesapeake Marshlands NWR
"Hearing the sika bugle in the morning, evening, or the middle of the night — it makes your hair stand up on your neck.
Tyler Johnson: Quaker Neck Gun Club
"If you look at an aerial photo, you’d think you’re in the prairie pothole region!"
Levi Pitcock: Double Spur Outfitters
"It really gets exciting when a bear is so close in the brush that you can hear him eating acorns, and you have to wait for a clear shot."
Week 15. Tyler Frantz: Pennsylvania Natural Pursuit Outdoors
"There’s a week around the middle of October in Pennsylvania when you can bow hunt, muzzleloader hunt, duck season starts, trapping for furbearer season starts, you can hunt small game like pheasants, grouse, squirrels and rabbits, and of course, you get into some of the best fall trout fishing."
Week 11. Will Payne: Virginia Sportsmen's Foundation
"I consider myself lucky to have met so many great people over the last decade who represent the very best of what hunting means."
Week 9. Tee Clarkson: Richmond Four-Season Sportsman
"We don’t necessarily have the best trout, the best duck hunting, or the best upland bird hunting — but we have all of it! "
Week 6. Backcountry Hunters & Anglers: Sportsmen's Voice For Wild Public Lands
"With such a large and dense population trying to enjoy resources, we want to highlight how important backcountry is in the mid-Atlantic."