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The Special Canada Goose season starts today allowing 15 geese per day per hunter. If I wasn't In the early stages of recovery from rotator cuff surgery, I'd be out there. It's the first of the hunting seasons, and for me it marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall. The September...

While driving home at around 4:30 tonight, my wife called to tell me that there was a fire in "our" woods and that the winds were from the south. She was a little frantic because I always told her that we will be cooked like bacon if we get a forest fire and there is a south wind. :eek: Coming...

Has anyone tried Ben’s Tick and Insect Repellent, Wilderness Formula? My wife decided to buy two cans for $17 to try it out. She read an article somewhere that said it was really good stuff. It’s 30% DEET and 70% questionable materials. I always try to use repel which is 40% DEET. I’m gonna try...

I struggled with selecting the proper forum in which to post this, and I think I found the right one. I think everyone will agree that our friend Boyd has spent what seems like 20 years perfecting one of the most convenient and comprehensive mapping systems known to modern man. When I received...

Spent some time today with some PBX'ers along Deep Run. Pineland Paddler, Hewey and I have been trying to hook up for over a year and the stars finally aligned today. We met up on 206 in the afternoon and drove back to Deep Run. We did a sweep to the north and another sweep to the south enjoying...

Coming up in March. A seminar for someone just getting into turkey hunting, or an old buzzard like me who wants to learn a little more about the wild turkey and how to call them in the right way. You do need to have a CID number to register...

I've noticed this tree many times in my 40 years living in here Pestletown. Yesterday, while taking my gun for a walk, I photographed it for the first time. It is located in an area that was carved into active bogs as early as 1870 on the Vermuele maps. Hard to say when the bog operations ceased...

I received this bulletin yesterday from a member of the NJ Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs who is also a retired Game Warden and the current Chairman of the NJ Fish and Game Council. This will only be in effect in DMZ 23 and DMZ 24 for the regular deer seasons, Hunters must have proper...

This has to be a bad dream. With no substantive communication since the unveiling of all of the potential Wharton Visitor Maps, the NJDEP dropped this bomb today. With only a 2 minute glance at the map I can see my life in the Wharton woods will be changing dramatically. Enforcement starts...

And now we know why the Forest Fire Service named it the Shotgun Fire. This man is in some deep sh*t. https://brick.shorebeat.com/2024/11/brick-man-charged-with-starting-jackson-wildfire-using-shotgun-rounds/

NJ Forest Fire Service just confirmed 50 homes threatened. It looks like the same area that burned tow weeks ago. Not good. Details on their FB page.

Took a ride out to Deep Run on Saturday for a quick hike with family. My wife, my son MIke, his wife Alex and her father made the trip along with two of my grandsons, 3 year-old Sage and his 6 month-old baby brother Ford were on the outing. Sage is a veteran hiker and has hiked since he could...

I saw that Guy mentioned he saw some people getting ready to hang a stand yesterday and I thought everyone would like to know the hunting seasons. Archery opened in many zones last week on September 14, so some of you may have seen bow hunters already. Archery will be fully open Statewide on...

I've been growing my own Burley tobacco for about 5 or 6 years now and I make my own loose leaf chew with it. This year, I tired a Kelly Burley variety from a guy known as The Tobacco Guy on Etsy. The germination in trays in my window sills was probably 100% and the plants were very vigorous...

Stumbled over this interesting documentary on YouTube this morning. It is interesting that I have never heard much at all about this industry in our Pine Barrens. It brings back memories of my grandmother's house where she always kept a gallon of turpentine on hand for thinning paint and other...

After all the talk about beaver on here lately, I received a work email from the Watershed Institute regarding this talk about beaver. How timely is that?. It sounds very interesting, but at 6:00 pm in Pennigton, I would never make it on time. If anyone is interested it sounds worthwhile...

For those sportsmen and sportswomen out there who enjoy hunting and shooting, I have some very bad news. Shooters in LEHT is being sold to Ocean County for the tidy sum of $10,5000,000.00. Ocean does not seem afraid to spend money. The store and ranges will close on 12-31-23. The County is...

This sounds cool as hell. I loved Smokey. Free too. Amazing. https://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/2023/23_0040.htm

Seems to be a trend here. https://dep.nj.gov/njfw/news-2023-05-08-seasonal-closures-in-five-wmas-in-effect-may-25-2023-september-4-2023/

As the weather started breaking up late Saturday afternoon we took a walk back to a few old haunts along the Sleeper. Lost of memories for me back here including my oldest son's first wood duck. We pushed a few migrating woodies out when we were back there, making it even more memorable. The...