Dream Shed Partnership
By Jeff Davis

Whitetails Unlimited, Drury Outdoors, and Catch-A-Dream are teaming up to provide once-in-a-lifetime hunting and fishing trips for sick children.

There will be an exciting addition to many Whitetails Unlimited events next year, and it brings together three great names in the outdoor industry: Whitetails Unlimited, Drury Outdoors, and the Catch-A-Dream Foundation.

The Drury brothers approached Whitetails Unlimited with a unique opportunity to help the Catch-A-Dream Foundation provide once-in-a-lifetime dream hunting and fishing experiences for children in the United States and Canada, age 18 and younger, who suffer from life-threatening illnesses. WTU President Jeff Schinkten described the partnership as “… one of the easiest decisions we’ve ever made.”

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Tips From Whitetails Unlimited:
Weights and Measures

I recently got a MTM/Case Guard digital scale for some upcoming reloading projects. In the field of reloading, this device is perhaps the only truly new development in decades. While it's still a scale, the speed and accuracy it provides are very real improvements. However, the tiny letter to let you know if the unit being measured is grains "gn," or grams "g," is difficult to see. Since one is 15 times larger than the other, that is pretty important. This got me wondering about ways to measure other things relating to hunting and shooting.

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The Food Plot Doctor:
Measure Usage of Your Food Plots

"Why aren’t the deer coming to my food plots? I lime, fertilize, and plant according to wildlife biologist recommendations, and still I do not have deer utilizing the plots.”

This is a question I get every fall after food plots have been planted and are established.

A related question I get during the same period is, “I plant my food plots according to recommendations and they do not come up as high as my friend’s food plots. Why?”

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Cooking Wild
Magic ‘Shrooms
By Nancy Brabbit-Davis • Photos by Jeff Davis

Mushrooms – you either love them or hate them. What’s frustrating is the individuals who declare they “hate” them when they have never actually tried a mushroom. Perhaps it’s just their appearance or maybe it’s the knowledge that they are actually a form of fungus that turns people off. I have observed so many individuals pass on a wonderful dish based solely on the presence of mushrooms. It really doesn’t make sense to me.

Of course, that is not the case for my family. We have always loved mushrooms and in a variety of forms – cold, hot, pickled … the list goes on and on. Mushrooms can stand alone in a variety of recipes or can be used to enhance soups, casseroles, meat entrees, and much more.

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The Rest of the Story
By Johnny Max Risinger ~ Mt. Enterprise, Texas

Eldon Skinner, aka Big E from Missouri, is a good friend and hunting buddy who came down last September to go hog hunting at night. It would be his first time hunting at night, using green lights at feeders.

The excitement was overwhelming as we heard all the hogs grunting and squealing, but we couldn’t see them until they finally got under the light. Eldon picked out the biggest black silhouette, drew his bow, and let him have it. I was filming and knew immediately that Big E had hit the hog high in the shoulder blade. The big boar ran off making a lot of noise – the kind of sounds that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

About 20 minutes later, I spotted a red Lumenok (lighted arrow nock) moving slowly across the field. I knew this couldn’t be good. Needless to say there wasn’t much blood, so I called in hog-dog specialist Jay Innerarity. But even with his dogs we couldn’t find that hog.

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Dream Buck
By Steve “Thumper” McCafferty Sr. ~ Belle Center, Iowa

It seems like I’ve been a hunter and outdoorsman my entire life. My father was a true hunter and lover of the outdoors and he taught me at a young age about safety, gun handling, respecting landowners, getting permission, and doing things in a responsible manner, so we were proud to say that we were hunters. He was a great teacher, and I’m forever grateful for his taking time and keeping me involved.

Ohio slug season started in late November, and my hopes were high. I didn’t sleep well the night before, and woke early to miserable weather. I left the house in rain and wind and drove the six miles to the farm. I climbed into a large brush pile and started watching the woods come to life with the new day.

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Father and Son
By Travis Heplar ~ Fairbanks, Iowa

During the 2007 bow season I had already arrowed a nice 9-pointer, so I took my nephew out bowhunting in early November. We had a 130-inch 8-pointer come as close as 10 yards, but we just couldn’t find a clear opening to get a shot.

When my nephew and I got out of the woods that morning we found out my dad had missed a big 8-pointer, three times, with his bow. He had his camcorder with him, and had about a 5-minute video of the deer. The video started at 8:38 a.m. At the time I didn’t realize that one month later to the day, I would be putting the crosshairs of a Thompson Center Omega on this particular buck.

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