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Online Hunts: Fall Bear Bowhunt in Ontario. Fred Lutger & I go for a bear on the ground. Hunt logs and pics. See the TrailTimer game phtos taken daily and learn how they helped us on this hunt. 9 successful bear hunts.

Scouting For Deer Begins - Bucks are growing antlers. Fawns get bigger (pictrues).

August News & Articles

Aug Online Hunts & Events

The Group

"To the bears." Meet the Bear Hunters on our 2004 Bear Hunt. Go...

Mike Ditchler (Chef Klaus)
We had croutons left after lunch and Mike asked, "Do you want me to throw these croutons away?" Fred said no and to use them for the bear. So Mike did. At 4:00 he saw a big bear walking in the thick brush. It went straight to the croutons! To Mike's Hunt...

Joe Hajek
At Fred's suggestion Joe changed to the Culvert site. Joe started a bacon burn and climbed into the tree. Two hours later he heard a branch crack. Immediately, a bear ran right under the treestand. It went to the bacon burn, grabbed the can in his teeth ... and ran off. To Joe's Hunt...

Our Goal: A Bear On The Ground
Fred's Hunt - It All Comes Together

Fred pointed toward the nearby ditch and signaled that the bear was coming. I already knew, this big boy had the inside of my nose dancing again.
Soon we heard soft footsteps as the bear walked down the ditch a few yards to our left, it sounded like it was going to walk out 4 yards from our ground blind. To Fred's Hunt & Some Of The Best Hunt Pics We've Ever Had.

Every Picture Tells A Story, Don't It?

We analyze the TrailTimer pics from 3 different bear stand sites - and move off one bait and hang in on two. Caution Pics: one glance and you see a couple of sagging pot bellies and thick necks. Hose Bait Pics: we have a blondie, and more, but decide to move, here's why. K18 Pics: the Chef was going to move but now he's staying.

Fred Lutger - Wheew, is that a bear?
Fred joined me in the Double Bull blind at the Caution stand. He sat down in his chair and opened his camera bag. I tapped Fred on the shoulder and pointed. Straight ahead of us, 10 yards away, already standing by the bait logs, was a black bear. Fred hadn't been in the blind 90 seconds! To The Hunt....

Rob McNeff
When a sapling tree shook that was too large for a squirrel to shake Rob checked the area and saw the top of a bear's back. It ducked under a dead fall 20 yards away and stopped, looked up at the treestand, and then stood on top of a big log, looking all around. To Rob's Hunt...

Our Goal: A Bear On The Ground
Robert Hoague - Will They Notice The Blind? (Test #1)

On Blueberry Hill, one side and the top of the Double Bull blind was pushed in. A bear? Or was it from the rain and wind the night before? I fixed it and Fred refreshed the bait with hard candy. He stashed the bucket behind the blind. Two hours later a huge bear was an arm's length away clawing and licking that bucket. To The Hunt

Figuring Out Where to Hunt

More Bear Pictures from the Caution stand
We set a TrailTimer behind the bait logs so it faces our Double Bull blind 12 yards away. Fred identified 5 different bears from these photos. Two are big bears. To The Pics.

Bob McNeff
Bob saw his first wild bear the 2nd day of the hunt and he decided to wait, even though the bear looked big.
Two days later he noticed a bear's black ears 60 yards into the woods. When he got a look at the bear he quit waiting. To Bob's Hunt...

Our Goal: A Bear On The Ground
Figuring Out Where to Hunt
Fred & I began our hunts for bears on the ground by evaluating pictures from our TrailTimer game cameras. We wanted to learn what bears were visiting the area and what times, and we did. To the first pics

Joe Cushman
As of yesterday Joe had not seen a bear on the hunt. Fred suggested he hunt our Double Bull blind and Joe went there at 11:00. At 1:40 he saw bear legs walking on the hill above the bait logs. To Joe's Hunt..,

Setting Up Stands
Fred maintains over 5 dozen bait sites. Ladder Stands are a good match for the tall straight trees in Southern Ontario. We use North Starr Treestands ladderstands of several models. They are portable and light weight enough to carry deep into the woods. Here are our setups. To Setting Up Stands...

Rob McNeff
Rob is hunting at Goodyear bait. The first day one small bear came in at 6:30, stayed for a while, and suddenly ran off. Rob heard a bear popping brush and making noise, and a bigger bear came in. And Rob got to watch the smaller bear pull one over on the larger bear. To Rob's Hunt...

Jeff Cook & Rusty Estes

Rusty Estes: From his treestand Rusty could see a good ways into the woods and on his second hunt he saw a bear 50 yards away.
Rusty had bacon and molasses cooking in a burn. "It was just a bubbling," he said. The bear stopped 20 yards from Rusty's tree trunk and stood up on a big log for 5 minutes, sniffing and looking. To Rusty's Hunt...
At 4:00 Jeff Cook got situated and settled in. He checked his pocket watch, oops, it slipped and fell to the ground. Jeff stood up and was looking on the ground for the watch when a black figure caught his attention. A nice size bear was 15 yards into the trees. To Jeff Cook's Hunt...

Our Mission: A Bear On The Ground
This season Fred Lutger and I have a quest, both of us want a bear on the ground.

We talked to Double Bull Archery about this and they sent us the blind to use. Getting Ready...

WATCHING THE BAIT 24 HOURS A DAY - When Are The Bears Active?

Fred already has a dozen TrailTimer cameras and counters out at bait sites. We use two kinds. Here is how we set them up and what we learned from them. To Set Up, Pics & Results...

Scouting For Deer 2004
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Scouting For Deer

Aug 11 - I picked up my TrailTimer Pictures from the Wal-Mart 1 hour. As you can see above, they were worth looking at. To Pics...

Some For Sure, Good Deer Pictures

After daylight I saw over a dozen deer. Some days they give you better pictures than others. Today was one of those 10 days. To the Pics.

It's Time To Look For The Bucks

TrailTimer game camera at the Point.
My main food plot area has does and fawns visiting it regularly. And it is the easiest place for me to get pictures. This year bucks are not hanging out here yet. So it's time to locate them. Today I put out 3 TrailTimer EZ-Cam game cameras in three different places: on the fence where it can see what deer cross back and forth at the Point, watching the Hammer Hole woods road, and overlooking two deer trails at the Slew Hole (no pic). We will check them in a few days.

Fawns Getting Bigger All The Time
(Aug 2)
Pics of a fawn on August 3, 2004. This fawn is much larger than the ones in previous pictures. Notice it's spots, they have lost their bright white color and are beginning to fade. Go...

4x4 Grand Slammer of 2004
TO HOME PAGE of 4x4 Grand Slammer...

Four bowhunters go for their online wild turkey Grand Slam, in the 2004 Spring season.
Follow, day by day, with lots of pics, Doug Crabtree, Fred Lutger, Tony Dukes and Robert Hoague on this Spring's adventure as we hunt wild turkey in Florida, South Dakota, Texas, Illinois and Ohio.
TO the hunts for the: Osceola, Rio #1, Rio #2, Merriam's, Eastern, and Who Got The Grand Slam? (the pictures)

2003 Online Bowhunts
Day to day Online Coverage & on the spot Pictures
Late Season January Bowhunt With Zan Christensen
2003 Online Whitetail Bowhunt Oct-Jan
Trophy Buck Bowhunt with Billy Don Van Cleave
Bowhunting With Possum in N.E. Missouri
Ohio Rut With Dennis Crabtree
Bowhunt With Keith Warren
Wild Hog Bowhunting 2003 - All Year Long!
Scouting: Deer Pictures as 2003 Progressed:
To 2003 Bearhunt In Aug-Sept
Quest For The Wild Turkey Grand Slam 2003

August 2004 News
You heard it here first!

The African Experience - My First Trip, by Roy Keefer - Bowhunter Roy Keefer takes the plunge in Africa. This is a super hunt and Roy has some good advice here as well.

Iowa Championship Turkey Calling Contest, by Joe Nawrot - Joe Takes 2nd Place In Iowa Championship Turkey Calling Contest!

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Doug Besherse - A Bowhunter Making A Difference In Iraq
Doug Besherse In Iraq - Home Page
Iraqi International Archery Event

Part 1 - There were people of all ages, from children to older adults. Many different nationalities came. Western, European, Middle Eastern, and Male and Female. It didn't matter about any of that, they all were having a good time....in a not so good place.
So This Is How It Feels

Doug visits the archery range and talks to an Iraqi family. Later, the lights go out and it's a dangerous situation. Afterward he tells us, "For the soldiers and Iraqi civilians, death waits beside them every day, like a crouched lion in the brush. In spite of that they must press on, either that or give up and quit living."

Unconventional Wisdom for Unconventional Bucks, by Tom Fassbinder
Some bucks have certain learned survival characteristics that make them super bucks. They are almost unhuntable ... almost.

CATWOMAN: A Bowhunting Adventure, by Linda K. Burch - Bowhunting.net columnist Linda K. Burch has the nickname of 'Catwoman' but it's not for what you may think.

EVALUATION: Compound King Broadhead Target from American Whitetail, by Dave Conrad - Broadhead target that takes abuse and can stop any style broadhead. Arrows come out easily. Self healing. It's more for half the price.

Daily Reports From Doug Besherse
A Bowhunter Making A Difference In Iraq
Doug Besherse In Iraq - Home Page
All links to Doug Beherse's updates & pictures during this Archery Event in Iraq.
The Baghdad Soap Opera

Today Doug joins the Cobra Strike Team as they run missions and he becomes a part of the Baghdad Soap Opera, a true story of danger, murder, senseless violence and hope.
Preparing For The Mission

Unbeknownst to Doug, the officers decided to take him on a mission into the red zone to see what they did and the kind of conditions they had to do them in. The next night Sgt Higginbotham knocked on Doug's door.
Impact, Of The Archery KInd, In The Baghdad Green Zone

Shooting his bow with the soldiers, Iraqis and civilians in an active war zone is something Doug Besherse will never forget. Today Doug goes to the archery range.

- Defiance in the Face of Total Defeat
- Occupational Hazard
- Lucky to be Alive and Free
- A View Of Armageden
- Ground Thunder
- Welcome To Baghdad!
- Flying into Baghdad - Thinking of the ones who have gone before me.
- Leaving Kuwait - Proud to be an American
- Doug Reports En Route From Amsterdam
- Planning An Archery Event In Iraq
WHAT THIS IS ABOUT: Doug Besherse is in Baghdad to take part in a moral booster, archery event (the Iraqi International Archery Competition) to be held in the Presidential Palace. The event is open to all coalition troops and other support personnel and Iraqis helping in the green zone.
Also Doug is an embedded reporter with the 350th Civil Affairs Command which is in charge of rebuilding Iraq and helping people there attain a better life.

The 5 Elk Rut Phases, by T.R. Michels
What are the 5 elk rut phases? And what are the elk doing during each phase?

Meet Joe Hajek, by Tony Dukes
"Not only was I impressed with Hajek's manners
and hunting knowledge, but by the way he encouraged the boy that was hunting."

NEW: 4 Color HandTorch from Essential Gear - Essential Gear adds 4 different LED beam colors to the LED Hand torch.

NEW: EASTON Fatboy Carbon Arrows
Most accurate 3-D "Line Cutter" on the market.

Tip Of The Month, Whitetail Fanatic - If trophy bucks are what you're after, where and how you scout is crucial to your success.

Rocky Mountain 'TURBO' XTRA
New broadhead for faster shooting bows that does not sacrifice cutting diameter.

T.K.O. Is One Smooth Drop Away Arrow Rest - Golden Key Futura's TKO is dropping the hammer on the shooting line and in the field.

Brenda Valentine Knows Smooth
When hunting is your lifestyle and livelihood, your choice of equipment is not a casual decision.

NEW: Scent-Lok® Dakota Fleece Series
New Dakota Fleece Series for scent control and wind resistance also kills odor causing bacteria and adsorb all human odors.

Stand Sites, by T.R. Michels
Once you've found the buck's core area and travel routes, choose the spots to hang your stand.

NEW: Trap Door Fall-Away Arrow Rest
Pick up to 10 fps! Switch to the new 2004 Trap Door Mach 4 fall-away arrow rest.

Getting In Shape For The Hunt, by Dan Biehl - The preparations for a hunt not only cover checking your equipment, clothing, and travel dates, but also into your lungs and muscles.

The Partner, Michele Leqve - Michelle's hunting partner said a bear might check her out someday, but she didn't expect it this quick.

Sign Up For August Sweepstakes
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We Have A Winner Of The July Sweeps!
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Win A Free CUBE Broadhead Target
American Whitetail Archery Targets is giving away a CUBE Broadhead target. Enter today.

Robin Hood's Son?
Our Taxidermy columnists Larry Reese sent this picture of his son Cody, age 12. Looks like Cody is ready for the next bow season.

Spring Turkey Hunting Wisconsin 2004, by Joe Nawrot - In this re-edit with new pictures Joe & relatives put the moves on the turkey population, with amazing results.

Introducing the New BowMasters Magazine Column - 3 Time's The Charm

Three Time's The Charm, by Greg Brush
From the pages of BowMasters magazine.
A beginning elk hunter draws a coveted Arizona nonresident tag. Here's how he made his dream of a trophy 6-point bull come true.

EVALUATION: Coleman Outdoor Products, by Linda K. Burch - Linda tests and reviews Coleman's Battery Powered Camp Shower and Camp Coffee Maker.

My Most Unusual Bear Ever, by Fred Lutger

"I was amazed at the bear I saw -- the strangest colored black bear I've ever seen in 33 years of bear hunting."
Fred digs in and hunts hard and it paid off.

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