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August 2008 Feature Article:

Staying Alive While Hunting the Wide Open West

Growing up hunting in the Midwest where a half-hour hike from the road was considered remote and wilderness was any 500-acre section with a single farm house. Getting lost was never a concern, even in an era before cell phones and GPS units.

In more than two decades my worst mishap was getting mired in mud off the side of a rural road during a Sunday snow squall. I was stuck for nearly 30 minutes before a farmer hunting for coyotes drove past and pulled me back onto the road.

When I was 29 I moved my family to the West. Big game hunting suddenly became a much more serious pursuit, not because I became a more avid hunter, but because I realized that a mistake in the Rocky Mountains or the Western deserts could prove fatal.
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[soules2007]

good read, i really enjoy reading articles that give first hand tips like this one does. thx for the post.

[goose142004]

great job and geartly appreciated. i added a few things to my list of many.