Mike Hanback's HuntingNet.Com Field Journal Feed en-us http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal.aspx?id=65 10 Journals Mike Hanback - Spring Beards & Bucks http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=895 Spring turkey season opens next month here in Virginia. It gives me a good excuse to pull on the camo and hit the woods again. If I call in and shoot a 20-pounder with a long rope and spurs like box cutters, great! But mostly I am out there poking around for old deer sign that I missed on my hunting... 3/27/2008 Mike Hanback - A Walk in the Deer Woods http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=859 One day last October I hung a tree stand on a ridge I had never hunted before. All I knew was that spot looked “bucky”-- greenbrier thickets laced with doe trails that funneled down an oak draw and into a brushy beaver swamp. If I sat the stand long enough I couldn’t help but to see deer. Hunti... 1/17/2008 Mike Hanback - Non-Typical Freaks of Nature http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=306 What’s the most awesome whitetail to come marching through the woods toward your stand, causing your knees to buckle and your heart to trip like a jackhammer?  Other than maybe a nice, neat 10-pointer that goes 170 Booner, it’s got to be a giant freak.  You know, one of those gnarly non-ty... 9/6/2007 Mike Hanback - Pro Dart-Hunting Deer Tour: Just a Plain Bad Idea http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=398 Unless you’ve been living under a rock with no access to the Internet for the last 2 weeks you’ve heard about the new World Hunting Association (WHA) and its revolutionary idea to turn our sport into a big-money, “cutting-edge non-fatal” competitive tour that would span not only the United States bu... 6/19/2006 Mike Hanback - Heart Attack, Wolves, Fawns & An 1892 Penny http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=340 Ah, spring.  People are out and about shedding and turkey hunting and finding all sorts of curious things. A truck full of shed antlers from one of the Drury farms. My buddy Terry Drury, the whitetail fanatic and whiz-kid videographer (can you call a gray-haired dude pushing... 5/2/2006 Mike Hanback - The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=300 The Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show A few years ago when the promoters of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show asked me to come up to Harrisburg, Pa. and do a seminar on deer hunting, I didn’t know what to expect. Yes, this was the largest hunting/consumer event of its kind in N.... 3/23/2006