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    by BWB Prostaff Matt Breton I’ve been sugaring this week.  Gathering all that sap in buckets (mine is a small operation) and boiling it down to make delicious maple syrup takes some time and effort that I find well worth it. It is something that looks easy from the outsi...

  by BWB Pro-Staff Matt Breton I’ve long admired athletes of all sports and levels.  I think a large part of it is their constant pursuit of excellence throughout the arc of their careers.  As I pondered this recently, it led me to two questions: 1)    &n...

With the bulk of the fall big game hunting season behind us, it is time to start the process of looking at the next season.  Like many of you, the Big Woodslife I like to lead never really stops, it only shifts focus.  For me there is hare hunting and ice fishing, then sugaring, turkey hun...

Cold and snowy weather finally made an appearance on the fourth day of my recent whitetail hunt in Canada and with it, success. I found a good track and began my pursuit but this year, and this time, was to be different than in the past. Rather than going full bore, I needed to be smart because I wa...

Listen; can you hear them in the distance? Wave upon wave of migrating sand hill cranes, their distinctive and haunting call proclaiming their southbound journey, filled the skies above us and briefly interrupted our glassing for mule deer in the rugged breaks of east central Wyoming. I was wit...

Clean your shotgun??? 1000 shots before it was cleaned.   Check out a summary of this past seasons informal test BWB did on a shotgun. Last year I was speaking to a counter guy at a local sporting goods store. We were talking about waterfowl hunting and what guns we each ran. He ...

      The Buck Hunter By Hal Blood October  2015             The long wait is over and Deer season is once again upon us. I don’t know about anybody else but I still get excited for the season to begin as I did whe...

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