The Arkansas Bowhunter
18 May

Public Trust Feature Film | The Fight for America’s Public Lands | Patag...

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17 February

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  Press Release- Arkansas Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Announces Appointment of Jim Taylor to the Board of Directors Greenwo...
03 July

Patrick Fitzmorris

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Meet Patrick Fitzmorris, Project Leader- Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge I was fortunate to have spent the opening three d...
04 July

Can You Name America's Greatest Conservation Program?

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The Land and Water Conservation Fund. (LWCF) has been the most effective conservation program in American history. Over the past fifty...
07 January

Modified Bow-holder tip for Public Land Hunting

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14 January

NRA vs Hunters

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Hunting writer Bobb Robb recently ranked the NRA as "number one" on his list of  "Top 10 Pro-Hunting organizations"?   Y...
09 January

Arkansas' Top 25 Public Deer Lands

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Wattensaw WMA- Number 15 on the list. Can you name Arkansas' most productive public hunting area?  I analyzed AGFC's deer har...
22 November

Canned "hunts"- It Aint Hunting

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Shooting an animal trapped inside a fence does not make you a hunter.  You want to feed and raise a penned animal to kill and eat it?  Fine...
19 January

Our Public Wild-Lands Under Attack

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Anti-government radicals have brought a lot of attention to our nation's public lands.  Armed with guns and a twisted agenda, they...
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08 January

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

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08 December

Gates Closed on White River NWR? No Problem.

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19 September

5 Tactics for Refuge Whitetails.

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Urban hunting?...Not me. No way. How about public land hunting in  41 or 103 acre WMAs?  Too confining for my sense of adventure.  (Yes....
21 August

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I'm fast becoming a fan of Clay Hayes. "I started this project in the spring of 2012 with the dream of changing the face of hunting...
22 May

Hunt out West? ...Your Public Lands Are in Jeapardy.

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Hunt out West? Hal Herring's latest article in Field & Stream exposes the truth behind a regurgitated effort by some members of co...
12 January

Donnie Vincent Talks About the Drive to Hunt

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27 December

White River Refuge- If You Want Easy, Don't Come Here.

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Abundant  Acorns- Overcup here.   Yes, I still make annual excursions to bowhunt the  refuge, but it had been ten years since I'd...
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FORT SMITH , AR
White River National Wildlife Refuge was $2 worth of gas from the small duck hunting town of Dewitt where I grew up.

Local stories about the refuge's tree dwelling black bears, chocolate racked bucks, and un-named lakes lined with giant cypress trees, were a tempting and constant distraction as a kid. Homework was always a distant second to the “Jeremiah Johnson esque” adventures awaiting me within the swampy wilds of this lost land.

Instead of school work, my notebooks recorded locations of persimmon trees, deer trails, and favored locations to hang my Baker climbing stand. And of course game taken.

Recording the when and where of deer killed was easy. I was much less enthusiastic about noting the many olive drab Game-Getter arrows that I “planted” along well worn deer trails. As an easily excitable 16 year old, my Savora tipped arrows had a heartbreaking habit of zipping harmlessly over the backs of long necked does and occasional bucks. My notes then and now provide an opportunity to look back, learn, and reminisce.

Jim Taylor
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