By Glen Wunderlich

Once again, it’s time to establish wildlife food plots.  According to experts, the first week in August is the best time to plant and if the soil has not been prepared, it’s now or never.

Success is never guaranteed, because Mother Nature holds the trump cards which can spoil the most valiant efforts.  If seeding can be timed with rainfall – either before or after – the plot has a chance.  But, it takes more than one soaking to establish plants, so watch the weather to minimize failure risk.

A few years ago, I became concerned that seed had actually been killed from lack of rain, so I replanted.  When the rain finally arrived, the double dose of seed was too much and excessive plants meant under-developed plants and a waste of expensive seed.  Sometimes there is no winning in this guessing game. Read more

It can start with pain, itching, redness and swelling in the area of the skin, and in more pronounced cases, it can include fever, headache, fatigue, and/or a skin rash. The culprit is a tick bite, and if left untreated, it can lead to Lyme disease, which can spread to the joints, heart and nervous system.
According to Lauren Allen, who just completed her undergraduate degree with a double major in communication media studies and journalism from DePaul University, and writing for RadioMD.com (www.radiomd.com) , “you can have a tick (or three) burrowed in your skin without even feeling a thing.” She notes that ticks are usually most active from April until September.
But she also reveals that removing ticks, once an onerous task using tweezers (which often did not remove the tick and was impossible to use for some parts of the body) is now a swab of cotton balls away.
Her advice: Read more

Overland Park, Kan – Bushnell Outdoor Products, an industry-leader in high performance sports optics since 1948, has introduced a new compact roof prism spotting scope in the Bushnell Tactical line. The versatile Bushnell Elite Tactical 8-40x 60mm Lightweight Modular Spotting Scope (LMSS) represents the best in optical quality and engineering from a company that’s been an industry-leader for 65 years.

The Elite Tactical 8-40x 60mm LMSS features ED Prime glass, BAK-4 prisms and fully multi-coated optics, resulting in incredible image brightness and color resolution. Read more