tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58695884327453135742023-11-15T22:38:47.671-08:00Steve Beckwith - The Maine HunterHunting Tips, Tricks, Recipes, Steve's Viewpoints and Real Hunting Stories!
Note from Steve; I am not a professional writer and tend to ramble my sentences,misspell, use improper grammar and many other no no's as a so called writer, but if you read between the lines I think you'll get my points! Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-74530402229210811022021-03-16T06:18:00.001-07:002021-03-16T06:18:01.928-07:00Growing Pains and Gains! New Hunting to Class Opportunities!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjtLK-kY5rYIIbvZPXNW_enCGaZWU9BahMCqXet1QuAo9nBkb-3N6mCLydP6xCyMkhNmKsLMiXpDcstRuijkfe80yaL9OAfr6NFCF2eaE0Zs4lesLgdv_-mKCBHi9k8XUeEyBC9BgojY8K/s640/IMG_3284.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnQf00KI5xQzh1GmuNpoQFTY2uf4-coZQ5JwGMbpWbeO3SEfFV8iQ3bZ1Wq4UnOIu9kZ2iwifBeB5i6ik0ihbX-9tluPqefWL1MThKSHWti2RaGQsVvxOMfxo9MBtdtxlEo6KFPnWr_6fN/s625/House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnQf00KI5xQzh1GmuNpoQFTY2uf4-coZQ5JwGMbpWbeO3SEfFV8iQ3bZ1Wq4UnOIu9kZ2iwifBeB5i6ik0ihbX-9tluPqefWL1MThKSHWti2RaGQsVvxOMfxo9MBtdtxlEo6KFPnWr_6fN/s320/House.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div>In November of 2020 amidst the Corona Pandemic I began construction on our family home in Lebanon, Maine. The upstairs was originally roughed in for a in-law apartment when it was built in the 1980's. Since I became a Maine Guide and Guide School owner, I have always wanted a Lodge with a classroom for my school and a lodge for my hunting clients. On March 8th, 2021 the lodge, appropriately named the "Attic Lodge" was officially completed with the town CEO's signature on our occupancy permit! <p></p><p>With this new addition, many new things are coming for this new adventure. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiL3S8lt4qbh4xX3414mmq-II3-K0mvlnAXegAENckpqzEO1N7Sat7Wv_ZN7gQnx7AyjZa-jfwcbm-6q11daKUgsUIl33QluEdkVxcYjigf8ZIfbMkJ0Ee-LkqR0B6_PHXRH7sg7XChfjw/s2016/IMG_7491.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiL3S8lt4qbh4xX3414mmq-II3-K0mvlnAXegAENckpqzEO1N7Sat7Wv_ZN7gQnx7AyjZa-jfwcbm-6q11daKUgsUIl33QluEdkVxcYjigf8ZIfbMkJ0Ee-LkqR0B6_PHXRH7sg7XChfjw/s320/IMG_7491.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>More outdoor related classes are in the works, primarily around map & compass, on sight and offsite orienteering, GPS usage with maps, emergency overnight survival classes and more to come! </p><p style="text-align: center;">Overnight stays will be offered free for our Class students, Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Recreational packages on our website as they are developed.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Here are a few pictures of the Attic Lodge</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2izrTlAxrAnhjROhHoXoUcXcuOZsfxoOAI-95jPabmc1GrO_UaoEvQlr_G8zyetoM2ueCzdhUJI9vXm9y8wPFrLqtJRzonu7EMmHEo7gxBHcHwVJb6AvK1pqP6OKYR3LTrV7iJAuwl7dD/s2016/IMG_7500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The boat is equipped with a 4 stroke Honda 50, electronics, down riggers and lead core line equipment is provided. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC03O1CxhI8JLCxNGkSbBxDZhC3EbgIA8kOKqZfl002s_yUvAM9UtGcH2vMiZoDFixJdXFJDrILzkkoAWJrVjVX9sDywDCdR2zb7b-23PYG70SiKbw-7ilb9iyobC_ltAP6hGEIN8Ffx75/s640/IMG_3284.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC03O1CxhI8JLCxNGkSbBxDZhC3EbgIA8kOKqZfl002s_yUvAM9UtGcH2vMiZoDFixJdXFJDrILzkkoAWJrVjVX9sDywDCdR2zb7b-23PYG70SiKbw-7ilb9iyobC_ltAP6hGEIN8Ffx75/s320/IMG_3284.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Hope you will join us soon!</p><p>Steve Beckwith<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <br /></p><p> </p><p> <br /></p>Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-25161538268509978382019-07-29T12:37:00.002-07:002019-08-01T04:58:27.267-07:00Bear Scent Attractants 101 on a Budget!<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="1qh8q-0-0"><span data-text="true">No need to spray all that expensive scent attractant you purchase onto the trees to be washed away by rain! We all have spent lots of cash each year doing this...I have experimented for many years and have come up with a way to save money and actually increase the amount of scent dispersal while in the field, without spending a lot of money! It's even more important when watching costs of operating my bear guiding business with 15 or more bear sites! So from one bait to 100 this will save any bear hunter a lot of money and it can even be used in states that allow scents but not bait!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1qh8q-0-0"><span data-text="true">I recommend when setting up a bear site to soak a rag in <a href="http://mainescentsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Anise Star Oil</a> or your favorite attractant scent purchased from a local seller is always best but there are many places online to buy scents and hanging it at your site use an old plastic milk jug and cut off the bottom, poke or drill a couple holes in the cap and run a zip tie or string through cap to the cloth, this keeps rain off your soaked rag allowing for longer scent dispersal, also when the sun hits the jug it heats up the scent reactivating it once again! This will attract bear when you're not there at your site. Once the bear find your baited site, when you re-bait your site refresh the rag with small amount of scent, it signals to the bear that there's more grub left at the site. This method uses a lot less attractant than spraying it on leaves, it draws in the bear and will save you money! Using Anise Star Oil has been a bear hunters staple attractant for many, many years! </span></span><br />
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used fryolator oil on the ground will also help keep the bear coming by them tracking
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other bear pick up the scent and follow it in to the baited sites.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true">The </span></span><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="http://wickedwickah.com/" target="_blank">Wicked Wickah 2.0</a></span></span> constantly moves scent from the device while in a stand from it's battery driven fan that works if it's windy or if it's calm, far better than relying on natural air currents to get the scent to the bears nose! </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true">Using these methods will greatly reduce the cost per baited site and this method will also make your sites more productive during legal hunting hours using the NEW <a href="http://wickedwickah.com/" target="_blank">Wicked Wickah 2.0</a></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true">The </span></span><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true">NEW </span></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="6gl86-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="http://wickedwickah.com/" target="_blank">Wicked Wickah 2.0</a></span></span> also will work extremely well in States that do not allow the use of bait, if your State allows only scents to attract bear or deer this device works incredibly well! </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="937gg-0-0"><span data-text="true">As a young boy and into my early thirties, I use to be a very active fisherman, I was on the ice more than I was home, I was in a brook or lake, day and night, I was on the ocean whenever I could be, but due to my true passion for hunting and when I was working 24-7 in the heating industry, while raising my family, I gave up fishing and put 100% of my available time away from work and family into hunting..No regrets there! Hunting is my top priority and always will be in the outdoors. </span></span></div>
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Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-40586325690109018552018-10-22T07:58:00.000-07:002018-10-22T07:58:07.422-07:00Using Scents To start Your SeasonMaking a mock scrape is very simple, I use my boot to scrape the leaves down to the dirt away, slinging the leaves and dirt in one direction to create the typical buck scrape we all see in the woods made by Mr. Buck himself! Bucks like to do this under a tree with overhanging branches are reachable from a deer browsing above them, they typically will bite a branch and twist it around secreting their own scent onto that branch, I snap a branch above my mock scrape jsut like they do.<br />
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I then start using "Dominant Buck Urine" (from <a href="http://mainescentsecrets.com/">MaineScentSecrets.com</a>) in my mock scrapes in early October. I use a black out type trail camera placed to watch the scrape and soon the doe activity will begin at the scrape I made. After I see this activity, I start applying both "Dominant Buck and Anytime Doe Urine" when I re-freshen the scrapes. When multiple bucks start appearing along with the doe, I switch over to "Doe Estrus Urine & Dominant Buck Urine" through the rut season. The reason for using both scents is that doe will use these scrapes to let the bucks know they are checking them too and when the doe goes into estrus this triggers buck activity, as well as adding a new doe scent to a scrape using my scent products it will make does frequent the scrapes more, bringing better odds of bucks coming in during daylight hours for hunting them! I will note that I will install tree stands at the same time as I start these mock scrapes to limit my activity near them when the bucks arrive. I like to keep my stands back as far as possible for effective range of my bow, crossbow or gun I plan to use.<br />
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In other areas that I place my stands on known deer travel ways I don't always create a mock scrape, I will walk about 100 yards in front of my stand leading the deer in range of my stand as I walk, I use an eye dropper or syringe to lay down what I call a Drop/Drip trail, I like to simulate a doe walking along dripping urine off her vent and legs, rather than simply spraying it about aimlessly! I been doing this for several years using various scent company products, I now have the source of the best deer scent product I have ever used and bottle it under my own name product, name called <a href="http://mainescentsecrets.com/">MaineScentSecrets.com</a>. If you would like to try it you can order it on my website.<br />
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At the time of year when activity is just starting to pick for breading foreplay, (usually pre-rut season late October) as soon as you start hearing people talking about shooting bucks with thick necks and stinking musky...start using the "Doe Estrus" drop/drip method! I also created a new contraption I call the "Wicked Scent Wickah" and this is when this should be cranking near you! This is not a fool proof method, you still need to be where big bucks are and keep your own scent down wind, then have a lot of good old luck to get them bug bucks out in the daylight, but all this has worked at times for me over the years along with using a doe estrus bleat call about every five minutes, just as it's getting light or about 1/2 hour before legal shooting ends! See my other blog post on calling deer!<br />
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<br />Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-55389939568290557602018-07-01T08:03:00.002-07:002018-07-01T10:21:03.240-07:00Trail Camera review Victure HC200 vs. Wild Game Innovations Cloak 12I try to be thrifty and stretch my dollars so that I have more cameras available for my outdoor adventures, and sometimes I have to take one for the team...but I thought I would share a bad deal and a good deal on four cameras I recently purchased.<br />
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The bad deal was two at $59.99 each of the Victure HC200 Trail Camera 1080P 12MP Wildlife Camera Motion Activated Night Vision 20m with 2.4" LCD Display IP66 Waterproof Design for Wildlife Hunting and Home...with No SD card and No Batteries! The good deal, which was the two Wild Game Innovations, Cloak 12 Lightsout 12mp trail Game Camera with 8 Duracell Batteries and SanDisk 8G SD Card included which I purchased for $59.99 as well.<br />
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I probably should just stay with using WGI cameras, but with all the latest and greatest technology coming out, I can't resist trying these new cameras hoping for something inexpensive, durable and that takes decent pictures so I can see a black bear at night and a squirrel by day! I am not looking for photographs for a contest with my cameras, just show me what's in front of the camera day or night when it appears there, it's all that I require in a good trail camera!<br />
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<b>Here are the results</b> from my product side by side test on the same tree at night with these two model trail cameras. You decide for yourself which one you would buy for an inexpensive camera, to me it's simple, the WGI Cloak 12 for $59.95 on Amazon with the 8 Duracell batteries and the 8gb SD card is the best bang for my buck out of these two cameras!<br />
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Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-59121708608951931472017-11-11T09:00:00.003-08:002019-08-20T03:59:37.808-07:00Pre Rut...Rut...Post Rut Here We Come!<br />
Once again I find myself working my calls during the rut here in Maine. Calling is not always a instant rewarding adventure, but when it works there's nothing like outsmarting any buck or doe, big or small, if you can call a deer into shooting range you are doing everything right!<br />
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First you must reach way back into your memory bank and remember places where you have seen bucks, or that bucks are currently making ground scrapes, even scrapes & rubs from years ago or buck sighting from years ago in an area will be great places to return to do calling sequences later in life.<br />
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<b>Doing your homework can pay off for calling during the rut! </b></div>
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From my life's experience of being in the woods and observing everything to assist me with patterning buck and doe behaviors. I have found that each year or sometimes every other year deer will breed and "chase" during the pre-rut, rut and post-rut in the same areas of the woods, almost ancestrally. The best way to recognize breeding behaviors and the start of rut is by keeping a mental note of traffic in a given area, if yesterday the deer tracks were a single track or maybe two to four deer moving in a single line across the area and when you return the next day or two, three days later you begin seeing many random deer tracks all over the oak leaves or forest floor coming and going in all directions...chances are you have found the breeding or the "Chase" zone. Always remember these areas from year to year, as this activity is generally done after legal shooting hours by the darkness of night or moonlight, but these areas make great places to sit the fringes of during the rut. Just sitting there might be productive for your hunt, but you will increase your chances of finding that dominant buck in that area if you do a little calling!<br />
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I have mentioned calling in previous blog posts, but my favorite calls to use during rut and post rut are "doe estrus bleat" calls. There are several I have used successfully, from the Lil' Can, Primos adjustable mini deer call, to electronic calls such as Extreme Dimensions Estrus Bleat and my now favorite my cell phone app called HuntPro, the Estrus Bleat works with or without a bluetooth speaker. The only time I use the Bluetooth speaker when calling is on very windy days, but, when all is quiet in the woods just use your cell phone on it's loudest volume setting with no remote speaker. It's perfect volume to call in a buck!<br />
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Okay.. you must be thinking... how often, how loud, when to call, how many bleats, do I use scents? The answer to scents is YES, use that doe estrus urine, I prefer the <a href="http://mainescentsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Maine Scent Secrets</a><a href="http://mainescentsecrets.com/" target="_blank"> </a>brand and use it on every setup, but you can use any good deer urine company.<br />
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I also make mock scrapes using their buck urine in the area deer travel and previously have made scrapes in from my current year and past scouting. Mock scrapes are simple to make, I just use my rubber boots to dig up the scrape area down to the dirt and throw the dirt just like a buck would do when making it, I drizzle 1/4 of the bottle into the scrape to start it off, then return daily or periodically to refresh it with buck urine and once a buck has visited my scrape, I start adding doe urine to it as well.<br />
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When I hunt and call I keep my scent wicks about 18 inches from the ground, not up high in a tree branch because bucks travel with their nose to the ground and scent rises with the heat of a day, keeping it low is very important.<br />
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With calling... what has worked for me in the past is that you want to call as soon as you can see well enough to identify a deer and see them in your crosshairs or sights, you don't want to start too early and bring in that giant buck in the dark before you can see him coming, in my area of southern Maine, I like to wait until about 15 minutes before sunrise to actual sunrise to start my calling sequences. I access the wind and noise in my area and if it's nice and calm, little or no wind, I use the estrus bleat call on my cell phone with the phone volume at maximum, or I will use the Lil' Can "Estrus Doe Bleat". Either one works great on calm days! If the wind is blowing causing sound not to travel very far, I step up my cell phone call by using my Bluetooth speaker (I use a Bose SoundLink Micro Bluetooth® speaker, but you can use cheaper ones that do the same thing, I prefer the clarity of the Bose, plus it's waterproof. ) and start on mid volume. My sequence is 3-5 bleats about every 5 minutes and I turn my volume up and down between each bleat, something like this, low volume on bleat one, bleat two up one notch, bleat 3 up two notches, bleat 4 back down two notches and bleat 5 down another notch of volume. This simulates the deer moving her head and body around as she bleats by changing volume. On calm days I stick with about 3-4 bleats of the Lil' Can and do this about every 5 minutes until about an our after sunrise and then I stop all calling until 1/2 hour before sunset, I then use a "Doe Grunt" call with 1-3 soft grunts every 5-10 minutes until end of legal shooting time.<br />
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The only calling I do between one hour after sunrise and 1/2 hour before sunset are buck grunts! When I am stalking through the woods (walking carefully and slowly) I usually grunt about every 5-10 steps depending upon how quiet I have just walked, if I break a twig, I grunt and stop briefly before continuing on. When I jump a deer and physically see or hear deer running or blowing, I grunt loud and quickly, many times deer will stop, look back or even start walking your way stamping their feet, trying to locate the buck they just heard! When I am traveling to my to my stand after lunch time or if I am approaching open fields or powerlines in my travels, I will use a turkey diagram call and putt, yelp my way to where I am heading.<br />
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I have had very little success in Maine using the rattle call for big deer, but I have called in smaller bucks, does and yearlings using a fighting rattle sequence a few times when sitting powerlines just in the last 20 minutes of legal shooting time in Maine. Deer have jumped out of the woods looking up and down the powerline to locate the fight I simulated. I have filled more than one antlerless tag using this method in my life. So don't give up on using the rattling call for big bucks, because I know many hunters that have been very successful using rattling in Maine! But always remember when using the rattle call...there has to be at least a couple dominant bucks in the area you are rattling in for it to work, the more big bucks, the better this will work!<br />
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Well.. The rut is on and I hope some of my tips will help you out the next time you head into the woods to fill your deer tag! Always remember: Any person that fully enjoys the pursuit of his or her intended species with the end results being an accomplished and happy hunter regardless of sex, weights, bag limits or protruding extremities! Steve Beckwith - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SteveBeckwithHunting/" target="_blank">The Maine Hunter</a><br />
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Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-36910141080376425972017-10-10T18:31:00.001-07:002017-10-10T18:41:05.760-07:00To Hunt Fall Hens and Poults Or Not Is A Hunters Choice.<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Let me start off this blog post with a favorite quote of mine that I live by:</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Definition of a Maine Hunter:<br /> <i>Any person that fully enjoys the
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<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">I had a client earlier last week and this client would only shoot a Tom, or the Boss Gobbler as he called it, the client was 74 years old, with a bad leg and was limited on the type of terrain I could take him over, as well as being completely deaf and I had to communicate with him using texting sitting next to him. I enjoyed the gentleman immensely and he was an excellent sportsman, but it was a very trying experience for me as a Maine Guide. He only hunted with me for two days, sunup to sundown and each day t</span></span><span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">he morning set ups were in a field/meadow that was picturesque and we even had a gobble on the roost the first morning, but both days the birds would not fly down into the wet grass of the field and they landed in the woods on dry ground. The land owner gave me permission to hunt only until 8 AM each day due to they had a horse riding stable that catered to disabilities and therapy riding lessons and started at 9 AM, so we could not stay or return when the birds hit the field in that area. We traveled for many hours and located many birds, most were hen flocks with poults and these birds were nothing this gentleman was interested in pursuing. We found several Toms but always on land we couldn't access or under someone's bird feeders. We sat fields in the evening hours for the roost, but of course they either didn't roost or were at the other end of the field from our blind. My client went home empty handed simply because he was not willing to harvest a hen in the fall, a choice he made and had to live with after paying my guide fees of two days. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">I haven't had much chance to get out and hunt this fall for myself, but between setting stands and scouting for clients, today Oct 10th, I got a morning to myself and harvested two hen turkeys with one shot. (In Maine you can shoot two birds in the fall of either sex.) It was an awesome adventure that after it was all over I thought, it sure would have been nice to have had a buddy along to see it all come together as I out smarted an entire flock of birds. My clients who wouldn't shoot a hen missed out on the excitement of the birds coming to the call, to each their own, but I love calling in any wild animal, male or female and outsmarting it, that is the challenge to me and always will be. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Many people ask me how I hunt in the fall. It's been many years of trial an error, but I have finally become quite good at succeeding on a flock of hens and poults in the fall. First I locate a flock of birds by traveling the known areas birds live, travel and frequent, once I spot them I get ahead of them without being seen, usually I use the woods to get into what I call "The Zone" (Close enough to not be seen by the birds but not so far they can't hear my fall calling yelps and putts.) I set up quick and call like the audio file below. I will pause my calling 3-5 minutes between calling and don't call when I can see a bird, I let them hunt me down, with gun up and ready because there's too many eyes coming in quietly to move once you see them. I sit against a tree and if I can sit behind evergreens it helps to give me better cover. Watch without moving a muscle and be ready, if I get busted and the birds alarm or run off, I will get up and try to move at them to bust them up, then sit back down for a few minutes and start to call again from a slightly different location, usually they will come back in to re-group with the flock and you may get your chance then. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">I have also shot many Toms in the past in the fall using a single Jake decoy in a field, (If I can get it set up ahead of a group of males without getting seen, I usually use the hills in the field to place the decoy when I can.) when they do see the decoy they will come running in at it so be ready if you try this set up! I know there are a lot of other methods for fall turkey hunting but this is just what works for me and I hope it helps someone else who is struggling with fall turkey hunting, I know I did for many years! </span></span><br />
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(<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">The audio is how
I call fall birds in using my own vocal chords, no man made call used.
It's rough calling but many birds have fallen for my "fall calling",
some in the spring too!)</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7jdp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Good luck and Happy Fall Turkey Hunting! </span></span><br />
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Always remember when reading my blog... I am not a professional writer, I tend to ramble, misspell and use bad grammar! In this article I will talk about both archery and shotgun hunting. I will also be talking about calling, stalking and tactics that have worked for me and that I use. Some conventional and some unconventional tactics, but keep in mind, I am a hunter and a hunter uses everything legal to achieve the ultimate end result which is food on our tables. My way may not be your way, but your way is not always the only way or the right way for another hunter! I am tired of the trash talk I see on Facebook and other social media sites from supposed hunters who think their way is the only way and talk down on new techniques or old traditions that they have never tried or that they simply don't like the concept. They trash talk new concepts without ever having tried them, they forget that some states allow methods that their state don't and immediately call it cheating, unethical, or unsafe! Anytime you set out to go hunting "always" check your local laws before implementing anything you read online! States like Massachusetts have no law against shooting turkeys off the roost, I don't like that law for my state, but maybe guys in Massachusetts like to hunt that way. In Maine we can hunt with electronic calls, not that I need them, but it's legal, therefore okay for those who use them here! Why bash others over legal hunting methods in the state we do it in? I say... to each his own, as long as it's legal to do where you hunt! <br /><br />I have had many ups and downs when it comes to fall turkey hunting. I do prefer using my shotgun but I have shot many fall turkeys with a bow over the years and I hate to admit this but many have also run off to die and never be found by myself, but instead by a fox, fisher or coyote that surely enjoyed my efforts! Turkey hunting with a bow, from my years of experience tells me in order to be successful one must be very patient and select only the perfect shot angles. Shooting a turkey broadside with an arrow is in my opinion is a poor shot, there is a very small window of kill areas when a bird is broadside. (Yes.. it can be done, but more times than not they run away to die a slow death and can’t be found so I won't do it anymore.) The best shots for me are either straight on with it walking directly towards you or walking directly away. Of course there are other good shots too like slightly angling towards you or going away angle shots that work quite well too, but this method gives a much bigger kill area and will easily disable a bird when you drive a broadhead through the spine, lungs, heart, neck or head! <br /><br />In my later years of hunting, I have made a choice in the hunting of turkey to use my 12 ga Mossberg Ult-Mag 835 shotgun with 3 1/2” magnum with #5 shot (Heavy Shot or Federal Premiums patterned best in my gun.), mainly because I respect the animal and want to make sure I use a tool that does the job I am setting out to do, which is to kill a turkey and put him on my dinner table, not a coyote, fox or other critters meal! Using a gun of this caliber also allows longer range shooting which is often necessary in the fall. My gun has taken birds out to 80 yards, although 65 yards is my preferred maximum range. One does not need to use what I use, it’s just my personal choice for turkey hunting. <br /><br />There are too many ways to list them all but I have developed certain skills that help me to be a successful fall turkey hunter over the years. The first and foremost mission is that you have to locate birds and the easiest way to do that in the fall is to ride the roads and spot them in fields, backyards, (Bird Feeders) crossing roads and by frequenting areas where spring turkeys have been known to hang out, like oak ridges and old tote roads with landings or clearings. But, remember that fall turkeys have totally different habits and behaviors in the fall over spring turkey hunting. In the fall turkeys group into two flock types, hens and poults and Toms and 1 1/2 year old jakes, beards are with beards, and hens are still with their spring born broods. This requires different hunting tactics for each group of birds in the fall.<br /><br />First I will go over hunting the hens and poults flock, calling fall birds is quite fun and this flock is the easiest to call, but yet not always will they respond. In order to call birds there are a couple methods that work, one is busting up the group, causing them to scatter into the woods ahead of you, either with a dog or by running at them yourself and forcing them to scatter. I don’t have a dog and I don’t like to chase turkeys although I have and it works! But after the birds have gone out of sight you simply set up close to where they dispersed and begin to call using a soft yelp and single putts or a young bird kee kee to simulate a gathering situation to which the birds will try to regroup and unfortunately to them, your calling is a fake part of their flock and when they appear looking for their friends the shot opportunity presents itself for you. <br /><br />Another way I have been very successful calling hens and poults is by finding them in large fields or in areas you can easily predict their direction of traveling as a group, and I position myself about 100 yards ahead of that direction without getting caught, or busted, as we call it getting set up. Being stealthy and quick are keys to doing this. Using the woods and ridges make great cover while you get ahead of the flock. Once you are set up, again do some soft yelps and single puts and it won’t be long before that whole group is on the way looking for another flock or group to join up with and again you are not what they will be looking for! Being in camo and very still is crucial when flocks are approaching you in the woods, that many eyes all looking for the sounds you were making puts them on alarm of any foreign movement in their woods.<br />
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Recently I teamed up with a company called Blind Magnet, they make very light and easy to pop open blinds that gives me the added cover I need to prevent body movement. It carries easily in my pack or in my hand as I work my way through and ahead of birds in the woods and when I get to what I call “In The Zone”, which is about 100 yards or less from the flock, this blind pops open in two seconds and makes it perfect for run and gunning for fall turkeys. I will mention this blind again in this article for another awesome and fun way to get your turkey!<br />
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<br /><br />The male fall flock is quite a bit harder to call into range. Male birds in the fall do not want anything to do with females and their poults, I have been within 75 yards of flocks of male birds and let out a hen yelp, their heads pop up and two seconds later, they are running straight away from that sound they heard. Calling males in the fall can be done, but personally I have not mastered this call and I choose other methods for my hunting success. Males like to keep to themselves in the fall season. I personally believe it is because they know that the large groups of young birds are making too many sounds and predators go after them. The older wiser male birds don’t want these young poults giving them away and putting them in danger of coyotes and foxes, the male birds are no where near as vocal in the fall as the hen and poult flocks! In my experience calling in fall Toms should be left up to only the most experienced turkey callers, a caller that can mimic only the male “yelp” something I have not yet mastered and probably never will for fall birds. But, I have called in male birds in the fall, using a deep yelp from the center of a slate call or a low pitched box call.<br />
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<br />In Maine we can stalk turkey and it’s a lot of fun and is an adrenaline rush one has to experience but, I only advise this in open areas or fields to be safe. Open field or plains stalking is an ancient art of hunting that dates back to our ancestors using primitive hunting tools. In the past my fall tom hunting tactics of stalking have been finding a flock of toms and using natural elements to stalk and close the gap without getting seen by all those eyes watching for predators. I use trees, bushes, stonewalls, hills, valleys and anything that hides me while I close the distance for a kill shot. One of my favorite old time methods is to use a red headed jake decoy once I have located a flock in an open field, the trick is to find a hill or bushes across the field from them that I can get the decoy out in the field without being caught by the flock. Then set up against a tree with some good cover and wait for the flock to walk around the bush or hill and see the lone jake decoy, sometimes that single low pitched tom yelp makes them look quicker! They almost instantly run across the field ready to confront this new intruder in their area and will run right to the decoy. Now with the addition of the “Blind Magnet” in my backpack of tools I will be using that for a cover set up from now on rather than limited bushes and cover in setting up quickly in specific corners of a field!<br />
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<br /><br />This leads me to the recent discovery of use of the Blind Magnet for fall turkey hunting. Last spring I filmed the use of a Blind Magnet blind used to stalk three adult toms across a 500 yard field here in Maine and the shooter was able to stalk within 30 yards of these three birds that would not come to any call I had in my box of tricks. These birds stayed on the wood line on the opposite side of the field for hours, so we deployed the Tactical Blind Magnet and slowly worked across the wide open field, if the birds get a little nervous, you simply stop and watch for them to settle back down and start feeding or strutting, whatever they are doing naturally. These blinds have about a 3 inch circle hole in them above the handle you use to move the blind, which you can look out through and see everything ahead of you. Without the use of this new lightweight camo shield, stalking 500 yards to within shooting range of three weary toms would never happen! This new device should be in every turkey hunters bag of tricks. When your preferred method of calling just won’t work, deploy the Blind Magnet and try your hand at something that is very exciting but I will tell you that stalking skills are required to do this. You can’t just walk quickly across a field and shoot a turkey, you have to hunt skillfully behind this device, and that’s why it’s called hunting folks.<br /><br />So in closing I hope you will give fall turkey hunting a try and that some of my experiences will help you to be more successful! I hope you will consider giving staking turkey and other game a try. My late great friend Lane Benoit enjoyed tracking, stalking, learning the ways of the animal he was pursuing and he always told me that it is all part of why we all hunt. I had the pleasure of turkey hunting with Lane Benoit and he always told me great woodsman use all their skills and knowledge to be successful and to never leave any stone un-turned in achieving your end goal, which is food on your table! I too live by the same words and use the tools available to me to achieve those goals! So check your States game laws to be sure stalking game is legal in your area and catch the fever of fall turkey hunting and the many ways to be successful!<br />
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<a href="http://www.maine.gov/ifw/hunting_trapping/hunting/laws/turkey_hunting.htm#fall" target="_blank">Maine Fall Turkey Hunting Laws</a><br />Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-8606470332128253222016-05-29T07:05:00.000-07:002016-05-29T07:05:00.134-07:00Wow.. The social media has exploded on the subject of stalking. Of course it's the age old everyone has their right of choice on how to think, act and do things in life! From my stand point it's up to the individual how one chooses to be successful as a hunter. The method used "as long as it is legal" in my opinion is part of developing useful skills as a hunter. New gadgets and inventions is what humans do to advance or be successful! It's kind of like fishing, I like worms, you like flies, and someone else likes lures, it's "choice" and it's "my" choice not yours!<br />
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<br />It doesn't matter if you are stalking, turkey, deer, moose, antelope, elk, geese, or a woodchuck if it is legal to stalk an animal we fellow sportsman need to stick together and accept how others hunt and what they enjoy. If you don't want to do it? It's simple don't! But for the love of god stop arguing that your way is better than my way and vice versa!<br />
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For example you may like to sit in a treestand all day to shoot a deer, but another hunter may opt to be a tracker and run down that animal until he finally gets his intended target, another hunter may choose to aimlessly walk around the woods and take a dear by accident (by chance or jump shooting), while another favors calling in a deer using scents and a call, or maybe driving deer is legal in your state and you enjoy that type of hunting or hunting from a ground blind is your preferred method. If these methods are legal and effective, it's all part of developing your own hunting skills your style and method of being the superior predator. A hunter is the ultimate predator. From the development of rock fall traps, spears, clubs, slingshots, bows and modern firearms man has developed methods and improvised his skills into many weapons and tactics to achieve hunting success. </div>
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Man created decoys, mouth calls, electronic calls, metal tree stands, pop up blinds and many other tools to add to our bag of tricks to be successful. Does it really matter if I call in a turkey with a fancy custom made box call or if I use an electric call downloaded to my cell phone to make the same exact sound to kill a turkey? No it don't! Because the guy that uses his store bought electronic call will have filled his legal tag, followed his local laws to do so and had his own personal satisfaction that he or she is happy with to accomplishing the same end goal as the turkey hunter who called in his turkey using a box call he purchased at a department store or maybe made himself. Any person that belittles another fellow hunter because they used one device over another is nothing more than....well..a jack ass! Not anyone I would want to associate with, call my friend or especially go hunting with! People I associate with respect how others accomplish the same end result, by following their local game laws and legally filling their tag and putting meat on their table regardless of their personal skill level. <br />
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I personally use anything at my disposal to be successful as long as it is legal where I am hunting. So let me get back to the topic at hand, stalking! I recently have been seeing many videos of people using turkey tails to stalk a turkey and get up close. I've seen hunters bashing others doing this on forums and social networking sites and saying how unsafe this is etc., etc. Yes.. it is marginally unsafe in certain conditions to do this, in my area in brush or wooded scenarios it could be dangerous, but it's certainly not unsafe in an open field. It is the gun handlers responsibility to always identify their targets or face stiff fines and even jail time for shooting another human. If you have ever seen a 5 foot plus person crawling behind a two foot wide turkey tail, across an open field it is rather obvious what is going on, most of your body is exposed from any direction. As a turkey hunter have you ever just fired at a tail fan...NO, you wait until you see the head, neck, beard before taking the shot, even if the live bird is close to the "fanning hunter" you can easily witness the live bird moving towards the human crawling behind the turkey tail fan and know that it's unsafe, unfair and usually illegal to shoot game being pursued by another hunter. <br />
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I will agree a very few people have been shot across the USA while wearing red, blue, or white, using gobble calls, or even simply using male bird decoys in a set up by inexperienced hunters desperate to kill a turkey. But... these people are breaking numerous laws and are the negligent hunters we need to put the blame on the negligent shooter not on the person using a legal method to hunt the intended animal. When "we" as "hunters" step into the woods we accept the risk that another hunter may in fact fail to identify his target, it's unfortunately part of going hunting and we hunters have to be aware of our surroundings while in the act of hunting. I honestly feel that if I get shot while hunting it will be because whomever pulled their trigger is not a responsible hunter and should be held liable for their actions. If I'm hiding behind a natural bush, against a tree, a ground blind, walk behind blind, a stake out blind, a cow blind, a mirror blind, or crawling behind a turkey tail in an open field and what I am doing is perfectly legal in that State, if you shoot me or at me you, I will certainly be having you prosecuted in court and going after everything you own for damages! It is ridiculous to put the blame on the hunter abiding by the laws of hunting in that area, when an accident happens! <br />
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So please stop putting down a fellow hunter's legal hunting tactics because it's not your cup of tea and remember to enjoy hunting how you like it, enjoy the world around you as you would like to enjoy it and respect your fellow hunters out there using legal hunting tactics to become the ultimate predator. Be aware of your surroundings, local game laws, and identify your target before engaging your shot, hunters stand united! Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-25907395471619596502015-11-22T08:15:00.001-08:002015-11-22T08:32:59.351-08:00The Guns That Shaped The Monster!<br />
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<b>My .308 Savage 99C has seen a lifetime of wear, yep both me and the gun and still at my side when I am hunting big game and probably will be until the day I die</b>. </div>
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I been hunting deer since I was 10 and I'm 55 now. I started out with a Winchester 94 in 38-40, it was my Grandfather, Frank Beckwith's gun, whom I am named after. You see I was the youngest son of five so when I turned 10 guess who got the old heavy boat anchor with open sights to lug around the woods!<br />
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After two years of using the old Model 94, my older brothers guns, Alan and Jim's they became available from the family gun cabinet as they were off in the military in the Vietnam War, so I started grabbing their guns when I could, they were Savage Model 340 bolts in 30-30 with open sights which I never cared for that much. By 1974, I started using my oldest brother Jerry's gun, he was in college at the time and his Winchester model 100 in .308 was available for a couple years. I threw that gun to the curb for it's constant jamming issues and the loss of an awesome buck. In 1976 my father announced he was all done hunting because Dad's knees, back, gout and heart just wasn't in it anymore and he used my turning 16 and being able to hunt alone now as his ticket out of hunting with his boys. So I decided to give my Dad's Savage 99 a try and at age sixteen fell in love with the balance and feel of it when carried in the woods beating the hillsides as a free spirit unleashed from adult supervision tracking and chasing whitetails on my own. I shot a couple deer with that gun and decided I should look into actually owning my own guns rather than using family guns. I guess I was growing up!<br />
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Remington at age seventeen and although it was a nice feeling rifle to carry and hold, I didn't care for the hammer firing mechanism of that model and make so it was off to Kittery Trading Post to by a Winchester Model 70 in .270, an old hunting friend swore by his and I needed to give one a try for myself. It just didn't feel good carrying in the woods tracking deer and it wasn't quick enough for me for follow up shots and one day the bolt caught on some thick thorn bushes and pulled the thorns into my hands and that was the last day with a bolt action for me in Maine woods.<br />
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I then inherited my other Grandfather's gun, whom I am also named after, Edwin Pinkham, (Steven Edwin Frank Beckwith, we all share the same Birthday!) which was a Remington 742 Woodmaster in .308, which also faithfully jammed on a regular basis, but I did shoot a few deer with my one shot semi for a couple more years! <br />
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It was 1980, I had been hunting for ten years now and off to K.T.P. I went to attempt to find my ultimate hunting gun. I still liked the Savage 99 of my fathers, it was the Featherweight model but the only issue I had with the older 99's was the way they loaded and unloaded with it's rotary magazine design it was a pain in the butt to unload, you have to eject each shell every time you were done using it and chase your bullets underneath all the fall leaves and snow. At K.T.P. I looked at the Browning BLR clip version in .308, a truly sweet gun, but it was way out of my price range. I then stumbled among the miles of guns at K.T.P. across a Savage Model 99C (clip version) it was a slightly used gun for $150, I had enough money to buy that and a Bushnell 1.5 x 4.5 scope on it! (In 2014 that old Bushnell scope was replaced with another 1x5 variable scope, the focusing barrel threads rusted through and broke in my hands when adjusting it not bad for a cheap scope!) It's now been 35 years with the same gun in my hands and this makes it hard for this seasoned hunter to make a change to anything else, although I know there are a few great guns others use!<br />
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I have spent thirty five years with a Savage 99C in my hands it's been through more beatings than most guns will ever see, and it still works and shoots like a dream! The only non-lever action gun, ever made, that I would consider changing to would be the Remington Model 760 in .308, I have always liked this gun and love the feel of a pump action. It's probably why I love my pump shotguns for turkey hunting, from my Browning to my Mossbergs! So for me, it's a hamerless lever action or a pump for my big game hunting!<br />
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To each his own when it comes to the feel, action, and preference of a hunting rifle, it's not about what is the best caliber, highest quality or the most popular manufacturer of a hunting weapon! It's what carries, shoulders, and fits you as an individual that works consistently without flaws in adverse hunting conditions, that what makes your gun of choice the best gun out there! Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-64171630913709105042015-11-15T08:10:00.001-08:002015-11-15T08:10:31.334-08:00ThermaCELL HeatPacks - Hand & Pocket Warmers <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I sat there and started to cool down from my walk into my stand, I decided to pull out two pocket warmers and turn them onto medium heat setting, I wore a men's double chest pocket long sleeve button up shirt as one of my layers and as I dressed for the hunt, I inserted one <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/heat-packs/heat-packs-pocket-warmer" target="_blank">Pocket Warmer</a> into each pocket. I zipped up my outer layering and sat back to see how they performed. It wasn't too long when I was so comfortable I forgot about the test for a while, when my mind came back to the pocket warmers being on, I could feel a full warmth throughout underneath my wool jacket and frankly it felt sweet even with the wind whipping across my face, watering my eyes and drafts going down my neck! </div>
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I also tried the <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/heat-packs/heat-packs-hand-warmers" target="_blank">Hand Warmer</a> and they worked great in the backs of my gloves, but some sort of pocket to slide them into would be more comfortable and easier than just sliding them inside a glove, with that said I will have to sew in a few pockets in the areas I want to direct heat to my body for added comfort and wearing these great new devices.</div>
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I upgraded my boots to a higher insulation value this season and although my <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/heated-insoles/proflex-heated-insoles" target="_blank">ThermaCELL Pro-FlexHeated Insoles</a> were standing ready inside my boots, the weather wasn't cold enough today to activate this warmth, we'll be ready though when cold weather sets in to my hunting area this fall! With this product one must know they are designed to keep your feet "comfortable" (Not Hot) by using slightly warmer temperatures than your natural body heat to create a comfortable inner boot temperature without causing your feet to sweat. The key to this product is understanding these are not designed to "heat" up your feet like their hand warmer products work, this would cause a wet sock inside your boots, not good! As always, I recommend that you read the instructions "before making purchase" of this product to learn proper use and how they keep your feet comfortable. Do not think that these will make your feet feel like they are next to a warm toasty fire that is not how they work to keep your feet comfortable and dry in extreme weather conditions! Read Instructions <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/sites/default/files/content/faqs/thermacellheatedinsolesproflex2015instructions.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a>! </div>
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From my experience as a <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/" target="_blank">ThermaCELL</a> Field Pro-staffer I would advise users to <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/sites/default/files/thermacell_heat_pack_instructions_1.pdf" target="_blank">read the instructions</a> that come with the product and follow the use of it as suggested and their products work flawlessly! All serious outdoors enthusiasts should have <a href="http://heat.thermacell.com/" target="_blank">ThermaCELL</a> products in their trick bag for a comfortable outdoor experience, from mosquitoes to body warmer devices, if the name ThermaCELL is on the product you can expect solid performance! </div>
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As I get older the cold bothers me more and with products like this in my bag of tricks, even on days like today, ThermaCELL made my life outdoors much better! I simply don't leave home without ThermaCELL and if I do, again because I'm getting older, it reminds me to pack them on my next trip out! </div>
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<big>This is strictly my personal “code” of TV
entertainment and not intended to offend anyone that likes,
reality TV, media personalities or shows that are made strictly
for ratings and entertainment value. <br />
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<big>1. When it plays half of what you already watched
after each commercial! <br />
2. When the show host tries too hard to be a comedian,
is always over excited, has an inflated ego, or is primarily using
technology to create the show.<br />
3. When it remotely looks like a reality TV show plot.<br />
4. When there are more than 15 minutes of commercials
during a thirty minute episode, with a commercial break every five
minutes. <br />
5. When the editors use “B” footage or “after shots”
to show hunter approaching from angles behind the dead animal with
hunter acting excited as if he just saw the animal for the first
time on the ground. <br />
6. When you see fall colors in one part of the hunt
and green leaves in the next clip or one second the hunter has
camo on and the next has orange or a change of clothing!<br />
7. When the editors use additional pre-shot footage
from other animals and hunts to enhance a particular episode.
(Fake additions to the actual hunting episode at hand!) When too
much editor flash is being used to enhance excitement.<br />
8. When girls wear pink camo, revealing clothing, put
on make up in bathroom mirrors (other than camo face paint), guys
showing off, working out, showing muscles etc. <br />
9. When hunts are on fenced in ranches and game farms.<br />
10. When it’s all about the trophy, weight or rack of an animal,
rather than the wildlife management and actual excitement of the
individual hunters experience. </big><br />
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</body>Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-24460563615596419962015-05-31T07:29:00.001-07:002015-05-31T07:29:53.772-07:00Steve's Outdoor and in The Field Tips<br /><br />
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Another in the Outdoors and in the Field Pro tip this time giving good information about effectively controlling mosquitoes and black flies while in the turkey woods! Great product! <br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9o6Ur3TS0xk" width="459"></iframe>Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-77376943218669723772015-05-18T12:47:00.002-07:002015-05-18T12:47:27.376-07:00Turkey Hunting In Late SeasonHere's a few tips about hunting birds once the pressure sets in from hunters. Put some miles on your feet and find that gobbler!<br />
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<br />Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-65424005816859481512015-05-17T14:26:00.002-07:002015-05-17T15:17:46.160-07:00Why are you only on ROKU?We often are asked.. Why are you only on ROKU, why aren't you on local cable, or the Hunting Channel so we can see your show on our channels?<br />
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Here is a break down of TV networks:<br />
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Roku is a device you purchase from places like Best Buy, Walmart or online from Roku.com. It costs between $49 and $99 depending upon the model device you purchase, you need Wi-Fi and even a cell phone wi-fi seems to work! It is a one time purchase and there are no other fees to view over 2000 free channels on Roku players for as long as your player lasts, which so far has been years for me. There are many other options for entertainment, such as Hulu Plus and Netflix. But the FREE channels exceed 2000 and we are not the only hunting shows you can watch, there are shows about cooking, cars, racing, hiking, biking, sewing, and just about anything you can think of ! I personally gave up my Road Runner cable and went strictly with Roku for my TV entertainment and have not missed conventional cable at all! I pay for Hi-speed internet and watch TV over that for free! Find out more about Roku devices and what they offer here: https://www.roku.com/how-it-works#our-story<br />
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Maine Hunters TV is on the New England Outback Network channel on Roku Streaming TV, which has over 10 million subscribers and growing daily in the USA (Coast to Coast) and can be watched on demand anytime FREE. Roku gives us and our viewers way more bang for the buck and way more ability to be seen whenever you, the end user, desires to watch our episodes. No need to tune in on 6:30 on a Monday night to see our show! Watch us anytime you want! many big name hunting shows are now on ROKU free as well! <br />
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Local cable channels provide programming at a specific hour IE: 6:30 PM on Tuesday to view a particular episode, it's viewing area is only the towns that the particular cable area supports, which really limits how many people will ever even watch our episodes. Example: York county has 2 or 3 cable companies which offer a public channel, but they do not overlap service areas, so if you live where Metrocast cable exists, only those viewers would see our show, and Road Runner subscribers would never see it just two towns away! In order for us to be seen on cable public channels across the entire New England viewing area it would be cheaper to be on the Hunting or Sportsman's channel! Just one local cable channel is way more expensive for 7 episodes and two re-runs per 3 month quarter of programing, then our expenses monthly on ROKU! <br />
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Other options for our show include Dish Network or the larger cable company networks (Metrocast,TWC,Comcast, etc.) with channels like the Hunting Channel, Sportsman's Channel, Discovery Channel , History Channel or Pursuit. Most of these big name channels don't overlap between cable and satellite companies so the viewing of an episode again is set on specific times and days which limits actual views of the episodes to those that have time available at say 6:30 on Monday night each week to watch, or whatever time slot you purchase! The amount of sponsors needed to pay these high bills for slots on these channels, simply are to high for our content, which is strictly New England hunting! Some of these channels cost from 14K to 30K for a 3 month, 7 episode series with 7 re-runs. Don't get too wild on me folks if I miss a figure here on this, but I think you can understand the expense and how many people that we want to see our episodes here in New England would miss our show, with only two evening slot opportunities to see them. <br />
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All the aforementioned channels are still wonderful and each hunting show team that is on an individual network will get a certain amount of viewers each time their show airs. Each channel or network has their own audience and users depending upon how (you) the end user watches TV, all at a very high price. (Exactly why we are on one network.) We feel that we get the most exposure for our staff and our sponsors being on our own Roku Network, the New England Outback Network. The Roku corporation has sold over 10 Million Roku players in the USA alone, Roku channels can be seen in other countries as well, giving our viewing audience a very wide demographic, USA coast to coast mainly which allows easy access for our New England viewers, who typically enjoy watching our episodes simply because New Englanders can relate to our conditions, success and failures in the areas we film and hunt, New England and Canada. We cater to New England businesses for sponsorship because "We Hunt New England"!<br />
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If you have a New England based team that hunts, fishes, hikes, bikes, climbs, cooks or does things in New England and want to get on our network? It's easy and quite inexpensive to join our network and get your own channel for your show team, contact me for pricing and details to get your team into over 10 million homes!<br />
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Maine Hunters TV "We Hunt New England" on the New England Outback Network Channel on 10 Million Roku <br />
devices coast to coast! <br />
Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-34004426579530651672014-12-12T10:58:00.002-08:002014-12-12T11:00:26.710-08:00Using a new fallen snow to your advantage on rural or suburban public land!Here's a tip about using a new fallen snow to your advantage when you can't track them without pushing them out of hunt-able areas like in a suburban hunt on public land! If the morning sit doesn't produce investigate a little in the open hardwoods and trails for late and early morning activity locate where they headed for bedding without pushing them out of their secure hiding place and use that knowledge for tomorrows early morning setup!<br />
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This knowledge not only works the next day, but can help you with that early morning setup next year too! Deer are creatures of habit, and follow ancestral instincts handed down from past survival methods in any woods this holds true on rural hunts as well! Many hunters find opportunity, where they have found it before! </div>
Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-22446112708842684792014-12-09T09:09:00.003-08:002014-12-09T09:16:22.256-08:00Corned Venison Brisket - A Crock Pot Delight!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This recipe is my own twist compiled from several reviewed corned beef recipes, tried and tested to be excellent dinning by my friends and family!</div>
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<b>The meat cut:</b> Bone out about 4-5 lbs of venison. (Front shoulder, neck, rump all work great.)</div>
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<li>1 cup Sea salt or Kosher Salt</li>
<li>1/2 cup brown sugar</li>
<li>1 stick of cinnamon (or 1/2 teaspoon powdered cinnamon in a pinch)</li>
<li>2 tablespoons of whole black peppercorns </li>
<li>1/4 teaspoon powdered clove or 1/2 teaspoon whole cloves</li>
<li>1/4 teaspoon allspice powder</li>
<li>1 teaspoon minced ginger</li>
<li>1/2 teaspoon crushed rosemary</li>
<li>3 bay leaves crushed</li>
<li>5-8 garlic cloves crushed (or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder in a pinch) </li>
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Step 1- Place all the above ingredients into a large kettle and heat on medium heat stirring constantly until the salt and sugars dissolve thoroughly when the liquid just starts to boil /steam remove from heat. Allow to cool completely to refrigerator temperature COLD! Do not use hot or warm brine on fresh meat. (Cooked meat will spoil during brine process if you add hot liquid onto fresh meat!)</div>
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Step 2 -I find using a vacuum sealer with large bags works best for this, but you can use large zip lock bags or even a ceramic type bowl and cover. But what ever choice you use, the brine must engulf the entire cut of meat during this process. I make a vacuum sealed bag place the meat inside and fill the bag with the COLD brine solution, then using the bag sealer, I remove as much as I can without sucking up fluid into my sealer machine and seal the bag top. I then massage the brine into the meat through the sealed bag and place the bag into a large mixing bowl (In case it leaks) in the refrigerator for 4-7 days, the longer it sits in the brine the more flavor in the end result! But even a 4 day brine is excellent! Remove brisket daily and repeat the bag massage and flip over. If you used the bowl method simply flip the roast daily in the bowl. </div>
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<li>4-5lbs Corned Venison Brisket</li>
<li>4- carrots halved</li>
<li>1-2 medium onions cut into wedges</li>
<li>4-6 red potatoes quartered</li>
<li>2-3 celery stalks cut into halves</li>
<li>1 head of cabbage, cut into 6 wedges</li>
<li>1 tablespoon (your favorite spices) Pickling Spice, Corned Beef Spice, or be creative! </li>
<li>12-20 OZ bottle of dark beer (Guinness Stout works great)</li>
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4- Add the bottle of stout beer, spices and add water to cover the meat.</div>
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5-Cover and cook on LOW heat setting for 9 hours</div>
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6- Remove meat and vegetables from crock pot and cover with foil to keep warm </div>
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7 - Turn crock pot to HIGH and cook cabbage about 30 minutes</div>
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Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-13340128935485720252014-12-07T11:05:00.000-08:002014-12-07T11:05:09.306-08:00Cooking Wild Game in New England<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a great group on Facebook for all you interested in sharing and learning more about cooking wild game! Share your favorite recipe or tempt us with your recent wild game home cooked dinner delight! <br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/549820581796645/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/549820581796645/</a><br />
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My recent post in this group!<br />
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Corned "Venison" I marinated the boned out front shoulder of a deer, about 5
Lbs. in a brine with herbs, spices, sea salt for 4-6 days and then slow
cooked in a crock pot with onions,carrots,potatoes for 9 hours and then
topped it off with cabbage for the final hour. I eliminated the the
"salt Peter" (The gun powder element!) from most the recipes found
online that gives it the traditional red, corned beef "look", it makes
for a healthier roast and it tasted excellent and has the same texture
of any typical corned beef roast, except that it was a Corned Venison
roast! This is a definite Do-Over!Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-19413790886691909932014-12-02T08:19:00.002-08:002014-12-02T08:19:34.445-08:00A Much deserved plug for two great products!<a href="http://antlerice.com/" target="_blank">Antler Ice</a> used in combination with<a href="http://buckcage.com/" target="_blank"> Buck Cage</a> make for easy application and storage of scents.<br />
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In 2014 here in Maine I took on two new product sponsors for my Maine Hunters TV show and I set out to put them to work. Honestly folks, if I am sponsored and the product doesn't cut the mustard? I simply will not promote it. In the case of both of these products I stand behind them as top notch tools for your bag of tricks hunting here in New England!<br />
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This video speaks for itself and these products, because it was self filmed on location before this deer was field dressed and at the height of my excitement of harvesting this nice Maine buck using these two products jointly!<br />
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The Antler Ice scent product, Doe In Heat, is doe estrus captured and delivered to my door via US mail. It arrived packed in ice packs frozen solid and it was kept in my freezer until the night before hunted! Antler Ice also has their own ghost wicks for their product usage, but because I had Buck Cages, I preferred to use these over a standard wick material.<br />
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I used two Buck Cages and placed the Antler Ice - Doe In Heat inside them, Buck Cages have "polymer beads" that absorb and hold scent longer, they don't air dry as fast as a typical felt type wick material does, giving stronger and longer scent application to your hunting area. I placed the Buck Cages one at 18 inches off the ground and the other about 3 feet off the ground, spread about 10 ft each side of me so that the scent would mask my odor even with a wind direction change after I set up! The other beauty of the Buck Cages is they come with a nice way to hang them built into the cage, and they each have their own plastic capped vial to keep them in and makes it simple to handle the scent and to make quick moves to a new location, the Buck Cages hold 1/2 once of scent that last for a couple days or more!<br />
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The other fact you will hear in this video is that I used my Apple Iphone 5s and a hunting call AP which I downloaded, called HuntPro and used the Estrus Bleat call in conjunction with these products. I did not use an amplifier with my phone, it was a very calm foggy morning and sound traveled very well. This buck heard the call, smelled the scents and came running right in on a trot directly to wards the sound and smell, the deer was harvested at 20 yards, as I let him come right on in close! Check your State laws for electronic calls before using cell phone aps in your State, but Maine allows the use of electronic calls for deer hunting. Happy Hunting!Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-49648067068679954872014-12-01T08:29:00.002-08:002014-12-01T08:29:20.590-08:00The Lil' Can used two ways for added volume on windy days!The Lil' Can is an awesome tool to have in your pocket during the deer season, rut typically starts about the 11th of November plus or minus few days and runs right through mid December, depending upon the activity in your area you hunt. Bucks once they go into rut often can be tricked by an estrus or in late season December hunts the doe grunt call is my staple.<br />
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In this video you will see that I blow into the can call, and the trick is to not blow to hard into the hole, actually allow some of your air to escape outside the hole when you blow, and make sure the slide in the can is not tipped all the way towards the vent holes of the can, keep the slide allows your air to flow around it and out the exit sound holes. A little practice before you hit the woods and you'll have a louder estrus bleat call for windy days!<br />
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<br />Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-91465933936008505962014-11-30T16:47:00.001-08:002014-11-30T16:53:41.069-08:00Deer Hunting 101 in Maine - Pressured Deer Tips <br />
<span data-offset-key="3rq4a-0-0" data-reactid=".q.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3rq4a.0:$3rq4a-0-0"><span data-reactid=".q.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3rq4a.0:$3rq4a-0-0.0">Deer are under pressure this time of year from the pounding of hunter traffic in their forest over the first 3-4 weeks of hunting here in New England! Especially when you are breaking out muzzle loaders for the last two weeks of hunting here in Maine, pressure is at it's peak and deer go very nocturnal!</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="3rq4a-0-0" data-reactid=".q.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3rq4a.0:$3rq4a-0-0"><span data-reactid=".q.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3rq4a.0:$3rq4a-0-0.0">But here is a little tip that often works well for me. Deer
are always heading for thickets, swamp and cover early morning as the
sun is rising this time of year, sometimes they move right at a 1/2 hour
before sunrise, and sometimes even earlier, and yes..sometimes you get
lucky and they drag their feet and move between sunrise and 9 AM, they
are feeding in the hardwoods right now on acorns during the night hours,
because of hunting pressure, so when hunters start crunching into the
woods in the morning this time of year the deer head for the thickets, the thickest stuff
known to mankind for the day! Set up in the morning with the wind in
your face or at least pushing your scent behind your setup, with open oak feeding areas on your right or left and your
back towards the least likely approaching direction! Hang one or two doe estrus scent wicks
around your stand about 18 inches off the ground, use a doe grunt
call and make very soft doe grunts every 5-10 minutes! You will not only call does and young bucks to this call, but bucks will often show up to check out a vocal doe, so watch the thickets as well as the runs coming from the hardwoods. You can also reverse this
setup during the last 2 hours of hunting each day too! </span></span><br />
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and often during muzzle loader season, I call in bucks with that soft
doe grunt as they cruise the thickets, wispy saplings or hemlock and swamp bogs they are still listening for does early daylight hours hoping for that last
encounter before taking their hiatus to the thickets for the day!They get big for a reason..They know how to hide!</span></span><br />
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In the event that you may have received a defective pair, contact <a href="http://thermacell.com/">ThermaCELL.com</a> and they wll take care of your problem they have great customer service! Steve Beckwithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10583690593773412616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5869588432745313574.post-87723646856720673882014-11-25T17:50:00.003-08:002014-11-25T17:50:53.446-08:00 I will be posting tips, tricks and live action hunting reviews via my "smart phone" when service is available.Today I started filming live from the wilds my new video tip segments! I will be posting tips, tricks and live action hunting reviews via my "smart phone" when service is available. Hope you all like this little added tidbit and hopefully it will help another hunter out in his or her quest for hunting and outdoor knowledge! Thanks for watching! Steve <br />
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