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There is absolutely nothing better than spending time in the great outdoors with your kids. It is an experience that no child should be without, and it can often be just as rewarding for the adults. My little hunting partner is 9 years old, and this WILL be the year he kills his first deer! We've been out every season for the last four years, and although he has only been big enough to handle the gun himself for the last two (I don’t believe in holding his gun and aiming for him,) it is at a point now where it’s really up to me. He can shoot a baseball at 100 yards, I just have to get him in

Nothing announces the arrival of autumn like a cheery orange pumpkin. And there is nothing like taking your children out into a pumpkin field and letting them pick out their own. For couples, there is nothing more romantic than cuddling together on a chilly evening beneath a starry sky on a hay wagon. This area is blessed with several pumpkin fields perfect for making a holiday out of any day of the week. One of the most popular is Pumpkin Hollow near Piggott, Ark. Darrell and Ellen Dalton have been farming there since 1969.  They turned it into “Pumpkin Hollow” in 1993. This year Pumpkin Hollow has been included in USA Today’s list of “Country’s Coolest Pumpkin Patches” published October

New Madrid - October is a wonderful month for us outdoors-folk, and having already picked out my Halloween costume (I'll be revising my role as an underpaid outdoorsman: same camo, new boots) I intend to take full advantage of all early fall has to offer! The deer herd is thriving, the waterfowl outlook is outstanding, and the fall feeding frenzy should be kicking off in waters near you any day now! This past weekend the Bass Pro Shop’s Big Cat Quest National Championship was held in New Madrid, MO. The county seat of historic New Madrid County rolled out the red carpet for the professional anglers who traveled from all over the country for a chance at their sport’s biggest

Paul Woods on the back of his truck with rabbits from a hunt with Leroy Romine. One of the pictured swamp rabbits was used for a display at the Poplar Bluff Museum. With fall comes the exodus of the hummingbirds. There are still a few of the little rascals around our feeders. My wife had 19 feeders in use at one time this summer and had to refill almost every one daily. When the first bit of cold weather hit our area a few weeks ago, a lot of the birds disappeared. We took about a dozen feeders down. This week the weather got warm and lots of the birds reappeared. They were probably the ones traveling through on their way

Richard Woods, one Inman Brother, the gar with Charlie Woods (dad) hand on the gar, Columbus Clark in the background, and the other Inman brother. My dad was six feet tall. The scales on the gar were larger than a half-dollar. The famous alligator gar story all started one afternoon after my dad got home from work. There were several boys swimming in the “ole swimming hole” across the river from our house on North Riverview on the East Side of Poplar Bluff. All at once some cussing broke out loud enough for dad to hear. He hollered across the river for them not to use that kind of language and was promptly informed by a young voice, “If you