The Great Outdoors

Here it is at the end of the year and I’ll bet you don’t have all your presents bought yet.

EVER FEEL LIKE YOU’VE BEEN RIPPED OFF? Recently I killed a legal deer during deer season, and the 9-point buck

PATRICK T. MCCUNE’S WILD SOUTH TEXAS BBQ SUGAR BEANS (Serve as a side dish.) 1/2 lb deerburger (broken up) 1/2

RESERVATION CALL CENTER NOW OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Campers and picnickers who want to reserve a campsite, picnic shelter,

THANK YOU ZIMMER Zimmer Corporation recently donated $5,000 to support Camperships for the Boy Scouts of America – Anthony Wayne

HOT DANG THAT’S A WILD CASSEROLE (You can use tame meat but it won’t taste the same.) 1/2 lb. venison

ANNUAL ENTRANCE PASSES FOR 2011 AVAILABLE Indiana state park/reservoir annual entrance permits for 2011 are now available for online purchase.

(Material  from THE COURIER – the official newsletter of the AWAC) FALL RECRUITMENT It’s that time of year again. Time

WHAT HAS HAPPENED? (Things have changed since I was a boy.) Things have changed quite a lot and I must

ONCE AND FOR ALL HOW TO USE/TREAT/SEASON CAST IRON COOKING WARE (Someone told me they hate cooking in a cast

It was that particular crispness in the pre-dawn air that got Jasper up and out early. He wasn’t going to

DEER SWISS HEMMINGHOUSE (Modified recipe from a book Brother Of The Woods by R. J. Davis) A thick cut of

CODES “You have to have a code to live by and something to believe in.” Bruce F. McCune 1891 –

HELPING THE BSA AND A BOY SCOUT Take the Spirit of Scouting to the road and help the Indiana Scouting

LEARNING TO COOK OUTSIDE To learn to cook outside, first learn to cook inside. I know; I know; you want

A house was just put up for sale and a man in a car was driving by when he spotted

There is a part of the deer that is sometimes neglected, trashed, given to the neighbors, or to the dogs.

Festival of Freezing Moon, Summit Lake State Park, October 22-23 The fourth annual Festival of the Freezing Moon will be

NEWS FROM MIAMI DISTRICT THE WAYNEDALE AREA October Calendar – 23rd – University of Scouting at IPFW. Join us for

Dear Unit Leaders, As I am sure you are all aware, the Council is hosting this year’s Fall Camporee on

ABOUT FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT IN INDIANA Fish and wildlife management and public access are funded by fishing and hunting

RAY’S OWN SMOKY GARLIC WILD MEAT MARINADE (Also good for ‘tame’ meat)   1 cup (8 oz.) ketchup or catsup

FIRE STARTERS Do’s and Don’ts of makin’ ‘em Everyone laughs when I tell them I teach Boy Scouts the secret

Eagle Marsh, Little River Wetlands Project’s wetland preserve on Engle Road in southwest Fort Wayne, has just grown to 716

DEERBURGER SOUP (Use moose burger, elk burger, or regular hamburger if you’re out of deerburger)   2 lbs. deerburger 1