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• Finland Experiences SC

  After I graduated college I went and played football in Finland.  Yes, they do have football in Finland and yes it was very cold.  To read more about my time in Finland simply go to www.ClintPatterson.net and hover of the Finland link and you can find all the info there.  Anyway, I stay in touch with a lot of the Finnish guys from the team and we talk about the glory days and all that, but every now and then one of them will travel over to visit.  Well Kim Gronlund traveled over to visit several of his friends in different states and he stopped in SC for a weekend to visit me.     As any South Carolinian would do, we gave him a true southern experience.  He bought $30 worth of skoal at a store, ate at a Bojangles, went mud-slinging, and of course? got to shoot some guns.  Kim had never shot guns like this before and he was a little nervous as we got him hyped up to go shoot.  We just pulled ...

• J-Duck Chronicles Volume II - The Trip of a Lifetime, Stuttgart Arkansas 2009

  I?ve had a serious love for waterfowl hunting ever since my father took me to a damned up part of Black Creek when I was 8 years old. Growing up we mostly hunted in swamps for wood ducks and the occasional mallard.  Then later in life I moved to, and started hunting, the coastal regions of North and South Carolina where the average bag contains mergansers and the occasional diver.  The thought of the ?KING? of all ducks? the Mallard? completely filling the skies with cackles and quacks was something of which I had only dreamed.   I guess the first time I had heard of Stuttgart, Arkansas referred to as being the duck hunting capital of the world was when I was in high school. As Ducks Unlimited got more and more prevalent in the 90?s, I attended more banquets and started receiving their magazine. During this time I started to read of this great place named Stuttgart. Stuttgart is a distant location in Arkansas and by distant I mean? you can?t get there from here! ...

• Interview with Blakely Byrd of Catch and Release Sportsman’s Consignment

  For the past few years we’ve been hosting a Predator Challenge in hopes of reducing the coyote population, raising awareness for the sport of predator hunting, and raising awareness for the damage that coyotes are doing to game populations around the state. Thus far the check-in location has been at the Sportman’s Warehouse right off of I-26 in Columbia. Columbia serves as a central location where everyone can drive the least distance to check-in their predators and have a good time meeting other hunters and networking.  This year we’re still meeting right off I-26 except this time we’ll be meeting right behind the Sportman’s Warehouse at a new location called Catch and Release Sportsman’s Consignment. Catch and Release is a new store and has been growing really fast. We’re happy to partner with Catch and Release to host the 2014 Predator Challenge check-in at their location. We think you’ll like the check-in being hosted at the new location. Last night I did a quick interview with Blakely Byrd, owner of Catch and Release Sportsman’s Consignment, to get a better understanding of ...

• Hunting Shows vs. Online Media ? The Shift Has Begun

  In the most recent news and events we?ve seen how countries in the Middle East have used, and are using, Twitter, Facebook, & YouTube to organize, communicate, and overthrow governments, regimes, and dictators.  The internet has increased social connectivity and is changing the fabric of many cultures around us.  The same principle of technology being used to change the dominant narrative within a society parallels a shift currently going on within the outdoor industry.  Narrowing the focus, I?m specifically talking about how online video sites such as YouTube and Vimeo are changing the outdoor industry as they relate to hunting and fishing TV shows.  What change you ask?  Well, it?s not quite so evident yet, but as technology becomes more integrated into the lives of outdoorsmen it will become more noticeable.  To further investigate this notion let?s look at the current dominant narrative, the disruption, and the resulting model that is arising out of the disruption. The Dominant Narrative Currently, hunting and fishing TV shows are watched by many outdoorsmen on networks like the Outdoor Channel, ...

• Wrap Up

  It has been a while since my last blog. I have been busy with school, and baseball season starting. I have a couple good hunts to discuss that have video included with them.  I will start with the deer hunts from the last part of the season. This first hunt was during Christmas break. Our good friend Griffin Crane is in the armed forces and is stationed in Alaska. He had the opportunity to come home for Christmas and visit his family and do a little hunting. Of coarse he was excited about the opportunity to hunt whitetail. He said in Alaska there is phenomenal duck hunting, bear and moose. But whitetail do not reside in the area where he was stationed . Griffin and Rodger Pye were sitting in a box stand looking down a cut road with pine trees on both sides at "Walters" hunt club in Andrews. Ill let the video explain the outcome to the hunt. Watch In HD (especially the duck video, difficult to make out some of the ducks)  ...

• The 100th Blog Entry

       The state's hits for the first 11 months I create sub-folders and number every blog entry that I write just to help keep things organized.  With all the video, images, and text if you don?t keep it organized things can get hard to find.  It just appeared to me that I had written 99 blog entries thus far.  I periodically give site growth/metric updates and so figured I ...