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Robertson: Post-turkey depression
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WADE ROBERTSON 
Jun 02, 2022
I was soundly asleep and instantly irritated at some level in my subconscious when, for an unknown reason, my eyes opened. My body was perfectly relax...
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Robertson: ‘The Tank’
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May 26, 2022
Occasionally, you run into a gobbler too smart to fool. Scott Neely and I hunted one of these for three years. We nicknamed the big gobbler ‘The Tank....
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Robertson: An opposition in all things
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 27, 2021
Opposition in all things is necessary for growth. As the prophet Lehi taught his son, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things...
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Robertson: Barred owls
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 20, 2021
The eastern sky began to lighten, the stars to fade, dawn was quickly chasing the night away. It was time to sound like an owl, a barred owl to be exa...
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Turkey season coming
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Apr 22, 2021
Beautiful bands of pink and gold streaked the eastern sky — the hills still black bulwarks against the coming dawn. As I waited a few minutes, several...
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Robertson: Learning more about barred owls
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 30, 2020
The eastern sky began to lighten, the stars to fade, dawn quickly chasing the night away. It was time to hoot like an owl — a barred owl to be exact —...
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Robertson: COVID-19 has made for a silent spring
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 27, 2020
Well, the COVID-19 virus has really put a hurting on this country and changed how the world operates in every segment of our society. It has also thro...
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Gobbler success — at last — for two area hunters
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 06, 2020
As I have mentioned in earlier articles, people with obsessions — those who literally eat, drink and sleep their passions — are fascinating studies. W...
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Robertson: Communication
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Jan 06, 2020
Communication is a mysterious subject, often difficult to obtain commercially or personally. The dictionary states that communication is “the impartin...
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Robertson: Communication
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Jan 04, 2020
Communication is a mysterious subject, often difficult to obtain commercially or personally. The dictionary states that communication is “the impartin...
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Robertson: Why hunters quit
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Jun 08, 2019
My turkey hunting partner, Scott Neely, and I were talking the other day. We hadn’t seen a single hunter in close to two weeks. The only tire tracks o...
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Robertson: Gobblers and perseverance
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Apr 27, 2019
Anyone who has read my columns on turkey hunting knows my feelings on the subject; spring gobbler hunting can be a long, drawn out torture! Many suffe...
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A memorable Memorial Day
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WADE ROBERTSON Special to the Era 
Jun 02, 2018
I’d climbed into the truck as if drugged. I felt totally, completely, drained; just stepping up into the truck was an effort and all that seemed to ma...
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Last half of gobbler season provides great opportunity
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CHARLIE BURCHFIELD Special to The Era 
May 24, 2018
From one year to the next a small percentage of hunters have questioned the opening date for hunting gobblers. Some believe the PA season should be op...
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