Versatile gun dog Cricket with her first squirrel retrieve. #gspofinstagram #germanshorthairedpointer #gundog #huntingdog #squirreldog #squirrelhunting #ronspomeroutdoors

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Covey and my brother ganged up on this SD ringneck. No season like snow season. #pheasanthunting #20gauge @pheasants_forever #ronspomeroutdoors #beirlsetters @beirlsetters #coveydog

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Cricket’s having a good snow day! Birds are holding in the deep snow. Covey caught two. #pheasanthunting #pheasantsforever #snowhunt #uplandbirdhunting #southdakotahunting #southdakotalife #germanshorthairedpointer #gspoftheday #gspofinstagram #cricket #ronspomeroutdoors #ringneckroundup

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If you call them they will come. Sometimes. @holland_guns Custom M700 22-250 AI, @leupold_optics VX3, Berger 75-Gr. VLD @wildfowlerconcealment snow camo parka is cozy. #coyotecalling #hollandguns #leupoldoptics #vx3 #ronspomeroutdoors #snowhunting #predatorhunting #coyotehunting #snowcamo

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Work in progress. 22-250 AI, 75-grain @bergerbullets VLD, @reddingreloading Redding press. #reddingreloading #ackleyimproved #22-250AI #reddingpress #bergervld #highbc #vld #handloading #reloading #loadyourown #ronspomeroutdoors #bullets

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Making coyote medicine. 75-gr Berger VLD atop 41-grains Big Game. 22-250 AI. 3,450 FPS. #berger #highbc #ackleyimproved #22250ackley #handloading #coyotehunting #vld

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Tree planting in snow. With help from F&G biologists and conservation volunteers we got 150 aspen seedlings in the ground on #dancingspringsranch. Ruffed grouse habitat. Thanks everyone! Next year we really ramp it up. #wildlifehabitat #habitatimprovement #wildlifeconservation #conservationist #fishandgame #aspentrees #ronspomeroutdoors #realenvironmentalism

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Go ahead punk... Dirty Harry has nothing on me. @wildfowlerconcealment #bigbore #muzzle #50caliberplus #selfdefense #singleshot #handgun #doublehandgun #holdon #holdontight #flaregun #ronspomeroutdoors

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Long, lean, and mean. Can you ID these .284” projectiles? #highbc #7mm #28nosler #280remington #7mm08 #bullet #boattail #aerodynamic #efficiency #slipthewind #ronspomeroutdoors

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Red sky this morning just gave us a warning. #sunrise #weatherforecast #stormcoming #sky #red #clouds #dancingspringsranch #ronspomeroutdoors

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Remember this photo? It’s currently getting lots of comments in a survey about wwwod stock deer rifles vs. synth. Visit ronspomeroutdoors.com to weigh in. #walnutstock #walnutgunstock #mossbergpatriotrevere #mossbergpatriot #ritonoptics #talleyrings #riflestock #walnut #ronspomeroutdoors

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Every woman likes a little bling on her shoulder. #fabarms #shotgun #overundershotgun #engraving #bling #goldinlay #gamescene #ronspomeroutdoors

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@legendary_arms_works Professional II M704 controlled-round feed action with @sigsauerusa SierraBDX 4.5-14x44 scope sending 6.5PRC downrange sub-MOA. #rifle #65prc #lawrifles #legendaryarmsworks #sigsauerbdx #sigsauerbdxscope #m704action #riflescope #huntingrifle #ronspomeroutdoors

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Somebody likes bird hunting! #coveydog #beirlsetters #englishsetter #rugerredlabel #28gauge #28ga #shotgun #pheasanthunting #pheasantsforeverjocoks #pheasantsforever #wildfowlerconcealment @wildfowlerconcealment #uplandbirdhunting #huntingdog #birddog #birddogoftheday #dancingspringsranch #ronspomeroutdoors

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Up and over. So much for tight cover, nocturnal whitetails. Not in mid-Nov. #therut #rut #whitetaildeer #whitetailbuck #deer #nebraska #sandhills #winchesterworldofwhitetail #ronspomeroutdoors

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Local elk appear to be trying to stamp out nascent winter. This is one of the few remaining snow patches from Oct. Enjoying prolonged Indian summer now. #makingtracks #elkhunting #elktracks #snow #hoofprints #ronspomeroutdoors

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Just want to point out The Little Chainsaw That Could. This “light trimming” 170 Stihl has been ripping through hard maple for a year. Was recalcitrant and bogging down until I removed the spark arrester. #firewood #lifeoffgrid #offgridlife #chainsaw #stihlchainsaw #stihlusa #maple #dancingspringsranch #ronspomeroutdoors #acutabove

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Boring photo but the back story... Master shotgunner Dave Zumbaugh found a 1976 Gray’s Sporting Journal and sent it to me. In it is one of the first five stories I ever sold. Brought $500. If only magazine markets had kept pace with inflation. Many still pay $500 —and many more less than that. #freelancewriter #magazine #published #careerlaunch #grayssportingjournal #theride #ronspomeroutdoors #history #goodolddays #publishing

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And so it continues. Indian Summer after mid-October snow and bitter cold. Incentive and opportunity to pile in more firewood against what’s predicted colder than usual winter. Just hope the Ranger won’t be wearing a snow plow too soon... #firewood #preparedness #readyforwinter #polarisranger900xp #workhorse @polarisrangerofficial #ronspomeroutdoors #dancingspringsranch #offgridliving #maple

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For anyone who thinks a thin, scrawny antler indicates an old buck “going down hill,” here’s one tooth aged by biologists at 13.5 years. @theqdma #deer #whitetail #whitetaildeer #qdma #agingdeer #oldbucks #goingdownhill #ronspomeroutdoors

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Pheasant hunting. I won’t tail if you don’t tail. #pheasanthunting @pheasants_forever @pheasants_forever_jocoks #ronspomeroutdoors #dancingspringsranch #rooster #tailfeathers #ringneckpheasant #feathers

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Walking through woods on a snowy morning. Why does Rbt. Frost poetry so often pop into my head while deer hunting? The bucks’ silent scent trailing is once again underway. More at ronspomeroutdoors.com. I hope a few old bucks pass near you. #ronspomeroutdoors #deerseason #deerhunting #whitetailhunting #therut #rutseason #ruthunt #whitetail

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And yet we can’t see them when they’re crouched in short grass... @pheasants_forever @pheasant_hunting #pheasanthunting #feathers #dancingspringsranch #ronspomeroutdoors #ringneck #itswhatsfordinner #sustainableuse

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Starting to travel. Can you hear the splash, feel the frost, anticipate the coming buck? Read more on this week’s blog, Hunting Videos Heavy Metal Soundtrack. Ronspomeroutdoors.com. What do you hear while deer hunting? #whitetails #whitetail #whitetailhunting #deerseason2019 #deerhunting #bigbucks #rut #therut #tistheseason #ronspomeroutdoors

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“Whitetails are noisy in their quiet way. Does and fawns bleat softly now and then. More exciting are the crescendoing pig grunts of a rutting buck bouncing eagerly behind a coquettish doe. There’s the shocking blast of an alarm snort. I’ve heard those too often. Better is the rare buck snort-wheeze. And my favorite, the brazen crash of fighting bucks. To hell with keeping a low profile. Sometimes a buck’s gotta do what a buck’s gotta do. And it’s music to my ears.” More in today’s blog at ronspomeroutoors.com. #deerhunting #whitetailhunting #whitetailhunter #deerseason #deerseason2019 #music #sountrack #heavymetal #hardrock #ronspomeroutdoors

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Two tracks paralleled in the snow and I, I followed the pair ‘till dusk was nigh. Huns. They and their 5 buddies flushed wild. Guess they didn’t care for my poetry. #uplandbirdhunting #makingtracks #partridge #tracks #footprints @pheasants_forever #snowseason #dancingspringsranch #ronspomeroutdoors

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Oh yeah, the lever revival rolls on. M94 Winchester by J. M. Browning. First rear bolt lucking bar. First chambered 30 WCF (30-30) which was first commercial smokeless powder cartridge. And it wasn’t the gun that won the west. But it did fill a lot of deer tags. #winchester94 #leveraction #3030winchester @federalpremium @winchesterrepeatingarms #ronspomeroutdoors

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