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Great Day ATV PowerLoader
The quickest, easiest, safest way to load a deer onto an ATV

Straight off the showroom floor, an ATV, UTV or custom golf cart can take you over rough terrain, through mud and water. Add the PowerLoader from Great Day to it, you’ve got a hunter’s best friend.
Retrieve big game and haul it back to camp with a simple push of a button. The PowerLoader’s lifting mechanism extends and lays flat on the ground, allowing a deer to slide effortlessly into place. It fits most popular models of four wheelers, mounted to the front rack, and operates with the use of factory or after market winches (not included).
The PowerLoader is made of tough aircraft aluminum and adds only 29 pounds to the weight to the vehicle, yet it has an amazing 350-pound capacity.
It’s also useful for chores around the house or farm — load and transport firewood, tool boxes, ice chests, sacks of feed or seed, bales of hay, building materials, fenceposts. Your honey-do list just got longer.
One more cool thing: It’s made in the U.S.A.

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Photo by Matt Lindler/NWTF

YOUR Spring Hunt Guide

Spring turkey season is just around the corner. Wheelin’ Sportsmen are gearing up for gobblers. And some states have specific days set aside for hunters with disabilities.

ALABAMA
www.outdooralabama.com
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: March 15-April 30
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: Disabled hunts will be held on the day before the regular opening day of the spring season.

COLORADO
www.wildlife.state.co.us/hunting/turkey
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: April 10-May 23
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: Ten licenses are offered for qualified mobility-impaired hunters for spring season, valid on private land in units 91, 92, 96, 102 on specific dates.

DELAWARE
www.fw.delaware.gov
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: April 10-30
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: April 3, 2010 (same as youth day)

KANSAS
www.kdwp.state.ks.us/
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: April 14-May 31
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: April 1-13 (same season reserved for youth)

LOUISIANA
www.wlf.louisiana.gov
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: not available
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: Statewide physically challenged hunt on private land or designated WMAs is the weekend prior to statewide opening.

MAINE
www.maine.gov/ifw
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: May 3-June 5
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: There is a special season but dates are unknown at this point.

RHODE ISLAND
www.dem.ri.gov
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: April 29-May 25
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: April 24-25 (same days reserved for youth hunters)

UTAH
www.wildlife.utah.gov/turkey
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: April 10-May 31
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS: Existing division rules allow for opportunities for disabled hunters, including season extensions for those meeting requirements.

WISCONSIN
http://dnr.wi.gov/
STATEWIDE SEASON DATES: April 14-May 23
FOR DISABLED HUNTERS:

Spring Turkey Hunts in State Parks
Hunters with a Class A or C permit who want to participate in a disabled turkey hunt may apply (via standard application process) to hunt in any of the six Disabled Only Hunting Zones offered in the following state parks (zone): Natural Bridge (1G), Nelson Dewey (1H), Belmont Mound (1J), New Glarus Woods (1K), Rocky Arbor (1L) and Loew Lake Unit – Kettle Moraine State Forest (2B).
Turkey Hunting on Private Lands
Hunters with a Class A or C permit who want to participate in a disabled turkey hunt on private land are required to obtain permission from a landowner willing to sponsor a hunt, meet all application requirements, and fill out the appropriate application form. Note that applicants for a turkey hunt for disabled people on private lands may not apply for a permit in the regular drawing, but must apply using the designated form. For information or a special hunt application (Forms 2300-271), contact the local Wisconsin DNR Service Center or the Assistant Upland Ecologist at (608) 261-8458.

Long Creek Dove Hunt: Fun despite the rain

On Sept. 19, 15 hunters and 12 guests gathered at the Long Creek dove field on the Andrew Pickens Ranger District of Sumter National Forest in South Carolina. Despite the rain, everybody had a great time, and the participants were extremely appreciative of the opportunity to hunt.

Seventeen volunteers from the Mountain Lakes Chapter donated their time, a barbecue meal and items for a raffle. Other partners were the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, the USDA Forest Service and Mark Cook with Wheelin’ Sportsmen.

“I want to recognize the Mountain Lakes Chapter for their contribution,” said Jeffrey Magniez, a biologist for Sumter National Forest. “Without their help, there would have been no Wheelin’ dove hunt.”