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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Into forgiving hands
Dad said Saldy was as fine a man as he ever knew, and he would trust him with every penny the pool hall made in a week...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Baked mallard for Christmas
Charley and his wife were in their early sixties. Neither knew the young seventeen-year-old kid who stood there before them in ragged overal

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The cedar tree and me
Dad and I always went out to neighboring farms in early December, hunting rabbits and quail and farm pond ducks and at the end of the day...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Chest waders and quackers
There was no one back in that day hunting ducks on Bull Shoals. It was a great year because the lake was up fifteen feet or so, and the...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: There one went – a roadrunner
There isn’t a lot known about roadrunners. They seldom fly and don’t get but a few feet off the ground, seldom going more than 20 yards...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Trailer lights
On occasion a law enforcement official stops me, and I promise I am going straight home to fix the trailer light problem. I even carry...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Make thousands with this example
So now the MDC has made another 10,000 from those tags issued to 400 ‘bear-hunters.’ Now they have pocketed $88,000 by flim-flamming 7,800..

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A fall fishing excursion
It has never bothered me to go up to Canada and fish alone because those conditions have never concerned me. My ancestry is from French...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A lure full of memories
What memories I have of that stream! I actually guided a few of my float fishing clients on that little river in a 14-foot wooden johnboat..

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Interviewing the director
He gave a good answer, “We’ll think about it.” He won’t of course. He’d have to answer questions they never will answer like, “Why does...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Long beaks and big eyes
Forty years ago in Arkansas, I dropped a limit of eight woodcocks in an afternoon of quail hunting along the Buffalo River in early December

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A great day at a great place
If you just want to come and see what we have, show up between 9:00 and 3:00 and you might win a valuable painting of the Big Piney River...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Who wants a used mower?
I’d go back to the pool hall after a haircut, and the old men would all have some kind of smart-aleck remark about how much lower my ears...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The evils of gambling
On a recent summer float trip, we all agreed to put a quarter on the biggest smallmouth, a quarter on the biggest largemouth...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Opening date of Big Piney River Nature Center
He is making a donation to the center and will evaluate any outdoor oriented antiques you wish to bring—lures, reels, whatever.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Dove feathers
You need harvested grain fields for good dove hunting, or a small pond used as a water hole where they come to water in the evening...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Maybe they ate sheep
A few years ago, Carol Schroeder, from Camdenton, told me that her husband had died from the disease known as Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs disease...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Hot summer, cool stream
By doing so, you can actually get off away from the world’s problems. Float downstream and find a gravel bar or sand bar to camp on...

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The big bass
I don’t know for sure how big he was, but I saw him very well, and I thought I had him whipped.

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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: North Arkansas visit
Many carvers do great work but few do great carvings so quickly and do so many of them. It took me an hour to look at all of them.

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