I was going
through one of my many emails when I came upon a bit of a write up for DUTV
that was headlined "Body Booting.". Yep, that was exactly my reaction
to the strange-sounding term, and I immediately wanted to find out what the
heck they were talking about.

Apparently,
it's somewhat of a tradition for Capt. Charles Jobes and family for hunting
ducks and Canada geese on the Susquehanna Flats around Chesapeake Bay, and they
began it back in the early 1950s for ducks, adapting it to geese later on.

The concept
here is to be where the ducks or geese are: in the water! They wear chest
waders or a survival suit and hunker down among a large spread of decoys in knee-
to chest-deep water."There
is something about standing in water several hundred yards off shore, inand please to find a story out of Phoenix, Arizona, where public
municipal lands in the great Phoenix metropolitan area were actually opened up
for the public to hunt in.

This was the
first year hunters were able to hunt much of the open, undeveloped public lands
within municipal boundaries, and wardens and law enforcement officials reported
nothing out of the ordinary in problems or calls into the Arizona Game and Fish
department.

How much
land was involved? A mind boggling million acres, according the Assistant Director
Leonard Ordway, who said that just as agency experts had predicted, opening
around a million acres to small game hunting actually spread out hunters,
reduced possible hunter congestion, and overall reduced potential conflicts.

Prior to
the opening of dove season on Sept. 1, Game and Fish officials designed and
implemented hunt strategies within municipalities that emphasized