Award winning articles, poems, stories and photos by Bob Speirs

      Bob Speirs – owner and operator of Crow Creek Wildlife Management Service in Spearfish, South Dakota has been writing award winning articles, stories and poems that entertain and educate hunters for over 15 years. Known for his outstanding whitetail management and hundreds of satisfied customers, Bob’s unique perspectives and insights help to educate and entertain hunters everywhere!

      Fewer Hunting Families

      by Bob Speirs March 13, 2013

      Fewer Hunting Families February is a maudlin time of year; overcast and grey. All life seems to be tied in a knot, desperately clinging to the hope of spring. My normal optimism has been tempered by several weeks of a nagging cough. All the snows that have come seem to be dry dust rather than [...]

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      Raise Your Hand

      by Bob Speirs January 14, 2013

      Will the real lion hunters please raise your hands? I know that I have to qualify that statement. My definition won’t please or fit all interested parties, but I’d like to start the discussion. When the Game and Fish were first given the task of developing a mountain lion season, it caused tremendous controversy. So [...]

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      Hunter Numbers are on the Rise

      by OOBuck December 24, 2012

      Hunter Numbers are on the Rise My youngest son Connor is the least competitive hunting partner I have ever had. He gets the greatest pleasure from the associations with friends and relatives. He hunts differently than I do and spends most of his time in the outdoors involved in the pages of a book. He [...]

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      Thanks Dad

      by Bob Speirs November 26, 2012

      I’ve used the same rifle for deer hunting since I was seventeen years old. Every elk, antelope, or deer that I have harvested over the last 32 years has fallen to the Christmas gift that my father left under the tree back in 1980. There is a saying that there are two kinds of hunters; [...]

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      Black Hills Deer Opens Today

      by Bob Speirs November 1, 2012

      Carcass after deer carcass litters the creek bottoms near my home, all were victims of disease. The Black Hills deer season has definitely started on a sour note in my area, but reputable sources have tipped me to an old pleasure that has quietly made a come-back. For several years, deer hunting has experienced a [...]

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      Pulling Off a Double

      by Bob Speirs October 16, 2012

      The antelope buck gave us a fly-by. He charged the decoy we were hiding behind, leaving his does alone and unprotected more than 200 yards out. Instead of hitting the breaks and throwing sand in our faces he blew by us at forty yards without ever giving my bow hunter a standing shot. But I [...]

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      Archery Elk Season 2012

      by Bob Speirs September 26, 2012

      Every bull elk is different. Some are cowards. Others are loud braggarts. The best are conservative family men. My hunter and I worked them all through the middle weekend of South Dakota’s archery elk season. It has been brutal this fall on the forest. Drought has combined with the destructive forces of the pine beetles [...]

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      EHD Threatens Black Hills Deer Populations

      by Bob Speirs September 21, 2012

      The eagles had already eaten his tongue and eyes. Two days before I had seen this buck and four of his bachelor herd grazing through the sunflowers. He was easy to identify; four long tines on his left beam and six lesser points on the right. The two golden eagles had a young bald eagle [...]

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      Youth Deer

      by Bob Speirs September 10, 2012

      You waited their entire lives for them to become old enough carry a gun or bow and go hunting with you. She happily wore every camouflage jacket or pair of boots you ever bought her and her first buck will always be one of your most cherished days afield. He worked out all his twelfth [...]

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      Did you draw ?

      by Bob Speirs August 17, 2012

      Black Hills deer tags have been drawn. In an effort to rebuild the herd, the total number of licenses available to Black Hills hunters has been substantially reduced. We have all read the articles and heard the debate about the impact lions are having naturally on deer numbers and have seen the comments from those [...]

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