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Simon Williams, Wonder Man, is one of the most tested members of the Avengers. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in avengers #9, Williams’s ionic energy body gives him increased strength, durability, flight, and a limited ability to absorb and redirect nearby energy.

RELATED: Marvel: 10 Characters Baron Zemo Created In The ComicsThough Williams prefers peace and drama to fisticuffs and heroism, the powerhouse of the Avengers doesn’t often shy away from a fight. For the past sixty years, Wonder Man has used his world-class fighting prowess to take down everyone from members of the Masters of Evil to his teammates in the Avengers.

10 A Titan Down: Wonder Man punches Pym

A founding Avenger, Hank Pym, is a man who has had many names. With the powers of growth, shrinkage, insect control, and bioblasts (depending on the person), Pym led the Avengers, created Ultron, and defended Earth as one of the core members of his mightiest superhero team.

However, Wonder Man eliminated Pym with a single hit on writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. avengers #9. As a member of the Masters of Evil, Simon fought against Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. When Pym threw a rock at him, Wonder Man threw it and hit the scientist in the stomach, taking out Giant-Man.

9 Wonder Man stops War Machine

Loyal friend of Tony Stark, James Rhodes has left his legacy as the armed war machine. Wearing a modified Iron Man suit with the firepower he loves so much, Rhodey has defeated the enemies of justice in teams like the Avengers and Force Works.

in 1993 wonder man vol. two #23, writer Gerard Jones and penciler Jeff Johnson pitted the Ionic Avenger against his former teammate as a result of Mephisto’s machinations. The demon partially possessed Wonder Man, causing him to viciously slam his ally to the ground.

8 Disenchanted: Wonder Man kills Amora, the sorceress

Amora the Enchantress has been a part of Simon Williams’ life since her first appearance on avengers #9. An Asgardian with a gift for magic, Amora and her lackey Skurge have fought alongside the likes of Baron Zemo and the Masters of Evil in pursuit of things like revenge, power, and Thor’s bed.

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The Sorceress and Wonder Man clashed in wonder man vol. two #2, written by Gerard Jones and penciled by Jeff Johnson. After Amora attempted to enslave Williams to gain power in Hollywood, Wonder Man broke free of his mind control. However, Williams beat the sorcerer after “beating” the West Coast Avengers in a mock battle, ending his campaign.

7 Starjammed: Wonder Man defeats the Starjammers

An integral yet underrated part of the Marvel Cosmic, the Starjammers are a group of interstellar pirates. Led by Corsair (Cyclops and Havok’s father), the team usually consists of the cool thug Ch’od, the vivacious pilot Hepzibah, the prickly swordsman Raza Longknife, and the sentient squirrel being Cr’reee, and they are often found working together. to the Shi’ar empress. Lilandra.

These characters collided with Wonder Man in Operation: Galactic Storm, a 1992 crossover in which the Avengers intervened in the long-running conflict between the Shi’ar and the Kree. As the Shi’ar-aligned Starjammers bring a massive bomb through our solar system, Wonder Man outmaneuvers the combat team to stop the transport of the weapon.

6 Ark-Offed: Wonder Man bests Arkon

The warlord of the extradimensional Polemachus, Arkon the Magnificent, is a classic Marvel character who has battled the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and more throughout his 50-year history. With increased strength, speed, and specialized lightning, Arkon’s arsenal can give any Marvel hero a run for his money.

RELATED: 10 Ways The Avengers Are Completely Different In The ComicsOn another of his visits to 616, Arkon sought to defeat Wonder Man by playing him on film. As the rest of the West Coast Avengers were forced to stand aside due to the threat of Arkon’s nuclear explosion, Wonder Man traded blows with the malevolent monarch until he knocked Arkon to the ground.

5 Wonder Man breaks the abomination

The Abomination is one of the Hulk’s most enduring villains, a power-hungry saboteur who, after being exposed to gamma radiation, became a thorn in the side of the forces of the Marvel Universe forever. Emil Blonsky is one of Marvel’s most formidable villains, possessing all of the classic Hulk powers but retaining his intellect.

RELATED: 8 Weirdest Humanoid Characters In Marvel ComicsAlthough the Abomination is tough, Wonder Man is tougher. In a fight that spanned several pages, the two thugs got into a fight on a Hollywood movie set. The battle tested Williams’ strength and resolve, but in the end, a heavy blow to the head allowed Wonder Man to finish off the Abomination for good.

4 Imperius Wrecked: Wonder Man Surpasses Namor

Marvel’s Namor is one of the most arrogant and loudest comic characters. Still, his immense strength and durability usually allow the Crown Prince of Atlantis to be as nasty as he wants. Still, Namor typically flies on the side of the Angels, being an effective member of groups like the Avengers, the Defenders, the Invaders, and the X-Men.

RELATED: Marvel: The 10 Toughest Characters Namor Beat In ComicsIn a story that saw Namor’s villain Attuma brainwash several Avengers in a bid to gain the throne of Atlantis, Namor and Attuma met up to do battle on a floating platform. Wonder Man, Beast, and World War II hero Whizzer arrived to help Namor, but Attuma tricked Namor into fighting the group. Fortunately, Wonder Man was able to defeat the monarch.

3 Rage Reducer: Wonder Man subdues Red Hulk

General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross had dedicated his life to hunting down and destroying the Hulk by any means necessary. One day, that meant becoming a version of what he hated the most. After a period of villainy as the Red Hulk, Ross partially redeemed himself by serving in the Avengers.

When Wonder Man sought to redeem himself after an attempted takedown by the Avengers, the hero was ambushed by Red Hulk when Simon spoke to Captain America. However, Ross’s punches did not eliminate Wonder Man as Williams drained Ross’s gamma energy.

two Doesn’t compute: Wonder Man disarms Ultron

The robotic Ultron sits firmly at the top level of the Avengers rogues gallery, an iconic evil since his first appearance in avengers #54. A villain who grows more powerful with each successive appearance, Ultron has used his vast intellect, extreme durability, and armies of duplicates to threaten the Marvel Universe, even taking it over in some possible futures.

Despite Ultron’s demonstrated strength, Wonder Man took out the newly upgraded Ultron-11 in writer Steve Engelhart and artist Al Milgrom. West Coast Avengers Vol 2 #7. After helping Hank Pym reconcile with the benign Ultron-12, Wonder Man rescued the size-shifting Avenger from the evil Ultron-11, completely tearing the robot apart.

1 Grounded: Wonder Man Takes Down Captain Marvel

Today, fans know Carol Danvers as the high-flying Captain Marvel, confident leader of the Avengers, and protector of the galaxy. However, Danvers first took to the skies as Ms. Marvel, sporting a succession of less-attractive costumes but still a key member of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

When Wonder Man sought to destroy the Avengers, believing team violence would only breed more violence, he battled Danvers in her Ms. Marvel persona. The two former lovers had a massive fight in the sky above the ruins of Avengers Tower, which ended with Williams sending the Maiden of Power crashing to the ground.

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Today in the program we are talking about trees; why they are valuable to wildlife, where to plant them, and how to do it right. To help us have that conversation, I’m joined by two of the world’s most knowledgeable people about trees for wildlife, Bob and Iain Wallace of Chestnut Hill Outdoors.

The risks of a field hunt include all the normal risks associated with a typical hunt, and many more. These risks are compounded by the physical distance that separates you from emergency assistance. For the unprepared hunter, a simple puncture wound can turn into a serious infection.

A burn from an overturned pot of boiling water can lead to severe pain and an interrupted ride. A sprained or broken ankle can result in an expensive helicopter evacuation. It is impossible to make a plan for every type of emergency you may encounter, as even the most imaginative person would never think of all of them. Rather, you should assume a general attitude of caution and preparedness, and maintain a flexible security plan that can evolve with the situation.

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My bear defense revolver has a black walnut grip. My favorite fishing net has a black walnut handle and rim. This upcoming turkey season, I can already say that my favorite choice will be this beautiful black walnut number known as the Phelps Line 1.

This is not your typical turkey call. While most are built from bulk wood, Jason Phelps and Steven Rinella decided to do this one a little differently.

“If you look at the pot calls out there, no one ever tells you where the wood comes from. There is no story behind this,” Jason told me.

Back in high school, Steve cut down some oak trees with his father that, years later, became his desk and workbench. He pitched the idea of ​​making a call with some backstory to Jason, who was skeptical at first before becoming very enthusiastic. So this past May, the two traveled to the Turkey Creek farm outside Uniontown, Kansas, where Jason killed a gobbler the previous spring, this time looking for something that wouldn’t get away. After consulting with landowner Randy Milligan and veteran logger Joe Butler, they roamed the lush vernal forests in search of the perfect tree, one without too many branches, knots and defects that they could potentially retrieve 1,000 pots from.

They finally found it: a tall, straight-trunked black walnut tree in a strip of wood separating the fields of corn and clover that suited their needs. Steve and Jason felled the valuable lumber to the ground, and also harvested an Osage orange from across the field to make their forwards. They took their lumber to a sawmill in nearby Walnut, Kansas, to cut planks, then Jason shipped it all to a kiln near his home in Washington state. Dried to exactly 7% moisture content for six weeks and cut into blocks, the boulders began to take shape. Once turned and varnished, the finished wood looked like a rich chocolate dessert.

Continuing their desire to build these calls entirely in the United States with all American materials, they then assembled the resonant pots with West Virginia slate soundboards, Illinois glass, floor-worn medallions, and limited-edition sequential numbering. You almost hate to scratch the surface of that pretty call, but once you do, it purrs soft and seductive. Push a little harder and you’ll get bright, high-pitched howls audible for a mile. It is the call of a caller; Palm-sized yet strong, sharp yet subtle, designed by some of the best in the game of calling and killing turkeys.

“It’s a beautiful thing, good for the rest of your life,” Steve told me. “People will love having something that can reference a specific tree in a specific place, with a specific collection of people who sawed it, ground it, dried it, and crafted it. These calls are magnificent and tell a great story.”

Steve and Jason only got 1400 of these calls from that black walnut and they are now available for purchase. You can learn more about this project and watch the video here. Steve and Jason also talk about the call in the first episode of the relaunched Cutting the Distance podcast with Phelps as the new host. These won’t last long, so don’t miss out. You can get yours here.

Does your hunting gear smell worse than an old boar in heat? Do the soles of your boots flap, flap, flap in the silence of an early-morning stalk? Is your bino harness down? Are your calls broken or are your underlays worn? Well, we have good news for you.

We’re giving away some great gear to celebrate the launch of our new show, On the Hunt with Janis Putelis. One lucky winner will receive a completely new build for the upcoming season. This incredible gear package is valued at over $3,500 and will be customized to suit your hunting preferences.

The winner will receive a video call from Janis so she can learn about her current gear, what she needs, and what type of hunting she likes. Janis will then put together your recommendations for a fully customized gear package that includes First Lite, FHF Gear, Phelps and a variety of other brands that Janis and the team consistently use in their own setups.

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This change has seen a large segment of the hunting community abandon or simply omit what has long been the foundational activity on which the region’s hunters built their skills, the craft of wood and cemented connections with the land, its wildlife and its culture and society. history.

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Participation in small game hunting, specifically squirrels and rabbits, has plummeted in Texas (and nationally) over the last four decades. The numbers are staggering and reflect a long-term shift in the demographics of hunters in Texas and the nation.

The number of hunters chasing squirrels in Texas in 1981 was estimated at nearly a quarter million, 231,000, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s annual survey of small game that year. Nearly all of those hunters were in eastern Texas, most in the densely forested, squirrel-rich Pineywoods ecoregion in the far east of the state, and a smaller number in the adjacent Post Oak Savanna.

There, squirrel hunting was a long-standing tradition, with the annual opening of squirrel season on October 1 in eastern Texas counties seen as the de facto opening of fall hunting seasons. Squirrels were by far the most popular game in the eastern part of the state, attracting more than twice as many hunters in 1981 as white-tailed deer.

And there were many squirrels and many places and opportunities to hunt them.

The lowland forests of the region, with their oak, hickory, and other mast-producing trees and adjacent terraces with tangles of brambles and berry vines and other berry, fruit, and other soft mast-producing vegetation, were ideal habitat for the gray squirrels, invariably called “cat”. squirrels by east texans. They shared the region with their fox-squirrel cousins, a slightly larger species that prefers the more open magnolia and beech forests of the adjacent uplands.

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Squirrel hunting has been a rite and ritual for generations of East Texans. The initial hunting experiences of most East Texans consisted of chasing squirrels, often under the tutelage of parents, grandparents, or other elderly relatives. This mentorship allowed novice hunters to learn from more experienced hunters who passed on their knowledge. That knowledge includes how to move silently through the forest, the behavior of their prey – which trees the squirrels prefer, their evasive tactics, when they are most active – when to shoot and when to wait for a better opportunity, how to read a landscape and find their way. in thick woods and all the other skills that are required to develop a competent, confident and skillful hunter with a rifle or shotgun, comfortable and self-sufficient when alone in the woods.

Those basic hunting and woodcraft skills translate to just about any other kind of hunting. A skilled squirrel hunter is a good squirrel hunter, period.

And while most squirrel hunters eventually branched out to pursue other species, most remained squirrel hunters throughout their lives, relishing the challenge of continuing to hunt squirrels in cathedral-like lowland forests or navigating upland forests. high, trying to get to where a “squirrel dog” – invariably a feist or cur or rat/fox terrier – stands with its front paws as high as it can reach on a tree trunk and barks “tree!”

And, of course, there are the fruits of the hunt. A young cat squirrel quartered and fried in a cast-iron skillet and served with gravy and crackers or an older squirrel slow-cooked until tender in a pot of squirrel and meatballs have graced countless East Texas tables.

But they are honoring them less and less, these days.

The great shift away from squirrel hunting in East Texas began in the 1960s and 1970s with the resurgence of white-tailed deer populations in the region. Nearly extirpated in eastern Texas in the 1920s due to habitat loss and unregulated hunting, whitetails began to make a comeback through a combination of repopulation, vigorous hunting enforcement, and a change in the East Texas landscape that benefited deer and, in many cases, negatively affected squirrels

The move to uniform management of commercial pine forests (logging) created a matrix of forest, “edge” habitat, and early successional vegetation, such as grasses and shrubs that deer relish. Deer populations grew, and with it the interest in deer hunting. Changes in land use, including land leasing, changes in land ownership, the fading of small farms, and other factors, encouraged an increased focus on deer.

As interest in deer hunting grew in East Texas, participation in squirrel hunting declined. Increasingly, squirrel hunting was discouraged or even prohibited in some hunting contracts due to conflicts with deer hunting on the same property. And many hunters simply chose to spend their days in the field chasing deer instead of squirrels.

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In 1978, some 92,000 hunters hunted deer in the Pineywoods region of East Texas, with a quarter of a million hunting squirrels.

In the early 1990s, those numbers were about the same, around 100,000.

By the year 2000, the number of squirrel hunters statewide had dropped to about 70,000.

Last hunting season, about 121,500 of Texas’ 837,000 whitetail deer hunters sat in booths in the Pineywoods, according to TPWD’s annual survey. The number of squirrel hunters for the 2017-18 season was estimated at just under 48,000, with a vast majority of them in the Pineywoods and Post Oak Savanna regions.

The decline in Texas squirrel hunters mirrors a similar decline nationwide in small game hunters. The number of people hunting small game in the United States fell from 7.6 million in 1991 to 3.5 million in 2016, according to the most recent survey of hunting participation by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Joined.

The decline can also be seen in the number of Texas hunters going after rabbits, the state’s other leading small game animal. Texas had nearly 210,000 rabbit hunters in 1981. This past hunting season, approximately 44,000 Texans hunted rabbits, a decline of nearly 80 percent in 35 years.

The decline in small game hunters has drawn the attention of wildlife managers who understand the value of small game in recruiting and educating new hunters and the threat that declining hunter numbers pose to overall wildlife management. wild life; hunters fund nearly all wildlife management, restoration, and research through license fees and federal excise taxes on hunting-related equipment.

Texas wildlife managers have made efforts to encourage small game hunting. In 2014, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted a change in hunting regulations that extended the length of the fall/winter squirrel season in East Texas up to three weeks, changing the traditional closing date of the first Sunday of February to the last Sunday. Of the month. The measure adds hunting season days during a time when the general deer season is closed in the 51 East Texas counties that have the fall season and where the majority of squirrel hunting occurs. This gives squirrel hunters more opportunities to hunt when they will not be in potential conflict with deer hunters.

Even with that move, it’s questionable whether the extra days will result in more Texans participating in the squirrel hunt.

But for those heading to the East Texas lowlands in search of plenty of cat squirrels, the prospects this year are good. Squirrel numbers in the eastern third of the state are up this year, and a generally strong acorn crop should mean good numbers of fat, young squirrels.

So a hunter who puts on a pair of rubber boots, grabs a .22 rifle (Grandpa’s Winchester Model 61 pump would be a good fit), slips on an oak floor along an East Texas canal on a late October or early November morning and snuggle up against a large tupelo within range of a huge ancient “burrowing tree” and you should have a good chance of spotting a cat squirrel or two wriggling like ghosts through the branches .

What that Texas squirrel hunter will most likely not see is another squirrel hunter.

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