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Kentucky Afield’s popular outdoor calendar includes outstanding outdoor photography, proposed season dates for 2012, nature notes and tips to help you enjoy Kentucky’s great outdoors.

This year, Kentucky Afield magazine brings back its updated trophy deer list. See the top 100 typical bucks and top 100 non-typical bucks taken in Kentucky since deer seasons resumed. These handy charts show you the name of the hunter, the county where the buck was taken and the year. Match your own trophy to the state’s best. See if your buck is the biggest taken in your county with the 2012 Kentucky Afield Outdoor Calendar.

Kentucky Afield calendars are not sold in stores or on newsstands. Calendars are mailed out just once a year, in December. To ensure your own copy, your must be active on November 15.

Kentucky Afield calendars and magazine subscriptions make great Christmas gifts for the sportswoman or sportsman on your list. Kentucky Afield is a family-friendly publication which emphasizes skill building and suggests good places to go. It’s a great and inexpensive choice for the grandchildren on your list. Subscribe today and receive the 2013 calendar in December 2012 with your order.

 

 

2012 Kentucky Afield Calendar
Photo by Tommy Kirkland
2012 Kentucky Afield Calendar

  • January 1 - First day of free youth hunting/trapping week; late dove season
  • January 4 - Opening day of late crow season; last day late dove season
  • January 6 - Last day of free youth hunting/trapping week
  • January 16 - Last day of deer, turkey and all-elk archery seasons
  • January 22 - Last day of snipe season
  • January 31 - Last day of bobcat, rabbit and quail (Eastern Zone) seasons

  • Good winter crappie fishing when weather permits

  • Fish for smallmouth bass with live bait or using the float and fly technique at Dale Hollow, Cumberland lakes

  • Clean out/erect wood duck nest boxes
     
  • Fish big stonefly imitations for tailwater trout through February
     
  • Concentrate on food sources for deer late in season


  • Migrating bald eagle numbers peak

  • Black bear cubs born

  • Woodcock begin spring migration

  • Groundhogs awake


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