When deer season opens on Nov. 3, history will be made on the North Shore. For the first time ever, all of the North Shore hunting zones will have a five-deer bag limit. This is a place where, in years past, deer hunters have been restricted to only bucks or a limited number of doe …
By Steve Pollick Contributing Writer Seven years ago, Eric Wagner noticed an ad back in the classifieds of the local newspaper down in Washington County. Free dog. German short-haired pointer, a male. Name of Jackhammer. “I brought Jackhammer home and we went bird hunting,” said Wagner of those first days together. It was a perfect
By Frank HincheyContributing Writer Xenia, Ohio — A DNR Division of Wildlife law enforcement officer assigned to Miami County resigned Oct. 25 amid a state and federal criminal investigation of a baited mourning dove field. Wildlife officer Jason M. Snyder had been on administrative leave since Sept. 7, four days after the Division of Wildlife
It’s that time of year again. Time to get together with some of those friends that you haven’t seen since last fall and head off to deer camp. There will be plenty of storytelling – and no doubt some lying mixed in! For a couple of years now, we’ve asked young Ohio Outdoor News readers
St. Paul — After the first three days of the firearms deer season, hunters appear to be on their way to a quarter million-animal harvest. Through Monday, hunters had electronically registered about 91,200 deer, which compares with about 95,000 for the first three days last year, when the total deer harvest was second-highest in state
Washington — ‘Too much pork,’ president says; override promised. A federal bill to improve the nation’s waterways infrastructure took a hit last week when President Bush vetoed the measure, the House version of which is sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn. The Water Resources Development Act includes authorization of funding to study and develop
Camp Ripley, Minn. — A 60-year-old Elbow Lake man died of a gunshot wound on Minnesota’s Nov. 3 deer-hunting opener this year. According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Department, Craig Rupp, who was a Grant County commissioner, was hunting southeast of this western Minnesota town on the Saturday firearms opener at about 9:40 a.m. The
By P.J. Reilly Southeast Correspondent Lancaster, Pa. — Darryl Yost doesn’t get around as well as he used to. Muscular dystrophy has severely reduced the 61-year-old Hatboro, Montgomery County, resident’s ability to control his legs. A retired Philadelphia police officer, Yost knows he can’t hunt deer the way he did in his youth. “I just
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