October 22, 2011

LITTLE ROCK – A reward, in addition to personal satisfaction, awaits hunters who qualify for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Triple Trophy Award. Hunters who qualify for the Triple Trophy Award must, within a single annual deer season, take at least one deer by each of the three legal hunting methods – modern firearms, […]

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Kayle Browning of Wooster (Faulkner County) finished third and won a bronze medal Tuesday in the Pan-Am Games trapshooting competition at Guadalajara, Mexico. Browning was first in the event’s qualifying round, breaking 68 of a possible 75 targets. In the final 25-target round, she broke 17. The event was won by fellow

LITTLE ROCK – When you are getting ready for a hunt, a small but important item in your gear should be the 2011-12 Arkansas Hunting Guidebook from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. This is the interpretive summary of the AGFC’s hunting regulations. It also has things like forms for permission to hunt on private

LITTLE ROCK – What does a deer weigh? Most hunters will overestimate when they guess. Hunters can seldom weigh whole deer they’ve killed. Weighing most often comes after field dressing. On an average deer, field dressing removes about 22 percent of the live weight. Example: A field-dressed deer carcass that weighs 101 pounds would translate

This weekly fishing report is provided by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. CENTRAL   Arcadia: October 17. Elevation 3/4 ft. below normal, water 70. Catfish fair to good on cut bait and worms just off bottom along the banks early and late. Crappie fair to good on minnows and jigs at 5-6 ft. from

A bumper crop of apples means that rural residents in the Upper Snake Region need to care for their apple trees to avoid a bumper crop of bear conflicts. “So far, I’ve investigated four different sites where trees loaded with apples have had any limbs that bears could reach torn down,” Senior Conservation Officer Charlie

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will meet November 9, 10 and 11 in Coeur d’Alene. A public comment period begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 9. The commission’s routine agenda includes appointing a commission representative to Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. A complete agenda will be posted on the Fish and Game

Idaho is rich with a variety of game birds, but one that has taken the backseat in popularity to quail, chukars and pheasants is the ruffed grouse, relegated to “camp meat” by some big game hunters. Yet a growing number of us realize and appreciate the challenges of hunting “ruffies.” Unfortunately, little is known about

John Hoffman, 58, of Boise, was one of the first poaching offenders in Idaho whose hunting privileges were revoked for life for his involvement in the infamous 1997 Cascade area railroad case. The case involved several railroad employees who were investigated and cited for poaching multiple big game animals while doing railway maintenance between Cascade