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November 18, 2011

The Perfect Storm – expect to see bear harvest records broken this year

Pennsylvania’s record bear harvest of 4,164 bruins occurred in 2005, while the second and third largest kills happened in 2009 and 2008, respectively. Last year’s harvest of 3,090 bears ranked fifth overall. I don’t think that I’m going too far out on a limb to predict that hunters will set a new state record bear …

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Bucking Biology

Every deer season it seems we run across a story or two about a hunter who shoots a well-antlered deer, only to discover while field dressing that his his buck is a doe! Mule Deer Surprise Canadian deer hunter Paul Roberts received quite a shock when he prepared to field dress the mule deer buck

Stopping Deer by Their Noses

A couple of weeks ago I was catching up on some reading when I came across Tony Peterson’s article “To Stop or Not to Stop” in the early October issue of Illinois Outdoor News. Peterson gives some good advice on when it’s a good time and when it’s not a good time to attempt to

New Catch and Release Bass Season

Sometimes a person has to consider if the “means to an end” can justify “the end.” It can be a dangerous scenario. A bill is being considered right now authored by Rep. Joel Kleefisch of Oconomowoc that would establish a catch-and-release season for bass fishing from the first Saturday in March through the Sunday preceding

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