Chris Kirby, president and owner of Quaker Boy, is one of three individuals who have been selected for induction in 2024 the National Wild Turkey Federation Grand National Calling Championships Hall of Fame.
The induction will take place this February in Nashville at the 48th annual NWTF Convention and Sport Show.
The New York Brigade of Longrifles took first place this year at the New England Traditional Flintlock Rifle Team Championship, held recently at the York County Powder Burners club in Limington, Maine.
The New York squad finished with a final score of 782-5x, beating Vermont by six points. In 2022, the New York Brigade of Longrifles attended the competition for the first time in several years and finished in fourth place.
New York smoke-polers capture team flintlock title in Maine Read More »
The fall league for the New York State High School Clay Target League is underway, and is its biggest yet. The league reports that 1,054 student athletes from 74 schools are participating in the New York State High School Target League this fall. Participation is up across the entire nation.
Each year New York plays host to several trapping conventions, including one in Little Valley hosted by the Cattaraugus County Trapper’s Association, and the other one in Herkimer organized by the New York State Trapper’s Association. These shows are the bigger trapping/sportsman shows that happen. There are two more in July, including one in Fenner, at Nichols Pond, and one called Camp Zerbe, in September.
Trapping events fun, informative across New York Read More »
A popular initiative that boosts pheasant hunting opportunities in Allegany County will go on as usual this year, despite a disease outbreak that threatened New York’s annual pheasant propagation and stocking program.
The Allegany County Pheasant Program is a collaboration between a group of private stakeholders and the Allegany County Sheriff’s Office, and since 2008 has supplemented ring-necked stocking by the state Department of Environmental Conservation with hundreds of additional birds and multiple available hunting locations.
New York’s Allegany County Pheasant Program prevails amid flu outbreak in March Read More »
Yellow perch anglers here reported catching up to 50 perch per boat using live minnows and worms while fishing in 10-25 feet of water.
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The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long- awaited population viability analysis released on Sept. 29.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated recovery plan Friday for “Canis rufus” — the only wolf species unique to the United States. It calls for spending nearly $328 million over the next 50 years to get the red wolf off the endangered species list.
A diehard duck hunter is a breed of its own. After all, who would be excited about waking at 3 a.m., facing below freezing temperatures, battling strong northwest winds that drop the wind chill to the teens to below zero?
One of those crazy diehard duck hunters hoping that “this weather system” will bring a migration of ducks from up north is 71-year-old Greg Drees of Arnolds Park, Iowa.
“Duck hunting is in my blood — introduced to me by my father,” said Drees, who grew up in Carroll.
How far do largemouth bass swim? How do bluegills respond to poor water quality? And where do common carp, sunfish, and crappies go in the winter months?
One might be able to answer these questions simply by listening to “sound fish make.” At least that’s how researchers from Shedd Aquarium are approaching a new study of the Chicago River, where 80 fish were outfitted with tags that bounce off of 32 receivers – or listening devices – that continuously listen for unique sound signals from those tags, which emit a unique frequency linked to each individual fish.
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