WI Daily Update: Helping Wisconsinites in need – with venison
Wisconsin DNR asking hunters to participate in deer donation program.
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November 15, 2023
MN Daily Update: A new AIS
Minnesota DNR reports a new, nasty, aquatic invasive species within
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Eight years later, search for 2015 missing Adirondack hunter continues
On Nov. 15, 2015, Thomas Messick Sr. and a group of friends and family headed into the woods of the Eastern Adirondacks in New York for a Sunday afternoon of deer hunting. Some members of the group of seven had hunted together for decades, and they chose an area around Lily Pond near Brant Lake that they had not visited before.
The 82-year-old Messick, whose role was to serve on watch during a drive by younger members of the group, was said to have taken a position sitting on a tree stump.
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A lifelong love of muzzleloaders
I’ve often wondered where my fascination with muzzleloaders began, and why I’ve never moved on from the more traditional style of rifle, with an outside hammer that falls in an arc.
I stumbled on this photograph of me and my brother, Tim, when I was the ripe old age of 5, standing next to my grandfather’s sedan (a Dodge?) in 1954, with a buck stuffed into the trunk. He’d obviously just returned from his Houghton County deer camp east of Twin Lakes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and we were proud as peacocks to pose by the deer.
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Upland hunters in Illinois setting bar low, but open to surprises
Bird hunters in Illinois rarely hear the words “up and coming” in reference to areas that show promise for upland game species.
But this year, the west-central part of the state is being branded as such for pheasants, of all things. It’s certainly a breath of fresh air for a hunting endeavor that has gotten stale. Upland game hunting continues to wane up and down the state, as do populations of rabbits, quail, and pheasants. So any good news is widely accepted by the dedicated group of hunters.
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