December 16, 2023

Men charged with killing 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, to sell on black market

Home Page News, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin / Associated Press

Two men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a “killing spree” on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere, then sold eagle parts on a black market that has been a long-running problem for U.S. wildlife officials, a federal grand jury indictment says.
The men worked with others to hunt and kill the birds, according to the indictment, and in at least one instance used a dead deer to lure in an eagle that was shot.

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Late season pheasant hunting offers great rewards for those willing to work for it

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting / Tori McCormick

My late grandfather’s farewell performance as a pheasant hunter – a seven-decade recurring role – took center stage on a particularly brutal December day in eastern South Dakota in the mid-1990s.
I thought about my grandfather the other day after a wide-ranging conversation on the subject with Tom Carpenter, magazine editor at Pheasants Forever. Carp, as he’s often called, is a bird hunter of five decades who could not care less about the elements, for he’s going to put on his boots and hunt no matter what.
Here are some of Carpenter’s thoughts on how to approach late-season pheasant hunting.

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Opportunity to mentor young hunter ends with a giant mountain buck in New York’s Adirondacks

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, New York / Todd Mead

The ice crackled like the noise of a small pebble being thrown through a glass window, and my breath floated into the frigid air as I looked over my scope. The deer would be in sight in seconds, and I waited for an opportunity young hunters dream about.
Suddenly, he appeared in an opening and paused to check his surroundings. Easing the safety forward, the pressure against my index finger increased ever so slightly before the silence of the cold, calm November morning was shattered.

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Pennsylvania’s bear harvest declines in 2023

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Pennsylvania / Tom Venesky

For the first time since 2007 Pennsylvania’s bear harvest is on track to be below 3,000.
But according to a Pennsylvania Game Commission biologist, that doesn’t necessarily mean the state’s bear population has dropped. As of Dec. 10, the unofficial 2023 bear harvest stood at 2,898 for the early, statewide and extended seasons combined. Last year, hunters harvested 3,170 bears overall, down from 3,621 in 2021 and far below the record of 4,653 which occurred in 2019.

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For chasing ruffed grouse, there’s no better time than late December

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, New York / Outdoor News

Ruffed grouse hunters often focus most of their efforts on September and October hunts, but some of the most productive hunting occurs the last few weeks of December.

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Episode 466 – Late-season rooster pheasant and deer tactics, white-tailed deer research at the U of M, plus Pheasants Forever’s big government affairs staff

From The Pages Of MN ODN / Outdoor News

Editor Tim Spielman helps host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein

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Jeremiah Haas: Success in the deer woods is about showing up

Featured, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, Opinion / Jeremiah Haas

Most of us do not get to spend all day and night engaged in the outdoors. Time availability in the field changes during your life as you gain responsibilities and obligations. When I was in college, I was in a treestand 45 to 60 days each fall.
Now it seems like I can count those treestand days on two hands. While the obligations are more important, the draw to the woods is constant and nagging.

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Men charged with killing 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, to sell on black market

Late season pheasant hunting offers great rewards for those willing to work for it

Opportunity to mentor young hunter ends with a giant mountain buck in New York’s Adirondacks

Pennsylvania’s bear harvest declines in 2023

For chasing ruffed grouse, there’s no better time than late December

Episode 466 – Late-season rooster pheasant and deer tactics, white-tailed deer research at the U of M, plus Pheasants Forever’s big government affairs staff

Jeremiah Haas: Success in the deer woods is about showing up

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