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October 4, 2024

Pennsylvania Game Commission shooting ranges are being renovated

Across Pennsylvania, on state game lands,  the Game Commission has established shooting ranges, many of which have begun to receive a number of updates and improvements. 
Todd Holmes, the agency’s shooting sports coordinator, explained the importance of the commission’s shooting range program.

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Weather puts damper on opening weekend of Ohio’s archery deer season

The fingertips of now-fizzling Hurricane Helene scraped Ohio over the state’s opening weekend of the archery deer-hunting season, Saturday, Sept. 28.
It didn’t go well, but considering the devastation, lives lost, and more than $150 billion in property damage in the Southeast, two bad days of deer hunting is not even the most minor of tropical storm-related issues.

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Severe drought leading to potential fire danger in Ohio

As drought conditions worsen across Ohio, so does the threat of wildfires.
As of Sept. 20, 37 southern, eastern, and central Ohio counties judged under extreme and exceptional drought conditions on the Ohio Drought Monitor Map were also under an outdoor open burning ban issued by the state fire marshal. That number was likely to increase weekly.

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Ryan Rothstein: Don’t sleep on October cold fronts

The more things change, the more things stay the same, or so the phrase goes. While I’m not necessarily a subscriber to that philosophy, there’s no doubt it rings true for certain aspects of the deer-hunting world.
When I was a kid, every deer-hunting magazine I picked up would warn of the folly of hunting the “October lull.” If you go on YouTube, TikTok, or virtually any other social media platform, you’ll find endless videos in which another “influencer” in southern Iowa or Wisconsin or (insert big-buck state here) will tell you all about the horrors of being in a deer stand in mid-October.

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Oak Duke: The dreaded October lull; what is it?

Myth or reality? Each and every whitetail archery season during October, bowhunters report a lull, or slow time when activity and deer, mainly buck sightings, drop off.
Some bowhunters even quit hunting, saying, “I’ll wait ‘til the rut.” Others second-guess themselves, thinking, “Must be doing something wrong. Just don’t see the deer now.” Others beat the pulpit in the press and on social media, proclaiming with fervor that the October Lull of legend is just another myth.

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