October 20, 2024

For one Minnesota family, public-land deer hunt is a 70-Year Tradition

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting / Pat Miller

When Virgil and Mary Ann Baltes moved to Blackduck, Minn., in 1953, they became friends with folks who homesteaded forest property southeast of the city. A few years later, Virgil, a couple of his brothers, and his brother-in-law were invited to hunt deer there. They quickly accepted the invitation.
“The way I remember, that was the start of the Balteses hunting that land,” said Virgil’s son Jim. “And this year, we will be back again.”

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Smokepole 101: Here’s what you’ll need to get started hunting with a muzzleloader

Featured, Featured, Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Hunting, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, National Hunting, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin / Dan Hansen

Hunters who head afield with muzzleloading rifles hoping to tag a deer or other big game animal include those who want to create the nostalgia of a bygone era, long-range enthusiasts who to want to stretch the distance for open-country shots and most others who simply want an opportunity to spend more days in the woods.

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Tips to enjoy traditional autumn turkey hunting

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania / Richard Tate

Of all the autumn hunts, turkey hunting is probably the most challenging. Unless a hunter has access to lightly hunted private property, he or she is going to have to expend some effort in their quest to harvest an autumn bird.
This begins prior to the actual season. Although turkeys tend to favor the same general areas each year, a hunter needs to make sure that birds are still in the locations where he has found them in previous years.

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Pennsylvania couple honored for saving the life of another angler in 2022

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Pennsylvania / Deborah Weisberg

An Allegheny County couple whose spur-of-the-moment decision to go fishing ended up saving a stranger’s life were honored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their heroism Oct. 4.
Guy and Gayla Norelli, of Glassport, Pa., were awarded a Public Service Commendation medal for an incident on the Friday before Labor Day in 2022 when they rescued a drowning man at the Youghiogheny Reservoir outflow.

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EHD continues its ugly spread to the north in Ohio

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio / John Hageman

As Ohio’s statewide archery season approached and then opened on Sept. 28, hunters, property owners, and kayakers/canoeists began to encounter dead deer of all shapes and sizes, including trophy bucks, often near water sources.
Of those submitted for testing to the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, the cause of death as Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) has been confirmed in 20 counties.

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Kate Severson circles back to Minnesota to join staff at Voyageurs National Park

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / David Colburn

For most people who take a trek into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the experience is life-enriching. But for some, like Kate Severson, it’s life-altering.
When the Rochester, Minn., native graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Japanese studies, a career working in the great outdoors wasn’t even on her radar as she left home to spend two years teaching English as a second language in a rural village in Hokkaido, Japan.

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Vin T. Sparano: Hard to beat lever-action guns in the backwoods

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, New York, Opinion / Vin T. Sparano

In some of my recent gun magazines, I’m now detecting a trend in our guns. Most noticeably, the wonderful return and focus on our beloved lever-action guns…the cowboy guns of yesteryear.
Anyone who has read my writings must know that I am not a big fan of the AR-type rifles, which now seem to be labeled “tactical.” I also get tired of confessing that these “tactical” guns may well shoot faster, farther and more accurately at absurd ranges than my old Marlin lever-action rifles.

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For one Minnesota family, public-land deer hunt is a 70-Year Tradition

Smokepole 101: Here’s what you’ll need to get started hunting with a muzzleloader

Tips to enjoy traditional autumn turkey hunting

Pennsylvania couple honored for saving the life of another angler in 2022

EHD continues its ugly spread to the north in Ohio

Kate Severson circles back to Minnesota to join staff at Voyageurs National Park

Vin T. Sparano: Hard to beat lever-action guns in the backwoods

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