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November 26, 2024

Bill Hilts, Jr.: Opening day memories from New York’s Southern Zone on opening day

New York’s Southern Zone big game season opened on Nov. 16 this year and I found myself just a few miles from where I spent more than 50 years of opening days in the southern hills of Steuben County. An invitation from friend, Mike Fox, of Lewiston, was all the motivation I needed to pack up my gear and head down on Friday, the day before the opener.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Reader offers an interesting reason for Pa. leading the country in deer/vehicle collisions

Driving home from a great nephew’s birthday party recently – deep in thought, pondering what I might write this column about – a big doe burst from brush alongside a highway near my home and bounded across the road 10 yards in front of me.
I instinctively braked, but I was going too fast to avoid hitting the buck I believed was chasing her. Fortunately, he never materialized. Still, it was a close call, and I thought about what a hassle it is to hit an adult deer these days, and what that doe would have done to the sensors and awesome electronic safety system I value so much in my kinda new van.

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Otsego County, Mich., man arraigned, faces additional charges for poaching deer

A Johannesburg, Mich., man with a history of hunting-related violations recently faced new charges for illegally taking deer.

Cecil Edward Day, 59, was arraigned Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Otsego County 87-A District Court on the following four charges:

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Dean Bortz: Campbellsport, Wis., citizens look ahead after poaching, animal-cruelty case rattles community

I bet the fabric of the Fond du Lac County town of Campbellsport, Wis., can be found in every small Wisconsin community. That fabric is woven, over time, by the people who live in those small towns.
People who care. People who volunteer. People who take on projects – new parks, new schools, filling the rank and file of civic groups – to make their towns just a little bit better every year.

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Pennsylvania reader stories: Bird dog saves the day by finding a buck

Oct. 30 was my grandson’s 15th birthday, it was also one of my most wild days of emotion, but not because of my grandson’s birthday.
I was up at my cabin in West Field, Pa., for the week to try to fill my archery deer and bear tags. The first afternoon I arrived at my cabin, I hustled back to my stand to sit for the evening hunt. This was uneventful – I didn’t even see a tail. The next morning, I headed back to my stand on the back end of the property.

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