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August 29, 2025

New York’s hunting seasons ready to begin for big and small game

Sept. 1 marks the start of the sporting license year in New York, at least for hunters and trappers. That date also kicks off an early Canada goose season across much of the state that will carry into the later part of the month.
Hunting for gray squirrel also begins on Sept. 1, giving small game hunters some early action.

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An end-of-summer checklist to complete before bowhunting season

As summer winds down, hunters are shifting gears in preparation for chasing whitetails this fall. Bows are being dusted off, landowners are being visited, and glassing velvet bucks is in full swing.
However, while these are necessary steps, there are many less glamorous tasks that seem to fall by the wayside. Even after your bow is driving tacks and a target buck is in mind, there are plenty of loose ends yet to be tied up, which will make opening day, and the weeks that follow it, get off smoothly.

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Dove details to get you ready for the Minnesota season

Travel far enough south and you’ll enter a world where the dove opener is dang near a regional holiday. Over fields of millet, sorghum, and a host of other dove-friendly plantings, folks will line up with family and friends to pass shoot mourning doves.
Up here in the north country, things are little more subdued. That’s a shame, because dove hunting can be a blast. If you can hit them.

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Steve Piatt: Great adventures elicit great emotion

It has happened before, and I’m sure it will again. I don’t know exactly when, but I have a few ideas.
I’m going to cry. I won’t collapse into a blubbering mess, but certainly my emotions will kick in, as they always do, when I’m blessed to undertake an adventure that’s the stuff of dreams, something I could never have imagined when growing up longing for only a single-shot Harrington & Richardson 20 gauge.

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Outdoor Insights: Taking a deeper look into state and tribal harvest levels on Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs

Anglers and surrounding businesses received a shot of good news last week when the Minnesota DNR announced it was liberalizing the walleye limit for Mille Lacs effective last Saturday, Aug. 23. Anglers may now keep three walleyes per day through Nov. 30, at least until a new winter regulation kicks in Dec. 1.
I couldn’t help but scrutinize harvest level data for multiple species on Mille Lacs. For starters, everyone should understand that the Ojibwe bands likely will kill far more walleyes on Mille Lacs during 2025 than will state license holders.

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