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June 4, 2026

Ryan Rothstein: Chasing the perfect firearm for Minnesota’s new deer rifle era

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

It’s been a while since I’ve been this excited in early June about an upcoming firearms season. No doubt, 2026 is going to be a historic season for many hunters in Minnesota, as it’ll be the first time in eighty-some years that a majority of deer hunters will be able to use centerfire rifles.
After my county voted to move forward with following the new state law, I had all the excuse I needed to buy myself a new rifle.

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Minnesota conservation officer shoots off trap to free young black bear

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Conservation Officer Jayson Hansen freed a young black bear trapped outside a Bigfork-area chicken coop May 22 by disabling the trap with carefully placed rifle shots.
Hansen received a call that evening from a middle-aged woman in the Bigfork area after a bear became caught in a trap she had set near the coop. The homeowner said she had recently had skunks bothering her chickens.

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Jack Ammerman: Why are federal duck stamps arriving after the season’s over?

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The envelope surprised me when I removed the stack of mail from my mailbox. Like many waterfowl hunters, the postman finally delivered my 2025-26 Federal Waterfowl Stamp on one of the very last days of March.
I know I’m not the only one who thinks it’s nuts to get the stamp well after its usefulness to a hunter is over. I’ve gotten phone calls from friends and have seen the online comments to this effect.

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Popular Hot Waters boat launch on Lake Erie renovated and ready for use in Lorain, Ohio

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To say that Fran Stack, a lifelong Lorain resident and ardent walleye angler, was excited to see the Hot Waters boat launch reopen would be kind of an understatement.  
When the City of Lorain held the ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of the ramp renovations, Stack arrived an hour early with his boat. Not only was he ready to be the first angler to use the boat launch, he was appropriately attired in a suit coat to formally celebrate the occasion.
“It is very exciting.  It looks nice. It launches and retrieves just fine,” Stack said. “This is the first and most important step, to be able to launch our boats safely.”

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‘Match the hatch’ for hellgrammite patterns

Featured, Features, Fishing, Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, National Fishing, Ohio /

The eastern hellgrammite continues to cause a stir. The growing interest makes me think back to the Gapen hellgrammite, a jig body with rubber strands sticking out, the first set exaggerated in length. He sold a similar looking lure, the Ugly Bug. Both are still around.
The more recent and wildly popular Nikko hellgrammite is hardly a knock-off.

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Common burdock – you’ll get ‘hooked’ on this plant

Featured, Home Page News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania /

A rite of passage for country youths during the past century was learning about burdock. In this context, learning means having someone toss a burdock bur at them and “learning” how it sticks to one’s clothing or worse yet – ones hair.
The burs’ resemblance to Velcro hook and loop fasteners is no accident.

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