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June 9, 2026

Better understand your hunting optics to get better performance

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For nearly 1,000 years, we’ve worked to improve our vision.
Italian monks made eyeglasses by the 13th century. In the 1600s, seafarers gazed at distant shores through spyglasses. The first telescope was patented in 1608. Many credit Benjamin Franklin with inventing bifocals. Even thermal technology has roots going back more than a century.
Today, anyone else who wants to see the wild world better has an array of options, from eyeglasses to optics that seem like something from science fiction.

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Ultimate turkey slam? Wisconsin hunter harvests 49 toms in 49 states

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Lance Penney harvested his first turkey in 1995 in Wisconsin’s Waupaca County.

He was just getting started. He recently returned from Indiana after completing a goal of shooting a turkey in the 49 states where they exist – 20 in the offing. He shot more than half of the birds in the past four years after retiring from the Waupaca County Highway Department.

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State Roundup: Information on Wisconsin’s Beaver Dam Lake, and Natural Resources Board updates

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Our back page lake articles are one of the most popular features that readers enjoy. Despite devoting a page to each lake, there is never enough room to include all of the information available for each lake that makes the back page. That’s the case for Beaver Dam Lake.

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Silent entry and close encounters: Kayak tactics to help you kill more deer

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Winds were gusting to over 40 mph on the afternoon of Nov. 2 last year as I slipped quietly up the river in my kayak for an afternoon bowhunt.
These types of winds are not a reason to stay home. They are an opportunity to get close to whitetail bedding areas undetected. The plan that day was to take advantage of the conditions and set up in a tree 20 yards off the river in thick cover. This would require using the kayak to slip past a primary bedding area.

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New York State Conservation Council offers eight resolutions for fall meeting

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In the wake of its spring meeting in April, the New York State Conservation Council has submitted eight resolutions addressing a variety of conservation, legislative, fish and wildlife management, public access, environmental stewardship, and outdoor recreation issues the group says are important to New York’s sporting community.

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Election day archery buck enters New York record book as non-typical

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When Mike Betanzos Jr. arrowed the biggest buck of his life in Ulster County, N.Y., on election day last November, he knew it had record book potential. But, as so many hunters often attest, the buck meant much more.
Still, Betanzos, who lives in Wallkill, is pleased that his buck, which had 17 scorable points, will likely enter the New York State Big Buck Club’s record book at No. 12 in the bow non-typical category with a net score of 193-3.

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