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September 16, 2026

Disqualification reconfigures Minnesota youth trap league’s spring ’26 leaderboard

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The Minnesota State High School Clay Target League is starting its fall season, but a disqualification recently reshuffled the list of award winners at a conference and state level from the league’s 2026 spring season.
On Aug. 11, the MSHSCTL sent a release to the state’s coaches notifying them that it had received information concerning improper scoring procedures used by a team in the 2026 spring season. The release states that the league conducted an investigation and determined that the Ortonville High School clay target team, which won Class 3A’s Conference 1 after the regular season, had violated league policies and procedures by submitting incorrect scores during the 2026 conference spring season.

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Minnesota Mixed Bag: Teach a kids to hunt small game during Take a Kid Hunting Weekend

Fishing, Hunting, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Getting kids outdoors in pursuit of squirrels, rabbits and other small game is the focus of Take a Kid Hunting Weekend. On Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept. 27, adult Minnesota residents accompanied by a youth younger than age 16 may hunt small game without a license, although they must comply with open seasons, limits and other regulations.

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Minnesota’s early bear harvest sees a 40% jump from 2025

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A little more than a week into bear season, Minnesota harvest totals were about 40% higher than the previous year during the same time period.
Dan Stark, large carnivore specialist for the DNR, said late last week (the hunt began on Sept. 1), that the total harvest so far is about 2,600. Stark said looking back at the past 10 years, average harvest results hover around 2,500 for the whole season. Last year, the harvest after the first week was about 1,600 bears.

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Hunter from Wisconsin takes 690-pound black bear on Minnesota’s opening day

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The opening day of the black bear hunting season produced a 690-pound (live weight) bear in Minnesota for Alma, Wis., resident Dylan Fluekiger.
Hunting a friend’s property near Brook Park, Fluekiger had seen the big bruin on his cameras as he set up before the start of the season. He said the bear had been well known to area residents who had seen him for years. Looking at the photos from his trail camera, Fluekiger said the bear would typically come in at last light.

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Ralph Loos: Another Illinois DNR director, another test for state’s natural resources

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We all live in the past because it’s one of the few things we’re truly confident in – good or bad, sweet or sour, we can give the past a solid thumbs up or thumbs down with little doubt or hesitation.
But the future? It’s just a wild guess. I say all that to say this: There was a time when the DNR’s director’s office seemed like a place where conservation experience mattered. And I say that to follow up with this: Gov. JB Pritzker’s recent appointment of Jim Montgomery to lead the agency is only the latest chapter in a long-running pattern that should make hunters, anglers, trappers and other conservationists at least a little skeptical.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Illegal baiter just can’t help himself

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A convicted felon was quick to admit to David Bennett, a Sheboygan County, Wis., game warden, when he was presented with the evidence and facts, that maybe he was illegally shooting deer over bait.

The subject also admitted, in a matter-of-fact way, that he always shoots deer in that manner, over bait and in his backyard. Sheboygan County has a deer-baiting ban in place due to the discovery of chronic wasting disease.

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Tom Bahti: Time to reassess our priorities as deer hunters

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I have become increasingly nervous about the future of white-tailed deer hunting in Wisconsin – and throughout North America, for that matter.
The current fixation on inches of antler, bordering on mania and the absurd, is, in my mind, casting a pall on the entire sport of deer hunting. You need only to look at almost any of specialty deer hunting magazines or turn on one of the “horn porn” deer hunting TV shows or YouTube videos to see and hear constant discussion of G1 and G2 lengths, “shooter bucks,” bucks that have been given names (sorry Christine), “hit lists” of bucks, and detailed discussions of how to keep “your buck” from, heaven forbid, wandering on to the neighbor’s land.

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Cornell University bans animal processing after two students used dorm kitchen to butcher black bear

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Last fall, the story of two Cornell University students who butchered a legally harvested black bear in their college dorm kitchen went viral. A recent university policy change, however, will ensure this doesn’t happen again.
The students, whose names and exact location of the hunt were not published, harvested the bear in southeastern New York during the opening weekend of the 2025 early black bear season there. Upon research, they found no reason for not being able to use the campus dorm kitchen facilities to process the bear themselves.

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