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Opening day of Ohio deer season was a boom for many gun hunters

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

While a lot of hunters – more than 19,000 of them – bagged their bucks and does on Ohio’s firearms deer-hunting opener Nov. 27, bunches more did not.
And though Ohio Outdoor News has a stable of gifted writers who know which end is up on a deer-hunting firearm, they weren’t so fortunate. Among them were Steve Pollick, Tom Cross, Larry Moore, and John Hageman. All were in the field on Monday past. But none were successful, at least on the opener.

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Is that old spinning reel worth saving?

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Ohio /

While (sort of) nibbling away at the inside of my cheek, I also mulled a spinning reel’s exterior workings.
The mental debate became whether the reel was salvageable or disposable. It happens eventually with every one of my fishing reels. In the old days of Garcia Mitchell 300s (the chief of the Mitchell clansman) I could disrobe a reel to its most basic components, wipe them down, add some grease where grease was required and oil where oil was requisite.

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Cool discovery: Fish Ohio angler’s journal uncovered

Featured, Fishing, Ohio, Opinion /

Sometimes it takes a good idea a while to germinate and then sprout before blossoming.
Perhaps that will be the case with a really cool and practical Ohio Division of Wildlife fishing-related document that practically no angler has ever heard of, much less seen or handled. That case is even true for some wildlife division officials. What we have is a 17-sheet/doubled-sided, spiral bound document called the “Fish Ohio Journal.” The first 25 pages are all identical and highlight components that smart anglers would want to record for posterity and future reference.

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The RV craze is fading quickly; What’s going on?

Featured, Home Page News, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

With sales of RVs at their lowest tide since 2015 – with a decline of something like $10 billion in just the past year alone – it might be time to rethink the whole idea of the RV lifestyle activity.
And the full-time RVing couple has come up with several reasons why they believe many once-owners are now the “been there and done that” crowd. Kyle and Olivia Brady operate the social media platform-based “Drivin & Vibin” RVing tell-all. Their take on RVing is bolstered in some regard to what the industry says.

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Ongoing conflicts might make for U.S. shortage in ammunition

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The conflagration of the ongoing Ukraine-Russian War and now the volatile Israeli-Hamas/Palestinian War is expected to fire a broadside shot at American hunters and firearms enthusiasts.
Firearms-associated chat-rooms – and even firearms industry experts – are expecting a shortage of not just fully assembled metallic ammunition but their respective components. It’s a perfect storm of competing interests vying for surprisingly limited-access components. After all, there are only six manufacturers in the entire United States that make primers. And the number of gunpowder makers is even smaller while the number of large-scale bullet-building companies is not much larger.

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Ohio’s Disease Surveillance Area deer hunt harvest about the same as 2022

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

Ohio hunters participating in the special so-named three-day “Disease Surveillance Area (DSA)” firearms season did well, though in practical terms, not really any better than for the similar 2022 season.
This special hunt allowed the use of firearms in Hardin, Wyandot, and Marion counties. In all, 668 deer were shot in the three-county area Oct. 7 through Oct. 9, a figure which represents only a 0.5% increase over the 2022 hunt. However, the kill was not expressed in uniformity over the three counties, said Robert Ford, the wildlife management supervisor for the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s District Two (Northwest Ohio) field office.

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Ohio congressman David Joyce behind crucial bird act

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

In an era of open and hostile sniping by the country’s two major political parties, it seems that birds can nest them together for a common cause.
A quartet of U.S. Representatives – two Democrats and two Republicans (including one from Ohio) are trying to shepherd the reauthorization of Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act of 2023 to take flight. According to the American Bird Conservancy, the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, as it is officially called and short-handed to NMBCA, is “a federal grants program for conserving migratory birds across the Americas.”

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Early Ohio bow season off to a solid start in ’23

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, News, Ohio /

In much the same fashion the presidential vote recorded in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire  – the first place in the nation to report such things – means nothing in the grand scheme of such elections, so largely does, too, the initial harvest tally of Ohio’s deer-hunting season.
For the first four days of Ohio’s 2023-24 deer-hunting season – and as of Oct. 3 – 1,807 antlered and 3,281 antlerless deer were tallied for a combined total of 5,088 animals. The corresponding figures for the 2022-23 season were, respectively, 2,270, 3,878, and 6,148. The like statistics for the 2021-22 season much more closely followed those of this year’s initial numbers: 1,710, 3,255, and 4,965, respectively. Note that all numbers are for archery only.

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