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Early deer kill slides down a bit in Ohio

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

Going into the peak of the rut in Ohio, the take (harvest, in wildlife management lingo) of deer has slid when compared to the same period in 2023.
Through Nov. 3, Ohio archery hunters checked in 48,321 deer. That figure includes the first six weekends of bowhunting, which began Sept. 28. The take of deer includes 23,311 antlered animals and 25,010 antlerless deer, a category which includes does and button bucks.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Ohio Division of Wildlife publishes expenditures for 2024

Blogs, Fishing, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

The Ohio Division of Wildlife’s money tree is watered by the state’s anglers and hunters. Even the greenbacks from the federal government pour from funds supported in one fashion or another by sportsmen and sportswomen.
And for Fiscal Year 2024, the agency brought in $92,367,367 while spending $92,244,172. If that appears the wildlife division is cutting things close, it’s important to remember that year-to-year revenues and expenses are not always apples-to-apples identical, nor even close. To stave off being destitute and pleading “more gruel, please” the wildlife division squirrels away enough funds to anticipate projects and unexpected expenses.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Picking out a personalized plate for Ohio’s outdoors

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Ohio /

In a day and age when very nearly every SUV, pickup truck, and such are accursed to resemble one another, a vehicle owner trying to set himself (or herself) apart can turn to various mechanisms.
Bumper stickers that read “Trucks Are For Girls, Silly” and “A Girl And Her Jeep Are A Beautiful Thing” or “A Man And His Truck – Can’t Get Any Better” are festooned to the tail of one’s vehicle.
Nothing, however, says “mine” like a personalized motor vehicle license plate.

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Ohio’s fall wild turkey harvest lags behind at midpoint

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

At about the midpoint in Ohio’s revamped fall wild turkey hunting season, the statistics are strongly suggesting a decline in the number of birds shot.
However, the drop cannot be blamed on fewer wild turkeys out there. Just the opposite, in fact. Credit – or blame – the declining number of hunters seeking turkeys when the autumn leaves begin to turn color and cooler temperatures arrive.

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Weather puts damper on opening weekend of Ohio’s archery deer season

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

The fingertips of now-fizzling Hurricane Helene scraped Ohio over the state’s opening weekend of the archery deer-hunting season, Saturday, Sept. 28.
It didn’t go well, but considering the devastation, lives lost, and more than $150 billion in property damage in the Southeast, two bad days of deer hunting is not even the most minor of tropical storm-related issues.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Squirrel hunting not near what it used to be in Ohio

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio /

Before the day of the deer and before the time of the turkey, Ohio’s hunters pursued small game critters.
The numbers were not insignificant, either. Hundreds of thousands of sportsmen donned heavy-canvas pants and jackets or else slipped into jeans and flannel and chased a potpourri of small-game species like rabbits, pheasants, grouse, and squirrels. Myself being among them, and some of the most delightful of memories surround the activities, which included squirrels.

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ATF, National Shooting Sports Foundation launch campaign against straw purchases of firearms

Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, National News, New York, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, News, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

Lying is never a good thing. But when it comes to trying to skirt firearms purchasing laws it can cost a person hundreds of thousands in fines and up to more than a decade in jail.
To help meet this criminal activity muzzle-on, both the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) are again emphasizing their “Don’t Lie For The Other Guy” campaign.

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Jeff Frischkorn: ATF offers some guidance to firearm ownership

Blogs, Featured, Ohio, Opinion /

Fresh off its “Don’t Lie For The Other Guy” campaign to make aware that buying a firearm for someone else is a felony, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has a couple of other useful pieces of assistance.
The agency is working with FFL license holders to help prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands.

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Invasive spotted lanternfly making appearance in northeast Ohio

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

When Lake Metroparks Executive Director Paul Palagyi saw a particularly attractive flying “bug” recently, he instantly knew an invader had stormed the beaches of Lake County, Ohio.
What Palagyi encountered and captured while cheering on his daughter’s soccer team was a spotted lanternfly, a member of the clan that is a plant killer disguised in a stunning suit.
“I understand they’re being seen in Painesville and Kirtland,” Palagyi told Ohio Outdoor News.

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