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Michigan’s annual UP Deer Camp Survey shows sightings, success rate increased in ’24

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The benefits of a record mild winter on the UP deer herd during the first months of 2024 showed up during last fall’s firearms deer season, according to the DNR’s most recent UP Deer Camp Survey.
The survey is conducted annually by the Michigan DNR in collaboration with hunting camps. The survey asks hunters about their experiences during the previous hunting season.

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Teen breaks her mom’s Michigan state record bear mark that stood for 26 years

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In an amazing twist of fate and luck, 15-year-old Autumn Pratt from Grayling set a new Michigan record for black bear among females in the bow and arrow category last fall.
The bear Autumn shot eclipsed the one her mother, Dawn, shot 26 years ago and has been the record ever since. And Autumn was wearing the same camo outfit her mother did when she got her state record bear.

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Michigan teenager shoots 600-pound black bear

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Fifteen-year-old Lilly Scott from Croswell, Mich., got off to an amazing start as a hunter. Her first big game kill was a black bear with a live weight over 600 pounds that she shot on Sept. 11, 2024, which was the first day of bear season in the Upper Peninsula.
She was hunting with her grandfather, Arthur Krajenke, when she shot the huge bear that had a dressed weight of 583 pounds.

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Video: Coyote gets stuck in apple tree in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

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A coyote stuck between the branched trunks of an apple tree is something that’s seldom seen. But that’s what an Upper Peninsula deer camp owner –who wishes to remain anonymous –  found recently on his property.
The mystery is how did it end up in such a predicament?

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Ravenna hunter kills likely state record archery elk in Michigan

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Brandon Kantola from Ravenna, Mich., bagged a 13-point bull elk with bow and arrow in Cheboygan County on Sept. 15 that likely will be a state record in the archery category since state record keeper Commemorative Bucks of Michigan doesn’t currently have any bow-killed elk listed. 
Kantola’s bull is the first archery bull with antlers large enough to qualify for entry in the Pope and Young records. Michigan elk with typical antlers have to score a minimum of 240 inches to make it into CBM state records. The Pope and Young Club minimum for typical elk antlers is 260.

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Major increase of CWD seen in Michigan’s Montcalm County

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The prevalence rate of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer in Montcalm County is on the rise.
According to Michigan DNR data of CWD in the central Lower Peninsula county, the apparent prevalence rate of diseased deer there rose from 2% in 2019 to 13.5% in 2022. Although adult bucks have the highest rate of infection, deer of all ages and both sexes from the county have tested positive for CWD.

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Michigan hunter tagged ’22 bear weighing near 600 pounds

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Samuel Wiltzius from Marquette shot one of the heaviest black bears killed in Michigan during the 2022 season while hunting over bait in the Carney Bear Management Unit in the southern U.P.
It was the biggest bear entered in the annual Big Bear Award Contest sponsored by the Michigan Bear Hunters Association.

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