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Three bucks with two bullets? Here’s how it happened for one Michigan hunter

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Kyle Sickelsteel from Howard City had a terrific firearms deer season in Michigan. He ended up with three adult bucks in Montcalm County after firing just two bullets out of his 6.5 Creedmore.
Two of the whitetails were of trophy proportions. The pair of bucks he got with one bullet on Thanksgiving morning had their antlers locked. The smaller 7-pointer that the 12 locked antlers with was already dead.

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Menominee Co. sees second highest whitetail harvest of Michigan firearms season

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Although U.P. deer numbers generally are lower from previous years over most of the region, at least one county still has plenty of whitetails. Menominee County came in second place statewide for the number of deer reported taken during the 2024 firearms season at 3,513. The only county in the state with a higher reported harvest as of December 3 was Sanilac at 4,094.

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Two black bears relocated from Upper Peninsula’s Grand Island

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In response to conflicts between black bears and visitors to Grand Island near Munising, Mich., a pair of black bears recently were live trapped and moved to the mainland. One of the bears was a small one that appeared to be a 1.5-year-old yearling and the other was an adult estimated to weigh 250 pounds.
“One of the bears that was removed from the island had gotten seven backpacks,” said an employee at the Grand Island Ferry who wished to remain anonymous.

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Michigan DNR blames coyotes for killing 21 sheep on Engadine farm

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Engadine, Mich., farmers Kevin and Andrea Kalnbach lost 21 sheep to coyotes on July 30 that were in an 18-acre pasture surrounded by what was supposed to be a predator-proof fence.
Coyotes gained access to the pasture through a hole in the fence. The carcasses of eight sheep were found by DNR employees Kristie Sitar and Rachel Legget, and 13 more were missing out of the Kalnbach’s flock of 123 animals.

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Commentary: Ban on baiting has not reduced Bovine TB prevalence rate in Michigan

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Michigan’s ban on deer baiting that has been in effect in the Lower Peninsula since 2019 and in deer management unit 452, in the northeast LP, since 2002 has not reduced the prevalence rate of bovine tuberculosis among whitetails in DMU 452.
That finding is based on a presentation by DNR Wildlife Health Section Supervisor Mitch Marcus and DNR Wildlife Health Specialist Emily Sewell at a recent Natural Resources Commission meeting.

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Some 30% of Michigan deer hunters failed to report harvest in 2023

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An estimated 79,615 deer hunters who shot bucks or does throughout Michigan in 2023 failed to report their kills, according to the DNR’s 2023 Deer Harvest Report compiled by DNR statistician Brian Frawley.
The annual mail survey of a random sample of deer hunters came up with a harvest estimate of 347,008 for all 2023 seasons. Only 267,393 kills were reported; a difference of 30%.

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New archery range opens in Upper Peninsula’s Sands Township

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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of longtime members of a Marquette archery club and generosity of a number of area businesses, a 14-target archery range is now up and running near the Marquette County Fairgrounds in Sands Township.
The new archery range replaces one that Deertrack Bowhunters operated and maintained in the city limits near the former Deertrack Village since the 1940s. When the property where the former archery range was located was sold in 2016, the organization was left without a range. Life member and acting president Mark Hirvonen spent years trying to locate a place to establish a new archery range.

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Michigan shed hunter kills black bear in self defense

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Twenty-three-year-old Kyle Nelson from Norway, Mich., killed a black bear in self defense while looking for shed antlers this past spring.
Nelson shot the bear with a CPX2 9 mm handgun that he has with him every time he goes in the woods.
“I was walking along a swamp bottom where I got a buck last fall to try to find antlers from bucks that made it through hunting season,” Nelson said. “At one point I heard a noise by a big pine tree. When I looked toward the sound, a bear stuck its head around the tree about 10 yards away.”

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Roughly 470-pound bear hit by vehicle in Alpena County, Mich.

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A big male black bear with a dressed weight of 409 pounds was struck and killed by a car on M-32 in Alpena County, Mich., on June 10 about five miles east of Hillman.
The bear’s live weight would have been about 470 pounds.
In the fall, that bear would have had an estimated weight of around 600 pounds. No one at the scene of the accident wanted the bear, so the state police officer who investigated claimed the carcass to salvage both the meat and hide.

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