Wing shooting with a bow – taking flying game birds with arrows – is among the oldest and also the most demanding forms of hunting. It predates the use of firearms by thousands of years, requires instinctive shooting of extraordinary precision, and survives today as a niche pursuit among traditional archers determined to master one of hunting’s greatest challenges.
Commentary: The hardest shot in all of hunting Read More »
Put a pointer on a pheasant and the dog freezes.
Put a flushing dog into the same cover. The bird may explode from the grass seconds later.
Now change the pheasant. A wild rooster that has survived predators, weather and several hunting seasons can behave differently from a released pen-raised bird.
Commentary: Why some pheasants flush differently Read More »
Today, buying a hunting or fishing license is such a routine part of being a sportsman that it is easy to forget how – and why – the system began. Licensing was not originally created to fund wildlife conservation. In fact, its roots were considerably less altruistic.
Early sportsmen often promoted licensing and residency restrictions as a way to keep “outsiders” out.
The old saying is that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Yet bird hunters who’ve tried know better.
While few would argue that an 8-week-old puppy offers the greatest opportunity to shape a finished gun dog, age alone does not determine a dog’s potential. Every year, hunters adopt adult dogs from shelters, inherit family pets, or acquire started dogs that never received formal training. Many go on to become dependable hunting companions – not because they learned instinct, but because someone finally gave those instincts direction.
Commentary: You can teach an old dog to hunt Read More »
The shotgun shell is one of the most recognizable forms of ammunition in the world, but its development spans more than four centuries of innovation. From crude paper cartridges carried by soldiers in the 1600s to today’s highly engineered plastic shells, the evolution of the shotgun shell mirrors advances in firearms technology, chemistry, and manufacturing.
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If you want to know how bad next summer’s Lyme disease season might be, it may be more useful to count the acorns on the ground than the deer in the woods.
That is one of the surprising conclusions from more than 30 years of research tracking ticks, mice, deer, weather and other wildlife in a Lyme disease hot spot. The findings, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge some long-standing assumptions about what drives Lyme disease risk.
Commentary: Want to predict Lyme disease risk? Count the acorns, not the deer Read More »
Mention Michigan’s wildlife, and most people picture white-tailed deer, brook trout, loons, or perhaps the monarch butterfly. Few would nominate an insect as the state’s most valuable animal. Yet if one insect vanished from Michigan, the consequences would ripple through lakes, rivers, forests, and even our economy.
My vote goes to the mayfly.
Commentary: If you consider the work, Michigan’s most valuable insect is… the mayfly Read More »
Unlike honey bees, which were introduced from Europe, the rusty patched bumble bee is a native species. For thousands of years, it pollinated Illinois prairies, oak savannas, woodlands, and wetlands, helping countless native wildflowers reproduce.
Commentary: With all due respect, Illinois’ most valuable insect isn’t the monarch Read More »
Walk into almost any tackle shop out west – in California, Oregon, Colorado, or Utah – and you’ll find float tubes hanging on the wall.
Talk to anglers who chase bass or trout in those states, and many will have owned one at some point. In the western United States, float tubes are simply another tool – a practical, affordable way to reach fish that shore anglers can’t touch. Here in the Midwest, however, the story changes.
Popular in western states, float tube fishing is primed to take hold in the Midwest Read More »
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