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Steve Pollick: Re-outfitting a Remington 721 with great results

Blogs, Featured, Ohio, Opinion /

A long quest for a satisfactory “old-fashioned” big-game utility rifle – a mostly go-anywhere, do-anything classic piece – at last is over for me.
The rifle is a Remington 721 bolt-action, chambered in .30/06. It is not quite the rifle it was when it came out of the fabled Ilion, N.Y., factory in 1948, its first year of production and the year I was born. But it’s close, and I think, better.

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Steve Pollick: Amendment to wild hog bill in Ohio should allow some hunting

Featured, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

Ohio hunters would lose their opportunity to shoot “Hogzilla” under legislation that has passed the Ohio House of Representatives and which awaits action in the Senate when sessions resume this fall. Maybe that’s OK.
The legislation, House Bill 503, drops the hammer on feral swine or wild boar in Ohio, and it whistled through the House 89-0 – this in a statehouse that cannot agree on lunch. That alone can raise eyebrows in wondering what’s up with that.

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Steve Pollick: A good day had on the quiet waters of Ohio’s Lake LaSuAn

Blogs, Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion /

Scratching the fishing itch sometimes means stepping outside the usual routine and trying something different, so fishing buddy Steve Hathaway and I did just that recently – with very satisfying results.
Our usual angling haunts lie in western Lake Erie, home of renowned walleye and yellow perch angling. But a spate of fickle winds and weather had kept us pinned down at the dock too long, so we decided to venture into the extreme northwest corner of Ohio to the Lake LaSuAn State Wildlife Area and its cluster of 13 lakes and ponds.

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Steve Pollick: An ode to two remarkable Ohio outdoorsmen in Mike Budzik and Roy Kroll

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

If there is someone who has poured more blood, sweat, and tears into fostering sportsmen’s interests in Ohio in the last 45 years than Mike Budzik, I have not met him, or her.

“Bud,” as so many thousands of Ohio outdoors men and women know him, would never tell you that. He is too humble, self-effacing, always giving others credit first and foremost. Bud recently was inducted into the 2024 class of the Conservation Hall of Fame of the Ohio DNR, the outfit for which he virtually has given his professional life.

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Steve Pollick: Red Ryder plinking a good tune-up for hunting season

Blogs, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

It all started out as a tongue-in-cheek Christmas gift to my brother, Dave, several holidays ago.
It was a “genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine-action air rifle with a compass in the stock.” Just like the fictional nine-year-old Ralphie dreamed about in the now-iconic holiday classic, “A Christmas Story.” Then it became some genuine adult shooting fun.

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Steve Pollick: Forming fishermen one bluegill at a time

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

If you want something to grow, you first must plant the seeds and then you have to water and cultivate the sprouts. I’m actually talking about turning kids into fishermen here.

That latter “gardening” action, cultivating and watering, is what my sons, Andy and Aaron, and I did about fishing with the youngest generation during a recent family reunion of our widespread clan. We had planted the “fishing seeds” with cane-poles, bobbers, and worms a few years ago at Froggy Bottom Pond during a family reunion at home. Now, in a sense, it was time for Round Two.

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Steve Pollick: Berry picking could help lead to your buck this fall

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

Picking the first batch of ripened black raspberries from the scattered wild patches in Froggy Bottom, as I did recently, is a reminder to get down my beloved recurve bow and start shooting.
Deer season will be upon us before we know it and for those of us who prefer more traditional archery tackle, it is time to loosen up those bow-drawing muscles and re-establish the muscle-memory so critical to good shooting. And the only way to do that is regular rounds of shooting.
Every year I wonder if it will be the last that I can ethically handle my 54-pound, 60-inch Kodiak Hunter on a deer stand.

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Steve Pollick: Ohio’s Cheryl Harner lived out an outdoor legacy

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

Cheryl Boyd Harner lived in a proverbial big tent in the outdoors world, where she ever preferred to be, rather than inside.
The closest she came to hunting was dining at times on wild game, agreeably so. But as a young girl she enjoyed plinking with a .22 rifle with her dad, the late John Boyd, along the Scioto River near their west-central Ohio home. Then as a younger woman living on western Lake Erie, she fished for and caught walleyes, but too soon ended up cooking and eating them almost daily, out of necessity, to the point where she lost her taste for the fish.

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Steve Pollick: H2Ohio doesn’t go far enough in Lake Erie cleanup

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

Every heavy rain event this spring into mid-summer in the western Lake Erie watershed is contributing to the now-annual, late-summer eruption of the infamously familiar “green goop” – toxic blue-green algae blooms – on the much-beloved big lake.
The forecast is gloomy, just given the rain events thus far. These nasty blooms will continue to expose a major smoke-and-mirrors flaw in a massive program so hailed by Ohio Gov. DeWine and the state legislature as the cure. We all know it as H2Ohio.

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