All regulations remain in effect under Safer at Home order; season opens April 15.
Elyria, Ohio — Outdoor Product Innovations announces their acquisition of Big Dog Hunting. Big Dog has a long history of designing and manufacturing top quality tree stands and hunting accessories. “Outdoor Product Innovations will continue to acquire companies we trust and believe in…it’s been a key to our continued growth. We’re excited for this acquisition of Big Dog Hunting as…
The specific products being manufactured for donation are face shields, frames and hand sanitizer. There is a big need at hospitals and clinics for these items.
Chatfield, Minn. – On March 30, the Pope and Young Club closed its national headquarters, located in Chatfield, until April 10. The decision to temporarily close the P&Y office is in accordance with precautions prescribed by the CDC and government officials. The closure is intended to protect members, the staff of Pope and Young, and the local community, the club…
One of the largest poaching cases in state history results in the first prison sentence for first-degree unlawful hunting of big game since the charge became a ranked felony.
Results from 2019 deer, bear and spring turkey seasons among the best ever.
As of Tuesday, March 24, state parks, trails and restrooms remain open; property buildings closed.
The percentage of older bucks in the 2019-20 deer harvest remained amazingly high. About 66 percent of the bucks taken by hunters were at least 2½ years old. The remainder were 1½ years old.
Young buck was found nearly 100 miles from the state’s primary CWD area.
Most notably, the costs for elk and deer hunting are going up dramatically, which are the two most profitable areas for Idaho Fish and Game.
It was the department’s “working assumption” that the workers got TB from infected deer “but we can’t say for sure.”
(Photo by Bob Drieslein)RAPID CITY, S.D. — To John Cooper and Jerry Pier, a coyote hunt is not a shooting gallery. So you won’t find any high-capacity, fast-firing, military style weapons in their coyote-hunting arsenal. What you will find are some smooth-handling, accurate, bolt-action rifles, along with a commitment to making one shot count. And that’s one shot at a…
Pike County led the harvest with 22 bobcats, 16 of those taken by trappers.
Applications being accepted for 2020 elk hunting tags March 1-May 31.
Rob Drieslein, the managing editor of Outdoor News was asked by Pheasants Forever to moderate a session that included five individuals to discuss threats and opportunities to public lands in Minnesota. If you missed the session at Pheasant Fest, you can now have a look and see what was talked about and discussed at this event.
This unusual 2-year-old elk harvested 16 months ago in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains is FWP’s “Elk Zero.”
Some biologists and hunting enthusiasts in Maine believe the state’s stable population of grouse could help tourism while other parts of the country see declines of the popular game birds.
DNR says February is an ideal time to plan your spring turkey Learn to Hunt program, with classes typically taking place in mid- to late March.
Drew a record-breaking crowd of 32,467 attendees to the Minneapolis Convention Center over the weekend.
The massive bear scored 23-5/16 and was shot in Morris County, New Jersey.
The annual fall hunter survey shows continued declines in fall turkey hunter numbers, and a larger portion of those hunters are pursuing turkeys secondary to other species.
Applicants are reminded to be aware of the new bear management zone boundaries as their hunting grounds may change to a new unit beginning in 2021. It is not known precisely how these changes will specifically affect harvest permit wait times, but there will likely be no significant changes across zones A, B, C and D.
Hunters take about 14,000 less whitetails in 2019 than the previous year. Wildlife experts say that while there are a number of factors that likely contributed to the decline, the most prominent is the outbreak of hemorrhagic disease that killed thousands of deer across the state.
National percentage of yearling bucks in the total antlered buck harvest fell to 30%, the lowest ever recorded.
New test results bring the total number of counties in Iowa where wild deer have tested positive to eight.
The overall bear harvest increased by a third from 2018 to 2019.
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