National Hunting

Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – Hunters killed more than 53,600 deer during the firearm season, down 3 percent from last year’s take. The season began Nov. 14 and ended Sunday. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Summerville, Pa. (AP) – An argument over trespassing apparently sparked a shootout in rural northern Pennsylvania Tuesday that left a landowner dead and a member of a bear hunting party hospitalized with a gunshot wound,

Boise, Idaho (AP) – Hunters will have three more months to hunt wolves in Idaho. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to stretch the season to March 31, 2010 in the Panhandle, Palouse-Hells

Boise, Idaho (AP) – State officials say hunters have reached their limit for killing wolves in a hunting zone in northern Idaho. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday closed the Dworshak-Elk City

Tucson, Ariz. (AP) – Two Willcox men cited a combined 22 times for illegal hunting practices have been fined $12,500 and had their hunting and fishing privileges either suspended or revoked by the Arizona Game

Madison, Wis. (AP) – All signs indicate hunters will find fewer deer on the landscape when the Wisconsin gun deer season opens Saturday. “The deer population is definitely down,” said Rick Weide, Department of Natural

Wausau, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is evaluating more than 6,000 letters, e-mails and online comments submitted on a proposal to start the fall deer hunt a week earlier and extend

Billings, Mont. (AP) – Montana is shutting down its first public hunt for gray wolves since their removal from the endangered species list, after state officials said they expected to meet the season’s 75-wolf quota

Bemidji, Minn. (AP) – About 5 percent fewer deer are being harvested in Minnesota this season, a trend that some sporting-good retailers say is hurting them financially. A big reason for the decrease is stricter