With the first crack of a rifle on the opening morning of the gun season for deer, hunters know they’re in the woods at a special time.
Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 58,836, up from 51,450 in 2017.
Despite fewer hunters, kill totals up nearly 13 percent from 2017.
Fifty-six percent of the deer taken in the muzzleloader-only season were does.MADISON, Wis. — Rapidly growing numbers of cases of chronic wasting disease are appearing on deer and elk farms and hunting ranches in Wisconsin at the same time the state has pulled back on rules and procedures designed to limit the spread of the fatal brain disease among its…
Both the breeding farm and the hunting ranch have been quarantined. That means no animals may move in or out of the farm and further restricts movement of carcasses.
According to data from the Wisconsin DNR, the state sold about 824,500 deer licenses in 2017, about 50,400 fewer than 1999.
Hard hunting was worth it for the author during a Thanksgiving Day hunt a few years ago, and he couldn’t have been more thankful.
Hunting season is here and the Animal Health Diagnostic Center is accepting hunter-harvested submissions for CWD testing for $65 per sample (deer head). What do I submit? We need the deer head for testing. Remove the head at the first vertebrae behind the skull. If you harvest a buck, cut off the antlers at the base or the skull plate with…
Total harvest just below same period from last year.
Overcrowding impacting deer health, damaging forests and causing property owners to complain about the animals chomping down their landscaping.
Nonresident deer hunters fined, busted.
Even though a Montana Decoy shows a thin profile, during the rut, young bucks have one way of thinking. Just ask James Gehring, of Watertown, who was recently preparing for his day at Edward Jones, and decided to take a peak out his window. It was then that he noticed a buck creeping up his back lot line from a…
Too many days of rain along with flooded woods and fields have hurt prime-time archery hunting in Pennsylvania.
Chronic wasting disease was detected in four harvested samples from farmed deer at a quarantined farm in Crow Wing County.
And put in the time to help ensure your success.
The worst year for the disease in Illinois was 2012, when 2,968 cases were reported from 87 counties. In 2013, the IDNR received reports of 1,224 cases from 64 counties. EHD was virtually absent in 2014 and at low levels in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Hannah Hellesen, of Slinger, skipped her homecoming dance to go hunting with her dad and brother during the youth deer hunt. The decision paid off as she shot her first deer.
Hunters about 1,000 deer off of last year’s pace
An archer poses with a deer harvested at a past Camp Ripley hunt. (Minnesota DNR)Hunters shrugged off mild, windy and wet weather at this year’s Camp Ripley bow hunts near Little Falls, taking 237 deer in two hunts over a total of four days, Oct. 18-19 and Oct. 27-28. The Minnesota DNR issued 2,883 permits, and the 2,365 participating hunters…
Now is best the time for bowhunters to get into the woods and have a close encounter with the buck of their dreams.
The Minnesota River Valley Chapter of the Minnesota Deer Hunter’s Association is once again collecting deer hides for the MDHA’s Hides for Habitat program. Hunters can drop hides in bins at the following locations: Borough Bowl 235 South Ash Street Belle Plaine Cabin Fever Sporting Goods 1550 Arboretum Blvd. Victoria Clancy’s Bar & Pizza Parlor 220 Triangle Lane N. Jordan…
For the writer, the value of a rub is that it tells where a buck has been and in which direction he was heading.
While enduring a long, cold, whitetail-free sit, don’t forget that deer hunting is supposed to be fun.
If writer had to make a choice, it would be to cut some time off the end, at least in years when the late season carries into mid-December.
Harvest at 13,068 deer. At the same point in 2017, the harvest stood at 10,912.
The advisory is due to high levels of PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid) found in a single deer taken about two miles from Clark’s Marsh, which borders the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base.
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