This year, compost made from deer carcasses extended to growing turf in medians and beside roads by Maryland State Highway Administration.
Deer numbers appear solid, but with once-vibrant deer camps aging, and fewer youths joining the mix, harvest numbers suffer.
After a few days on the stand, writer always feels as if he’s closing in on venison, and that if he could just sit one more day, he’d be able to connect. That hope will have to hold him until next year.
I recently shared with you my experiences with the emotions that resulted when an afternoon bow hunt Nov. 3 went very wrong. I shot a 2.5-year-old buck, and despite a great start to a blood trail, looming darkness and heavy rains that began soon after I shot him made quick work of washing it away. Even without blood, we grid-searched…
Recruiting, retaining, reactivating on full display this deer hunting season.
A preliminary total of 80,896 deer were taken by hunters during the seven-day Illinois firearms season compared to 80,117 in 2017.
It is the first detection of the disease in Houston County since testing began in 2002. If confirmed positive, the DNR will offer landowner shooting permits in the area around where the deer was harvested and continue to collect samples as opportunities arise through deer-vehicle collisions or archery harvest. The DNR also will consider special hunts in January or February, depending on results from additional samples.
The rescue came two days before deer rifle season opened in Pennsylvania.
Father, son hunters head to Wisconsin to stack up venison.
Residents and nonresidents can participate in the hunts from Friday, Dec. 21 to Sunday, Dec. 23 and Friday, Dec. 28 to Sunday, Dec. 30 in deer permit areas 603, 347 and 348, and portions of deer permit areas 343 and 345 that are south of Interstate 90.
Amid challenging weather, hunters in Ohio checked 60,557 white-tailed deer during the 2018 weeklong deer-gun season. Last year, hunters checked 72,814 deer over the same period.
With 11 more CWD positives so far this fall – all white-tailed bucks – can antler-point restrictions survive in 2019?
Late-season hunts, landowner shooting permits, post-season deer culling and public meeting planned.
Blogger reflects on the history of deer-hunting treestands at one productive location on his hunting property.
He denied a salvage tag to man who called in the car-deer collision and sawed off antlers for himself.
Family may have to move deer camp next year if property is sold. But if so, nice buck shot this year will provide lasting memory.
Looking at the season to this point, the writer is beginning to see that they’re getting out of it what they put into it.
And at least 30 of the points are scorable, the DNR says.
Hunters encouraged to check deer in counties where state is actively monitoring for CWD, particularly Gratiot, Isabella, Jackson and Kent.
Meanwhile, the fall turkey harvest was about average this year.
Three hunters suffered non-fatal shooting injuries during the hunt that began Nov. 17 and ended Sunday.
They’re urging the federal Department of Agriculture to develop a national tracking system for the deer disease as well as standards for transporting deer across state lines.
Students collected tissue samples from deer as hunters brought the animals into testing stations in parking lots, gas stations and forestry offices around the state. The DNR will use the information to track the disease’s prevalence in the state and determine quarantine areas to help contain the disease.
This year’s first day sees 13,614 deer harvested, compared to 22,366 last year.
More Pennsylvanians have collided with white-tailed deer than ever before, according to claims stats, and more than half of the drivers who participated in an online poll said they have hit a deer while driving on Pennsylvania roads.
By marking a sparse blood trail, the hunter can use the information to determine the animal’s line of flight and, if need be, come back the next morning to easily pick up where he or she left off.
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