
New York Letters to the Editor: Crossbow hunters/shooters practice safety and ethics
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 8, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 8, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News.

It’s an ever-changing world in New York’s sporting community, exemplified by last month’s announcement that come this August when sporting licenses go on sale, we will be going to plain paper licenses and carcass tags.

I recently had the pleasure of talking (turkey) with Chris Kirby of Springville, N.Y., just a few days after he received a prestigious honor. Kirby was named to the Grand National Calling Championships Hall of

With this warm winter weather, most lakes remain unfrozen or have only a thin skim of ice, which means ice fishing has been put on hold for most of us.
For years my neighbor

The extinction crisis is real. So is the fact that there are insufficient funds to address it.
In an ideal world, we’d band together and empirically prioritize species at risk based on biological need.

Last season, 2023, the whitetail rut unfolded early, exactly as predicted, beginning in mid-October and peaking a bit after Halloween. And then it dribbled, grinding its gears as the clutch went out, jerking us around

The crossbow has no more effective range and is no more silent than the normal vertical compound bow. The crossbow fires a vaned shaft, propelled from an energized string or cable, just like a vertical

Perhaps the biggest question in New York as of late pertaining to court and lawsuit activity does not stem from the ongoing NRA civil trial in New York City, but rather the ruling at the

Here it is the middle of February and I’m just getting around to putting away my hunting gear until next season. I know there are rabbits, grouse, hares, and even squirrels to hunt until the
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