
Outdoor Insights: Wild deer for sale? Idea still deserves a hard pass
A buddy sent me a link to a story that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly back in January.
Titled “Eat More Deer – America is letting good meat go to waste,” the piece advocated

A buddy sent me a link to a story that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly back in January.
Titled “Eat More Deer – America is letting good meat go to waste,” the piece advocated

After a week of a historic thaw just after Valentines Day in Ohio, the Lake Erie ice that was an incredible 15-22 inches thick was severely damaged by the intense direct sun, some minor amounts

Fishing pressure light during transition period. Here’s a look at the Ohio fishing report from across the state on March 5, 2026.

Imagine my surprise recently when reviewing overnight trail-cam photos, that a handsome little 6-point buck showed up several times near my mineral licks. A rack, still, in early March?
Late-shedding bucks, and this “sixer”

During spring 2025, a state-of-the-art, hunter-assisted research project called wildturkeyDNA was launched to begin assessing population genetics of wild turkeys.
Created through a partnership between the Wild Turkey Lab at the University of Georgia,

With no leaves on the trees, and the need to hunt frequently, owls tend to be more visible in winter, sometimes even in daytime.

As someone who lives outside Ohio, I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to hunt on private land in the Buckeye State for the past decade.
My hunting experiences have taken me

The boar was not so big, though hardly a (formerly) squealing little piglet. Not by Florida wild hog hunting standards.
At maybe 100 pounds, the boar thus fell under the unofficial heading of being

It’s been said before: Shed hunting is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Think about it: Any given buck can literally travel for miles from when deer begin dropping antlers in December
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