Wildlife management: balancing short-term requests with long-term goals
Russ Mason
June 12, 2023
Almost 20 years ago, Shawn Riley wrote: “decision-making is the core work of wildlife managers.”
Hunting
Wisconsin DNR to bring 8 wildlife rules to Natural Resources Board June 28
Tim Eisele
June 12, 2023
At the Natural Resources Board’s May 24 meeting in Madison, the board heard that the DNR will bring eight of nine regulation questions to the NRB for approval June 28 in Milwaukee.
The DNR
Wisconsin hunter bags 8-bearded Buffalo County gobbler
Larry Polenske
June 10, 2023
Thanks to advice from his 8-year-old son, Keith Braunreiter, of the town of Gale in Trempealeau County, shot an eight-bearded gobbler – the bird of a lifetime – April 26 in Buffalo County.
Braunreiter,
How to tame your shotgunning kick factor
Phil Bourjaily
June 7, 2023
Shotguns kick. Some kick more, some kick less, but almost any shotgun and load capable of making a clean kill hits the shooter, too. Too much recoil corrodes good shooting, building bad habits like head-lifting
A guide to understanding your long-range hunting rifle options
Ron Spomer
June 5, 2023
Shooting beyond 300 yards is fun. Hitting targets beyond 300 yards is even more fun. And you don’t need expensive rifles and scopes to do it.
Tricked out PRS-style rifles (Precision Rifle Series) and 6-30X56mm
Examining the foundation for food-plotting success
Site Staff
June 4, 2023
If you tune into any hunting programming on television or YouTube, you won’t have to watch long before you see deer piling into a food plot at some point. Destination food plots, and kill plots,
Trempealeau County turkeys coy, but callable in Wisconsin
Steve Heiting
June 3, 2023
Had I spent another minute cutting prickly ash to create a spot to sit against a giant oak along a field edge, I may not have had a chance to kill a gobbler during Wisconsin’s
Every picture tells a story, Part I
Tom Bahti
June 1, 2023
I was going through an old photo album the other day. By old, think black and white photographs from the early 1950s. Glancing at a couple of them, I was reminded of the Rod Stewart
A quick chat with Mark Norquist of Modern Carnivore
Brian Peterson
May 31, 2023
“There is always an opportunity to get a bigger audience,” said Norquist, 52, founder and editor of Modern Carnivore (modcarn.com), a blog and guide to adult-on-set outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, and foraging and
