Hook and Bullet
40 hunters fill tags in limited elk hunt
Quehanna, Pa. – It was the opening morning of Pennsylvania’s 2008 elk season, and a cloud of fluorescent orange surrounded the red pickup truck parked at the intersection of Rolling Stone Road and Route 879.
Fur prices expected to begin at level of last year’s closing sale
Wooster, Ohio – Even with a further world economy meltdown excepted, fur prices look to be in pretty decent shape in time for the opening of Ohio’s hunting and trapping seasons. A weak U.S. dollar
Trumpeters taking a hit along Lake Erie
Oak Harbor, Ohio – One of the staples of the early morning talks that Pat Baranowski gives to waterfowl hunters at Magee Marsh is proper bird identification. “No skybusting, and please don’t shoot a swan,”
Early deer kill down 23K from a year ago
St. Paul – Deer hunters killed nearly 23,000 fewer deer through the second Monday of this year’s season than they did last year, according to preliminary harvest figures from the DNR. Hunters killed 145,483 deer
New study to show if recruiting is working
Harrisburg – A recruitment push that would make the military proud in its dedication and urgency has been ramping up across America over the last few years. But is it working? That’s the question a
PF&BC learning more about its customers
Harrisburg – American businesses have taken great pains to learn who their customers are and everything they can about them, but it’s still somewhat rare for government agencies to do that. But taking a page
Lake Winnibigoshish scaup die-off decreases this year
Bemidji, Minn. – Fewer bluebills died as a result of eating an invasive snail – and thus ingesting a deadly intestinal parasite – than last year while staging on Lake Winnibigoshish. That’s the good news.
Sixteen-point buck a potential world record
Mondovi, Wis. – An Eau Claire bowhunter harvested a white-tailed buck Nov. 1 in Buffalo County that is garnering national attention as a potential world record. In what is unfolding as something of a storybook
Game farmer is not guilty of hog release
Prairie du Chien, Wis. – Robert Scott Johnson, the 55-year-old former game farm owner accused of illegally releasing feral hogs in Crawford County in 2002, was found not guilty of the offense at a trial
