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New York Mixed Bag: NYON contributing writer Leo Maloney recognized by Oneida City School District
New York Outdoor News contributing writer Leo Maloney was recently inducted into the Oneida City School District Foundation’s Wall of Distinction, celebrating a lifetime of achievement and philanthropy.

Despite so many forsaking it, fall turkey hunting is still a blast
Break the flock, scatter and call – that is the standard practice for most fall turkey hunters in Pennsylvania – the few that remain. Since 1990, the number of participants for fall turkey season has

Wisconsin 11-year-old shoots ‘buck of lifetime’
Eleven-year-old Levi Weber learned from his father as a wee lad that “the chores need to be done before you can play.”
On Saturday, Oct. 11, during Wisconsin’s youth deer season, the family was

Illinois waterfowl seasons, zone lines face reset, drawing concern from some hunters
Illinois wildlife managers have shared plans to ditch the fourth waterfowl hunting zone starting next year and return to a three-zone format.
A split season is also in the mix, as is a rearrangement

Steve Griffin: Plenty of warnings exist in the outdoors; is it real risk or an emotional response?
I remember, hunkered down next to the basement laundry tub, cleaning game with my dad after a Saturday morning hunt: a couple of woodcock, a grouse, a cottontail rabbit.
Dad showed me how to

New York DEC’s K9 Unit back to full strength as three K9s, handlers complete training course
In October, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Law Enforcement continued its commitment to the K9 program, as three new K9s and their new ECO handlers completed an intensive 12-week training

Sometimes, a break from the deer-hunting grind is necessary
Things do not always work out like you plan. A lot of times, you envision a particular outcome to an event and it ends up turning out quite differently, sometimes for the better, and sometimes

Sick of hunting crowds? Here’s how to have some waterfowl to yourself
There is a near-constant refrain in the hunting world these days, and it goes something like this: “There are too many people out here.”
You’ll hear that out West if you travel in pursuit

Wisconsin 8-year-old tags 524-pound bear
A young hunter from Luck continued a family tradition by punching his black bear tag with a 500-plus-pound bruin.
Rhett Swenson, 8, a third-generation bear hunter, said his “Papa”– grandfather Jeff Holdt of Luck