Hook and Bullet
Hunters struggling to fill deer tags in S.D.
Spearfish, S.D. (AP) – Hunters say they aren’t seeing a lot of deer this hunting season despite increased activity. Many attribute the lower numbers to mountain lions and the long winter. Justin Raber, owner of
Was record Cannon Falls 8-pointer shot with gun?
Red Wing, Minn. – The 8-point Goodhue County buck, allegedly poached by 32-year-old Troy A. Reinke, of Cannon Falls, just may have been shot with a rifle rather than a bow, as Reinke initially told
Deer harvest dips 3 pct during Neb. firearm season
Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – Hunters killed more than 53,600 deer during the firearm season, down 3 percent from last year’s take. The season began Nov. 14 and ended Sunday. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
1 dead, 1 shot in dispute over bear hunting in Pa.
Summerville, Pa. (AP) – An argument over trespassing apparently sparked a shootout in rural northern Pennsylvania Tuesday that left a landowner dead and a member of a bear hunting party hospitalized with a gunshot wound,
Online hunting licenses surge in W.Va.
Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue says the purchase of hunting licenses online is growing in popularity. Perdue’s office processed roughly 9,000 licenses online since last weekend, bringing the state more than
Ill. hunter gets 25-point buck with Google’s help
Edwardsville, Ill. (AP) – It took Google Earth, a little deer psychology and a freak shot for a bow hunter in southern Illinois to bring down one of the largest deer in the state so
As expected, Doyle vetoes secretary bill
Madison – Friday the 13th was not a good day for Wisconsin outdoorsmen, some conservation groups are saying. That was the day Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed Assembly Bill 138 which would have returned appointment authority
Minnesota loses 61K acres of CRP in ’09
St. Paul – The slow drain on the federal Conservation Reserve Program continued this fall in Minnesota – and nationwide – as the state lost an estimated 61,000 program acres, according to the USDA’s Farm
Spring 2010: a turkey license for all hunters
Madelia, Minn. – With the exception of two years in the mid-1980s, the number of permits available for the spring turkey season has increased each year since the first season was held in 1978. Yet
