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New York’s youth big game hunt coming up Oct. 12-14
New York hunters ages 12-15 will once again have the opportunity to go afield with a mentor during the state’s annual youth hunting weekend Oct. 12-14. The dates are Saturday through Monday of Columbus Day

Wisconsin duck hunter kills Oneida County wolf in self defense
Chase Melton, a 19-year-old duck hunter from Sugar Camp, Wis., shot and killed a gray wolf on Saturday, Sept. 21, in Oneida County when one of several wolves that surrounded him and two younger cousins

Wisconsin’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Sept. 27, 2024
Walleye bite consistent despite fluctuating temps. A look at the Wisconsin fishing and hunting report on Sept. 27, 2024.

New DNR deer unit proposal on the table in Wisconsin
Deer hunters who have begged the Wisconsin DNR – and then legislators – to ditch the county deer unit system and return to the former “numbered” and habitat-based units of pre-2013 may finally see some

New York DEC boosts stocking of pheasants, adds locations
Early in 2023, New York’s pheasant propagation program and thus the fall pheasant hunting season were in jeopardy after an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) wiped out most of the population of ringnecks

Ben Moyer: Hunting’s approval runs broad and deep in Pennsylvania
You can feel tension these days. It portends the political climax we’ll reach in a few weeks. It would all be more constructive if the intense rhetoric could be tamped down to rational discourse. Everyone

Mike Schoonveld: Four steps to get out of messes that come with trolling
Trolling used to be simple. Each person in the boat would select a lure, drop it into the lake and let out some line.
Once the right amount of line was uncoiled off the

Jeffrey Frischkorn: Squirrel hunting not near what it used to be in Ohio
Before the day of the deer and before the time of the turkey, Ohio’s hunters pursued small game critters.
The numbers were not insignificant, either. Hundreds of thousands of sportsmen donned heavy-canvas pants and

North Dakota announces bighorn sheep tag winners, and a waterfowl update as state’s season opens
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has announced the seven lucky recipients of the highly coveted bighorn sheep tags for the 2024 hunting season, which begins Nov. 1. Six North Dakota residents secured a