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Wisconsin Mixed Bag: DNR accepting shooting range applications through Aug. 15
The Wisconsin DNR is accepting applications for the Shooting Range Grant Program through Aug. 15.
The program provides financial assistance for safe firearm or archery shooting opportunities. Managers of public or private ranges or

Preparing your own ammunition deepens connection to hunting
More often than not, handloading ammunition begins as a procedure to save money and improve accuracy, but somewhere along the way, the process becomes something deeper.
Brass cases are lined up on the bench

Here’s how to fill up the livewell after crappies wrap up their spring spawn
With the funky spring weather we saw in the Upper Midwest this year, it wouldn’t be crazy to think you could find crappies in all stages of the spawn throughout Minnesota right now.
While

Tom Pink: Take it from me (and my broken leg), help and access are vital in the outdoors
Many years ago, some friends and I helped someone who had not been able to hunt because of an accident that rendered him blind.
We took him to a place where the walking was

New York DEC adopts antlerless deer proposals, including earn-a-second-buck program
A month after the comment period closed for a series of proposed hunting regulations designed to entice hunters to harvest more antlerless deer, the package has been fully adopted by the New York State Department

Wisconsin warden recalls tragic day afield when Chai Vang killed six Wisconsin hunters in 2004
Chai Soua Vang, 57, the St. Paul, Minnesota, man who was sentenced to six life sentences for the intentional homicide of six Wisconsin deer hunters and wounding two others in 2004, died in a hospital

A quick chat with bass pro and Minnesota native Seth Feider
From riding his bike to go fishing around his Minnesota hometown, to working his way through every level of bass fishing, to earning a spot on the Bassmaster Elite series, Minnesota bass pro Seth Feider

Orphaned fawns rescued from Minnesota’s Red Wing neighborhood
Two orphaned fawns found near a dead doe whitetail in a Red Wing neighborhood were rescued and transported to a wildlife rehabilitation center after conservation officers determined they could not survive on their own.

Ryan Rothstein: Minnesota needs to get serious about woody invasives
The longer I’m in the land management game, the more I realize the best whitetail properties are those within resilient landscapes. What I mean by that is at least 50% of the land in the