Hunting
Hunters in Pennsylvania CWD areas could have more options among processors, taxidermists
During the Jan. 28 quarterly meeting, the Pennsylvania Game Commission board granted preliminary approval for a measure that would allow hunters to take harvested deer out of a disease management area or CWD established area
Pa. Game Commission backs regs for urine-based deer attractants
No talk of banning them at recent meeting of agency.
Mentored deer hunt in Wisconsin resumes after two-year absence
“The Joe,” a mentored learn-to-hunt deer outing sponsored by Kids And Mentors Outdoors (KAMO), resumed Dec. 9-11, 2022, after a two-year absence due to COVID-19 concerns.
Replacing daughter’s deer stand brings back fond memories
I built my daughter Deanne’s deer stand in 1994, the year she turned 13. It finally gave up the ghost this past fall, after 28 years of hard use.
Camp records show she’s shot
Pennsylvania deer harvest ranks high nationally once again
The National Deer Association recently issued its Deer Report 2023, and Pennsylvania ranked high in a number of important categories. It was based on 2021 deer harvest reports.
In the report, Pennsylvania ranked fourth
Michigan man who cut straps on fellow hunter’s treestand pleads guilty in harassment case
Thomas Steele III, 23, of Chelsea, is serving a 60-day sentence in the Marquette County Jail after pleading guilty to intentionally sabotaging a hunter’s treestand.
Case includes ongoing harassment of a hunter on public
Report finds huge majority of deer are taken on private land in Ohio, many states
“Most of America’s 600 million acres of public land are in the West, yet proportionally few hunters are residents of those states,” said NDA Chief Conservation Officer Kip Adams, one of the report’s authors. “Most
Pennsylvania hunters pack game commission meeting, want change
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is staying the course with the Saturday deer season opener.
During its Jan. 28 quarterly meeting, the board voted unanimously to keep the Saturday opener in place. The motion was
Ohio deer hunters harvest state’s ninth most whitetails since 1900
In all, preliminary figures show that Ohio’s archery, firearms and muzzleloading hunters killed 210,977 animals. The last time the 200,000 total deer kill ceiling was breached was in the 2012-2013 season when 218,910 deer were
