Hunting
State Roundup: George Meyer will be missed by Wisconsin outdoor enthusiasts
George Meyer is going to be sorely missed by all of us who enjoy and appreciate Wisconsin’s natural resources. His list of accomplishments and contributions is long and distinguished and most of us are well
Prints in the power: Take your wildlife tracking skills to another level
Fresh snow in the Pennsylvania woods is more than a pretty picture. It’s a notebook of animal activity waiting to be read. Learning to read those signs is a skill any hunter, trapper or outdoorsman
Gun season harvest dips slightly in Illinois
Everybody wanting to see a bigger deer harvest in Illinois this year has turned to the state’s bowhunters with a request.
Can we count on you? An anticipated boost in the state’s firearms take
Wisconsin’s Buffalo County gives up wide 8-pointer during archery season
Even with a temperature near 80 degrees on the second day of Wisconsin bow season, Mitch Stamm, of Altoona, didn’t hesitate to hunt a big buck he had seen on trail camera photos.
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Ohio’s late muzzleloader season calls for a change in tactics
There is no doubt that by now most of the deer in your hunting area have become quite reclusive after being hunted for a solid week by a barrage of gun hunters.
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2025’s top stories: another busy year for New York sportsmen
There’s no such thing as a quiet year in New York’s sporting world, and 2025 was no exception.
Change is bound to happen and the year featured plenty of it, and on a variety
Hard truths about December pheasants that most hunters ignore
At the beginning of December, a pretty big swath of the Midwest went from fall to winter in the span of a couple of days. Real snow fell for the first time, and the temperatures
Conservation Congress bear study group aligns with Wisconsin DNR on 2026 permits and quotas
The Conservation Congress Bear Study Committee met earlier this month to review 2026 harvest quota and tag number recommendations from the DNR Bear Advisory Committee, which would increase tag numbers in the southern bear zones,
Breaking down Wisconsin’s gun deer harvest as buck kill is down, doe harvest up from ’24
Jeff Pritzl, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) deer ecologist, gave a thumbnail nine-day gun deer season report to the December meeting of the Natural Resources Board (NRB), saying the preliminary 2025 harvest numbers are
