Hunting
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
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
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
Early reports: firearms deer license sales down from ’08
Madison – As of Nov. 1, the total sales of resident gun deer licenses was 14 percent less than the number of gun licenses sold at the same time last year. However, the number of
Harvest down as deer hunt wraps up
St. Paul – The firearms deer kill in the state continues to lag behind last year’s pace. Through the third weekend of hunting, hunters had killed just more than 151,000 whitetails, which is about 12
Early reports indicate good bear season
Madison – Judging by preliminary harvest reports, Wisconsin’s 2009 black bear season was one to remember, with 3,907 bear registration stubs counted through Nov. 16. That number will increase as more stubs are tallied. The
