Hunting
Michigan bowhunters eager for 2025 season; what can they expect?
An estimated 287,641 bowhunters in Michigan combined to kill about 113,340 whitetails last year according to the DNR. The total includes an estimated 77,201 legal bucks and 36,147 antlerless deer.
That’s a success rate
DNR confirms first Michigan cases of EHD for 2025
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reporting Michigan’s first detected cases of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in 2025.
The DNR Wildlife Health Section, Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife
Elk shot in Clearfield County, Pa., goes in Boone and Crockett record book
A non-typical elk harvested by David Kammerdiener, of Templeton Pa., in 2022 recently was honored at the Boone and Crockett Club’s 32nd Big Game Awards celebration.
Since 1947, the triennial Big Game Awards program
Sunday hunting to be phased in at Pennsylvania state parks
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has opened up all 2.2 million acres of its state forests to additional Sunday hunting this season, but the agency is taking a slower approach with its
Here’s what to know as hunting seasons start in Ohio
Ohio’s hunting seasons for squirrel, dove, Canada geese, teal, and more open in early September. Bowhunters can look forward to the start of white-tailed deer archery season later in the month.
Hunting seasons for
Oak Duke: Bucks that made it through make for highly anticipated 2025 season
He made it through! That was the exclamation… burst, half-out-loud checking over trail cam images back in July. A 10-pointer in velvet, heavy bulbous rack, big rounded points. Wonderful to see… after looking at (yawn)
Streams of Thought: Jobs (mostly) well done preparing for the deer season
It was to be a big weekend in mid-August, planned for the annual checking/maintenance of ladder stands and the pruning of excessive vegetative growth around said stands. It’s become a tradition of its own, and
Minnesota deer, bear trackers – and their dogs – at the ready
In a perfect world, every deer or bear hunter would make a clean kill, either with a firearm or a bow. And tracking that animal would be easy as pie.
But that world doesn’t
Ryan Rothstein: Three mast crops to focus on for early-season whitetails
If you’re still working on a plan for opening day of the whitetail bow season or, if you’re like me, constantly looking for new spots, then the last-minute scouting agenda is simple: Focus on food.<br
