Home » Hunting
Hunting

Michigan’s statewide fishing and hunting report on May 2, 2025
Great Lakes fishing is improving; toms are still talking. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing and hunting report on May 2, 2025.

Expansion of hunting, fishing opportunities on USFWS lands; and an end to early teal hunt on a Minnesota refuge proposed
In a release issued on Friday, May 2, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced 42 new proposed hunting opportunities across more than 87,000 acres within

Ryan Rothstein: Don’t overlook native shrubs as top-notch deer habitat
In many ways, the serious modern deer hunter has a tremendous knowledge advantage over deer hunters of yesteryear. The advent of social media and the online information sphere have made the culmination of human whitetail-hunting

Jeremiah Haas: Here’s how to age your turkey
Turkey season is ongoing and many people are now looking at the birds they harvested, wondering just how old that bird is. For deer hunters, age is talked about all the time, usually to allow

Southwest Pennsylvania poachers nabbed after killing 19 deer
Three Somerset County individuals have been sentenced to hefty fines, restitution and several decades of lost hunting privileges for killing 19 white-tailed deer during a six-week poaching spree in 2020, according to the Pennsylvania Game

Wisconsin DNR releases summary of 2024 CWD sampling efforts
With the conclusion of the 2024 deer hunting seasons, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) shared a summary of the year’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) sampling efforts.
For the 2024 season, the DNR

Minnesota DNR looking into how county handled killing of an elk
On Jan. 31, 2025, the Kittson County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a resident after he allegedly shot and killed an elk that was grazing on his property, according to a sheriff’s report.

More than 10,000 turkeys killed so far in Ohio’s South Zone
Ohio’s 2025 spring wild turkey hunters who are running and gunning are largely experiencing a repeat performance.
As of April 28, the 2025 spring turkey harvest total “has closely mirrored the harvest over the

Focus on these important details to trigger a tom
According to my turkey-hunting mentor, Ray Eye, skilled hunters in the Missouri Ozarks have forever wished there was no such thing as a spring season. Why? Because they think it’s not fair to hunt gobblers