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Tom Bahti: You can get well in a hurry on sharptails
It was my friend and writer Tom Davis who once told me: “When you’re hunting sharp-tailed grouse, you can get well in a hurry.” I’m not sure that he came up with that saying himself,

Approach carefully with a plan for public-land bunnies
It’s easy to be dismissive of hunting where it’s bound to be a challenge, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some good opportunities out there on public land.
One such opportunity that gets almost

Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Monroeville Outdoor Show Feb. 14-16
The USA International Sportsmen’s Show will run Feb. 14-16 at the Monroeville Convention Center near here, with about 120 exhibitors – including hunting and fishing outfitters, charters and safaris, boat and camper dealers, and sportsmen’s

Nebraska provides exciting winter waterfowling action
The 2024 Minnesota waterfowl season left me unsatiated – a feeling that nagged at me until I began planning an out-of-state waterfowling foray.
Just like many other Minnesota waterfowlers, the myriad days of stagnant

Ryan Rothstein: There’s no easy answers when it comes to energy consumption and the impacts on wildlife
Being a longtime Outdoor News subscriber (and perpetually behind in my reading), a few recent stories about wind energy, and the land easements that come with them, got my attention.
They got the wheels

Jeremiah Haas: Tips for finding shed antlers during a mild winter
Shed antler hunting is a great excuse to get back out in the woods and get a small piece of that animal you were pursuing earlier in the year. Once in awhile, you get a

Pennsylvania Game Commission ponders grants for meat processors in attempt to increase number of donated deer
Randy Ferguson believes the potential exists to increase the number of deer donated to Hunters Sharing the Harvest in Pennsylvania, but there’s a gap in the chain.
Deer harvested for crop damage are on

House panel holds hearing on Pennsylvania deer opener as many have their say
The House Game and Fisheries Committee on Feb. 3 held a legislative hearing on the push to restore the Monday opening day of deer season in Pennsylvania. It didn’t break any new ground.
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New deer hunting regulations in Ohio to be laid out soon
Now that the shooting’s over, Ohio deer hunters can spin tall tales and tell great lies. But for the state’s deer biologists, the work has just begun.
“There is very little time between the