Hunting
Holiday Book Review 2024: A reading list for outdoor enthusiasts to help pass those long nights of winter
Each year for several months, the books pile up in corners of my office. Then in mid-November, when there’s nothing else going on except wrapping up muskie season, enjoying a pheasant hunt or two, bowhunting
Firearms safety instruction a multi-generational affair for this Minnesota family
For southern Minnesota’s Pelzel family, being a volunteer firearms safety instructor runs through their blood as it’s been a family norm passed down for three generations now.
“I would go with dad and grandpa
Oak Duke: Tactics for hunting a trickle rut
The call came in to my wife from one of her friends, “tell Oak there is a big buck in my front lawn, down by the woods, and it is just standing there, looking down
Ryan Rothstein: A baby and a buck make for a Minnesota deer season like no other
Apologies for the cliché, because I think the phrase, “a season like no other,” gets tossed around too frequently. That said, I hope you’ll indulge me a story. The 2024 deer season has been as
Feral hog bill passes in Ohio House, moves to Senate
A bill that would essentially end wild hog hunting in the state of Ohio along with other provisions unanimously passed the House of Representatives.
House Bill 503, a piece of legislation aimed at controlling
Ohio’s deer gun season gets underway Dec. 2-8
Ohio’s weeklong deer gun hunting season begins Monday, Dec. 2. The gun season traditionally begins the Monday after Thanksgiving, is open to all hunters, and runs until Sunday, Dec. 8. An additional deer gun weekend
Reader stories: ‘Still-hunting’ at 80
The title to this story is a play on words, still-hunting is walking slowly, quietly through woods.
As I approach my 80th birthday, I continue to get out of bed at 5 a.m. to
Senator OK with Pennsylvania Game Commission spending changes
Earlier this year in the wake of an attempt by the state Senate to transfer $150 million out of the Pennsylvania Game Commission coffers, the head of the agency appeased legislators with a plan on
A close look at Hornady’s new .22 ARC cartridge
My favorite coyote rifle is a Remington 700 Varmint Special chambered in .22-250. It is accurate and dependable, but it is also long and heavy. And as a bolt action, it’s not as practical when
