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Develop an off-season plan now for your rimfire and centerfire target practice
Off-season for hunting doesn’t mean off-season for shooting. Great riflemen and women get, and stay, that way by shooting regularly.
Ah, but ammo is expensive. Yeah, but so is coffee and beer. Fortunately, in

Tom Venesky: Today’s social media celebrities not the hunting mentors of years ago
The biggest challenge to getting a child interested in hunting today isn’t time or access to land.
Granted, time and access are major issues, but the more important factor deals with who is teaching

CWD confirmed in a wild deer near Wheaton in western Minnesota for the first time
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced on Thursday that a deer harvested near Wheaton in western Minnesota during the opening weekend of firearms season has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
The

Week-long gun season good to Ohio deer hunters as harvest reaches highest total since 2011
Deer hunters flocked to Ohio’s fields and forests Dec. 2 through Dec. 8 to help put a dent in most of the state’s 88 counties.
Based on data provided by the Ohio Division of

Ohio’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Dec. 12, 2024
Fishing in transition between open water and ice. A look at the Ohio fishing and hunting report from across the state on Dec. 12, 2024.

Boone and Crockett Club to create new big game records category for javelina
The Boone and Crockett Club announced this week that it will create a new category in its big game records for javelina, the first new category created since 2001.
The proposal to include a

Alexander hit with record fine in poaching of giant Ohio buck
Christopher J. Alexander, 28, of Wilmington, Ohio, was sentenced Dec. 11 in Clinton County Common Pleas Court for unlawfully shooting a trophy white-tailed buck in November 2023, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of

Streams of Thought: Is a longer pheasant season coming in Minnesota?
More time to hunt pheasants? Sure, sign me up.
I’m not certain why the thought of pheasant hunting deeper into the month of January crossed my mind on a cold and blustery day last

Christine Thomas: A 2024 Wisconsin deer season report from the little cabin
“If either of them comes down to the south end of the field, he is chili,” I texted to Dave Clausen and Duke Welter, friends with whom I served on the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board