Hunting
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
Steve Sarley: Holiday angler or hunter, be thankful for the outdoors
Unless you are auditioning to be an Ebeneezer Scrooge imitator in a new local production of “A Christmas Carol,” you have to love the holidays. The only challenge is trying to figure out which is
Ohio’s young deer hunters make their shots count during two-day youth season
For the second year in a row, the younger set of hunters showed their adult peers how to shoot deer in Ohio.
During Ohio’s recently concluded two-day youth-only firearms deer hunting season, participants age
