Hunting
Ohio club forced to cancel spring field trials as Avian influenza threatens pen-raised pheasants
The majority of the pheasants that hunters set their sights on during the fall in Ohio and other Midwestern states are pen-raised birds simply because the habitat no longer supports wild birds for the most
Pennsylvanians win at turkey-calling ‘Super Bowl’
Van Cise, of Brookville, Pa., added to his legendary status and cemented his reputation as the greatest competition turkey caller of all time, winning his ninth National Wild Turkey Federation Grand National Calling Championships Senior
New York artist paints stamp winner in Ohio duck contest
Ray Easton’s painting of a bufflehead duck was selected as the winner of the 2024 Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp Design Competition held on Saturday, Feb. 17, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
Ohio Insider: Would you take part in an antlerless-only hunt during a deer season?
We covered a lot of ground in rounding up the numbers on the recently completed 2023-2024 deer season in the last edition of Ohio Outdoor News.
But, there was one item left over from
Notes off a soiled cuff: A merger of Pennsylvania’s Game, Fish & Boat commissions possible?
Seven or eight years ago – after decades of trying – I decided to stop attempting to convince readers and leaders that the Game and Fish & Boat commissions should be merged, because having separate
Hunting a whitetails’ security cover: Here are keys to consistent success
Growing up deer hunting during the shotgun season in southern Minnesota, I learned there was a general mindset about hunting deer-bedding areas: Just don’t do it. You’ll chase deer from a property.
Honestly, doing
Get a gobbler going this spring with a barred owl call
The barred owl “shock” call is a good choice when trying to strike up a bird or roost a gobbler for the next morning’s hunt. This locator tactic also works well during other times, especially
Small parcels can yield big results for gobblers
As the morning mist began to clear, a tom hammered from his roost. Perched on a large hackberry tree limb in a finger of woods running up into a cut cornfield, the big bird was
Why do some deer species retain spots in adulthood?
Biologists have spent a century or more pondering why organisms look the way they do. Two common principle ideas include camouflage and mate attraction.
We thought that stripes on zebras were to confuse predators,
