Hunting
Big buck from Tioga County, New York, shot in 2023 just misses top 25
Jeremy Williams’ monster Tioga County 12-pointer taken on opening day of New York’s 2023 Southern Zone deer season has been officially scored.
New York State Big Buck Club measurer Gary Dennis scored the buck
New York DEC opening public lands lottery for Long Island May gobbler hunt
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reminds Long Island turkey hunters of the 2024 spring turkey season in Suffolk County May 1-31.
This season marks the second year of the hunt on
Dan Ladd: Out-of-state firearm and hunting issues should be eyed by New Yorkers
Perhaps the biggest question in New York as of late pertaining to court and lawsuit activity does not stem from the ongoing NRA civil trial in New York City, but rather the ruling at the
Ron Steffe: Stocked pheasants fattening foxes in Pennsylvania
A couple of weeks ago, a few friends I often hunt alongside headed to a mid-state camp in Pennsylvania where two of them are members, to do some late season rabbit hunting.
The
Anger over shed antlers as thieves poach farms, private property
From January through April, shed hunters strap on binoculars and haunt the backroads in ATVs, or they trek through farmland or woods checking trails and bedding areas.
Inevitably, trespassers search for sheds – fresh,
Albino whitetail killed by car last month in Wisconsin’s Washington County
Chuck Dreher, of West Bend, Wis., accomplished the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack Jan. 25 when he located a white, car-killed doe in a snowbank along Hwy. 28 near the hamlet of
Massive broods of cicadas this year could benefit Illinois turkeys
Two factors have wildlife biologists feeling optimistic heading into the spring turkey hunting season, but only one – results of DNR’s 2023 brood survey – was expected.
The unexpected factor involves the pending emergence
Commentary: One in-person field day won’t cut it for hunter safety training
I am a certified DNR hunter safety instructor and have been for roughly 15 years. I am writing about the Wisconsin DNR’s push to use the virtual world for hunter safety training, as well as
Deer hunter success slips over the past decade in Illinois
Illinois deer hunters have gone from average to below average when it comes to hunter success in the past 10 years.
This according to two different sources: the hunters themselves and the National Deer
