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Michigan Natural Resources Commission considering electronic turkey tags
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission is considering a proposal to allow electronic harvest tags for turkeys, following a trend toward digital licenses in other states.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources Biologist Adam Bump presented

John Delisle, Sr.: This year, plan to take a girl hunting
Last hunting season, as I walked up the road to our designated meeting place for our annual family Thanksgiving Day hunt, I was pleasantly surprised to find two of my younger grandchildren, standing among our

Five annual food plots to plant now so you can reap the benefits this fall
While the calendar is barely past spring, it is not too soon to plan your food plot strategy for fall. In the planning stages myself, I reached out to a handful of experts I trust

Laser rangefinders — the trusty tool helping hunters make better shots for 25 years
Hey all you hunting and shooting grandpas (even you grandpas-to-be) take it from this grandpa – laser rangefinders aren’t new fangled, high-tech, or unethical. The first successful consumer model came out in 1999.
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Ryan Rothstein: The fascinating way weather patterns, precipitation impact deer herds
The weather roller coaster continues, and it’s almost mind-bending to take a look back through data and actually see how drastic the swings have been.
Last year, following a record-breaking snowpack and insane winter

Are whitetail hunting changes coming to Michigan?
The Michigan DNR’s Deer Management Initiative – which involved two series of virtual meetings (a series in each peninsula) – has concluded and resulted in an order generated by the recommendations that the Natural Resources

Rhode Island lawmakers approve bill to ban “captive hunting” operations
Lawmakers have approved legislation that would let Rhode Island join the more than half of states with a full or partial ban on “captive hunting” — a hunt that occurs within a structure designed to

Outdoor Insights: Is a tripling of the pintail bag limit in 2025 really likely?
News headlines quickly amplified by social media a couple weeks ago suggested that a 300% increase in pintail bag limits across North America was a foregone conclusion for 2025 waterfowl hunting seasons.
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Dave Zeug: A .410 is the real deal in the turkey woods
When longtime friend Lon Ziehm talks turkey hunting, I’ve learned to listen.
He’s not only been wickedly successful at hunting public-land turkeys in Wisconsin’s Jackson and Clark counties, he’s always done it with single-shot