Hunting
New York Mixed Bag: Department of Environmental Conservation conducting antlerless deer harvesting survey
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is conducting a survey that will help identify potential mechanisms to increase the harvest of female deer. DEC is working with Cornell University’s Center for Conservation Social
Ammunition background checks in New York are not working
What do retired law enforcement officers, former judges, active Environmental Conservation Officers, border patrol agents and even the Sheriff of Chautauqua County all have in common? Well, since the Sept. 13 launch of New York’s
After an accident paralyzed one arm, Minnesota high-schooler doesn’t let incident stop his shooting passions
Zach Day loved dirt bike riding as a kid and eventually saved enough money to buy his own bike in high school.
On Aug. 1, 2021, Day went off-roading and looked backward for a
Adult on-set hunter Samantha Miller hones her outdoor life one hunt at a time in Ohio
Every once in a while, you come across someone who cuts their own path. Samantha Miller is one of those people, blazing her way in the outdoors. She has come a long way from such
Tales of the top unexpected encounters over 45 years of hunting
Over a 45-year hunting career, I’ve had many memorable encounters with wildlife. Sometimes those encounters were with the particular species of game I was hunting at the time, but more often, they were not. <br
Illinois firearms hunters took more bucks last year – and took ’em early
Six out of 10 deer taken during last year’s shotgun season were bucks, according to DNR’s published report on the 2022-23 harvest.
The exact harvest ratio of 59.2% males to 40.8% females was not
Now it begins: The rut is just getting started
Just about all deer experts, both hunters and the science-based research variety, agree that the breeding between female and male whitetails can be broken down into three separate phases.
First is the “pre
Wisconsin DNR’s Deer Program Specialist says aging deer hunter scene concerning
Orange is still the color linked to the gun deer season, but gray is solidly in second place. Gray, as in beards and hair color of aging hunters.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Memories made highlight S.D. pheasant opener
Central casting could not have scripted a more pristine setting for South Dakota’s traditional opening day of the pheasant season last weekend, as thousands of hunters took to the fields under blue skies, surrounded by
