Hunting
Red dot scopes help eliminate gobbler misses
Seasoned turkey hunters, those with decades of experience, can recall their successful hunts with amazing clarity.
But even more so do they remember so vividly the misses, those times when the gobbler ran off
Minnesota Mixed Bag: St. Cloud Sportsmen’s Show set for Feb. 6-8
The 38th annual St. Cloud Sportsmen’s Show runs Feb. 6-8 at the St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center. This is central Minnesota’s biggest sports show.
Mike Raykovicz: What to look for when winter scouting
It’s the end of January, and admittedly, I don’t have a lot to do. I sold my snowshoes a few years ago. Worn knees took care of that activity.
Nevertheless, even though deer season
New York native to head up National Wild Turkey Federation research
New York native Patrick Wightman, Ph.D., has joined the National Wild Turkey Federation as the organization’s new national director of wild turkey research and science.
Wightman, who has been in Athens, Ga., since 2018,
‘Trifecta’ of tactics helps hone in on poult survival rates for Wisconsin’s wild turkeys
Wisconsin wildlife biologists now have a new tool to measure turkey production thanks to an innovative study using trail cameras to track nesting hens and their poults.
“Our 2025 results confirmed what a smaller
Pennsylvania’s Mike Lapp first in NWTF Legacy Callmaker series
Edgefield, S.C. — It was the fall of 1989 when Mike Lapp, of Honey Brook, Pa., harvested his first gobbler. He was in his 20s in the woods with coworkers who had invited him to
Pennsylvania Game Commission opts for Saturday after Thanksgiving deer opener
In giving preliminary approval to hunting seasons and bag limits at their Jan. 24 quarterly meeting, Pennsylvania game commissioners voted down a proposal to start deer season the Saturday before Thanksgiving, instead keeping the opener
Michigan commission approves use of new electronic kill tags
Michigan hunters and trappers will have additional tagging options for some animals they harvest this year following action taken earlier this month by the state Natural Resources Commission.
At its meting Jan. 14 in
Steve Griffin: Hunting licenses are not claim checks
One of my best hunting days last fall, many might have considered a failure.
I was perched in a ladder stand watching a patch of woods I’d eyed many other days this autumn. On
