Opinions
For late-season firearms success, you gotta make your own luck
If you’ve been hunting Minnesota’s firearms deer season for any length of time, your seasons have probably run the full spectrum of outcomes. You’ve probably had that season during which a buck sauntered by in
Carney’s bowhunting follies of 2024
I spent that night twisting and turning in bed trying to understand how I failed. The only thing I can think of is the large, hand warmer-type muff got in the way of my bowstring.
Minnesota’s Federal and the company’s commitment to conservation funding
Pittman-Robertson is funded by those who hunt and sport shoot via firearms sales, ammunition sales, and archery-related sales. Further, they should know enough about this law to implore members of Congress that this law must
Hunting dogs seldom fail to amaze, and kudos to a CO
While other folks were giving their blaze-orange deer-hunting apparel a good wash in scent-reducing detergent, locating their ammo, and, in some cases sighting-in their guns (yes, I heard them), I was wandering the grasslands of
Minnesota Outdoor News Letters to the Editor – November 13, 2024
Regarding Tim Spielman’s Nov. 1 “Streams of Thought” column: Finally someone has brought attention to the topic of invasive European buckthorn. It’s long overdue. Every new growing season it is getting worse!.
Commentary: SAF releases es economic impact report of hunting, shooting in America
A new report released by the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation last month provides the most detailed and up-to-date data concerning the economic effect and importance of America’s hunters and sport shooters to national and state economies.
Outdoor truisms … such as they are, Part II
The last time we got together here, I wrote about “truisms” that relate to our outdoor pursuits. Not those day-to-day truisms, like, “If you get lost, come straight back to camp,” or, “When you’re on
A buck with Dad’s deer rifle
I guess you could say my father was a “casual” deer hunter. As much as he liked hunting, he didn’t have time to take it too seriously. With seven mouths to feed – me being
Crossbow’s effect on bowhunting loses steam in Wisconsin
The 2023 bowhunting kill also was the first time since 2018 that it finished below 90,000, a 20% decline from 2020. Even though crossbows delivered 60% of the bowhunting kill the past three years, their
