Opinions
New York Letters to the Editor: Antler restrictions take away the option to make a choice
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of New York Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Weber identifies the real essence of deer hunting
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
State Roundup: Jeff Pritzl, Wisconsin DNR’s deer program leader, to retire in December
If Jeff Pritzl’s name sounds familiar to readers, it’s likely because you’ve seen it on these pages fairly often over the past four, five years as Pritzl ran the DNR’s statewide deer program.
Pritzl
Patrick Durkin: Bowhunters’ ‘tools of choice’ don’t matter to deer
Wisconsin’s bowhunters registered 103,904 deer during 2024’s four-month arrow-flinging season, the fourth highest archery kill in modern times and the fifth in which they’ve killed over 100,000 whitetails.
That success – driven mostly by
Troubles with Minnesota’s shrinking duck habitat have led to slow hunting, may require controversial solutions
Like many other Minnesota waterfowlers, I monitor several of the Midwest’s waterfowling social-media pages. This year, even more so than any other year I can recall, users are consistently bemoaning a lack of birds in
Mike Raykovicz: Thoughts on another New York firearms deer season
Here we are, heading for late November, and the firearms season has just begun throughout most of the state. With thousands of New York hunters searching for deer, it’s important to be reminded of, and
Jeff Frischkorn: Slowing down, but still a waterfowler at heart
At heart, really, I’m a waterfowler. And have been for nigh unto some 59 years.
I don’t own a marsh or belong to an exclusive duck-hunting club. Neither has anyone pole-pushed a boat
Steve Pollick: First skiff of snow signals bird feeding should begin
The first skiffs of snow painted Froggy Bottom with white highlights on Nov. 10, then Froggy Pond iced over for the first time this season on Nov. 11.
Nature’s clock told me it was
Fishing with forward-facing sonar offers a different perspective
No letters in bass fishing have caused more controversy than FFS. It stands for forward-facing sonar, but every company that produces these types of units has its own name for it.
While anglers have
