
Bill Hilts, Jr.: What to consider when selecting a crossbow
A new era in big game archery hunting will begin on Oct. 1 in the Southern Zone of New York State (and Sept. 27 in the Northern Zone for that matter) – crossbows will now

A new era in big game archery hunting will begin on Oct. 1 in the Southern Zone of New York State (and Sept. 27 in the Northern Zone for that matter) – crossbows will now

The Minnesota DNR’s new Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee’s finalized report gives the DNR and Legislature recommendations on various topics that both entities should consider updating or changing in the future.
The committee offered

All mentored hunters – including those under 7 years old – would get big-game harvest tags with their permits if a proposal before the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners is given final approval.
The

It was the week after Thanksgiving in 2019. My cousin Kurt Bahti and I had packed into a remote basin in the Santa Rita mountains south of Tucson to hunt Coues deer.
A 2-inch

After getting situated around 2 p.m. to sit on a bear stand for the rest of the evening on Monday, Sept. 1, Leah Wicklund and Chuck Perkins, of Coon Rapids, Minn., saw a black bear

As the excitement of deer season looms, especially the opening of archery hunting seasons, the expanded crossbow hunting opportunities are an obvious highlight.
While certainly not every New York hunter is on board with

New York hunters are in “decision mode,” or soon will be as hunting seasons for big game and numerous small game species continue to open across the state.
In the Southern Zone, an early

The story of two Cornell University students butchering a legally-harvested bear in their college dorm kitchen has gone viral, garnering national headlines.
Although the students names or exact location of the hunt were not

Upon Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signing crossbow expansion into law, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wasted no time communicating new crossbow hunting regulations to the public.
Hochul signed off on the law
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