Hunting seasons will be here before you know it
Evening rides through deer country show a high number of healthy-looking deer.
NRB strikes holiday hunt in two counties, reduces antlerless deer quotas in 11 northern counties.
Just shy of 28,000 Wisconsin residents entered the drawing for one of four once-in-a-lifetime elk tags. The winners are from the cities of Appleton, Junction City, Marengo and McFarland.
Weather conditions were optimal for almost every period of the 2020 turkey season.
Take the time to explain outdoor pursuits to voting adults when opportunities arise.
Successful deer hunters can now get ages from teeth data – and according to that data, oldest deer harvested last season were a pair of 17-year-old does. Oldest buck was 10 years old.
The thundering gobble echoed through the trees at 5:22 a.m. We had already been sitting in the woods for an hour and it was surprisingly comfortable. It was the middle of May and temperatures were in the 50’s with no pesky insects to speak of. I honestly did not know what to expect and had my trusty ThermaCell wafting up…
Instead returns to 10 permits, as in each of the previous two seasons.
The new rules are designed to allow hunters to kill black and brown bears over bait, black bears including cubs and females with cubs with artificial light at den sites, and wolves and coyotes including pups during the denning season. Hunters can also kill caribou from traveling motorboats and swimming caribou.
Hunters would be allowed to kill only six bull elk in 2020 under a proposal the state Department of Natural Resources board is considering.
The owner’s accounts showed that a total of 570 rabbits were harvested off of this exceptional rabbit dog.
How about expanding deer harvest opportunities for those who can’t afford beef during the pandemic?
What has been and up-and-down turkey season continues to be just that. Following the snow and cold of the second weekend in May, as well as that of the season, things warmed up and turkey season entered yet another phase. Suddenly, it seemed like hens wanted to talk. Now I hadn’t seen a hen since opening day, but when mid-May…
To say the first two weeks of turkey season were unusual would be preaching to the choir. Anyone who went out or who still goes out every morning can attest to the crazy weather that drove most of us to break out our deer hunting cloths rather than our turkey hunting togs. It wasn’t supposed to snow, but it did,…
Girl takes bear, buck and a gobbler in a year.
Iowa hunters reported harvesting more than 14,600 turkeys during the spring season, which is the highest spring turkey harvest since mandatory harvest reporting began in 2007. The previous high was 12,173 in 2016.
And a boater suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he also surprised a grizzly with a cub.
Turkey hunting expert and Outdoor News contributor Joel Nelson gives a behind-the-scenes look at the most important turkey hunting gear he keeps in his vest. What gear is most important? Nelson walks through what he carries and why. Categories: Hunting, Hunting News, Minnesota Videos, Turkey, Turkey Tags: Hunting, Wild turkeys
Through three weeks in south zone, numbers are discouraging.
Biggest question now should be how to pull off a 2020 season in light of COVID-19 concerns.
When I saw the weather forecast for the approaching weekend calling for snow, I actually got excited. I don’t mind it a little on cool side when I’m turkey hunting. In fact what I dislike the most about the late season is the hot weather and insects. None of that was a factor for New Yorkers on Mother’s Day…
The biggest change the DNR proposed was extending the nine-day gun season to 19 days.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The number of hunting-related shooting fatalities in Pennsylvania went up in the past year, according to the state game commission. There were 26 hunting-related shooting injuries in Pennsylvania in 2019, four of which were fatal. The number of fatalities is up from the previous year when only one of the 27 hunting-related shootings were fatal. A little…
It made for difficult first week of spring gobbler hunting in Pennsylvania.
Sales had been shut down since April 6 due to COVID-19.
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