Sounding board: Minnesota’s new early teal season – video
Walking the area near Watefowlers Hill at Game Fair in Ramsey, Minn., six people were asked their thoughts on Minnesota’s first-ever early teal season.
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Old waterfowl blind in need of some TLC
Author preps his gear for early goose season.
Video: Sparks fly in discussion of 2021-22 wolf quota
If you haven’t heard by now about the fireworks that came out of the Aug. 11 Natural Resources Board (NRB) meeting during the discussion on the 2021-22 wolf harvest quota … For more, check out the video below, or see Dean Bortz’s column in the Aug. 20 issue of Wisconsin Outdoor News. Categories: Hunting News, Wisconsin Videos Tags: Hunting, Trapping,…
In Pennsylvania, wild foods look promising for whitetails
A short slow walk, with eyes open and searching, has given the writer a promise that deer are now fattening, and that plenty of winter nourishment will be easily found.
Memories of a dove opener long ago
Pollick cut his teeth on an Indiana hunt 35 years ago.
ODNR offering special archery hunts along scenic rivers
Special drawings for the hunts this month.
Interest in bear hunt continues to grow
Limited natural food supply could mean good things ahead for this bear season.
Tracking summer turkeys
New York’s spring turkey hunting season may have ended two months ago, but like deer hunting, I am starting to find myself becoming a year-round turkey man. Being able to regularly observe summer flocks in recent years is surely part of the reason. Two years ago some strategic logging was done on my property and one of the intentions was…
The 2021 ammunition quandary: This scribe could use more ammo
Plan now for you fall hunting needs, because ammo again has been in short supply on many gun shop shelves.
Counts show sharp drop in sharptails in east-central Minnesota
DNR: Management actions planned, including closing east-central hunting zone season
New hunting licenses bring a change to harvest tags in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania hunters need a knife to notch their harvest tags.
Minnesota DNR: No wolf season until 2022 at soonest
The agency said in a statement that it’s taking longer than expected to update its 20-year-old wolf management plan, and it’s now expected to be done by March.
Three chosen for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ elk harvest tags
The DNR randomly selected the three hunters from a drawing pool of more than 25,000 applicants. The winning hunters are from the greater Madison, Marshfield and Manitowoc areas.
Iowa pheasant harvest second highest in more than a decade
“Part of the increased harvest was due to the increase in pheasant hunters – 10,000 more hunters compared to 2019, which was the highest since 2009.”
Sharp-tailed grouse hunting season to remain closed for fall 2021
This is the third year the season has been closed.
NRB’s last-minute cut to antlerless tags in 6 counties angers Cole
It could be one of the first times in recent memory that a DNR secretary indicated he might not carry out an NRB order.
Apply by Aug. 20 for Camp Ripley archery hunts
Beginning this year, the format of the hunt will change to a single three-day event happening Oct. 29-31.
North Dakota pheasant estimate up, but drought is wild card
It took the state about three years to recover from the last drought, in 2017.
DNR reports drop in preliminary ’21 spring turkey harvest
Early results show 17% drop from 2020 numbers during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Looking ahead to hunting season
(Photo by Jerrod Vila)Another turkey season is well behind us now and hopefully most of the talk centered around wild turkeys is that of seeing hens with plenty of poults along our travels. That is something that is always good news for the seasons that lie ahead. As soon as one hunting season is over, I’m always looking ahead to…
Thousands apply for Missouri bear hunting permit
(Photo by Windigo Images)JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s first-ever bear hunt is drawing plenty of interest. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that 6,335 people applied for one of the 400 permits the Missouri Department of Conservation will issue for a harvest of 40 bears. Revenue from those applications amounted to more than $63,000. Winners of a random drawing of eligible…
Encouraging the next generation to hunt, fish
Parker Costello of Lockport is 7 years old. There are two things he is passionate about – fishing and wrestling. They are interchangeable with the seasons. With the arrival of spring, fishing has firmly established itself as the outdoor activity to do whenever his father (Kyle) or grandfather (me) are available. “What is the biggest freshwater fish you have ever…
DNR: No discussion on wolf season
Plan update may not be complete until next year; some wonder why.
It’s your call
It was a pretty quiet morning in the turkey woods and, after hours of hearing nothing I decided to take a break and just enjoy the spring woods. Sitting on a hillside with my back to a large red oak I reached into my pack to see if one of the half dozen or so calls I normally carry might…
Opportunities to hunt elk in Minnesota
License applications available now.
Turkey hunters, what not to do
Turkey hunting doesn’t go your way every time, and when it does, it’s sweet. Pay attention, however, to those times when it doesn’t.
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