
MN Daily Update: Don’t miss your target this bird-hunting season
Bird seasons are opening up all over the country, and many shotgun shooters may run into trouble with accuracy issues. Tim Lesmeister details why you may be missing the target.

Bird seasons are opening up all over the country, and many shotgun shooters may run into trouble with accuracy issues. Tim Lesmeister details why you may be missing the target.

It’s game survey season, in case you haven’t noticed – a time for raising expectations. Or lowering them.
Recently, outdoors headlines have been filled with surveys about pheasant counts, duck numbers, grouse counts …

In fairness, the headline of this column is a bit of a misnomer.
After all, in theory, sitting still should require you to do nothing at all. But I also mean it in the

Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include discussion with Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman about multiple hunting seasons kicking off, plus news on year-round bass fishing in Minnesota. Then Jon Gassett from the

Following suit with other large lakes throughout Minnesota, the Grand Rapids and International Falls DNR fisheries offices are kicking off fisheries input groups for the large lakes in their regions.
Lake Winnibigoshish, Rainy Lake,

Tim Lesmeister got talked into going fishing for muskies recently at a time of year he doesn’t often target muskies. Here’s why he was surprised by what he found.

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

Sometimes, the name of a lake can be deceiving. Such is the case with Washington County’s Big Carnelian Lake. At just 457 acres, this fishery just north of Stillwater is anything but “big.”
But
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Sept. 19, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.
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