New York 2024 rut tracker: End of the trail
A trickle rut could produce an early December breeding period as bucks pursue fawns and does that did not come into estrus ipn November. Photo by Oak Duke.
A trickle rut could produce an early December breeding period as bucks pursue fawns and does that did not come into estrus ipn November. Photo by Oak Duke.

New York’s Southern Zone big game season opened on Nov. 16 this year and I found myself just a few miles from where I spent more than 50 years of opening days in the southern

Driving home from a great nephew’s birthday party recently – deep in thought, pondering what I might write this column about – a big doe burst from brush alongside a highway near my home and

A Johannesburg, Mich., man with a history of hunting-related violations recently faced new charges for illegally taking deer.
Cecil Edward Day, 59, was arraigned Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Otsego County 87-A District Court on

I bet the fabric of the Fond du Lac County town of Campbellsport, Wis., can be found in every small Wisconsin community. That fabric is woven, over time, by the people who live in those

Oct. 30 was my grandson’s 15th birthday, it was also one of my most wild days of emotion, but not because of my grandson’s birthday.
I was up at my cabin in West Field,

It isn’t often Wisconsin DNR biologists, elected officials, deer hunters, and at least one Natural Resources Board member all agree on much of anything related to deer management, but that happened at a DNR-sponsored open

I was set up in my hunting saddle on a crisp Nov. 4 morning as a light wind blew my scent over the river from a tree that was overlooking a funnel between bedding areas.

Sneaking along the ridge, snow crunched under the young man’s boots. A gust of wind swept right through his coat, chilling him to the bone. He adjusted his collar, pulling it against the cold.
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