
‘Super seniors’ at heart of Michigan deer-hunting tradition
According to Michigan DNR statistics, more than 7,500 people 80 years old or older bought a deer hunting license in 2016 and sales this year point toward that trend continuing.
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According to Michigan DNR statistics, more than 7,500 people 80 years old or older bought a deer hunting license in 2016 and sales this year point toward that trend continuing.

Youth gun hunt scheduled for Nov. 18-19.

Lou Cornicelli, DNR wildlife research manager, said it isn’t clear whether the additional positives indicate a westward expansion of the disease or individual deer movements, given that all the presumptive positive deer were adult males.

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The stench of raw deer scraps filled a cold, blood-stained garage earlier this week in northwest Davenport, but the two elderly gentlemen inside appeared unfazed. “A lot of guys wouldn’t touch a

The one-year-old doe was harvested in Greenwood township and is the first confirmed positive in Vernon County.

A herd is being grown in southeast Missouri after elk were reintroduced at Peck Ranch Conservation Area in 2011. But the elk shot recently was 200 miles away from the Peck Ranch herd, between Hallsville

Author was ready to surrender, then his
buddy called, convincing him to give it one more try. And it paid off.

Preliminary results through the second weekend show that the number of deer registered was up 10 percent from 2016.

Your best asset during the rut, or at any part of the hunting season, is time in the woods.
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