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Are you handling your deer properly? Great venison recipes start with field dressing
Jeff Bontekoe, with his wife Kelly handling the paper work and a few others doing the prepping, has processed many moose, elk, bear, caribou, and deer over the years.
Lots of deer. Bontekoe thinks

It’s important to keep your priorities clear during hunting season
At this point in the year, it is very easy to spend every waking moment in a treestand. Deer hunting can cause people to become singularly focused on antlers and not about the rest of

Wisconsin hunters gather for ruffed grouse at Northwoods’ ‘Checkpoint Charlie’
Tom Heberlein has long trimmed two faint trails through the back end of his Northwoods forty to ease access to the Chequamegon National Forest’s deer, ruffed grouse, snowshoe hares, and even beavers.
In turn,

Battle of the bucks: Now is the time to put those tines together
Clack, clack-ity, clack, clack…clack.
Pause.
“Clack, clack-ity, clack, clack…clack.”
A strange woodland sound drifted up through early November’s trees. I climbed quietly down from of my stand, bow in hand and

Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Fine fishing in the fall for all fish species
Fall can offer some of the finest fishing of the entire open-water season for numbers and size alike. Fish move into shallower water during fall to feast.
A vast majority of walleyes will be

The toughest hunts yield the greatest rewards
Over a year’s worth of planning and preparation went into this Alaskan mountain goat hunt, including miles and miles of vertical hikes with a Stone Glacier backpack loaded down with sand and, in the final

Ohio’s autumn crappies in transition mode: Here’s how to catch them
Fall is without a doubt one of the best times to fish for crappies in Ohio, second only to spring in most anglers’ opinion. Some even say fall is best and there is a strong

Take control of buck fever
As most hunters know when a deer appears, especially if it’s a big deer, there is an adrenalin rush that can make us do stupid things especially if we don’t have a highly practiced shooting

After an accident paralyzed one arm, Minnesota high-schooler doesn’t let incident stop his shooting passions
Zach Day loved dirt bike riding as a kid and eventually saved enough money to buy his own bike in high school.
On Aug. 1, 2021, Day went off-roading and looked backward for a