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Are you ‘rifle ready’ for the fall?
Cleaning is necessary after a day of rain, a week of hunting, or a session of competitive shooting. Regular maintenance, removing residue from the barrel and action, keeps a gun reliable.
Practice, too. Who

Pennsylvania Reader Stories: Turns out buck was actually a doe
This past deer season was hectic for me, like many of the other past seasons.
But the second-to-last-day of the regular rifle season in Pennsylvania’s Wildlife Management Unit 2B was my saving grace.

Spinner rigging tips for walleyes – video
Four tips that will help you put more walleyes in the boat while pulling blades.

Fly-fishing for smallmouth: Streams, rivers a great place to start
Ever wonder whether fly fishing is all it is cracked up to be? If you want to give it a try, a more noble native fish will be hard to find than the smallmouth bass.

Former junior anglers from Ohio on different, successful paths
In late June, two young men from Ohio competed in different bass tournaments sponsored by the same organization on the same lake in New York. One was fishing a professional circuit while the other was

Crankbaits for bass and walleyes – video
“Tackle” Terry Tuma talks about the use of crankbaits when fishing for bass and walleyes. He suggests varying which crankbaits you use depending on the vibration action you want, plus water clarity and other factors.

Jeff Frischkorn: Feral hog hunting is as basic as it gets
It wasn’t so much being an odd question, though it did make my eyebrows furrow.
I was stumped, and not for the first time related to such a thought, either.
“How many wild

Picking a puppy is no easy task
If you are a small game hunter – upland birds, waterfowl, rabbits, maybe even squirrels – odds are good that you have (or at least want to have) a dog. Or dogs. It’s some of

Spoon-fed walleyes keep Erie anglers on their toes
“I would say that 80 to 90 percent of my walleye fishing is on spoons,” Hegedus told me recently while we were catching them in about 25 feet of water.