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Christine Thomas: Skunked! Buckless in Wisconsin’s gun season
I took Major out to the little cabin this morning (Dec. 9) to pick up trail camera cards and so he could get a bit of exercise. I saw more turkeys in one trip around

Jeremiah Haas: 5:07 p.m. – for deer hunters, timing means everything
Specifically, 5:07 p.m. is a time I will not forget anytime soon. In the life of a deer hunter, timing is everything. For a hunter who pursues specific animals, time can be your greatest enemy.<br

Megan Plete: On a buck’s trail and lessons etched in snow
Tracking a white-tailed buck in the snow looks dreamy in photos.
It has all the elements that make a nostalgic hunting postcard scene: a clean white landscape, hanging branches, and a wool-clad hunter moving

Dean Bortz: Wisconsin 21-year-old tags 637-pound bear
Wisconsin’s bear-hunting women had great success during the September/October bear season. Those ladies killed some big bears, including a couple of bruins that topped 500 pounds.
Add Kyler Rundquist, age 21, of Clayton, to

Steve Carney: Catching fish on the breaks
Minnesota’s early ice-fishing season so far has been rather lackluster. I’ve been fishing secondary spots close to shore while unable to get to some of the midlake structure that’s normally preferred.
Fishing near-shore breaklines

Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Consider the technology impact on hot bites
With the explosion in fishing electronics these days as far as increased power and electronic frequency, one has to wonder about its negative effects on the fish. Are the fish sensitive to the electronics we

Making it to a 64th Wisconsin deer camp is a win in itself
If November played football, it would be a pulling guard leading the ground attack, flattening the first defender and telling the rest of them to get out of the way because winter is on the

All it takes is one rooster for an inspired old dog
When the old rooster flushed from dense brush along the edge of an Iowa public grassland, my brother Dave quickly shouldered his 16 gauge and fired.
From where I stood, it looked like a

Prints in the power: Take your wildlife tracking skills to another level
Fresh snow in the Pennsylvania woods is more than a pretty picture. It’s a notebook of animal activity waiting to be read. Learning to read those signs is a skill any hunter, trapper or outdoorsman