Tips & Features
Try these outside-the-box deer hunting maneuvers
Rustling leaves can be deceiving, another squirrel. A stick snapping signals something much heavier. The rhythm in the leaves causes my heart to pound from adrenalin. It has to be a deer approaching. Clutching the
Late-arriving canvasbacks make this a hunt to remember
Chuck and I sat listlessly, perched on 5-gallon buckets while guarding a little pothole off the big water where ducks like to settle in for the night. We had tried fishing – unsuccessfully – earlier
Paddling to your duck spot? Here are ways to be more successful
A drake wood duck blazed past me as I leaned against an old cottonwood tree that stood alongside a narrow slough in the Mississippi River bottoms of southeastern Minnesota. I shouldered my 12 gauge and
No need to dig really deep for bass in the early fall
If the vegetation is starting to color up but not yet showing fall’s brightest hues, it’s probably time for bass fishermen to use lures that range medium-deep, according to the writer. The time to go
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Outdoor memories may get foggy, but they never fully fade
The older we get, the more cluttered our mind’s memory box becomes. That trophy buck you shot five years ago was actually taken 10 years ago. And the photo of the six anglers standing along
Video: Adjustments lead to an early-October doe in Minnesota
Early October is a great time during the archery season to take a doe where antlerless opportunities are available. That’s what Eric Morken set out to do over the course of two evening hunts recently.<br
To err is human, but avoiding these mistakes will bag you more pheasants
Opening day of pheasant hunting’s celebratory mood turned as dark as an Edgar Allan Poe poem not long after the season’s first shot shells were chambered. Cinematically, it had the aura of a pheasant-hunting horror
Minnesota elk hunter overcomes hectic moment with a bad shell to take 6×6 bull
A few hours after the elk season opened for two Minnesota hunters on Saturday, Sept. 13, Jayme Fisher, of Ranier, pulled the trigger with a bull in his sights, about 35 yards away.
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Here’s how to bust the ‘lull’ and shoot deer in mid-October
Hunters are surprisingly good at finding reasons to not go into the woods. For many of us this season, this has been pretty easy to do. The weather has been toasty here in the Upper
