Hunting News
Before 2024
- Basic night vision: a guide for airgunnersNight vision optics are a game changer for airgun hunting. With a day-night scope you can target rats and rabbits at night, and make the most of low light at da...
- Huge crowds support Boxing Day meets – Fieldsports News, 27 December 2023Here are the links: Boxing Day hunt meets 2023 Countryside Alliance and Google Maps Farage hits back at ‘fun-hating’ activists GB News and YouTube Hunter fi...
- Patrick Durkin: New age of deer hunting brings little joy in WisconsinYou might assume state hunters were happy they shot a deer every other second during November’s nine-day gun season. You’re wrong, of course. Hunters regist...
- Minnesota’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Minnesota published in the Dec. 29, 2023, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota’s Outdoo...
- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Hunting in the “mountains” of southern MinnesotaMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from Minnesota DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Dec. 29, 2023, edition of Outdoor News. The p...
- Beyond Minnesota: Police, customs seize live animals, more in global trafficking schemeInterpol (International Criminal Police Organization) and the World Customs Organization said Dec. 12 they seized 53 primates, four big cats, and more than 1,30...
- Steve Carney: Looking back on a strange 2023 bowhunting season for whitetailsWhat a strange 2023 bowhunting season it was for this hunter! I reviewed my logbook for the fall deer-hunting season, which revealed that I was in various stand...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: Plane breaks through thin ice on Upper Red LakeA light plane carrying ice anglers broke through thin ice as it tried to land on Upper Red Lake in northwestern Minnesota on Dec. 19, the same lake where author...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Time to take better care of the Mighty MississippiReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 29, 2023, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Time to take...
- Commentary: What would Teddy Roosevelt think about today’s hunters and anglers?Theodore Roosevelt believed in the restorative benefits of hunting – as well as the importance of conserving wildlife for its own sake. His philosophy of cons...
- Agencies expect further decline in the number of Minnesota deer farmsThe Minnesota DNR and state Board of Animal Health implemented several changes in cervidae farm management in 2023 after the state Legislature passed several ne...
- Poor ice not so nice for Minnesota’s fishing retailersDuring a normal December, business is booming at Blue Ribbon Bait & Tackle in Oakdale. “It’s typically our busiest time of year,” said Blue Ribbon owner, ...
- MN Daily Update: Huge eagle-poaching case out westTwo men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a “killing spree” on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere, then ...
- Lake of the Woods offers a little bit of everything for ice anglersEarly this winter, anglers across much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan faced uncertain ice conditions on lakes that in most years offer solid footing and ...
- WI Daily Update: Details of a huge eagle-poaching case out westTwo men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a “killing spree” on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere, then ...