Hunting News
Before 2024
- Have no dog? Here are ways to still get on the grouseThe most popular game bird in Minnesota, the ruffed grouse has been targeted by as many as 90,000 hunters during a recent season, and DNR spring drumming counts...
- WI Daily Update: Important details for trout anglersThe Wisconsin DNR reminds anglers that the general trout fishing season ended on Oct. 15. Here is what to know about trout-fishing opportunities remaining in th...
- A change of heart: Making the case for ladder standsFor years, I vowed that I would never use ladder stands while deer hunting. I simply felt that they were too big and would be too obvious to get most deer in cl...
- MN Daily Update: Zebra mussels confirmed in Otter Tail County lakeThe Minnesota DNR confirmed it has found zebra mussels in another state lake, this time in Otter Tail County. The post MN Daily Update: Zebra mussels confirmed ...
- Winging your way to Ohio’s waterfowl openerOhio's October waterfowl opener is unique in that the weather is nice, a pleasant time to be out duck hunting. Excitement runs high. Nothing like the sounds of ...
- Innovation leads to North Dakota wildlife crossings successEven as a lifelong North Dakota hunter, angler, former game warden, and veteran (old) biologist, there are plenty of times when my colleagues and the state Game...
- Anxious moments of being caught in the fog: We’ve all been thereIn talking to sportsmen and women of all types, including hunters, fishers, campers, trappers, etc., they have a universal response: To a person, they all have ...
- Notes off a soiled cuff: Fishing leads to better mental healthA new study shows that men who enjoy fishing as a hobby have better mental health. The study, conducted by researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge,...
- Commentary: Constant bickering among Pennsylvania’s older hunters is turning off youthBattle lines have been drawn, sides chosen, and a plethora of issues are ripe for the picking for one to latch onto and contribute to the divisiveness eating aw...
- A $10,543 fine rendered in Wisconsin Columbia County elk case from 2021A Portage man who shot a bull elk on Nov. 20, 2021, opening day of the gun-deer season that year, finally saw his case adjudicated in Columbia County Circuit Co...
- Dock dues on Minnesota public waters: Genius? Or the musings of a madman?I think this is a novel idea. Curious if you agree. Here’s the idea: The DNR should start charging dock space rent on public waters. You might already be roll...
- Creating a new rifleman with the M-1 Garand“In my opinion, the M-1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.” — Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. The revered and feared U.S. Army ...
- Try this orange test for sticking fish hooksWhat seemed to be half my “off-season” free time used to focus on sharpening my fishing hooks. I sharpened all my old hooks and as I stocked up with new lur...
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point black bear project gets $1 million endowmentA UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources (CNR) black bear research program that lived on a shoe-string budget its first 46 years can now roll on forever ...
- Wisconsin’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Oct. 13, 2023Fishermen remain happy; grouse hunters getting there. A look at the fishing and hunting report from across Wisconsin on Oct. 13, 2023. The post Wisconsin’s st...