Iowa Deer Application Opens May 2
The time to apply for your 2020 Iowa deer tags is fast approaching. The application period opens on May 2, 2020 at 6 a.m. and closes June 7, 2020 at midnight, CST. Preference point purchases and applications will only be accepted during this time. In the meantime, be...
The Buffalo’s Demise
No one was fully aware of the buffalo's impending demise, not even the countless hidemen who rushed out West to hunt the huge beasts. John and George rode silently across the snow-covered plain, staying to the windward side of the big herd. The buffalo were slowly...
A Better Blind
My pro trainer friend Bob Olson had been raving about the Switchback Dog Blind/Kennel Crate, and when I finally made it up to his place (River Road Kennels in Lena, Wisconsin) for a look, I immediately became a believer. While the Switchback has a lot to recommend...
Arizona’s rattlesnakes most active April
So far, 39 bites have been reported statewide in 2020 and counting 19 of those bites were recorded in the month of April, the month when rattlesnakes are the most active. In warm deserts, rattlesnakes are most active March through October. During the spring,...
Memories at Goosepond Creek
It was remote, dark and distant, and about as wild and woolly as a place could be. It was a pilgrimage of sorts, this journey of ours. It had been a long time since we had been to "Goosepond." It had been called that since colonial times, and legend held that it had...
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Returns to Outdoor Channel June 29th
Hit series reaches 13.5 million viewers in its inaugural season through cable, syndication, and international distribution. Officials from Dorsey Pictures, a Red Arrow Studios company, the world’s largest producer of outdoor adventure television and the only...
The Hunt for the White Unicorn
The packs grew heavy on their backs, the rifles like lead in their hands. But they continued on. Neither knew how many miles lay ahead. It is said that the ancient shamans knew when a man’s last day had come. They could see it in the stars, the smoke, the shadows,...
New Life for Old Game: Easy, 3-Step Recipes for a Flavorful Meal
If you're like me, you've got game from a hunting trip years ago still shoved in the back of your freezer. Don't let it go to waste. A decade ago, I arrived home from Ungava with meat from two fine caribou. To store it, I bought an upright freezer. In it, season...
Enter the 2020 New Hampshire Moose Hunt Lottery Today
If you want to hunt moose in New Hampshire this fall, now is the time to enter the 2020 moose hunt lottery and try your luck on the adventure of a lifetime — hunting moose in the rugged woods of the Granite State. The lottery entrance fee is $15 for New Hampshire...
MDC reports young hunters bagged 2,712 turkeys over youth weekend
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young turkey hunters in Missouri harvested 2,712 birds over the past youth weekend, April 4 and 5. Top harvest counties were Miller with 74 birds checked, Franklin with 62, and Callaway and...