by Jameson Parker | Dec 3, 2019
My first hunting dog was a Chesapeake Bay retriever. That might seem a poor choice of first-time hunting dog, Chesapeakes being notoriously idiosyncratic—if you use that word to express their penchant for independent thinking. Other words would be eccentric, singular,...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 3, 2019
During first two weeks of the 2019 modern gun deer season, Arkansas hunters harvested more than 140,000 deer throughout the state. To put that into perspective, Arkansas hunters had already checked more deer than the total harvest for any year before 1995 in The...
by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Dec 1, 2019
Wranglers know that certain horses like to lead and other horses are better off following the animal ahead of them. The commuter is a horse who is somewhere in the middle of the group and spends its time alternating between burying its nose in the nether regions of...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 28, 2019
Montana has recorded its first suspected case of chronic wasting disease in wild elk. The cow elk was harvested by a landowner on private land northeast of Red Lodge earlier this month and samples were extracted from the carcass in Billings Nov. 6, 2019. Tests results...
by Duncan Dobie | Nov 28, 2019
As an official Boone and Crockett measurer, Ron Boucher of Waterford, Vermont, who speaks fluent French, had scored several heads for his good friend, André Beaudy, a native of Quebec. Both André and Ron were later instrumental in helping to establish an arm of the...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 27, 2019
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is updating the state’s wolf management plan and is looking to the public for input. To that end, the agency is creating a new wolf plan advisory committee to help inform the update to the management plan. Applications are...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 26, 2019
A woman was severely injured in an incident when a buck mule deer attacked her while on a farm near Guide Rock on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. The woman was doing chores alone when she apparently was attacked by the deer. She was discovered some time later and transported...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 25, 2019
Most of Utah’s black bears have begun entering dens to hibernate for the winter, ending a busy summer of wildlife biologists relocating nuisance bears throughout Utah. The total number of black bear incidents reported to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 20, 2019
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that deer hunters in Missouri harvested 88,843 deer during the opening weekend of the November portion of the fall firearms deer season Nov. 16 and 17. Of the 88,843 deer harvested, 51,086 were...
by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Nov 20, 2019
This animal is certain that every stick, rock, bent blade of grass, insect or animal scent, poses an immediate threat to its very survival. It responds accordingly by rearing, running, going in reverse or otherwise making a fool out of itself and you. In bear and wolf...
