by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 27, 2019
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos recently announced the adoption of a regulation to reduce problems caused by wildlife feeding and establish strict procedures for the use of tick-control devices designed to treat...
by Ryan Stalvey | Dec 26, 2019
In 1954, nearly a million hunters took to the northern woods for the opening day of the Pennsylvania deer season. Each of them with hopes of bagging a big buck. All, that is, but one. Inch by inch, the afternoon sun steadily dissolves, casting an orange and pink haze...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 24, 2019
Applications for multispecies Super Tag and Combo lottery permits will be accepted by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission beginning Jan. 2. The Super Tag lottery permit will be valid for one elk of either sex, one antelope of either sex, one deer of either sex and...
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Dec 23, 2019
Do you remember the “good old days,” when the only dangers an outdoor sportsman or woman had to fear were venomous snakes, bull gators, rogue boars and the occasional rabid canine? Yeah, good times, good times. My aging father is always making fun of my generation of...
by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Dec 20, 2019
This is a hedonistic animal that likes nothing more than to roll belly up and scratch its back like a 1,200-pound Labrador retriever. It is very disconcerting to dismount your horse briefly and then return to find him scratching his back with both pieces of your...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 19, 2019
A late antlerless firearm hunt will be held Jan. 2-5 and Jan. 9-12 on private land in southern Alpena County, Michigan. The Department of Natural Resources is offering this season to provide an opportunity for deer management at a localized scale in northeast...
by Larry Weishuhn | Dec 19, 2019
Q: I’ve watched some slow-motion videos of deer being shot, and the shock waves that ripple out from the point of impact makes me think there is more to the actual killing effect than meets the eye. I know that if you slam a water valve open or closed you can cause...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 19, 2019
If you see a rabbit in New Hampshire this winter, report it. NH Rabbit Reports, a project sponsored by the UNH Cooperative Extension and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, with support from the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire, is again asking...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 19, 2019
Features: Grouse of the Little Hills The place looked like grouse and it smelled like grouse. By Archibald Rutledge Bed Time for Geese On a cold wintry day, you can’t beat an old mattress for comfort and camouflage. By Dick Donnelly Driven in the Devon Driven birds...
by Luke Clayton | Dec 19, 2019
After you’ve been kicking around in the outdoors hunting and fishing as long as I have, it’s pretty exciting to partake of an entirely new outdoor experience such as deer hunting with an airgun. This past week, during the peak of the cold weather pushed down by the...
