by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 7, 2019
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Python Action Team (PAT) has now removed 900 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida, including a large 18 foot, 4 inch long female python – the largest ever captured by the team. FWC PAT members Cynthia...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 7, 2019
Anyone who wants to try grouse hunting has an opportunity to access hunter walking trails that guide nonmotorized users through grouse habitat in northern and central Minnesota. “Hunter walking trails are a fun way to check out new areas and they do provide good...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 6, 2019
Herpetologist Nick Shiltz has his hands full with this 105-pound Suwannee alligator snapping turtle trapped in Warrior Creek near Sylvester. Shiltz and Dirk Stevenson caught and released the monster two-foot-long male as part of a DNR-coordinated survey documenting...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 5, 2019
Additional opportunities have been added for hunters in South Carolina this bear season. For the first time, private land in the southern portions of Oconee, Pickens and Greenville counties (south of Game Zone 1) and all of Spartanburg County (Game Zone 2) will have a...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 4, 2019
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Antlerless Hunter Database connects hunters who wish to harvest antlerless deer with landowners who are experiencing damage from deer on their property. Landowners and hunters are important to managing wildlife; together with...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 4, 2019
Alyssa Nitschelm, of Redmond, Oregon, did not fully grasp the significance of what she was seeing when she checked the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) big game hunting draw results in the kitchen with her father. Having never hunted before, the...
by Larry Chesney | Oct 4, 2019
Hunting giant whitetails in an enclosure had never held any appeal for me. Over the past 50 years, I’d chased free-range deer with gun, bow and camera, and I had no intention of changing that. Chuck, the editor at Sporting Classics, knew of my distaste for high-fence...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 3, 2019
It is illegal to possess or use, for the purpose of hunting or scouting any wild animal in South Carolina, any substance or material that contains or purports to contain any excretion collected from a cervid (deer) including urine, feces, blood, gland oil or other...
by Charles Ruth, SCDNR Big Game Program Coordinator | Oct 3, 2019
Disposal of deer remains may not be the highlight of a hunting trip, but it is an important aspect of hunting, particularly in maintaining the hunter’s image. Hunters should realize that improperly disposing of deer remains is not only illegal in many places,...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 2, 2019
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, recently distributed information important to deer hunters on diseases they may encounter in deer and how to recognize sick-looking deer. While the Division reported that, to date, neither...
