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 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...
by Larry Weishuhn | Dec 11, 2019
Q: Is it better for a bullet to pass through or stop in a deer? I’ve heard good arguments on both sides. Those who want the bullet to pass through want the extra hole so more blood comes out if they have to follow the deer. Those who want the bullet not to exit say...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 5, 2019
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 1,909 deer during Missouri’s late youth portion of the 2019 deer hunting season, Nov. 29 through Dec. 1. Of the 1,909 deer harvested, 752 were...
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 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 Larry Weishuhn | Nov 20, 2019
Q: I want to learn more about rattling in whitetail bucks. When is the best time of the year, the best time of the day, the best technique and do I need big or small antlers for rattling? I’ve tried rattling many times but have never rattled in a buck. I’ve even...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 18, 2019
Hunters are now prohibited from bringing whole deer, elk, moose or caribou carcasses into New York. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced that DEC adopted the regulatory changes to further protect New...
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Nov 15, 2019
A deer hunter’s stand should be a sacred place — a peaceful fortress of solitude where a man, woman or child can go to sit peacefully surrounded by the sights and sounds of nature on a glorious fall afternoon. It should be a place free of all care, worry and...
