Goose Hunting Tips and Tactics Hunting geese with success is a tough challenge. Honkers, big geese weighing 10 pounds or more, are naturally anti-social birds. They only land in the same field because that’s where the best feed is. Lessers, a smaller sub-species of Canada geese found in the Central and Pacific flyways, are getting … Read more
Everything We Thought We Knew About Snow Geese Was Wrong In 1999, biologists miscalculated the number of mid-content snows by 5 million birds. The population was thought to be 3 million, but it was actually 8 million. Today, there are around 10 million adults in the population, down from a peak of 16 to 18 … Read more
Why Is Deer Hunting in the Northwoods Declining? Will It Rebound? Stu Osthoff of Ely, Minnesota, first hunted the state’s Arrowhead region in 1978 at age 22. He was impressed by the abundance of big antlers nailed to barns and garages. He settled down locally, got married, and raised a family. Starting in the late … Read more
How to Pluck a Duck Wild ducks are best cooked with the skin on. That means you’ve got to pluck their feathers, which can be a tedious and time consuming task. The most straightforward way to pluck a duck is by tearing off the feathers until the skin is clear and clean. However, there are … Read more
New Utah Study Shows Elk Leave Public Ground During Hunting Season, But Issuing Private-Land Tags Send Them Back A study from Utah reveals that the state’s elk are responding to hunting activity by adjusting their behavior. Conducted by Brigham Young University and published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, the study found that elk in … Read more
Don’t Aim for a Deer’s Head In the National Deer Association’s collection of odd deer artifacts is a deer jawbone. It is bent, misshaped, and missing teeth on the left side. In a strange bulge of bone on the right side, there is a gray object – the bullet that damaged the deer’s jaw. Joe … Read more
New World-Record Sitka Blacktail Confirmed for Bowhunting Legend Chuck Adams Chuck Adams, an accomplished bowhunter, has set a new Pope and Young velvet world-record for Sitka blacktail with a buck measuring 109 7/8 inches. With 57 years of bowhunting experience, Adams has become a source of inspiration for generations of bowhunters through his exceptional hunting … Read more
Georgia Considers Open Season on Raccoons and Opossums to Help Turkeys Politicians in Georgia believe more needs to be done to help wild turkey populations in the state. To address this, they have passed legislation that would allow year-round hunting and trapping of raccoons and opossums. These two species are known to eat turkey eggs … Read more
Pennsylvania Public Land Hunter Kills Massive 205-Inch Drop-Tine Buck John Raubenstrauch took a gang of kids to help recover Spoons. Four years ago, John Raubenstrauch spotted a 10-point buck on a field edge near his home in Elk County, Pennsylvania. He knew the buck was destined to be a dandy and continued to see it … Read more
Need a Last-Minute Gift for a Hunter? Give Them an Outdoor Life+ Membership YOU DON’T HAVE to convince us the holidays are poorly timed. It happens to us every year, without fail. We’re so focused on getting in the woods that we neglect to get gifts…for anyone. Besides, budgets are tight and it’s tough to … Read more
