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Entries for April 2009
Big Sister Makes Do with the Smokepole | By Steven Dove
-- My 12-year-old son and I were looking forward to the 2008 youth hunt. After four years of harvesting does, he was eager to get a crack at a buck. That became my priority.
We put out trail cameras during the summer. Each time we to...
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Kentucky Elk Hunt Drawing Extended Through May 3 | From the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife
-- Hunters now have three extra days to apply for the 2009 Kentucky elk hunt. Citing technical problems over the past few days with state government’s online payment application, Kentucky Dep...
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Feeding ‘Gators Illegal, Dangerous | From the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
-- The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is reminding residents and visitors that feeding alligators is not only dangerous, but also illegal.
As the weather warms, Wildlife officials receive more repor...
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Better Luck Next Year! | By Timothy Nickless
-- This is not the typical hunting magazine story. But I'll bet it happens a lot more often than anyone would care to admit.
Because I was going to school at the University of Missouri-Columbia last year, I wasn't able to hunt m...
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19 Ohio teams in National Archery in Schools tournament | From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Four hundred and thirty-eight Ohio elementary, middle, and high school students, encompassing 19 teams, will participate in the May 8 and 9 National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) Champ...
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Beginner’s Blessing | By Forrest Hurst
-- I had been an avid waterfowler and upland game hunter for years, but I didn’t have any experience hunting big game. At the urging of a friend, I decided to give deer hunting a try and bought my first compound bow in 2003. I...
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A Lowdown Trick for Shut-Mouthed Toms | By Shelly Brothers
-- I prefer bowhunting for deer, but love turkey hunting with a shotgun. Back in the Missouri’s 2006 spring turkey season, my husband and I slept in on the second Saturday morning due to a nasty, windy and w...
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Tennessee proposes changing 2009-10 whitetail season dates | From the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is proposing a substantial change to proposed whitetail deer season dates by unifying two muzzleloader segments and creating 14-day muzzleloader season that...
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Southeast Quail Study Group honors wildlife biologist | From the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
-- As far as tasks at hand, Stan Stewart has a steep hill to climb. The wildlife biologist with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Wildlife and Freshw...
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Missouri’s antlerless and muzzleloader seasons reversed | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Most of the 2009-2010 deer and turkey hunting seasons and regulations will look familiar to experienced hunters, but this year’s rules also contain a number of significant changes.
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Invasive Northern Snakehead caught by NC angler in Lake Wylie | From the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
-- An angler fishing the Paw Creek arm of Lake Wylie in Mecklenburg County, N.C., caught a 31-inch northern snakehead on April 19. Lake Wylie is located on the border of North and South Carol...
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A Battle to Remember | By Jeff Miller
-- It was the last weekend of the rifle deer season in North Dakota. My son and I were at my mother’s home for Thanksgiving. We decided to go deer hunting the following morning (Nov. 23), since I still had a doe tag to fill.
W...
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Bear Sightings Not Uncommon This Time Of Year | From the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
-- This time of year, young male black bears are roaming and often stumbling into what is considered non-traditional bear range, including urbanized areas and suburbs.
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Alabama’s Coastal Impact Assistance Program Approved | From Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
-- Approval for Alabama’s Coastal Impact Assistance Program Plan was announced April 23 at 5 Rivers – Delta Resource Center in Spanish Fort. This opens the way for the state...
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When a Plan Comes Together | By Jake Landon
-- November 22, 2008, started off better than the day before.
I had missed several big bucks throughout that earlier day, so when I got up on the morning of the 22nd, I decided it was time to shoot some paper. I was using a new shotg...
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Wingshooting the Focus of 8-Week Kansas Hunter Ed Course | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- Kansas volunteer hunter education instructors will conduct an eight-week advanced course in wingshooting beginning Thursday, June 18, through August 6. The course will run from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. ...
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Missouri’s Opening day Turkey Harvest Down 14 percent | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Sometimes being right is no fun, as Missouri turkey biologist Tom Dailey knows.
Dailey, a resource scientist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, predicted the 2009 spring turkey harvest wo...
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The 9-Point Buck That Wasn’t | By Cliff Smallwood
-- In November 1997, while I was in Brady, Texas on business, I had the opportunity to run out to the hunting lease with Jeff Cox for a while. We were going to Jeff’s blind to do a little fix-up, and I just happened to tak...
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Pennsylvania Commissioners adjust Extended Bear Seasons | From the Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- The Board of Commissioners gave final approval April 22 to the traditional three-day statewide black bear season before Thanksgiving, extended bear seasons in certain portions of the state concurrent wi...
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PA Game Commissioners adopt 2009-10 Seasons and Bag Limits | From the Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners has approved hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for 2009-10, including an antlerless deer license allocation for the 22 Wildlife Management Units and a ne...
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Ohio Youth Wins the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Competition | From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
-- A single wood duck was selected to appear on the 2009-2010 Federal Junior Duck Stamp, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports. The design for the new stamp, painted by 16 year-old Lily Spang of Toledo, O...
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How Chocolate Milk Almost Cost Me a Buck | By Richard West
-- After passing on the first eight does, I couldn’t help thinking how big and fat doe number nine looked. It was Nov. 21, 2008, the opening day of shotgun season in central Illinois, and since I hadn’t yet seen a buck, I...
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Ashtabula County leads Ohio turkey harvest on opening day | From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Ohio hunters harvested a preliminary total of 1,712 bearded wild turkeys on the first day of the spring turkey-hunting season, open through May 17. Steady rain over most of the state kept the...
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Salmonella outbreak killing Southern songbirds | From the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
-- Salmonella infections have been killing more wild birds than usual in the Southeast this winter, but the increase does not seem related to the nationwide human disease outbreak tied to tai...
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2009 Kansas Deer, Antelope and Elk Seasons Approved | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- The Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission approved 2009 big game season regulations at a public hearing in Oakley April 16, and established seasons for deer, antelope and elk.
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Ammo Makers Shed Light on Shortage | From the National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- The National Shooting Sports Foundation has received numerous calls regarding shortages of ammunition. Many of these callers have expressed concern that the supply of ammunition is not able to keep up...
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An "Interesting" Hunt | By Michael Baumer
-- When he heard a buck working over a sapling in the nearby fence row, Levi Baumer thought his hunt might get interesting. Then the buck jumped the fence and walked into the unpicked cornfield Levi was watching from a 17-foot tree...
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One Last Time to Finish What We Started | By Brock A. Halbrook
-- My stepfather, Terry Oestmann, is the person who got me hooked on deer hunting when I was a kid. We hunted on great farmland for years, harvesting nice bucks together, though none worthy of mounting. We also had dry y...
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Backyard Bruiser | By Luis T. Fernandez
-- I started hunting deer in 1966 and have hunted every year since then, excepting 1971-1973, when I was in the U.S. Army. Not having the time and finances to hunt in another states, I normally hunt close to home. I’ve hav...
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Turkey Hunters Urged to Practice Safety | From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission reminds hunters to stay safe while enjoying the spring shotgun turkey hunting season which opens April 18.
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PA Commission Game begins gypsy moth spraying effort | From the Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- In an effort to protect wildlife habitat, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials have scheduled gypsy moth spraying for 22,113 acres of its more than 1.4 million-acre State Game Lands (SGLs) system. Spr...
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Iowa Deer Hunters share harvest with needy | From the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
-- Iowa deer hunters donated more than 7,300 deer to the needy by the close of the 2008-09 deer season through the cooperative Help Us Stop Hunger (HUSH) program. Venison from those deer amounted to 32...
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Whitetail: The Other Deer Meat | By Tyler Vickrey
-- November 14, 2008, is a date I will never forget. It was the morning of my first whitetail hunt in northeastern Washington state with five of my best friends. I usually hunt mule deer with my dad near our homes in the little town...
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A Brother’s Bond | By Charles Brande
-- It has taken me several years to put this story to words. My best friend Derek Miller and I have known each other since we were 6. We grew up hunting and fishing together all over North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. If ...
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What Are the Odds? | By William (Bill) Rumfelt
-- This is not a story about bringing home the big one or a hunting trip that was a great success. It's about an odd turn of events that occurred in the fall of 2006 and 2007.
Not coming from a family that has ...
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Peregrine Falcons return to nest in Nebraska Capitol | From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- For the fifth year in a row, a pair of peregrine falcons has produced eggs in a nest box outside the 18th floor of the Nebraska State Capitol, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
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Pennsylvania opens its 41st Spring Gobbler season April 18 | From the Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- 2009 marks the 41st anniversary of the Keystone State’s spring gobbler hunting season, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission says turkey hunters should expect to find exciting opportunities afield as t...
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News Round-up for Illinois Hunters | From the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
-- Anglers and hunters are reminded that the new license year for Illinois fishing, hunting, and sportsman combination licenses began April 1.
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It’s the time for hunting bullfrogs – all across Arkansas | From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- Frog season is coming up soon. It runs April 15 through Dec. 31 in Arkansas, and you need a fishing license, not a hunting license. The daily limit on bullfrogs is 18, and a day is measured from noon to ...
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Maiden Hunt | By Brenda Ryan
-- 2008 was my first year to go hunting. I accompanied my father during the early doe season in southern Iowa. Actually, that represented two firsts: my maiden hunt and my father's first time to take his 43-year-old daughter afield ...
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