Hunting
Hunting from draw to harvest. Tag deadlines and leftover draws, season dates, species tactics, safety, and the federal and state rules that govern the hunt.
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Leupold is offering hunters the chance to see what it’s like on the other side of the glass. Ever watched those hunting shows on TV or streaming and wondered what it took to create a narrative out of the star’s hunt? The answer is both “quite a lot” and “not much, really.” That’s because hunting…
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“We thought the evidence of corruption might be bad, but the mountain of evidence we’ve uncovered is like nothing we’ve seen before.” The Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (SAF) filed a petition with Gov. Ferguson asking for the removal of Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners Barbara Baker, Lorna Smith, Melanie Rowland, and John Lehmkuhl after evidence of…
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Uniquely beautiful, intelligent, with excellent color vision … the Merriam’s subspecies is a unique challenge to turkey hunters. It’s doubtful any other game species compels hunters to travel around the country with such vigor as the wild turkey, and then do it in such a relatively short period of time. Depending on the location, wild…
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My question isn’t, “Why is this happening?” My question is, “Why isn’t it happening everywhere?” Every four years or so, the Utah Department of Natural Resources has an auction event to sell hundreds of antlers and furs that Utah Department of Natural Resources law enforcement officers seized during poaching investigations, or otherwise obtained possession of,…
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Depending on where you live in the country, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is either something you’ve just read about, or it’s something you try not to think too hard about while you’re sending in your harvest for mandatory testing. What’s scary about CWD is that it’s basically like Mad Cow Disease, only for deer. It’s…
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“The good news is that I never had to go back to the hayfield. The bad news is I never got to go back to the hayfield.” Robin Clark’s accident in 1970 left the boy paraplegic, forever changing the idyllic farm-kid lifestyle he’d enjoyed. But he never let the loss of the use of his…
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Editor’s note: Today’s column comes to us courtesy of Chris Dorsey, biologist, award-winning television and film producer, regular contributor to Forbes, past editor of Ducks Unlimited and Sports Afield magazines, and the author of 12 books on hunting and natural history subjects. American sportsmen have justifiably celebrated the success of the so-called North American model…
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Ready your shotgun, decoys, and camo duds…the season’s opening salvo is but weeks away. When Mother Nature kicks the natural air-conditioning on sometime mid-August, it’s always a much welcome reprieve from sweltering summer weather. The change beckons hunters with their first real sense of what is coming only a few weeks away. They know, tiny…
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It’s like having Daniel Boone, a lawyer, and a soothsayer in your pocket! As an older hunter, I’ll always tout the importance of knowing how to use a compass and topo map to navigate, because I can’t quite trust my cellphone to have a signal wherever I am. That said, the new hunting tools you…
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As outdoorsmen, we’re getting some mixed messages from D.C. here … Just a couple of months ago, we learned that the Bureau of Land Management had–perhaps somewhat prematurely–announced that it intends to end recreational shooting at the Sonoran Desert National Monument. What was particularly strange about this event was that there really wasn’t any justification…
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Editor’s Note: Today’s guest column comes to us from Maria Davidson, SCI Foundation Large Carnivore Program Manager. Many states throughout the continental U.S. are seeing a rise in black bear populations. Population growth pushes bears into human-dominated areas that are unsuitable for wildlife, precipitating a comparable increase in dangerous conflicts with humans, pets, and livestock….
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Most hunters will never see an animal like this in the wild … but if you want to pretend you did, now’s your chance! The International Wildlife Museum of the Safari Club International Foundation permanently closed on December 31, 2023. The museum housed nearly 2,000 taxidermy mounts and skulls. In the wake of this closure,…
