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Over the last few months, a virus called HPAI has been killing wild birds. It is now killing mammals. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently confirmed that three red fox kits died from highly pathogenic avian influenza – the state’s first such confirmation of the HPAI virus in wild mammals. The fox kits, collected…
COVID-19 sent millions of new hunters into the woods, and conservation benefited. Deer hunters in the United States harvested an estimated 6.3 million white-tailed deer in the 2020-21 hunting season, the most since 2001, according to the National Deer Association’s latest Deer Report released this week. Harvests of both antlered bucks and antlerless deer were…
We all saw the evidence of this in the fields and woods; here are the numbers! It started almost two years ago, and we’re still learning about how COVID-19 changed the way Americans participate in the sport of hunting. Today we have new data courtesy of a company called onX Hunt, in partnership with Southwick…
The COVID-19 pandemic drove America back to its outdoor roots. Let’s stay here. You’re probably familiar with the Bassmaster brand and its parent company, B.A.S.S. You’re probably also familiar with a little thing that happened last year called the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of Americans used the lockdowns as a time to get connected with Nature…and…
Just about a year ago, as it became clearer that the initial “two weeks to flatten the curve” COVID-19 lockdown was going to transform into “indefinite lockdown until there’s a vaccine,” we ran an article about the three idiots you Popular Outdoorsmen readers were going to encounter in the wilderness. I stand by those words,…
Hallelujah: Gunprime.com has enough AR-15s in stock to do this video! Ever since COVID-19 laid waste both to our nation’s economy and our supply of shooting iron, American gun closets have been starved of AR-15s (and the AR-15s have been starved of ammunition). Meanwhile, Americans themselves have been starved of one of our favorite forms…
Steyr Arms has a message for all Steyr fans worldwide, from the Austrian Alps from which they hail to the hills of Texas. Although COVID-19 may have pooped our Oktoberfest party, there are other reasons to rejoice. After all, who needs Oktoberfest when you can have AUGtoberfest? Oktoberfest may feature frothy beer and frothier frauleins,…
The National Rifle Association is offering a free online Experienced Hunter Education Course for those preparing to take advantage of the upcoming hunting season. NRA’s free 2-hour course is a firearm and hunting safety-training refresher in a convenient and engaging platform available through desktop, tablet, or smartphone. The course is available to everyone at www.NRAEHE.org. “As…
I’ve spent a lot of time in the wilderness, but there are two critters I need to see in the wild before I die… One of the coolest things about being an outdoorsman is spotting wild animals in their natural environment. As a hunter, I’ve spent countless hours sitting very still and being very quiet–as…
Every year, the outdoor writers of the world receive desperate pleas from the various fish and wildlife departments around the country to please tell our readers to leave young wildlife alone. This year, the pleas have been particularly urgent–most likely because social-distancing mandates related to COVID-19 have caused millions of Americans to seek exercise and…
Dear Vegans of America, I welcome you to sport hunting with open arms. Dear Vegans, I’ll start by saying that nobody cares what you choose to eat or not eat–that’s entirely your business and we live in a free country. That said, if the reason you eschew animal products in your diet is that you’re…
The Coronavirus pandemic may still be ongoing, but as state stay-at-home orders lift one by one, more and more people are heading outside to enjoy what’s turning into a beautiful May all across the country. Experienced outdoorsmen know that camping, hiking, backpacking and hunting are the original “social distancing” measures; after all, it’s a lot…
