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Deer rules get mostly positive public response
MADISON - Based on positive responses at a series of statewide public hearings, several deer hunting rule changes proposed by the Department of Natural Resources are likely to go into effect for the 2006 season.
“The changes were widely supported,” said Keith Warnke, DNR deer specialist, “with the exception of […]

Vermont archers - For Vermont deer hunters who pursue their quarry with bow and arrow, the times are changing.
From 1995 through 2004, bow hunters killed an average of 4,413 deer during the October archery season. This year, archers aren’t likely to tag 1,000 animals.
Poor hunting weather in October and radical changes in the state’s […]

Turkey hunter , 10, bags first grand slam - You sit and listen as Taylor Kinard talks about her accomplishments, not only in the classroom at Hutchison School, where she is an honor student, but also in the field as a hunter, where this year she possibly became the youngest girl ever captured on video […]

Duck hunting club may fight ruling - HENNEPIN - A large Putnam County duck hunting club that just lost an appellate court battle in a property assessment case involving definitions of farmland has not ruled out appealing to the Illinois Supreme Court, its president said Tuesday.
“We’re not closing the door on any of our options,” […]

ARCHERS AND LONG ISLAND HUNTERS TO RECEIVE EXTENDED OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR DEER MANAGEMENT PERMITS
Applications Accepted Starting November 1 in Certain Wildlife Management Units
ALBANY, NY — (10/26/2005; 1330)(EIS) — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Acting Commissioner Denise M. Sheehan today announced that a second Deer Management Permit (DMP) application period […]

Fall turkey season opens Saturday - Wildlife experts predict good hunting opportunities statewide Bagging a fall turkey is no easy task, but hunters who participate in Saturday’s season opener should at least find plenty of birds to pursue.
About 95 percent of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Wildlife Conservation Officers and Land Management Group Supervisors rate hunting […]

State’s whitetail deer hunters lead in kills - Deer hunter Clay Hardy can lay claim to being a national champion of sorts, part of a team that racked up the highest whitetail deer harvest numbers in the nation for the 2004-2005 hunting season.
Hunters in Alabama bagged 535,000 deer last year, according to state estimates. Wisconsin […]

Late Rains Fuel Hopes for Improved Duck Hunting
By Jim Low - This year’s waterfowl outlook probably is brighter than habitat surveys and nesting pair counts would lead hunters to believe.
Jefferson City, Mo. - infoZine - Duck hunters who only look at statistics from annual breeding-pair and habitat surveys are apt to think hunting will be […]

Turkey population stable , as hunting season apporaches - Chuck Smith is not in the business of planning family reunions, but he knows the importance of calling relatives back together.
At least when it comes to turkeys.
Smith is president of the Mon Valley Longbeards Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. He’s killed a number […]

Deer Hunting The Agony and the Ecstacy - The sun peeked over the treetops behind me, just barely painting the tips of the yellowing oak leaves high above. The sunlight was far from reaching the forest floor however. Everything down there was still a blur of pre-dawn grays. I sat somewhere in between, 18 feet […]