Gun owners often form pretty strong attachments to their firearms. When you spend years toting a sidearm on your hip or carrying a rifle through the woods, it’s virtually impossible not to develop warmhearted feelings about those tools and constant ...
Virginia Hunting License Scam Highlights National Problem
State wildlife agencies across the country are warning residents to watch out for fake websites pretending to sell legit hunting and fishing licenses. Gone are the days when hunters and anglers could just stroll into their local bait shop or ...
Predator Calling Contests Under Attack From Virginia Lawmaker
Predator calling competitions are currently under fire in the Commonwealth of Virginia, creating concern among some hunters about the future of their sport after a state delegate labeled such contests as violent, gruesome, and purposeless and said ...
Washington 2022 Spring Bear Hunting Season May Be Resurrected
Everyone thought Washington state’s 2022 spring bear season was dead for good, but now, it looks like the hunt has a chance at resurrection. The state fish and wildlife commission decided Friday, Jan. 22, to reconsider the cancellation, which ...
CO Rejects Blaze Orange for Bowhunters Proposal Spurred by Shooting
Colorado bowhunters will not have to remember to stuff an orange vest and hat into their packs this hunting season. State wildlife officials recently rejected a proposal that would have forced bowhunters to wear blaze orange during the period when ...
Ohio Turkey Hunters May See Major Cuts to 2022 Fall Season
Ohio turkey hunters could see a major cut to their 2022 fall season. At an Ohio Wildlife Council meeting on Jan. 12, wildlife biologists with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources recommended shortening the Buckeye State’s fall turkey ...
Wild Hunting Tactics: How 7 Apex Predators Do What They Do Best
As all hunters know, putting meat on the table requires patience, skill, know-how, and a healthy dash of luck. That formula isn’t exclusive to human hunters. All of Nature’s best hunters, the apex predators, possess these same traits. Some ...
‘Alarming’ Wolf Hunting Tallies in Yellowstone Not Alarming At All
Wolf hunting in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho in areas bordering Yellowstone National Park has legally taken 20 gray wolves this season, causing concern for the future of the park’s iconic canines and some alarmist headlines, despite thriving ...
North Carolina Black Bear Hunting May Be Expanded to 3 Sanctuaries
While Washington state has canceled its spring bear hunting season for 2022, wildlife officials are considering opening three sanctuaries to North Carolina black bear hunting in the western part of the state this year to address an increasing number ...
Banded Birds: Why Leg Bands are More Than Mere Hunting Trophies
For serious waterfowlers, few things are more exhilarating than your retriever returning to the blind with a bird bearing bling on its landing gear. Taking banded birds is a rare thing; it’s the waterfowler’s equivalent of dropping a 150-class ...
PA Hunting Clubs Sue Game Commission Over Warrantless Searches
Pitch Pine Hunting Club member Jon Mikesell and his buddies were sitting on the porch enjoying the peace and quiet of the Allegheny Mountains when they were approached by a man who told them he’d been watching them from a hiding place on the property ...
Antlered Doe: Missouri Hunter Shoots Huge, Rare 16-Pointer
Shooting a 16-point buck isn’t exactly an everyday occurrence, but it’s not exactly unusual either. It is decidedly rarer to encounter a whitetail doe sporting 16-point headgear. That’s precisely what Missouri hunter Samuel Perotti shot just before ...
Utah Elk Hunting: Intense Backcountry Rescue Saves Hunter’s Leg
Utah hunter Coy Kummer hoped to end his elk season hauling out a big bull. Instead, it ended with a broken leg, a wild rescue, and several major surgeries. On Oct. 10, 22-year-old Coy and his father, Brian Kummer, were hunting the northern ...
Virginia Elk Are Back! Whitetail Hunter Tags 700-Pound Home-State Bull
Richard Bryson always takes two weeks’ vacation during Virginia’s early muzzleloader season, which gives him so extra time to work on filling his deer tags every year. He never expected to use one of those tags to check a bull elk, but that’s exactly ...
Makah Tribe Could Resume 2,700-Year-Old Whale Hunting Tradition
Whale hunting is a tradition sacred to the Makah Tribe, an indigenous people who live on the Pacific Northwest Coast. But due to dwindling whale populations and a lengthy legal battle, the Makah have only had one whale hunt in nearly a ...
Rogue Red Stag Looking for Love in Georgia
State wildlife officials identified a massive elk-like animal caught on remote game cameras in four Georgia counties as a European red deer, aka a red stag. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources began receiving game camera images of the ...
Russian Bear Attack: Boxer Shoots, Stabs Brown Bear to Death in Siberia
A Russian bear attack that killed one man has left champion boxer Ilya Medvedev in a coma after a fishing trip gone wrong. The wild story sounds like something out of a mountain man's repertoire of tall tales. The 23-year-old champion ...
Elk Rescue: Colorado Elk Freed From Tire After Two Years
A bull elk in Pine, Colorado, found himself in a tight spot when he somehow got his head stuck in a car tire, leading wildlife officers on a two-year chase that ended with an unusual elk rescue. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers first observed ...
Bowhunter Finds Human Remains Identified as Hunter Missing Since 1968
An Idaho bowhunter stumbled upon a set of human remains on Friday, Sept. 17, while hunting near Hayden Creek in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. When authorities arrived, they found a rotted wallet with the body that identified it as a fellow ...
Wyoming Petitioning Feds to Delist Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Gov. Mark Gordon has announced Wyoming will petition the feds to remove grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone from protection under the Endangered Species Act — again. The state has tried to delist grizzlies twice before under both the ...
Tule Elk Hemmed in by High Fence Are Languishing in California Drought
A string of nearly 100 volunteers hiked 350 gallons of water more than three miles on Saturday, Aug. 28, in an attempt to save a suffering herd of tule elk. The water was brought to a dying pond within California's Point Reyes National Seashore, an ...
Florida Man Arrested With Dozens of Illegal Spiny Lobsters
This week, Giovanni Jesus Pirez joined a long list of meme-worthy Florida men arrested for colorful and sometimes bizarre activities. In Pirez's case, he got pinched with a boatful of illegal crustaceans, no valid fishing or boating credentials of ...
Iran’s Sajad Ganjzadeh Wins Karate Gold by Getting Knocked Out
The final strike delivered in the Olympic debut of karate had all the drama, power, and intensity that has inspired millions to fall in love with combat sports. Fans who watched the gold-medal bout between Tareg Hamedi (Saudi Arabia) and Sajad ...
Surf Fishing Starter Kit: North Carolina’s OBX and Beyond
From the isolated and undeveloped barrier island of Cape Lookout to crowded tourist destinations like Nags Head and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina has hundreds of miles of spectacular shoreline. In summer and early fall, hundreds of sportsmen and women ...
Watch: USA’s Carissa Moore Rides Wave to 1st Ever Surfing Gold
American surfer Carissa Moore made history Tuesday when she won gold in the women’s shortboard event at the Tokyo Olympics. Moore defeated South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag in the head-to-head final round of the first-ever Olympic surfing ...
Watch: Teen Makes History as 1st Woman to Win US Taekwondo Gold
Eighteen-year-old Anastasija Zolotic made Olympic history Sunday morning as the first American woman to win a gold medal in taekwondo. Zolotic’s road to the gold medal match was paved with several dominating wins. She defeated Morocco’s Nada ...
A Guide to Tokyo 2020 Olympic Shooting Events
While mainstream sports like swimming, track, and gymnastics often steal the spotlight at the Summer Olympic Games, shooting events hold plenty of excitement for spectators. Historically, the US is the most successful nation in Olympic shooting, ...
A Guide to Olympic Archery in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games
Punching paper targets might not be as thrilling as sending arrows through bugling bull elk, but Olympic archery is still exciting to watch — especially when you know exactly what's happening. Archery is one of the sports that will be ...
Olympic Action Sports: How To Stream and Watch the Best Tokyo 2020 Events
The Tokyo Summer Olympic Games are here, and sports fans around the world are gearing up to cheer on their country. If your favorite Olympic action sports include swimming, track and field, or gymnastics, you’re in luck. Coverage will be everywhere, ...
No Boat, No Problem: A Beginner’s Guide to Pier Fishing Etiquette
You don’t need a johnboat, center console, and guide to catch saltwater slammers this summer. Much of America’s coastal waters are dotted with public fishing piers. From Florida to Maine, from San Diego to Seattle, and all along the Gulf of Mexico, ...
