HARRISBURG – Last year’s black bear harvest was light, but weather permitting, the Pennsylvania Game Commission expects hunters to have good opportunities afield in the upcoming bear seasons.
“Pennsylvania’s black bear population has numbered 14,000 to 15,000 for at least eight years now,” said Carl G. Roe, Game Commission executive director. “Because our bear population now [...]
November 13, 2008 | Posted in
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LITTLE ROCK – Perhaps the most important aspects of deer hunting are safety and ethics. That’s especially true for the opening of Arkansas’s modern gun deer season this Saturday. If no one paid any attention to these, hunting of any kind would be too dangerous to continue. That’s why it’s so important to stress these [...]
November 5, 2008 | Posted in
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MADISON – Twenty minutes of daily practice with a bow and arrow will not only improve a hunter’s aim but also muscle strength – two factors state hunting safety specialists call crucial to a safe and successful outing.
“Hunting with a bow and arrow is not like riding a bike. You forget over the year and [...]
September 26, 2008 | Posted in
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North Dakota’s youth-only deer hunting season opens for 14- and 15-year-old first-time hunters Friday, Sept. 12 at noon, and continues through Sunday, Sept. 21.
The season is statewide, except for restricted licenses and units in western North Dakota. After opening day, hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Solid daylight fluorescent [...]
August 28, 2008 | Posted in
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Largely viewed as the kick-off to fall hunting in Oklahoma, dove season’s Sept. 1 opening day is sure to attract sportsmen to the field, no matter where in Oklahoma they live.
Last year’s dove season took on some unusual qualities. Not only did the 2007 dove season come after an unusually rainy year that created muddy [...]
August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Authored by Lee McClellan
Frankfort, Ky. – You are the second truck in the parking area at the public dove field on Sept. 1, the opening day of this year’s dove season in Kentucky. You’ve shot some trap to get ready for dove season, bought some quality shells and feel ready to get your 15-bird [...]
August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. (Aug. 11, 2008) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will conduct a special dove hunt for youth on opening day, Sept. 1 at Mountain Island State Forest.
The hunt is limited to 20 youth, 12 to 15 years old, who will be selected at random by computer from the pool of applicants. Part [...]
August 11, 2008 | Posted in
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MADISON – The 2008 hook and line season for lake sturgeon opens Sept. 6 on major river systems statewide, with rule changes aimed at assuring the future of the state’s sturgeon fisheries.
The season has been shortened and ends Sept. 30, and the minimum length for harvesting sturgeon has been increased to 60 inches. There is [...]
August 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Cool, wet, windy weather and below-average reproduction in recent years combined to produce the smallest spring turkey harvest since 1997.
JEFFERSON CITY-Hunters checked 43,416 turkeys during Missouri’s three-week spring turkey season, falling slightly short of predictions for the harvest.
Top counties in the 2008 spring turkey season were Franklin, with 838 turkeys checked, Texas County with 801 [...]
May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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The traditional opening of fishing season, and the official launch of summer in Idaho, is Saturday May 24.
Unless listed under regional exceptions in the rule book, fishing is open on Idaho rivers and streams from May 24 through November 30. Most lakes and reservoirs and ditches and man-made canals are open year round.
Family Fishing Waters [...]
May 19, 2008 | Posted in
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