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Hunter Education Graduates’ License Purchases, Participation Declines

Providing encouragement and access to hunting areas are keys to helping hunter education graduates once they leave high school and enter college and adulthood.

Filled classrooms at Hunter Safety courses are a good thing, but perhaps more important is the number of students that actually participate in hunting after they graduate. A recent survey, funded by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and conducted … Read More

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Whitetail Ridge Song is Catching On

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A new country music song written about deer and deer hunting is gaining a tremendous amount of popularity and airplay. “Whitetail Ridge” is a song about hunting, hard work and good, old-fashioned country values. Performed by the duo Kari and … Read More

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Battle Brewing Between Politics, Biology For Deer Regulations, Management Strategy

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is embroiled in a battle of politics vs. biology regarding its management strategy for white-tailed deer. “What we’re doing (with deer management) isn’t working,” state Sen. Rich Alloway, who chairs the Senate Game & Fisheries Committee, … Read More

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Get The Most Out of Minerals For Your White-tailed Deer This Summer

Minerals can help bucks build antlers and also help does during the gestation period.

Many popular beliefs are being dramatically changed through scientific discovery. Even in the deer world, we are continuously finding out that what we thought was fact one day is completely disproved the next. By Matt Harper  For example, for many … Read More

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Deer Hunting Licenses Fall To Lowest In 30 Years

North Dakota’s 2013 deer season is set, with 59,500 licenses available to hunters this fall, 5,800 fewer than last year and the lowest since 1983. Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the State Game and Fish Department, said after a significant … Read More

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Hunting Season Passes Without Reported Fatality

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Hunting is safe and getting safer according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s newly released report on hunting-related shooting incidents (HRSIs) in 2012. For the first time since the commission began tracking such incidents in 1915, a year came and went … Read More

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Deer Importation Getting Closer Scrutiny

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wants to hear from deer hunters and those who have deer farms or hunting preserves about a proposed rule change that would prohibit the importation of live captive deer into Florida from out-of-state … Read More

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CWD Zone Established After More Diseased Deer Found

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has established the state’s second Disease Management Area in parts of four counties in response to three hunter-killed deer that tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. Through an executive order, PGC Executive Director Carl G. Roe … Read More

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Six Things You Need For Deer Camp

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If your deer season break is over and the itch has hit to do some off-season management, cleanup or pre-season preparation, now’s the time to take care of those things before summer arrives and it gets too doggone hot! With … Read More

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Deer Hunters Kill Slightly More Deer In 2012-13 Season

Hunters killed approximately 243,000 deer during the 2012-13 hunting seasons, about 6 percent more than were taken the previous year, according to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. “Deer hunting is a long-standing tradition in New York, providing shared … Read More

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