Venison always adds a unique flavor to your dishes, especially if you avoid drenching it in marinade or soaking it for days in ice water to “remove the gamey taste.” We don’t soak beef or pork roasts for days in ice water. Perhaps the “it tastes gamey” crowd is just accustomed to bland grocery...
Deer season is over, with maybe the exception of a late urban hunt somewhere, and most hunters I know are either thinking about turkeys, fishing, their kids’ spring sports or they’re making plans for work at camp. Ah, the work never ends. Right? Well, it doesn’t. Or, it shouldn’t. Let your yard go for...
1. Leave the un-necessities at camp Do you really need to take your gut hook and gloves \to your treestand or hunting blind? Do you need two doe bleats and two buck calls? I’m a person who makes sure the bases of planning are covered, like taking a headlamp and a mini-light, but I...
Deer management plans sometimes call for drastic measures, and sometimes that includes putting the kibosh on some of the hunting opportunities for the public. Management isn’t always easy, nor is it always fun. It’s work. Sometimes it means making tough choices. Montana’s Fish & Wildlife Commissioners recently adopted a number of new regulations that...
For the first time since the mid-1990s, Iowa’s deer harvest for an entire season has dropped below 100,000 deer reported to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Hunters reported 99,406 deer during the 2013 season. That is a decline of 14 percent from 2012, and 34 percent from its high in 2006. The 2012...
Alabama deer hunters watched in dismay for years as counterparts in northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi hunted into February during the peak of the rut. The season always ended Jan. 31 in Alabama, no matter what. No zones, no extension into February despite hunters’ proclaiming they were seeing chasing and breeding activity well into...
Billy Demong grew up in New York, not terribly far from Lake Placid, and now resides in Utah where he trains as a member of the U.S. Ski Team as part of the Nordic combined squad competing in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Demong won the gold...
Hunters will finally, after decades of being told “No,” be able to hunt on Sunday in Virginia on private lands after bills were approved by the state’s Senate and House of Delegates bodies. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, has said he supports the repeal of one of the state’s last “blue laws” and...
The Ohio Wildlife Council received the 2014-15 hunting proposals on Wednesday, Feb. 5 for deer season dates, changes to deer bag limits and the possibility of allowing some straight-walled rifle cartridges for deer hunting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Ohio deer hunters and other interested parties are invited to share their...
Forty thousand of the approximately 120,000 hunters who hunted deer in Kansas last season will be contacted by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism via an online survey. The survey, which is conducted every year, asks deer hunters to provide information regarding harvest success, dates and seasons hunted, days spent in the...
