Jay Janecek was cleaning a mallard that he shot on Lake Roosevelt outside of Spokane, Washington when he saw a pretty ugly looking breast. The duck was riddled with worms, a parasitic infection called sarcocystosis, also known as rice breast because the worms look like grains of rice. According to Oregon Live, the parasite is most [...]
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Washington Hunters, Anglers Warned About Wild Game Riddled with Dangerous Parasite
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Arkansas Duck Hunters Lose Battle to Keep Permanent Blinds, Decoy Spreads
Hunters who frequent Big Lake, St. Francis Sunken Lands, and Dave Donaldson Black River Wildlife Management Areas for waterfowl season have some new regulations this year, and they’re not too happy about it. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission amended their regulations to not allow hunters to use permanent blinds while duck hunting, nor let them [...]
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Wildlife Habitat to Get $2.4 Billion from BP Settlement
We shared the news of BP pleading guilty to felony manslaughter, environmental crimes and obstruction of Congress and agreeing to pay a record criminal settlement of $4.5 billion dollars. And it looks like more than half of that is going straight to the habitat. According to Ducks Unlimited, nearly $2.4 billion of the money will go [...]
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Beards are Back: Duck Dynasty Season Two Premiers Tonight
The Robertsons took the world by storm last year with their show Duck Dynasty on A&E, and now, they are back. The Louisiana backwoods millionaires have been no strangers to the hunting media world with their well-loved Duck Commander and Buck Commander line of hunting gear. But their antics have made fans from non-hunters, and Uncle [...]
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Seals Maul Labrador Retriever to Death in Scotland
It was supposed to be just a good day duck hunting in Aberdeenshire, Scotland but it turned into tragedy. Matthew Will was out with his black labrador retriever, Fly, hunting ducks, but as Fly went out for a retrieve, a seal grabbed him. “This huge seal, more than twice the size of the dog, was flinging [...]
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Unprecedented Sportsmen’s Act Passes U.S. Senate
We have been tracking the Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 all year, and the massive measure has just passed the U.S. Senate. Introduced by Sen. John Tester of Montana, the 84-to-7 vote in favor of moving to vote on passage after recess reflects the broad support of these conservation, hunting and fishing provisions, writes Ducks Unlimited [...]
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Tonight on Shoot Straight TV: Ducks and Hogs in Texas!
This week on Shoot Straight TV with Chad and Marsha Schearer we are hunting ducks and wild hogs in Texas at the Hageman Reserve with our special guest CJ Buck of Buck Knives, Inc. It starts tonight on the The Sportsman Channel at 7:00 pm EST. Feathers are flying on this show tonight. Check out [...]
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Record Waterfowl Numbers, Will We Have Anywhere to Hunt Them?
We have told you about the record waterfowl numbers, and the impact the drought might have on them, but the Jamestown Sun is rightfully worried about the future of duck hunting in the upper Midwest. It’s not all the drought, either. Though much of the nation has been plagued heat and no rain, habitat loss [...]
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Alaskan Petroleum Plan Protects Valuable Fish and Wildlife Habitats from Development
Within the sportsmen-conservation community, the constant battle has been how we can continue to develop our nation’s energy resources without causing unnecessary harm on fish and wildlife habitat. It’s not an easy task, but it’s one that the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has been tackling since its inception. Now, the TRCP is lauding a new plan to [...]
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Fire Fighter’s Rescued Bird Dogs Shine on National TV
Scott Walsh, a fire fighter from Eastpointe, MI, grew up hunting small game and deer. But in 2010, when Walsh and his family decided to take a risk and adopt a rescued bird dog, everything changed. Walsh had always wanted a hunting dog but as a household of two public servants, a toddler and a [...]
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