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 [...]
Louisiana Hunting
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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Bonnie and Clyde’s Guns Sell for $500,000
A bunch of Bonnie and Clyde’s Tommy gun and shotguns were recently sold for a total of $210,000, and now the famous duo’s pistols have brought in more than twice as much. According to CNN.com, Bonnie Parker’s personal Colt .38 snub-nosed revolver, which sold for $264,000. Clyde Barrow’s Colt .45 sold for $240,000. The guns [...]
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The GoHUNTn Line–The Best Trophies and Hunting News: Record Whitetails, Gigantic Gators, and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoHUNTn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular GoHUNTn updates from the past week: Was a New Non-Typical Whitetail Downed on Minnesota’s Opening Day? – It didn’t take long for a new record in Minnesota Hunter Nabs Record Gator in Arkansas – Amazing alligator from the [...]
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12-Foot, 800-Pound Gator Bagged in Louisiana
A commercial fisherman from Montegut, Louisiana has a new impressive haul to brag about. Rob Neil, 35, hauled in a 12-foot, 800-pound alligator, using 15 shots from his .22 caliber rifle to subdue the beast. Neil was in the Intracoastal Waterway near Houma when he connected with the gator. The commercial angler decided to sell the [...]
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Federal Government Expands Hunting Access in 14 States
The National Wildlife Refuge System is one of the biggest government programs for hunters, with all of them doing great work in preserving wildlife, and many of them giving access to hunters. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rolled out this year’s new regulations, and included in those regulations are expanding hunting in 16 [...]
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The GoHUNTn Line–The Best Trophies and Hunting News: Olympic Coverage, Deer Disease in Michigan, and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoHUNTn throughout the week. Here are 12 of our most popular GoHUNTn updates from the past few weeks: GoHUNTn’s Olympic Archery and Shooting Coverage: A Shooter and Archer’s Guide to the Olympics – Looking for a one-stop place for info on all the shooting and archery events? Click [...]
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Vets Accidentally Kill Louisiana Tech’s Bulldog Mascot
Tech XX was the face of Louisiana Tech Bulldog athletics, but they will be looking for Tech XXI, and probably a new caretaker for their bulldog. At first, locals thought that it was a prank or that he had run away, but Tech XX went missing earlier this week. But today, August 1, the university [...]
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Washington’s Big Day. Did Sportsmen Get Screwed?
So, there were just a few things happening in our nation’s capital yesterday. While Obamacare might not have a direct impact on the hunting, fishing, and shooting industry, just about everything else did. Between the Attorney General being held in contempt, the House releasing their budgets, and Congress coming together on the Transportation Act, it [...]
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Man Harvests Trophy Buck in Illinois. Ships its Testicles to Louisiana
Talk about not letting anything go to waste. Last November, Mike Toney shot a 200-plus-inch monster whitetail deer in Illinois. Toney estimates that it weighed about 275 pounds, and as soon as he shot the deer, he thought about its sperm. Toney heard about Louisiana State University’s AgCenter Research Extension project, so he contacted them to see [...]
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