White deer are off limits to the residents of Sauk County, Wisconsin, but some out-of-towners didn’t know that rule. Two hunters each shot an albino deer during opening gun season on November 17 and 18, according to Outdoor Hub. “As far as the DNR is concerned, this was a legal harvest, that’s really the end [...]
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Minnesota’s Early Wolf Season Ends. 147 Wolves Killed.
The Minnesota wolf season withstood a lot of controversy, and hunters receiving death threats, but the early season has ended with 73 percent of the quota met. According to Outdoor Hub, 147 wolves were harvested in the season that lasted from November 3 to 18. The goal for the early season was 200 wolves. The late [...]
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Mountain Lions Spotted in Illinois
With mountain lions attacking hunters in Nebraska, it’s no surprise that they’ve moved east of the Mississippi into Illinois, and now there is some trail camera proof. According to Outdoor Hub, there have only been four confirmed cougar sightings in Illinois since 1870. And the latest came on October 28. Hunter Mark Cobb of Sherman [...]
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Congressman Paul Ryan’s Guns
Election day is less than a week away, and Congressman Paul Ryan may have a new job next Wednesday, that of Vice President. Whether or not he gets a few days off after election day to hit the end of the rut is yet to be seen, but Ryan, a very avid outdoorsman, might just [...]
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Wisconsin Buck Needs Rescued from a Soccer Net
Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin is a pretty decent place to go to school if you like to hunt and fish, but one deer decided to come straight to the campus and had some trouble getting out. Baseball players were walking to practice when they saw a buck trapped in one of the campus soccer [...]
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Road Kill: West Virginia Number 1 in Deer-Car Collisions
West Virginia is a beautiful state with great hunting, but it doesn’t get a lot of respect outside of a John Denver song. But for the sixth year in a row, the state has found itself on the top of a list…State Farm’s list of the states that you have the biggest chance of hitting [...]
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Illinois Monster Buck a Pen-Raised Deer from Wisconsin
There were a lot of people, us included, who were impressed by this buck, but it appears we’ve been duped. The buck was initially posted on Heartland Outdoors, but soon-after reports surfaced that this buck was actually from Wilderness Whitetails Ranch in Wisconsin, which the popular outdoor website was able to confirm. Yes, This deer [...]
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Wisconsin Wolf Hunter Getting Death Threats
Wisconsin’s short wolf season has seen a lot of action, and now one of those early successful hunters is getting a lot of heat from animal rights activists. According to Outdoor Hub, Dennis Nitz of Boyd, Wisconsin was one of the lucky hunters to draw a permit. On opening day, October 15, he made a [...]
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One Third of Wyoming Wolf Quota Bagged Already
Wisconsin is off to a fast start to its wolf season, but not as fast as Wyoming. According to Outdoor Hub, just 17 days into the state’s wolf season, 24 wolves have been harvested, but only 20 count toward the 52-wolf quota. The other four wolves were killed in the predation area, where wolves can [...]
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WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE: Wisconsin Wolves Kill Hunting Dogs
We told you that there has been some success already in Wisconsin’s wolf hunt, but here’s a set of hunters that have faced tragedy. According to Petersen’s Hunting, Ron Hill was hunting on October 6, tracking a bear. Using their hound dogs, they set off to find the bear, but a 1.5-year-old female Treeing Walker, [...]
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