The second annual wild pheasant youth hunt was held earlier this month and once again, young hunters had their shot at history. Over two Saturdays in November, junior hunters took to the fields in Montour […]
John Plowman never imagined that Hunters Sharing the Harvest would become as popular as it is today. Since the program was implemented in 1991, HSH has donated more than 1.3 million pounds of ground venison […]
The buck in this photo taken in July in Lackawanna County has shed its velvet long ago and now has a large set of polished antlers that all hunters dream about before hitting the woods […]
Unseasonably warm weather, later leaf-drop and rain made it more challenging to pattern deer movements and take whitetails throughout the statewide six-week archery season, which concluded Nov. 12. Now the Commonwealth’s “orange-clad army” awaits its […]
During a recent turkey hunt in Bradford County, I found a remnant of the past. As I walked a gently sloping hillside scanning the ground for turkey sign, an impressive expanse of stones caught my […]
John Duda, of White Haven, snapped these photos recently of a nice buck that appeared to be attempting to smile for the camera. Actually, the buck probably didn’t care about having its photo taken, but […]
Tim Schaeffer was on the job for less than three days when I hit him with some hard questions. He didn’t flinch. As the new executive director with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Schaeffer […]
Nearly 100 lucky participants in Pennsylvania’s 2018 elk hunt have taken home a trophy. Ninety-nine elk were taken by 125 hunters during the regular one-week elk season that ended Nov. 10. And for those licensed […]
Due to declines throughout the northeastern United States, the daily bag limit for mallards in the Atlantic Flyway for the 2019-20 seasons likely will be reduced to two per day, and Pennsylvania’s waterfowl hunters are […]
The potential for Pennsylvania black bear hunters to set a new state record remains for a third consecutive year as hunters head afield Nov. 17 for the opening day of Pennsylvania’s four-day statewide firearms bear […]
Between constant rainfall, there wasn’t much time to enjoy the past summer. But this bear took advantage of nice stint of summer weather to do some hardcore back-scratching on a tree. Dave Mackrell captured the […]
When the Pennsylvania Game Commission implemented a pheasant stamp in 2017, bird hunter Ross Piazza wondered how it would impact the sport. Judging from the traffic he saw at State Game Lands 119 on the […]
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