Hunting is over (except for the upcoming coyote hunt).  It is still a little weird fishing in the winter.  So, that leaves shooting.
Since it appears we aren’t going to have any snow this year, I think I will get out to the Club and shoot some…I can always use the groundhog prep.
Besides, the cold shooting [...]

The winter coyote hunts are coming soon. Here is the link to last year’s discussion.
The 2006 Hunt, the 15th Annual Yote Hunt, is slated for February 17-19, 2006. You can download an application here.
The statewide event is the largest of its type:
Three sportsmen’s clubs — Mosquito Creek Sportsmen’s Association in Clearfield County, [...]

Stocking salmon hurts the natural population.  So the story goes.  So, stop stocking salmon and the wild fish will flourish.
Conceding that using hatcheries to supplement dwindling salmon populations is harming wild salmon species in some cases, the Bush administration plans to move away from the practice in favor of a more direct solution: Catch fewer [...]

A alert reader sent this link regarding excessive pressure:
TECH TALK–How to Detect Excessive Pressure in Your Cases: Reader ScottyS provided this comparison photo of cases, showing the tell-tale signs of over-pressure. Scotty tells us: “These samples were from a lot of Federal soft-point hunting ammunition that were fired in a custom .308 with a chamber [...]

Thomas E. Boop was elected president of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, after a three hour session January 24, 2006.
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In questioning after the meeting, Boop said he believes the commission needs “to listen probably more to our sportsmen. There’s a lot of feeling out there, right or wrong, that we haven’t done that.”
During his [...]

Proof! Mountian Lions in the City of Brotherly Love:
Now, after almost a decade of unverified appearances around the region, there’s been a definitive cougar sighting. Three cougars, actually, on a ledge not far from the Schuylkill Expressway.
I just knew it!
And you can see them, too. They’re at the Philadelphia Zoo.
Three orphaned cougar cubs, rescued [...]

More sad news about herds, this time it is caribou numbers.
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SANDPOINT, Idaho — In the frozen Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border, the last tiny herd of caribou in the Lower 48 states is fighting for survival.
The less than three dozen remaining animals struggle with starvation, an increase of predators and, more recently, powerful [...]

At yesterday’s meeting of the Game Commission, hunters pretty much slammed the commission for mismanaging the deer herd.
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Hunters rained down their frustration yesterday on the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners, over what they perceive as deer numbers that have been reduced too far.
Nearly half of the 44 speakers at the capacity-crowd hearing pretty [...]

Sad news: Winchester is closing it’s doors:

NEW HAVEN — U.S. Repeating Arms Co., maker of “The Gun that Won the West,” said Tuesday it will shutter its plant here by March 31, ending a 140-year legacy and eliminating 186 jobs.
“The market has not been kind to us,” DeMennato said, speaking about a 50 percent decrease [...]

It appears our neighbor to the north has plans for trappers…and they ain’t good plans either.
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A movement to ban trapping on public land began gathering steam across Long Island after Southampton Town officials said they want to stop the practice on town-owned land after learning a dog was killed last month when it walked [...]