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Giant Illinois Buck Taken Illegally in Honest Mistake, but Controversy Follows


An Illinois hunter harvest the buck of a lifetime, but mistakenly didn’t have the proper tag. So what happens next? There’s something special about hunting out of state. As the season approaches, you anticipate the different terrain, the planning, the change of scenery and the different challenges that come from a hunt in unfamiliar territory.

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Hog Hunters Aren’t the Only Ones Using Helicopters to Eradicate

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Helicopters are becoming more and more popular for eradicating problematic species.  Tortoises on the Galapagos Island are facing a threat from a species that isn’t your everyday predator. What could cause as much damage on a population as a big, mean predator? Billy goats. When goats were introduced to the island, they ravaged all the food,

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Watch This Boy Take His First Bear on a Hunt with His Dad in Arkansas


Watch This Boy Take His First Bear On A Hunt With His Dad In Arkansas

How many hunters do you think took their first bear when they were just 9 years old? Going bear hunting is an almost sacred right of passage in Bear Hunting Magazine Editor Clay Newcomb’s family. So, it was quite the honor for his son Shepherd when Clay decided the boy was ready to go on his first

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Ann Arbor Deer Cull Protesters Trying to Use Homeless Man’s Presence to Stop Cull

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Deer cull opponents trying to use a homeless man to stop the cull. The Ann Arbor, Michigan urban deer cull has been one controversial topic the last few years and every year the headlines regarding it seem to get weirder and weirder. Now anti-cull activists have discovered a homeless man camped out in the Traver

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Two Nebraska Deer Camps Equal 17 Citations and $10,000 in Fines

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Two Nebraska deer camps didn’t follow hunting regulations, and now they’re paying for it.  Nebraska Game and Parks officers investigated one deer camp in Jefferson County consisting of hunters from Louisiana. The officers later investigated and unrelated deer camp of hunters in Gage County. Coincidentally, the officers wrote 17 citations to 11 hunters. Nine of

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