If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun. Sitting still for hours on end in the freezing cold, hushing them to be quieter, is likely not the best way to build a hunter. Start ...

The traditions of hunting have long been a part of Rifle, its economic prosperity, the lives of many who live here and those who come from far and wide to experience one of the world’s most renowned ...

Two fawns proved to me Tuesday night, the first evening I've spent in a treestand this season, that deer hunting without bait can be more fun than hunting with it. I'd been safely harnessed in place ...

BELLINGHAM, Minn. — The constant, soft-tinkling bell hanging from the collar of Kota, a well-mannered female German shorthaired pointer, stopped tinkling, which tends to get your attention if you are ...

A few decades back, when I heard that the Game Commission was going to hire a woman to be the wild turkey biologist for the Commission, I was incredulous. I was at that point still suffering the darts ...

For those of you who know me personally or have read one of my articles over the past nearly 20 years, you are aware that I am a turkey hunter. I have openly admitted in the past that turkeys occupy a ...

Scott Jordan and youngster Ethan Cole are pictured after a successful youth turkey hunt. The 2025 New York State Youth Turkey Hunt weekend ended this past Sunday. Photo courtesy of CRCS Outdoors ...