deer

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners this week gave preliminary approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for the 2...

You’ve got to give credit to those who attend. After all, providing public testimony at a Pa. Game Commission meeting takes guts. And that’s exactly w...

Although I’ve done most of my hunting in Pennsylvania, I’ve done quite a bit of it, especially for deer, in New York State, as well. This all started ...

If you’ve read any hunting magazines or watched any hunting shows on TV in the past 20 years or so, it comes as no surprise to learn that there are fe...

Hey universe at large — 2019: what was that all about? Is it just me, or did 2019 seem like a strange year? I was curious, so I Googled it. And found ...

Having been a rifle coach for years I quickly realized girls could shoot. Not only could they be taught to shoot very accurately, they were easier to ...

“Making a list and checking it twice” is a phrase commonly referred to this time of year. However my special list doesn’t revolve around Christmas. In...

As a somewhat old-fashioned guy, I’m usually all about tradition. And for most of my life, the chief tradition around which my whole year revolved was...

Mature bucks: they are out there and they can be tough to take. However, for those willing to kick their skills up a notch, you just might find your t...

A Saturday opener for the firearms deer season and the possibility of more older bucks throughout the Commonwealth have many Pennsylvanians excited ab...

Early on, I discovered that the primary way to see game in the woods is to detect movement. The twitch of a squirrel’s tail or the flick of a deer’s e...

Many give little thought to changing their ways once a deer is harvested and it is on the ground. The process is fairly simple. It’s a procedure hande...

Gary Clark lives in Emporium. Whenever I look at those narrow valleys and very steep, tall, hillsides I always shudder. I’d hate to climb those sharpl...

In my early teenage years, I’d already realized that I was hopelessly hooked on outdoor sports. I studied all the Outdoor Life and Sports Afield magaz...

Are you willing to hunt on a mix of public and privately owned lands with a better than average chance of taking a nice buck? If so, there is a 74,000...

OH DEER : With the recent time change and deer on the move, AAA East Central cautions drivers to be especially vigilant on the roads in animal-prone a...

L.E.E.K. Hunting & Mountain Preserve in Oswayo has been providing outdoor recreational experiences to disabled veterans for 12 years. On Oct. 25, they...

Any hunter worth his salt comes to love and respect the creatures he hunts. Though this may seem a contradiction, it isn’t. Hunters come to know in in...

Contradicting woolly worms: Andy Heffner of Ormsby stopped by The Era newsroom recently to bring us a woolly worm that snuck into his newly built gree...

At the time I’m writing this, I suppose most hunters have marked their calendars with the starting dates for our hunting seasons to begin another year...