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Think about it. At a time when we want to spend as much time afield hunting as possible, the hours of daylight become shorter with each passing day. R...

An official with Elkland Search & Rescue reported Thursday that the organization has been busy this week conducting two extended search and rescue eff...

For the most part it begins a day or two prior to buck season. Hunters are making their way to areas they intend to hunt over the course of the first ...

Starting Monday, Pennsylvania hunters will take to the woods in the hopes of bagging a deer. Rifle deer season will last through Dec. 9 in Pennsylvani...

Hunters during the third day of Pennsylvania’s statewide bear season harvested 318 bears, raising the three-day total to 1,628 – about a 30 percent de...

Hunting and safety go hand in hand. For decades firearm-related accidents have been declining. And that’s good news. However, a disturbing trend has b...

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

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was first detected in 1967 in a captive mule deer research facility in Colorado. Since then the problem has been growing...

The darkness slowly melted away, the trees grew solid, then the larger branches became visible and finally the smaller. The skyline glow became strong...

Fall is a season of change. This year things have been a bit different. The lack of rainfall across the northern tier has affected streams and leaf co...

It was a fun and sometimes frustrating spring gobbler season. On days where you’d expect the birds to sound off, they remained silent. Other times the...

It’s been a long hard and difficult season for the great majority of the long suffering gobbler hunters. Perhaps a sweeping epidemic of extreme laryng...

Man, can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadloc...

The other day I glanced around my den. I was immediately struck by the “stuff” I have accumulated and this started a train of thought. Being a war stu...

WASHINGTON -- In its zeal to repeal, the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to overturn a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule forbidding the...

As a hunter and sportsman I love the animals I hunt. I’ve found that many cannot understand how you can love animals, yet still hunt them. I completel...

BEARS: The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced that the 2016 bear harvest in Pennsylvania was one of the most prolific seasons of all time...

Riflemen are hunters who can make that difficult shot and take pride in doing so. They are not helpless, weak, misinformed or particularly trusting of...

ST. MARYS — It was definitely an interesting year for the Elkland Search and Rescue of St. Marys. In a report released Friday, officials shared that l...

The human being is a varied and unpredictable creature. Some avoid risk at all costs while others tie large rubber bands to their legs and leap off br...