hunting

KANE — For the second consecutive season, the Port Allegany/Smethport wrestling team is Allegheny Mountain Wrestling League champions. In a battle of ...

Now that we’re really into winter, I guess it’s a good time to reflect on the joys and surprises of the recent holidays and visits with friends. The f...

EMPORIUM — Entering Tuesday night’s game at Cameron County, it had been 1,817 days and a span of 77 league games since Coudersport had lost a game in ...

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 ...

Well, it’s that time of year when we look back at the past and forward to the future. You may wonder how this practice began. Believe it or not, the a...

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...

It’s been an exciting start to the 2019-2020 boys high school basketball season, to be sure. We’ve seen a few nail-biters between some of the area’s t...

In the area where I did most of my early hunting, tree stands were not common. In my travels, I had noticed a couple of ancient stands near some apple...

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...

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...

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...

This hunting season I will be going from one place to another in hopes of locating turkeys in between. That’s how my fall turkey hunting will begin on...

RIDGWAY — Bradford’s Ryan Cottillion and Tyler Kraft qualified for the PIAA Class AA state cross country meet with third-place and sixth-place finishe...

KANE — The Allegheny Chapter (Kane) of the Ruffed Grouse Society will finish off its training for new hunters who want to learn how to hunt upland bir...