hunting

I guess we’ve all heard the old adage about the journey being more important than the destination. I think that’s especially true when thinking about ...

Twenty years ago the deer population was high, bucks were everywhere, and it wasn’t hard to get one. Most were a year and a half old, with their first...

It was around the year 2000 when I attended a meeting of deer hunters where biologist Gary Alt held up two racks, a 4-point and a big 8-point. With th...

I’ve just returned from a safari in Africa. It has been perhaps the most amazing adventure of my life. But before I share any of my experiences there ...

This has been a strange spring, colder than most, but especially cold in the states to the south. Snow, ice, frosts and rain have held back spring a m...

While turkey hunters are chasing the big songbirds, the still-pillowed heads of non-hunters might be dreaming of wildlife cavorting without a care in ...

Show me a turkey hunter who killed a spring gobbler on his first hunt and never hunted turkeys again, and I’ll show you someone who thinks turkey hunt...

Fewer and fewer hunting licenses are being sold, which forecasts a crisis in wildlife funding. And if today’s antagonism toward firearms ever rids soc...

March is the month when everyone hopes winter is over. Of course, it isn’t, and every new snow crushes our misguided hopes for an earlier than normal ...

The shed antler season is conveniently tucked right between the end of deer season and the beginning of spring gobbler season. Although it’s an unoffi...

ALBANY (AP) — Hunters in New York state took 1,420 black bears in 2017, down from the previous year. The state Department of Environmental Conservatio...

The last couple of winters my brother, Pete, and I have gone out grouse hunting in New York’s late season. While we do look for grouse, the greater pu...

The snow came pelting down, relentless and seemingly determined to bury the man behind the shovel, in this case me. Wednesday’s snowstorm was pouring ...

Will Olean send a wrestler to the state tournament for the eighth straight year? Mike O’Connor sure hopes so. And the Huskies’ coach believes he has a...

I was only 13 or 14 at the time. Uncle Phil had been kind enough to bring me along on a weeklong excursion to the family farm. Uncle owned a beagle by...

Every cause has its advocates, and more than 500 causes have awareness ribbons. They range from pink for breast cancer to black for those lost in the ...

January. The bone-aching cold and snow had left temporally, replaced by relatively warm temperatures. This brought on an attack of Saturday cabin feve...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The hits just keep on coming for the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team. The Bonnies had just welcomed the return of freshman A...