It’s official: After signaling their support for a black bear hunt, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted this morning to finalize a set of rules for the three-week December season.The 5-0 vote in favor of the hunt is a striking rebuke to anti-hunting groups that have lobbied for months to block it. Today’s meeting saw testimony from an equal number of supporters and opponents, according to the Tallahassee Democrat, but opponents came armed with cute pictures of bears and signs reading “I am not your trophy” and “Wounded, hunted, forgotten.”“This hunt is unnecessary and cruel unless you…

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If Doug Duren placed historical markers on his family’s farm in southwestern Wisconsin, one would mark the car crash that killed his brother Matt in January 1995, and the other would show the log landing where a chainsaw nearly killed his father, Vince, in April 1991.Matt died near the farm’s driveway on State Highway 58 in the Driftless Area, and Vince dodged death across the road from there, just past the unnamed creek that flows north toward Cazenovia. Doug points out both sites from the farmhouse uphill. Heck, he could easily throw a baseball to Matt’s site, and in his…

This past winter, a Minnesota sheriff allegedly overstepped his bounds by issuing an “elk possession tag” to a farmer who shot and killed an elk after elk herds had damaged his crops and feed. A case report from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) obtained by MeatEater explains the situation.On January 10, Carl Christopherson complained to Kittson County Sheriff Matt Vig about elk eating hay, beet pulp, and seeded crops on his farm. Christopherson said he’s been chasing the elk off his land, but they keep returning; he’s even had to start growing his alfalfa crop several miles away.“I…

Over the past few years, Smith & Wesson has introduced several innovative products outside its normal categories, from shotguns to lever-action rifles. Two of the company’s most popular new products have been the M&P FPC rifle and its .22 WMR/5.7×28 mm M&P handguns. New for 2025, the company is releasing a version of these two firearms in .22 LR. The M&P 22X takes its aesthetic cues from Smith & Wesson’s M&P 5.7 and 22 Magnum. The M&P 22X takes its styling cues from Smith & Wesson’s M&P 5.7 and 22 Magnum pistols, from its slim polymer frame with a Picatinny…

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00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s media podcast. Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I am your special guest host today, Mark Kenyon, and this week I’m joined by Giannis Clay, Brent, Maggie, Bear, Tony Spencer and Heather. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from Metator’s four main verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. And there is a prize. Mediator will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. And today we have a lot of new faces, a lot out of towners here in the…

In 2023, Springfield Armory introduced a complete line of .22 Long Rifle-chambered rimfire rifles, available in both Target and Classic variants. In the latter models, the traditional styling has been paired with some great design elements to create one of the best bolt-action rimfire rifles available today. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” Rifleman Review segment above to see what the company builds into its Model 2020 Rimfire Classic. “ I am a big fan of full-size adult rimfire rifles, and by adult, I mean it’s just scaled like a big-game hunting rifle,” NRA Media Editorial Director Mark Keefe said. “And the…

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00:00:02 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to The Hooundation’s podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about understanding the early season dangers your dog might face in the field and how you can keep them safe. We are screeching toward the next hunting season to the point where we should make sure the dogs don’t have too much extra padding on them, and we should also consider that for us as well. This is a time of promise and that’s awesome, but the early season can also be one of the most dangerous times of the…