Dove Season Preview: Ready for Action?
from the Dallas Morning News
 Hunting seasons kick off Sept. 1 with the beginning of dove season in most of Texas. Don't expect to find dove seasons listed in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Outdoor Annual this year. A late request for a South Zone season change led to delayed finalization of hunting dates. Dove seasons were not approved until after the hunting and fishing regulations booklet was printed. So, here's the scoop on dove hunting regulations, tactics and tips. More
De-mystifying Hunting & Fishing Licenses
from The Monitor
Ignorance about fishing and hunting licenses does not make one exempt from the tangled mass of fish and game laws on the books in Texas. After a painful firsthand experience, here are the details needed in order to prevent any ugly run-ins with well-intentioned, gung-ho Texas state game wardens, whose job it is to protect fish and game. More
Video: Proposed Hunting Rules Concern Texas Sportsmen
from KXII-TV
If you know anything about the local hunting scene, you probably already know that Grayson County is one of the few in Texas that ban hunting whitetail deer with firearms. That could change if one landowner gets his way though, and some sportsmen aren't happy about that. More
Famous Shooters Hunt in Private Reserves
from The Times of India
One common factor that binds the most of India's elite band of shooters is their love of shikar. Ban or no ban, they are always game for big game hunting. Fear for endangered species has not made them give up on their passion. It has, perhaps, only made them move it to private game reservoirs. More
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Groups Push for Hunter Education in New Mexico
from The Associated Press via SignOnSanDiego
Conservationists are pushing for hunters to be educated about mountain lions before hunting the big cats in New Mexico, and they hope other Western states will take notice. The New Mexico Game Commission is considering changes to its big game hunting rules, and WildEarth Guardians and Animal Protection of New Mexico want commissioners to require hunters to take a mountain lion education and identification course before heading into the woods. More
Marines Borrow Hunting Skills in Combat Training
from The Associated Press
Combat Hunter, a two-week program at Camp Lejeune and Camp Pendleton, is designed to teach Marines how to observe, profile and track potentially dangerous individuals. The program, which started in April 2007, grew out of a concept by Gen. James Mattis, who saw the need for hunting-related skills while overseeing combat forces at Camp Pendleton in California. More
76 Percent of Sportsmen Say They Prefer to Elect a President who Hunts or Fishes
from the National Shooting Sports Foundation
Sportsmen have a solid history of voting, with 9 in 10 currently registered to vote and of those 83 percent say they will vote in the November election, according to a new survey by the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. Overall, there are an estimated 40 million sportsmen of voting age in the United States. More
Hunting for Answers about Hunter Recruitment and Retention
from 7/24 Outdoors
A national, Internet-based survey is about to be launched to assess current efforts, programs and activities targeted at increasing or enhancing hunter recruitment and retention (R&R) in the United States. This R&R assessment survey, developed by the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) in conjunction with D. J. Case and Associates, is the most recent advancement of the Hunting Heritage Action Plan (HHAP). More
The Elk Continuum
from American Hunter
Forget the sneaky tricks your buddy said would work, or the newfangled gadget that guy at the Sport-Mart sold you. If you want to bag a bull, you simply need to put yourself in the same place as the elk, at the same time. The former is easy. It’s the latter that’s difficult. More
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