Bob CollinsIt is unlikely that the Minnesota Legislature envisioned a case of a son suing his father when it passed a bill years ago to encourage landowners to open their land to the public for hunting. Can your son be “the public”? Read more →
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Tag: Hunting
This buck, a 10-pointer, was shot on Sunday in Lanesboro, Minn. For about a year now, the deer has been seen on trail cameras and people noticed the red tags but didn’t know what they said. Now they do. Read more →
Dan Hartley, a Durand, Wis., native, went hunting around Janesville on Saturday, looking for a deer to shoot.
That’s when a deer found him. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today reinstated a hunter’s lawsuit against the owner of property on which he was hunting, whom he says is responsible for his falling from a tree while trying to climb into a deer stand in Pine County.
The hunter’s father owns the property. Read more →
Sam Cook of the Duluth News Tribune, who has a way of putting his couch-anchored readers out in the woods, asks in his column today, ‘Do you want to know how the hunting has been this fall?’ Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals today ruled that it was unconstitutional for a Department of Natural Resources officer to attach a GPS-based tracking device to the vehicle of a man he suspected was hunting big game illegally in Lac qui Parle County.
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Can you really call yourself a hunter if you have to sprawl in your deer-stand McMansion waiting for a buck to stroll by? Read more →
Big-game hunting is a good thing, the Star Tribune editorial board concludes today, saying that fact is the story that’s not getting any attention in the outrage over Walter Palmer’s alleged slaughter of a lion in Zimbabwe.
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Cecil the lion was a pretty big deal in Zimbabwe. The 13-year-old lion was a major tourist attraction at Zimbabwe’s famous Hwange National Park, according to the BBC.
The lion was shot with a crossbow and — after hours of suffering — a rifle, before being beheaded and skinned.
The killer had bribed wildlife guards.
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You may soon have another reason to try to live to age 84. You’ll get to shoot a doe. Read more →
A deer hunter in Northfield isn’t doing much for the image of the sport.
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If you’re dressed in blaze orange during deer hunting season, holding a 12-gauge shotgun, sitting on an ATV in a camouflage deer blind, and four deer slugs sitting beside you, what are you doing? A three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled today that you’re hunting, when it shot down the attempt of Read more →
Minnesota native Melissa Bachman likes hunting big game but her recent lion hunt has the Internet furious. Read more →
Nate MinorWe’ve all heard the tales from hunter friends or relatives who’ve gone through great lengths to track and bag (in their stories at least) a deer in the woods. But what would drive hunters to risk their lives to save one? Read more →
You have a choice, the doctors say. They can remove the tube that’s been helping you breathe and you’ll die. Which do you choose? Read more →