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Still bowhunting…at age 89!
Bowhunter Claude Jones We all hope we’ll be as active at age 89 as Claude Jones, a retired radio-station owner who lives in Lewisburg, W.Va. Jones still hunts. In fact, he still bowhunts. In fact, he...
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W.Va. DNR: This year’s whitetail rut should last longer
In prime condition West Virginia’s rutting season for white-tailed deer gets more than its share of attention, and justifiably so. Hunters kill a lot of big bucks during the rut. Deer mating activity...
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Possible world record black bear killed in Pa. — Updated
David Price and his 879-pound bruin From the Associated Press: BUSHKILL, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission says an 879-pound black bear brought down by a bow hunter is the heaviest ever...
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More on that record-breaking Pa. black bear
David Price and his 879-pound bruin Pennsylvania Game Commission officials apparently are convinced that the 879-pound black bear killed last week in Pike County was taken legitimately. An Associated...
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The year of the trophy
McCune and his biggest buck This would have been a good year to be John McCune. McCune, a teacher at East Bank Middle School in East Bank, W.Va., had the sort of archery season all bowhunters aspire...
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Fourteen-point buck justifies archer’s tenacity
Bucky Sargent and his trophy Bucky Sargent of Blair, W.Va., spent most of the month of November sitting in a tree stand, hoping that one particular buck would come within bow range. It eventually did,...
View ArticleRace to archery’s ‘Super Slam’ was ‘nip-and-tuck’
This weeks main Gazette-Mail outdoors feature told how Chuck Adams, the first man to take all 28 North American big-game species with bow and arrow, narrowly beat a West Virginian to that goal: To...
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Rotting bear carcass nearly electrocutes hunter
Hunters can get hurt in any number of bizarre ways, but this one takes the cake. From the Associated Press: LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — A Montana bowhunter was hospitalized in Salt Lake City after...
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Deer-kill statistics are sometimes deceiving
John McCoy photo The old expression, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence,” was probably written to describe deer hunters. No matter where hunters are from, they always seem to...
View ArticleBowhunter pleads guilty for killing endangered panther
Follow this link to the Tampa Bay Times’ story about a Florida deer hunter who shot an endangered Florida panther because he didn’t want the cat to interfere with his hunting. Todd Benfield, 45, of...
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Bowhuntin’ grandma bags her 20th black bear
Cathy Addington of Winfield, W.Va., achieved an enviable hunting benchmark recently when she killed a black bear in New Brunswick. It was the 20th bear she’s killed — every one of them with a bow — in...
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