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Mar 20, 2025 | 
themeateater.com | Heath Wood |Joe Ferronato |Tyler Pearce |Adam Moore
Turkey hunting often requires covering large areas and navigating challenging terrain to find gobblers. Preparing your body for the demands of the hunt can improve your chances of success and make the experience more enjoyable. Almost every hunter has a moment of truth when they realize they're out of shape. Mine came in the spring of 2020 while turkey hunting in southern Missouri.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Joe Ferronato |Maggie Hudlow |Eli Fournier
Seven friends who were returning from a waterfowl hunting trip in Kansas were among those killed in a plane crash earlier this week in Washington, D.C.The outfitter who guided the group, Fowl Plains, posted about the tragedy on Facebook. “We’ve always said our clients are more than friends. They’re family. Last night we lost 7 family members in the horrific plane crash. 7 family members we’ve had the privilege to hunt with the last few years,” the outfitter wrote.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Maggie Hudlow |Katie Hill |Travis Hall |Joe Ferronato
On September 3, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced that the state’s Veterinary Laboratory had confirmed a case of anthrax in a dead moose found in Carbon County, Wyoming. The moose was found near the town of Elk Mountain in the southeastern part of the state, according to a press release from WGFD. CWD has been prevalent in the area for 20 years and is a priority monitoring area for elk herds.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Maggie Hudlow |Katie Hill |Ryan Callaghan |Joe Ferronato
On May 12, 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) received a report of a young female mountain lion with signs of severe hind leg ataxia and paresis in a residential area of Douglas County. The cat was experiencing limited mobility due to an inability to bear weight on its hind end. It was dragging itself with its front legs and was responsive to stimuli. Wildlife officers tranquilized the cat and then euthanized it with a gunshot to the chest in order to preserve neurologic tissue.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
petersenshunting.com | Joe Ferronato
I’ve never been much of a turkey hunter. Growing up in the West, it wasn’t something we normally did, and I never had the itch of those afflicted by the turkey fever. And the common assertion that turkeys are like elk always turned me off to the pursuit. How could anyone compare a 20-pound bird to the majesty of a bull elk?
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Jordan Sillars |Spencer Neuharth |Ross Robertson |Joe Ferronato
New details and images have emerged about a recent cougar attack in Washington State involving five cyclists who fought off the cat with a rock and a Leatherman and then used a mountain bike to pin it down. All survived, but one of the cyclists suffered a serious bite wound to her jaw. The five women were riding on a popular biking trail near North Bend east of Seattle on February 17, 2023.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
petersenshunting.com | Joe Ferronato
You may think you're reading a hunting story but make no mistake, this story is about Charles a.k.a. Chuck. A bear dog. All joking aside, chasing bears with hounds is as much about the dogs as it is about hunting, and a good pack of dogs can make or break your hunt. Chuck, or Charles as we called him due to his majestic attitude, is one of the grittiest dogs I have ever met on a chase. To many, chasing game species, especially predators, with dogs is considered unfair or cheating.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
themeateater.com | Ryan Callaghan |Katie Hill |Joe Ferronato
Colorado news media is reporting that the state Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to cancel the April mountain lion hunting season and ban the use of electronic calls for lion hunting due to high rates of hunter-caused mortality. If that were true, it should concern hunters and anti-hunters alike. But it doesn’t take much digging to see that the crisis is almost entirely fabricated by animal rights groups looking to drum up support for a proposed lion hunting ban.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
petersenshunting.com | Joe Ferronato
As a hunter who’s had the opportunity to use myriad of firearms, I know it’s hard to find a rifle that is lightweight, shoots accurately and can handle to recoil put out by the hard-hitting cartridges that Western hunters look for to take down big-boned animals. Weatherby’s Backcountry 2.0 Carbon rifle chambered in the company’s exclusive .338 RPM proved to be just that.
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Sep 3, 2023 | 
petersenshunting.com | Joe Ferronato
As the smoked cleared, the anticipation was crippling. Pulling the extra loads from my hip pouch, I started the process of reloading the CVA Paramount muzzleloader that sat rested in front of me. Dejected, I saw the bull standing seemingly undisturbed in the same spot. The reloading process quickened substantially. New Mexico holds an allure for hunters of all kinds. The hunting is exceptional for mule deer and antelope and the elk hunting is renowned as a thing of mystery.
