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During her first deer season ever, Brooklynne Rude killed a buck that most hunters only dream about Brooklynne Rude, with her great 28-point buck.Brooklynne Rude When you’re a kid growing up in the Midwest, deer hunting is generally part of your life. For Brooklynne Rude of Ankeny, Iowa, this was certainly the case. Her father, Brock, has hunted whitetails as long as she can remember and her brothers Mitchell and Nick both started hunting when they were about 10 years old. Rude was always excited to see what the guys brought home from deer camp, and helped with processing the...

Brenton USA Premium AR Hunting Rifle Youth A rigorous study of crime and deer hunting spanning 20 years and millions of people, found long gun use in rural areas either slightly reduced violent crime or had no impact. Aside from the contributions above, this paper is meaningful for policy-makers as it provides evidence that immense changes in rural recreational long gun use have no economically significant impacts on violent crime.This is an enormous, well-done study that is being ignored by urban media. The study was published on 1 December 2018. The author,  Paul Niekamp deserves kudos for tackling a...

On deer hunting opening day, Hortonville teen, Corissa Wege, bags 3 bucks in one hour By Kathy Walsh Nufer For Wisconsinoutdoorfun.com DALE — Anyone who wonders if this is a good year for deer hunting need only ask Corissa Wege, 16, of Hortonville, or Wayne Freimuth, 53, of Black Creek. For them, the thrill of the hunt couldn't get any better than what they experienced Saturday on opening day of Wisconsin's annual nine-day gun deer season. More hunting links: These links will open in a new window. ♦ More headlines ♦ http://www.wisconsinoutdoorfun.com/ic/timeline.shtml" target="new">The history of deer hunting in Wisconsin ♦...

LOWELL, Mass. -- A local dog owner is devastated after her dog was shot and killed. Michelle Verville was walking her dog, Smokey, in the Lowell-Dracut State Forest last week when she heard a gun shot. Smokey, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, yelped and Verville noticed that her dog had been shot in the stomach. "I just stayed there with him and told him that it was ok, and that we loved him and that he was a good dog, and then he passed," Verville said. it is legal to hunt for deer in State parks from Nov. 26 to Dec....

N.J. Botanical Garden tests ways to thwart deer Sunday, April 17, 2005 RINGWOOD - One of the main attractions at the New Jersey Botanical Garden, the garden of annual flowers, is edged most of the way around by a pock-marked bare patch where a yew hedge once grew.It's going to cost $13,000 to fill it up with a hedge of the Green Mountain variety of boxwood.If you were to ask why this is necessary, Rich Flynn, landscape designer at Ringwood State Park, which includes the botanical garden as well as Skylands Manor, would look you in the eye and calmly...