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Ron Smith never could sleep on an airplane. So he used that travel time to write a book instead. It only took seven round trips between Texas and Alaska to write 15 chapters. The result: "How Not To Die Hunting In Alaska." While that may elicit a chuckle or two, Smith has written true stories from personal experience, and there is something to be learned from experiences he shares. "Anybody who has hunted in Alaska has stories to tell," said the longtime Alaskan, who now divides his time between Alaska and Texas. He is an professor emeritus of biology at...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has a simple, blunt message for hunters in Wisconsin: When a DNR warden asks you to give up your legal firearm, do so, plain and simple, no matter what. What's more, that goes for all citizens, the agency has asserted. Citizens with firearms, the DNR argues, should always do exactly what law enforcement officers tell them to do, regardless of the circumstances of the situation. To which one former hunter education instructor for the department has an equally simple and blunt response: The agency's directive is unconstitutional, plain and simple, and citizens don't have...

No one would argue that a well-trained hunter is a safer hunter. Yet, a rural county in Virginia seeks to prevent Orion Sporting Group, LLC. from encouraging safety practices prior to legally sanctioned hunts at its 450-acre hunting preserve. The Nelson County government has filed a legal injunction against basic firearms safety in an effort to stop safety warm-up practice before hunters conduct actual upland game bird hunts. "Orion's safe hunting practices are not against the law anywhere in America," said Orion Estate Managing Director Morris Peterson...

<p>The assistant basketball coach at an Indiana County high school was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital after falling 30 feet from a tree stand while hunting Wednesday afternoon.</p> <p>Jason Kuzemchak, 24, of Clymer RD2, was transported by medical helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital after being rescued by Cherryhill Township firefighters and Citizen's Ambulance Service personnel from a heavily wooded area on his father's farm along Spaulding Road.</p>