The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...

Neither Dick Clark nor any of his surrogates will be on hand to boost ratings, but the muzzleloader hunt means the ball is dropping on the 2025-26 Ohio deer season. The four-day muzzleloader season, ...

Outdoors columnist Tom Lounsbury is pleased to see the recent change for firearm deer hunting starting in the fall of 2026.

Ohio's muzzleloader deer season is scheduled for Jan. 3-6, 2026. Coshocton County reported the highest number of deer taken during the gun season weekend. The overall deer hunting season in Ohio ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – Vermont Fish & Wildlife has announced that muzzleloader season antler-less deer permit applications are available. The VTF&W Board came to this decision on May 21, ...

Deer hunters in Ohio had one final weekend of gun season before Christmas and checked more than 17,000 deer during the two days. But if you haven't bagged your trophy yet, muzzleloader season is ...

For generations, a lot of states have allowed deer hunters to use only shotguns with slugs or maybe a muzzleloader during gun season. Then somebody figured out that straight-walled rifle cartridges ...

Muzzleloader deer hunting season goes from Dec. 6-15 for all three zones. Hunters in Zone 1 (Upper Peninsula) “carry afield or take a deer with a muzzleloading rifle, muzzleloading shotgun or ...