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Male and female black bears are together only during breeding season. A female may mate with several males during her estrus. Cubs from the same litter may have different fathers. Fertilized eggs [...]

This is Memoir Chapter 5 from The Bear Hunting Obsession of a Driven Man, by Bill Wiesner. As a bear hunting guide, I took only bow hunters and never had a problem filling my schedule. However, [...]

Basic Black Bear Body, Behavioral & Additional Facts In addition to their great strength… 1) Black bears can do a lot with their front paws and claws. They can open screw-top jars and [...]

Rusty is a golden Cocker Spaniel. He is a typical Cocker. He has no conscience, a selective loss of training and memory and, until he went stone deaf from ear infections, highly selective [...]

Excerpt from Lessons Learned From the Magnificent Bird, by Gary Sefton. The wild turkey is the essence of turkey flavor. Comparing wild turkey to commercially raised turkeys is like comparing [...]

The Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club, Wisconsin’s official big game trophy record-keeping organization, recently presented the Peter Haupt Memorial Award to long-time member Glenn Helgeland, [...]

When you dissect a yelp, you find that it is made up of a high-pitched “kee” note that breaks over sharply into a sound best described as a “youk”. When you put the two [...]

Judy was taking a break from Spring flower work, seated on a swing on the north side of our lawn and on the west side of our garage. I was working on a new treestand practice shooting platform in [...]

Excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Bear Hunting Obsession of a Driven Man by Bill “BearCrazy” Wiesner Natural Diet of a Black Bear Black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying [...]

My buddy Mike and I were on a five-day September bow hunt for pronghorns in western South Dakota. We had high hopes, for it was getting near the peak of the rut. The pronghorn’s, not ours. [...]