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Lancaster County Sportsmen for Youth is on its annual quest to round up kids for its Youth Field Day.
The organization will hold its 17th field day June 2 at Southern Lancaster County Farmer-Sportsmen's Association on Hollow Road in Providence Township.
The event is free to kids age 10-15.
Event org...

Joe Keffer, owner of The Sportsman's Shop in New Holland, was recently named the 2011 Retailer of the Year by SHOT Business at this year's SHOT Show in Las Vegas.
SHOT Business is a publication dedicated to the industries covered by its name — Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade.
The SHOT Show...

 

A few thoughts:
• For the first time in a long while, the Eagles actually drafted the guy I was hoping they'd get. Apparently, defensive line coach Jim Washburn, head coach Andy Reid and the Birds' front office wanted Fletcher Cox as much as the fans did, because they quickly traded u...

 

Ask a few questions, and you have to live with the answers you get.
For years, proponents of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's deer-management program have speculated that it's just a "vocal minority" of disgruntled hunters who are unhappy with the state's deer population.
That there is a...

 

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners last week voted to issue 888,000 antlerless deer permits for the 2012-13 hunting season.
That's down from last year's allocation of 913,000.
Allocations for the individual wildlife management units are listed in the table accompanying this artic...

Gary San Julian knew it was a sign of the changing times. But how in the heck, he wondered, could someone in wildlife management be effective unless they knew something about hunting and hunters?
So, about a decade ago, the Penn State professor emeritus of wildlife resources started a hunting-immers...

 

If you expected to be dazzled by Bill O'Brien's cutting-edge, NFL-tested offense, you came away disappointed Saturday.
There were several reasons for that. One was that the Blue-White game was televised on the Big Ten Network.
"No sense advertising what we want to do," offensive line coach...

 

The NFL draft begins Thursday, so here are some of the names bandied about in mock drafts as possible selections for the Eagles:
• Fletcher Cox, 6-foot-4, 298-pound defensive tackle, Mississippi State. This is the guy I really want for the Birds. A few weeks ago, a lot of experts figu...

 

Local deer hunters who head south of the border to chase whitetails in Maryland are in for a few changes next season.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently announced a slate of new regulations it expects to implement for the 2012-13 hunting season.
And several of the biggest ch...

It sure seemed like a record that would stand for a long time.
But the Boone & Crockett Club last week confirmed that there's a new Pennsylvania state-record nontypical elk.
That means Churchtown resident John Shirk's monster, 441-inch elk, shot in Clinton County in 2006, has been bumped to the ...