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The Michigan Outdoors Variety: “Hushing for Woodheads”
The day started before dawn, two hunters and a dog hunkered down along a steep bank on the flooding, our presence obscured from above by a mix of oaks and maples, multihued leaves still clinging to...
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Birds of the North Woods: Michigan Woodcock Hunting
Ask anyone; woodcock are birds of the north woods, right? So go North, young man. But when you look at it from a more national, less Michigan-centric perspective, well, southern Michigan pretty much is...
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November 15: The Most Important Day in Michigan
It’s a safe bet that there are more vacation days used on November 15 in the state of Michigan than on any other day. It's the traditional opening day for Michigan’s regular firearm deer season and for...
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Michigan Slug Hunters Sight-in: Ensuring Shotgun Accuracy
Although Michigan’s firearm deer season is just a little over a week away, hunters limited to shotguns in the more densely populated southern tier of the state still have time to make sure their...
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Setting Your Sights on Michigan Firearms Deer Season
Checked the calendar lately? Firearms deer season---probably the single biggest day in Michigan outdoors---is bearing down on us like a runaway train. And while it may be a little late in the game to...
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Michigan Firearms Deer Season: Better Bait Than Never
I admire those guys who hunt Michigan deer all year ’round, and I’m not talking about poachers. Lots of perfectly ethical Michigan hunters don’t limit their pursuit of whitetails to the open season....
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Raccoon Hunting: A Whole Different Ball Game
Jim Zimmerman acknowledges that most of the guys he takes hunting don’t get it at all. “Most people think I’m crazy,” said Zimmerman, a 61-year-old recent retiree who hunts mostly in Gratiot County,...
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Bucks and Karma on Opening Day in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
It was cold opening morning in Dickinson County, perhaps not as cold as I’d have liked, but there was a thick layer of frost covering the stalks in the cut oat field I was watching. As the sun climbed...
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A Goose Gamble in Southwest Michigan Pays Off
Part of the fun of hunting a waterfowl area managed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is selecting the right zone to set up your decoys. The right one means you’ll have opportunities to...
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Great Lakes, Great Bears: Michigan Black Bear Hunting
Michigan is widely known for its phenomenal fishing and abundant deer population. While the state’s black bears have always been part of the hunting scene, in recent years the bear population has...
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Hunting Michigan’s Antlerless Whitetail Deer
Whitetail deer hunting in the Great Lake State goes back well before there was a Mackinac Bridge, an auto industry, or even statehood. Each fall hundreds of thousands of Michigan hunters take to the...
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Take Advantage of Michigan’s Outstanding Grouse Hunting
Michigan’s great outdoors are home to many outstanding hunting opportunities. The state's ruffed grouse get scores of resident and nonresident hunters afield each fall, and with good reason. Hunting...
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Hunting Michigan’s Seven Wetland Wonders
To waterfowl hunters, there are some historic destinations that fill dreams and top bucket lists. While it's well-known for excellent deer hunting and amazing fishing, Michigan is also home to some...
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Five Reasons Why Michigan is the Best State for Hunting Woodcock
Upland hunters often aspire to bag the American woodcock, one of Michigan’s most challenging birds to hunt. Woodcock, or "timber doodles" as they are nicknamed, are small birds that inhabit cover...
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Best Bets for Michigan Deer Hunters
While Michigan offers hunters a plethora of amazing hunting opportunities, deer hunting ranks first in popularity among the state's sportsmen and women. With a huge population of whitetails and a...
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Michigan’s First Teal Season in 50 Years a Success
For the first time in 50 years, Michigan duck hunters had an opportunity to start duck hunting well in advance of the usual opener this fall. Michigan duck hunters enjoyed an early teal season the...
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Michigan’s Youth Hunting Programs Keep Sporting Traditions Strong
Most of us who hunt come from families of hunters. The love for the sport gets passed down from one generation to the next, with fathers and mothers looking on with pride as sons and daughters take to...
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Michigan Goose Hunting is a Dream Come True
The geese---a flock of about 30---came from upwind, flying toward our decoy set from behind us. They seemed fixated on our dekes, ignoring the well-grassed, A-Frame blind the four of us occupied. As...
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The Nonresident’s Guide to Michigan Deer Hunting
For decades, Michigan has played host to an army of out-of-state, orange-clad, deer hunting warriors every November. October brings in a plethora of camouflaged archers as well. With a large deer herd,...
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Michigan Woodcock Season Opens Strong and Promising
Rub, my English setter, was locked up, solid as a statue, on point in the sort of aspens where you might not expect to find grouse and woodcock. It was an open area with more mature trees than you’d...
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