Good thing no one took a shot at this quail right as he was catching it. This would have been a very different video. The fact that the video is being used to market a book called The Real Win, a story of backup quarterback for the 49ers Colt McCoy’s “personal experiences and a close study of Scripture” make me wonder if this is some kind of fake vid meant to go viral, but then I have to hope that people trying to sell a religious book wouldn’t turn to fakery to sell their wares. I don’t think it would go over all that well if they were found out.

On the heels of an announcement by PETA that they would employ drones to track hunters who fail to track and find animals they’ve wounded, the Illinois legislature has passed a bill making it illegal to harass hunters with drones. I love meaningless laws like this. You know this one’s going to end up on [ more... ]

A bill introduced into the Minnesota Senate would place a five-year moratorium on wolf hunting in the state. The bill seeks to reinstate the half-decade waiting period between when the federal government dropped wolves off the endangered species list — which happened in 2011 — and a potential hunting season. The Minnesota Department of Natural [ more... ]

Police in Sacramento received several phone calls about a blood-spattered SUV dripping blood from its backdoor. They tracked down the car and pulled it over, only to discover a poached deer in the backseat and blood covering the inside of the vehicle. It seems the duo of would-be poachers shot the deer and loaded it [ more... ]

Seven wolves with ties to Yellowstone have been killed by hunters out of a population of 88 wolves in the park. The wolves were legally killed by hunters on lands abutting the park. The park knows they’ve lost at least seven wolves because all of them were collard. Conservationists are worried that hunters are targeting [ more... ]

A Los Lunas shop called Gunhawk Firearms took over a contest started by an Albuquerque gun shop to bag the most coyotes in a weekend. The idea, Gunhawk management says, is to help out farmers whose livestock is threatened by coyotes, which aren’t protected the way wolves are. The winner gets an assault rifle. Over [ more... ]

Last week a hunter was mauled by a grizzly in Idaho’s Centennial Mountains. The hunter, Gary Detwiler, said that his hunting partner, James Kindy, had shot a six-point bull elk just before dusk. But it wasn’t a clean kill — the elk had wandered off. Guess what? Hunting in the morning is wise for lots [ more... ]

An animal rights group in Illinois protested a live pigeon shoot that a local hunting club was putting together. To gather evidence they acquired a helicopter drone with a video camera attached. The local shooting club sought to have the drone stopped by authorities, but once they found out that it was legal and there [ more... ]

The Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife would like to give you a crisp $100 bill and a membership to their organization. How do you collect? No, they don’t want your soul, or, not exactly. They want you to send them a photo of a wolf you’ve legally killed. The quota for Montana’s wolf hunt [ more... ]

It’s deer hunting season across much of the U.S. And with unseasonably warm weather, you may be more likely to head out for some fall hikes or mountain bike rides on public land that is shared with hunters. This is a friendly reminder not to wear your antlered bike helmet or medieval deer-pelt cloak while [ more... ]