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  • The Roving Sportsman… Christmas Gift Ideas for 20250

    With the Pennsylvania black bear season in the books and our antlered and antlerless deer season now underway, it’s hard to believe it, but in just three weeks, Christmas Day will be upon us! If you are in a quandary about what to get your significant other or a sportsman on your gift list, here

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  • Pennsylvania, One of the Best Bear States0

    Pennsylvania’s statewide archery bear season ran from October 18-25, and the muzzleloader season statewide was from October 23-25. Of course, the regular statewide firearms season opened this past Saturday, the 22nd, and ends on the 25th. There is also extended firearms hunting from November 29-December 13 in WMUS 2B, 5B, 5C, and 5D, and extended

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  • Brothers Hill and John0

    Two teams met up in Muncie, Ind. It was only an exhibition. Ball State hosted Mansfield University. The game didn’t count. It was more of a glorified scrimmage. Several D1 teams do this in the preseason. This contest featured two local standouts. Brothers Hill. David and Davion. David is a junior guard for the Mounties.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving0

    Although I do not recall when I first heard the rationale, but it has stuck in my head each year when Thanksgiving rolls around. It references Thanksgiving being the best holiday of the year because ‘you don’t have to buy gifts, just eat and sit around and watch football all day.’ While that was never

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  • The Roving Sportsman… Black Bear and Its Many Uses0

    The Pennsylvania statewide regular firearms season for black bear has just ended, yet there are still some opportunities to take a black bear with a bow or firearm all the way up to December 6, 2025. The applicable weapon and the exact dates of the upcoming seasons vary according to the appropriate WMU, so check

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  • Much More Than a Game0

    The initial awareness of the news seemingly went in one ear and out the other. Another night of senseless violence in Williamsport resulted in the shooting of two teenagers, apparently unrelated incidents, leaving one victim dead and another hospitalized. Our society has entered a dark world where repeated similar occurrences, whether local or national, begin

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  • PINCH Hitter

    PINCH Hitter0

    There I was in Lamade Gymnasium. Dutch Burch Court. Lycoming College. The locals refer to my spot as Spencer Row. I’ve sat in the same area for the past 30 years. My rents used to join me, but then they moved. Teach and Jensen will occasionally show for the weekend matinees. Not tonight. They both

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  • Hike Your Own Hike! How John Mosso Conquered the Appalachian Trail

    Hike Your Own Hike! How John Mosso Conquered the Appalachian Trail0

    In the soft chill of March air, as fog lifted over the Georgia mountains, a sixty-three-year-old man named John Mosso stood at the edge of a dream he had carried for more than half a century. The Appalachian Trail stretched before him like a ribbon through time, cutting through the same forests he once roamed

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  • A Pointed Encounter

    A Pointed Encounter0

    Sure, it’s fall and the hunting crowd is spending a lot of time roaming the woods and fields in search of game, and you never know what you might encounter. Sometimes, however, we have wildlife encounters even when not in hunting situations. Case in point, a couple of weeks ago, I went out to my

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  • The Roving Sportsman… Fall Tree Planting and Care0

    Cooler temperatures and lower humidity have ushered in the fall season, and now the various hunting seasons we have all been waiting for are finally underway. Yet there is still a lot we can do in the area of habitat improvement over the next few months on those days when there is a break between

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  • On the Cover: Bottom row left to right: Patti Fortin, Joe Kashetta, Corbin Kirk, KC Shaner, Bryan Wolfe.0

    • November 12, 2025

    Top row left to right: Mark Miller, Wyatt Laubacher, Carter Sherwood, Tristan Kurzawa, Tyce Shaner, Everett Shaner, Joe Laubacher, Finn Styron, Griffin Molino

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  • The Elusive Coyote

    The Elusive Coyote0

    While at coffee the other morning with the gang, the subject of coyotes came up. One of the guys showed us a photograph of a coyote that was recently trapped near his home in the Lairdsville area. It was a pretty good-sized coyote weighing in at around 50 pounds. During the conversation somebody else mentioned

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