Michaelka's hunting

05/10/2026

A hunter isn’t defined by what he kills.

So what actually makes someone a hunter?

The weapon?
The experience?
The trophy?
The time spent in the field?

Or is it the way they treat the animal they’re pursuing?

And can someone be a great hunter without pulling the trigger all season?

Let’s hear it.

02/10/2026

A 15-year-old was charged by a grizzly bear after walking around the corner of his own chicken coop. Colton Richardson and his family, in Montana, thought they were dealing with a cinnamon-phase black bear after it had already raided their chickens earlier in the day. When it came back that evening, Colton went to check the coop and found himself face-to-face with the bear at close range. He raised his .270 and fired, later saying he knew he needed to make the first shot count because he might not get another one. The bear ran off, fell into a ditch, and that’s when the family realized it wasn’t a black bear, it was a grizzly. Thankfully, Colton and everyone else walked away unharmed.

— source: Stephen Ziegler
Outdoor writer | Vivek Ramaswamy interview

01/10/2026

Is this ok? I'm I the only one who gets angry? Wtf

30/09/2026

30/09/2026

Ted Cruz wants to hunt a federally protected bird. The overpopulated double breasted cormorants are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. There are now close to one million of them in the continental U.S. and Canada. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says an adult eats an average of one pound of fish every day. That means you’re talking about roughly a million pounds of fish being eaten every day. When hundreds of these federally protected birds pile onto a lake or the farm pond where you take your kids fishing, the pond can become useless.

And this isn’t just fishermen complaining that the birds ate all the bluegill. USDA researchers estimated that during two winters in the Mississippi Delta, cormorants consumed 10.3 million and 12 million farm-raised catfish, respectively. Industry-wide losses from cormorant predation on just catfish have been estimated at $47.2 million annually. That is the problem the new Cruz-Britt legislation is trying to address. Creating regional management that includes licensed hunters while still requiring cormorant populations to remain sustainable. I’ve personally watched a pond I fish get hammered by cormorants, and when that happens, federal protections will cause you to feel helpless.

— Source: Stephen Ziegler
Outdoor writer | Vivek Ramaswamy interview

29/09/2026

What do you think?

29/09/2026

A massive Wyoming mule deer that had become an internet sensation while still alive has now been taken — and it could be on the verge of breaking a record that has stood for more than a century.

Photos and videos of the extraordinary nontypical buck spread rapidly across social media, with hunters speculating that the deer could score close to the 300-inch mark.

Dawson Hallows of Utah had been scouting the buck since July before ultimately harvesting him in Wyoming.

Wyoming’s current Boone & Crockett nontypical mule deer record stands at 293 7/8 inches, a mark that has remained untouched since 1924.

The buck had already sparked plenty of controversy before the hunt, particularly over how widely his location and photos were being shared while he was still alive.

Now the hunt is over. The buck is down — and hunters across the country are waiting for the official measurement.

Could this Wyoming giant finally break a 100-year-old record?

Only the tape will tell.
Originál source: Stephen Ziegler

29/09/2026

How about this deer?

28/09/2026

A Canadian man to spent years building a 147-pound suit of armor designed to survive a full-blown bear attack. The way he tested it may be even crazier than the idea itself.

Troy Hurtubise began building his “Ursus” bear suits after an encounter with a grizzly in the 1980s. The armor eventually included titanium, chain mail, high-tech plastics, airbags and ventilation. To find out whether it worked, Hurtubise personally climbed inside while the suits were blasted with a 12-gauge sh***un, smashed with huge swinging logs, thrown down steep drops and repeatedly hit by a pickup truck traveling around 30 mph. He survived the tests.

Then it got even crazier. His Mark VII reportedly included air conditioning, robotic hands, a built-in computer and a video system that gave the wearer a 360-degree view. Hurtubise said he had put more than 1,600 hours and $200,000 into that version alone. His goal wasn’t simply to prove he could survive a bear attack. He wanted researchers to eventually be able to get extremely close to grizzlies and study them.

His obsession eventually became the 1996 documentary “Project Grizzly,” and in 1998 Hurtubise received an Ig Nobel Prize for Safety Engineering for developing and personally testing his grizzly-proof armor. There are easier ways to study bears, but there probably aren’t many that involve voluntarily getting hit by a truck while dressed like a 147-pound metal grizzly-fighting robot.
Sourxe:
— Stephen Ziegler

28/09/2026

You can love nature.
You can love animals.
And still be a hunter.

Those things are not mutually exclusive.

MICHAELKASHUNTING