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Art Lander’s Outdoors: A history and guide to crossbow hunting white-tailed deer in Kentucky
Bow hunters in Kentucky have had a contentious relationship with the crossbow through the years. When archers hunted with traditional…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Archery deer season is right around the corner, time to prepare and get organized
How time flies. Kentucky’s archery season for white-tailed deer opens three weeks from tomorrow, on Saturday, September 2. The slight…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s hunters readying for deer season’s main event — modern gun season
Modern gun season is the main event of Kentucky’s annual white-tailed deer season. It’s when the most hunters are afield,…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s 2021-22 deer season yields state’s lowest harvest in nine years
Unseasonably warm and windy conditions during the first week of modern gun season, a deadly tornado outbreak on opening day…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Sharing three favorite cold-weather recipes for your freshly harvested venison
Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a three-part series on venison — three recipes for cold weather favorites….
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Proper care of harvested deer in the field means high-quality venison on the table
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a three-part series on venison, beginning with field dressing, butchering a deer…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Locked, loaded for modern gun season, the main event on deer season calendar
Kentucky’s 16-day modern gun season, the main event on the deer season calendar, opens in about three weeks, on Saturday,…
Kentucky’s modern gun deer season opens Nov. 14; deer harvest numbers trending up this year
The arrival of autumn brings beautiful fall colors, holiday excitement and for hunters, deer hunting in Kentucky. About 300,000 Kentuckians…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky hunters post another big harvest as deer season comes to close
Kentucky’s 2019-20 hunting season for white-tailed deer ended Monday and hunters posted another big harvest, inching closer to the all-time…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: For deer hunters across Kentucky ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’
The lyrics are from a Christmas song made famous by Andy Williams in 1963. But, for Kentucky deer hunters, November…
Keven Moore: Landowner liability during deer hunting season — know the risks and get insurance
With opening day of rifle season for deer hunters’ just days away, landowner liability is a great concern to many…
Keven Moore: It’s muzzle loading season again — tips on how to avoid deer hunting accidents
It’s that time of year again where millions of men (88.1 percent) and women (11.9 percent), begin to disappear and…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Cooler temperatures make outlook for new deer season promising
With Kentucky’s 2017-18 deer season set to open Saturday, with the start of archery hunting, the weather outlook for September…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: It’s a wrap — a quick review of Kentucky’s 2016-17 deer season
It’s a wrap. Kentucky’s 2016-17 deer season ended last week with the conclusion of archery hunting. The season will likely…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: All signs indicate another record deer season for hunters in 2016-17
With Kentucky’s 2016-17 deer season set to open this weekend, with the start of archery hunting on Saturday, Sept. 3,…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Time to begin final preparations for the opening of archery deer season
Kentucky’s archery season for deer opens one month from today, on Sept. 3, 2016. Now is the time for landowners…
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission proposes 2016-17 deer season dates, changes in elk hunting
The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission proposed the dates of the 2016-2017 deer seasons, changes to deer zones and slight…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Increasing numbers in state deer herd seen as ‘new norm’
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Kentucky receives national acclaim for the quality of its deer herd, and the numbers…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: State’s latest deer season started slow, but had a strong finish
Despite unseasonable weather and a big mast crop, Kentucky’s 2014-15 deer season ended with hunters posting the second-highest harvest total…