Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the newsletter. If you’re still with us, that means you’ve made it to the middle of yet another week.
With that said, let’s all take a minute to grab a coffee or whiskey and get this mid-week dispatch out the door.
Here's what's worth reading about this morning:
Is this for real? - A Mass. man has been charged after shooting his wife’s dog from a window in his home while “coyote hunting” 🤦
Open season - Well, kind of, at least for Saskatchewan farmers dealing with pesky elk 🧑🌾
Slowing the spread - More actions coming out regarding the management of CWD at the Jackson feedgrounds 🤒
Going mobile - Both Montana and Washington are rolling out new ways to purchase your licenses 📱
Odd growth - I can’t honestly say what’s going on with this buck 🤷
SO DANGEROUS
MASSACHUSETTS MAN CHARGED AFTER SHOOTING FAMILY DOG FROM WINDOW DURING ALLEGED COYOTE HUNT
A 59-year-old Massachusetts man is now up against multiple charges, including animal cruelty, after police say he fatally shot his wife's 14-year-old dog from a second-floor window last summer while claiming to hunt coyotes.
Christopher Lucas was arrested on Monday following a months-long investigation into the August 16, 2025, incident at a home in the quiet Cohasset neighborhood. According to the Cohasset Police Department, Lucas discharged a firearm from a room above his garage, striking the family pet, named Lise, in the head as the dog stood in the driveway.
“She was in the front yard of her residence in Cohasset, with her two dogs, when her husband fired a gun that struck one of her dogs in the head,” Prosecutor Kelsey Shea said. “She stated that the dog that was struck was not on a leash at the time, and she was standing approximately five feet away from the dog.”
QUICK HITS // FROM AROUND THE WEB
Sask. to issue permits to shoot destructive elk outside of hunting season: Saskatchewan farmers plagued by herds of elk destroying their crops and eating livestock feed will be able to apply for depredation permits allowing them to shoot elk outside of hunting season. Read the full story.
Montana FWP has a new way to buy your fishing and hunting license this year: The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has kicked off a new license year, and with it comes a change in how some businesses help residents purchase fishing and hunting licenses. Read the full story.
Wyoming unveils elk feedground ‘actions’ designed to slow CWD’s spread in the Jackson, Pinedale herds: The “priorities” identified for the Pinedale Herd’s three feedgrounds are geared toward spreading elk out and inhibiting the spread of prions, the infectious vectors of chronic wasting disease. Read the full story.
Pitkin County opens up rare Sky Mountain hunting lottery for 13th year: Pitkin County has opened its Sky Mountain elk hunt lottery for the 2026 season, the 13th year of the program. County code prohibits hunting on county-owned land which makes the lottery a rare opportunity to hunt a zone that is not open to other hunters. The hunt will take place during the fourth rifle season from Nov. 18 through Nov. 22, at which point the park will be closed to most public access. Read the full story.
A cow elk at Sky Mountain Park via a trail cam | Pitkin County Open Space and Trails
Washington Fish and Wildlife to Transition to Mobile Hunting and Fishing Licenses: The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced that beginning July 8, 2026, the agency will no longer issue hunting and fishing licenses on the familiar waterproof, tear-resistant paper traditionally used for license documents. Instead, the department is encouraging license holders to transition to mobile licensing options. Read the full story.
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
🫢 What in tarnation??? A lot of debate about what’s going on with this fella. Either an antler is lodged in his eye socket or one is growing out of it.
Either way that can’t be comfortable…
What do you think is going on here?
QUOTABLES // WORDS TO LIVE BY
“The way to hunt is for as long as you live against, as long as there is such and such an animal; just as the way to paint is as long as there is you and colors and canvas, and to write as long as you can live and there is pencil and paper or ink or any machine to do it with, or anything you care to write about, and you feel a fool, and you are a fool, to do it any other way.”
— Ernest Hemingway
HUMPDAY MEME // LET HIM DOWN EASY
WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
A bullsh*t free list of things that will actually change your life for the better. Cockroaches only become cannibals once they fall in cockroach love. This new underwater vehicle that can operate for up to 30 days. And we should all be reverting back to the lost art of handwritten notes.
EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
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