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The Memorial Day weekend might not be here just yet, but your favorite dispatch from the great outdoors is.
So grab your coffee or whiskey (no judgement) and let's get caught up on the outdoor news and views from the past 24-or-so hours.
Have a great long weekend and don’t forget to remember and pray for all those that made the ultimate sacrifice wearing a uniform for this great country. 🇺🇸
Here's what's worth reading about today:
Neighborhood shooter - Texas man gets nailed for beheading suburban deer 👮
Crossbow love - NY hunters are apparently smitten with crossbow hunting 🏹
50-year low - North Dakota offers lowest amount of deer licenses in half a century ✂️
One big bear - Pa. hunter drops state’s heaviest bear weighing in at 717 pounds 🐻
No
soupgrouse for you - Wisconsin axes the 2026 sharp-tailed grouse hunt 🪓That spring feeling - Trying to feel as good as this guy does each morning 🤪
DUDE NEEDS A NEW HOBBY
TEXAS MAN FACES 74 CHARGES IN MASSIVE SUBURBAN DEER POACHING SPREE
Texas Game Wardens finally caught up with a 55-year-old man who went on an absolute tear, illegally dropping deer across three Hill Country Counties. After finding headless bodies and crossbow bolts lodged in suburban front yards, Texas officials have since slapped the egregious poacher with 74 criminal charges.
Darrel Maguire, of New Braunfels, is accused of poaching at least 13 deer from the fall of 2024 through late summer 2025 in Comal, Bexar, and Hays counties. According to officials, Maguire used a crossbow to shoot deer from the comfort of his vehicle, often at night and from public roadways, before snatching the heads as trophies and leaving the carcasses to waste in residential neighborhoods…
QUICK HITS // FROM AROUND THE WEB
Crossbows prove popular with NY deer hunters, new data shows: DEC this week released its annual whitetail deer harvest estimates for the 2025-26 season showing that more than half the deer taken during archery season were killed with a crossbow. Read the full story.
Colorado lawmakers tackled wolves, luring bears, hunting beavers and wildlife leadership during the 2026 legislative session: Among the more than 600 bills that were introduced this year, the Capitol passed several that will impact Colorado Parks and Wildlife, including measures to fund wildlife crossings, enact stricter penalties for luring bears and add staff to manage recreation. Beyond bills, lawmakers also had discussions around wolf funding and the wildlife agency’s commission leadership. Read the full story.
N.D. Game & Fish offering the lowest amount of deer hunting licenses in more than 50 years: North Dakota Game and Fish is set to give out 39,100 deer hunting licenses this year which is down 3,200 from 2025. The department said this is the lowest amount in over 50 years. Read the full story.
Pennsylvania hunter bags state's heaviest bear, earns triple trophy: Nate Miller, 39, had an incredible year of hunting, getting a 717-pound black bear, an 8-point buck and a spring gobbler. Getting all three in the same license year is considered a triple trophy in Pennsylvania. Read the full story.
Nate Smith and his bruin | Photo: Jason Miller
New rules approved for nonresident turkey hunters in Mississippi: The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks approved new rules in its May meeting that not only reduce the bag limit for nonresident turkey hunters in Mississippi, but will also dictate when nonresidents can harvest gobblers during the spring hunting season. Read the full story.
No Wisconsin hunt expected for sharp-tailed grouse in '26 after population decline: A sharp decline in Wisconsin's largest remaining population of sharp-tailed grouse prompted Department of Natural Resources wildlife managers and an advisory committee to recommend no hunting season be held for the species this year. Read the full story.
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
🐻 When it’s still winter but that spring time feeling hits. Watch as this fella seems more than enthused to be out of hibernation just a tad early.
I’d probably avoid him right about now though…
WEEKEND MEME // CAN’T HURT ME
WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
The simplest of things can sometimes be the most complex. Like the eraser. Something many of us use every single day, yet barely comprehend the complexity behind how they actually work. I’ve always loved geography and maps. And while I don’t necessarily believe the urge to own a globe is exclusively masculine, it’s a concept I’m willing to explore. Dinosaurs are another object of my affection, especially back when I was a young boy. A question I never bothered to ask was why the T-Rex’s arms were so tiny and short? And I grew up with cassettes (and later CDs), and thus, just narrowly missed that small window in time when the 8-track reigned supreme.
EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
The pull of the Memorial Day weekend. 🇺🇸
📸 by: @henry_rifles and @rusty_wheel_ranch
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