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• Basic Patterning

  Created: Friday, 02 April 2010 12:45 Author: Tom Mills
  Pro Staff Writer

  My brother Joe asked me to do this little project after we had had several conversations about patterning our turkey guns prior to spring gobbler seasons in the past. We were always amazed at the number of hunters we had met while in the field who had not...

• An Intro to the Wild Turkey

  Created: Friday, 02 April 2010 12:01 Author: Joe Mills
  Sr. Staff Writer

  In preparation for the upcoming spring turkey season we will be running, by popular request, our informative series on the wild turkey. This series covers the different subspecies of wild turkey and highlights information on their physical appearance, hab...

• Winter 2009-2010 ~ Could this be Bobwhite’s Last Stand?

  Created: Wednesday, 10 February 2010 19:26 Author: Joe Matter, Chairman, New Jersey Quail Project

  While not a blizzard aficionado, I must admit that there is a certain splendor of a new fallen snow in the woods.  Today marks the fourth major snowstorm for South Jersey this winter.  Between writings I gaze out my window that overlooks the lake and ta...

• 6th Annual New Jersey Bow Hunters Game Dinner

  Created: Friday, 18 December 2009 16:47 Author: Joe Mills
  Sr. Pro-Staff Writer

  The 6th annual UBNJ/TANJ Bow Hunters game dinner will take place on Saturday March 13, 2010 in Hamilton, NJ at Angeloni's Cedar Gardens. This premeir NJ Bow hunters event has consistently been a sellout and has become even bigger and better with each pass...

• Calendar for the Year Round Deer HunterJan/Feb

  Created: Friday, 18 December 2009 15:30 Author: Doug Vicari
  NJ-Hunter.com Pro-Staff

  Late winter seasons are still open in many states. At this time of year, combine your hunting with scouting. The winter months are the best time to do your post season scouting. Bedding and feeding areas are easier to locate, and the well used trails that...

• NJ Outdoor Enthusiasts Defend Heritage

  Created: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 06:54 Author: Joe Matter, Chairman, NJQP

  History was made two years ago when the sportsmen and women of New Jersey amassed on an October evening in Mullica Hill.  That night, hundreds packed the Grange Hall and made a statement the likes that Trenton politicians never heard before.  Tired of b...

• You R.O.O.R. and elect a new Governor

  Created: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 23:37 Author: Anthony P. Mauro, Sr., NJ Outdoor Alliance

  The meaning of "grassroots" is "pertaining to, or involving the common people." Grassroots is not like anything else in politics. Today's major political movements tend to ignore the grassroots and focus almost exclusively on the use of media to gather wi...

• 4th Women's Educational Pheasant Hunt

  Created: Thursday, 17 September 2009 13:03 Author: Pola Galie, NJ-Hunter Pro Staff

  In 2007 several friends got together to help some of their children complete their workbooks and practice shooting their bows and clay targets to prepare for their hunting proficiency tests.  Mike Mazzucco, Bob Wall and a few others enjoyed getting them ...

• 10th Annual Bowhunters Jamboree and 3-D Championship

  Created: Thursday, 20 August 2009 20:15 Author: Pola Galie

  August 22nd & 23rdAssunpink WMA, Robbinsville NJRegistration starts both days at 7am (ends Noon Sunday)  There will primitive camping Friday and Saturday night. Saturday night will feature an all you can eat buffet dinner with Music by the Kevin Quinn ba...

• My Pope & Young Buck

  Created: Sunday, 09 August 2009 11:34 Author: Barry Ott
  NJ-Hunter Community Member

  I like to hunt with a bow. I started in 1961 with a fiberglass Bear recurve and wooden shaft arrows. It took me 9 years to shoot my first deer with it; a small 7 pointer, but boy was I proud. I never took another deer with that bow, though I hunted with i...

• You Can Never Have Too Many Plans During Turkey Season

  Created: Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:48 Author: Joe Mills
  Sr. Pro-Staff Writer

  One thing I have learned about turkey hunting is the more plans you have the better your chances of success are. For me this never applied more appropriately than during this years “E” week of spring gobbler season. The day started out as the last one...

• NJ-Hunter Welcomes Jack Spoto as our Newest Pro-Staff Writer

  Created: Thursday, 09 July 2009 15:45 Author: Joe Mills
  Sr. Pro-Staff Writer

   I am pleased to announce that Jack Spoto of Freehold, NJ has joined the NJ-Hunter Pro-Staff team. Jack brings a host of talents, a wealth of knowledge, and a seroius committment to the hunting and outdoor communities. Jack lead the UBNJ through some of ...

• SafeBackyards.com: Animal Rights Hucksterism?

  Created: Wednesday, 03 June 2009 19:42 Author: Anthony P. Mauro, Sr., NJ Outdoor Alliance

  It is stated on SafeBackyards.com that the purpose of its existence is to oppose a bill that reduces the current bow safety zone to 150 feet. The reason represented is a concern for safety, but such a rationalization is impossible to justify based on fact...

• Not Missing Out On An Opportunity

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2009 17:04 Author: Pete Graziano
  NJ-Hunter Pro-Staff

  I got a late start on opening day for the 2009 turkey season in NJ. This year my hunting was limited due to a new job and the extended travel that is required. I didn't decide to hunt turkey until the weekend before opening day. After all I was already at...

• Sunday Bow Hunting is Law!!!!

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2009 15:11 Author: Joe Mills
  NJ-Hunter Pro-Staff

  It's official - Sunday Bow Hunting in NJ is now Law!!! Governor Corzine signed the Sunday Bow hunting legislation into law today. Bow hunters and sportsmen all across New Jersey can be proud of this monumental accomplishment. There is no shortage of indiv...

• DEER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

  Created: Sunday, 19 April 2009 19:02 Author: Kip Adams

  Quality Deer Management (QDM) is a household name to modern day deer hunters. You can’t pick up a hunting magazine, watch the Outdoor Channel, or talk to the guys at camp without seeing or hearing the letters QDM. The rise in popularity of QDM is a good...

• Good News for Bobwhite in New Jersey

  Created: Friday, 10 April 2009 16:30 Author: Joe Matter
  NJ-Hunter Pro-Staff

  In March 2007, a group of concerned New Jersey sportsmen and women formed the New Jersey Quail Project (NJQP).  Originally, a committee under another organization but now a part of the New Jersey Outdoor Alliance Environmental Projects.  In response to ...

• Sharing The Experience

  Created: Friday, 10 April 2009 14:20 Author: Joe Mills
  Sr. Staff Writer

  We sat down for late dinner at a pizza place near home the evening I arrived back from my 2008 Kansas deer hunt. Rich Novotny and I relived the highlights of the trip for my wife and son as I started to unwind from the adventure. My son Colin listened int...

• Changes I've seen over the years

  Created: Saturday, 28 March 2009 08:44 Author: Barry Ott
  NJ-Hunter Community Member

  My father let me skip kindergarten in 1956 to go with him deer hunting. He was ground hunting, as almost all hunters did back then, and using paper hulled, hand loaded buckshot shells, from Ray's Sport Shop. He wore an all red hunting suit, as there was...

• Sunday Bow Hunting is in the Home Stretch

  Created: Monday, 23 March 2009 20:32 Author: Joe Mills
  Sr. Staff Writer

  Sunday Bow Hunting is in the Home Stretch!!!!!!  All that is needed is one final push and bow hunting on Sunday will become a reality here in NJ. The last five years have seen a lot of hard work getting this legislation to the point where it is today, th...