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Friday, November 13, 2026Nov 13

Case: Hunting with goals beyond trophies and meat

In this Nov. 23, 2015, photo, Bob Zimmerman from Greensburg, Pa. walks up one of the restricted roads at Pennsylvania state game lands 74 as he hunts bear in Fisher, Pa.
In this Nov. 23, 2015, photo, Bob Zimmerman from Greensburg, Pa. walks up one of the restricted roads at Pennsylvania state game lands 74 as he hunts bear in Fisher, Pa.
photo Contributed photo / Larry Case

Believe me, this ain’t easy, folks – coming up with these informative, entertaining, extremely well-written outdoors columns every week. (OK, I’m stretching it a little.)

Long ago, I told you I believed it is my job as your humble – well, mostly humble – scribe to keep you up to date and informed while perhaps even leading you to do a little soul searching at times regarding what’s going on in the outdoors world.

Well, gather round, brothers and sisters in camo, for the latest sermon.

Hunting season, what some of us consider the peak of the year, comes upon us like a thief in the night. We long for it, wait for it, and bang, here it is. Most of us are not prepared physically or mentally, but we barge on into it, make the same mistakes we always do, and then almost before we know it, the whistle is blown and it’s over for another year.

As always, your highly qualified (in the making mistakes department) and semitalented outdoors columnist is here to help. Let’s set some goals to think about for the 2018-2019 hunting season: