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Atkinson Mills Sportsmen’s Club • Meetings — held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The club is located at 55 Sportsmen Club Lane, McVeytown; email atkinsonmillssportsmensclub@gmail.com; online at http://atkinsonmills-sportsmensclub.weebly.com. Blue Rock Sportsman Club • Club meetings — 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month on the gun range, and at 7 p.m. January and February in the barn. To east end Blue Rock: From Milroy, follow signs to Reeds Gap State Park. Free camping available and kitchen is open during all events except trap ...

PFBC documents invasive Snakehead in lower Susquehanna

​HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) has issued a strong advisory to encourage anglers who catch invasive Northern Snakeheads in the lower Susquehanna River, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth, to report and dispose of any fish caught. This advisory follows multiple Northern Snakehead captures in Conowingo Reservoir by anglers and natural resource agency biologists this summer, including the first evidence of Northern Snakehead reproduction in the reservoir. The PFBC and partner natural resource agencies have been conducting surveillance monitoring for ...

August is National Shooting Sports Month

HARRISBURG — Every shot benefits wildlife management. How? When wildlife was dwindling in the early 1900s, the firearms and ammunition industry stepped up and requested a federal tax be placed on the sale of these items to help fund wildlife conservation. This tax is a federal excise tax of the wholesale price of arms and ammunition (a cost built into the price of these items and not an additional cost to the consumer). The revenue generated from the excise tax is apportioned to state wildlife agencies for conservation efforts, hunter education, and shooting programs. For your ...

Outdoor trails expanding in Pa.

By David Wenner pennlive.com dwenner@pennlive.com Remnants of old structures and long-gone communities. Ancient cemeteries. Geological rarities. Places offering mountain-to-mountain views across valleys. Unexpected curiosities to contemplate or research later. Not to mention exercise, peace of mind and health. All those and more can be found again and again on the vast and constantly improving array of trails available to central Pennsylvanians. The offerings include one of the ultimate trails in North America — the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail extending from Maine to ...

Sportsmen’s Banquet returns to Evangel Church on Sept. 9

LEWISTOWN — Chris Simonetti has been hunting and fishing all over North America for more than half a century. The Reedsville outdoorsman has hunted whitetail deer, bears and moose in every lower province in Canada at least once — some twice — and hunted in three or four different states. He’s fished on chartered boats and made many trips to Clinton and Potter counties for trout, along with many streams throughout the Juniata Valley. “I have many memories of those adventures,” Simonetti said. He hopes to share those stories with other avid hunters and anglers at ...

Outdoors Calendar

Atkinson Mills Sportsmen’s Club • — held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The club is located at 55 Sportsmen Club Lane, McVeytown; email atkinsonmillssportsmensclub@gmail.com; online at http://atkinsonmills-sportsmens club.weebly.com. Blue Rock Sportsman Club • — 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month on the gun range, and at 7 p.m. January and February in the barn. To east end Blue Rock: From Milroy, follow signs to Reeds Gap State Park. Free camping available and kitchen is open during all events except trap shoots. Decatur Sportsman Club • ...