When a rifle suddenly goes “bad,” often it’s a quick fix. Your deer rifle sat in the closet for the last nine months. The season approaches, so you haul it out for a sight in session, and things don’t go well.

Inside notes on talking turkey this spring. You’ve learned the basic calls, roosted some birds on scouting trips. You’ve patterned your loads, marked off dates on the calendar. But if you think bagging a spring turkey in Florida is as easy as connecting the dots, think again.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering a number of free hunter safety courses around the state…»

If you’re between the ages of 16 and 37, and haven’t yet taken the state’s hunter safety class, now is the perfect time to be thinking about it …

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will host free hunter safety courses in the coming weeks, among them…»

In Florida, as long as the grain was grown in the field, and is there as a direct result of mowing or silage chopping, it is perfectly legal.

The hunter safety course is required for people born on or after June 1, 1975, to purchase a Florida hunting license. The FWC course satisfies hunter safety training requirements for all other states and Canadian provinces.

Some of the quota application periods that previously occurred in October are going to be moved up earlier, and others are going to be pushed back later.

Now is the time, and here is the link, to put in those permits for Limited Entry and Special Opportunity hunts.…»

The hunter safety course is required for people born on or after June 1, 1975, to purchase a Florida hunting license. The FWC course satisfies hunter-safety training requirements for all other states and Canadian provinces.

Free need-to-know seminars topics and times (topics vary by location and subject to change, check local store listing

Students will learn about hunting laws, safe gun handling and hunter ethics/responsibility, among other topics, before taking the final test…

Hunters need to make sure their excitement does not blind them to the precautions they should take to ensure a safe and successful day in the field …

Participants can sign up at MyFWC.com/HunterSafety or by calling the FWC’s South Region Office at 561-625-5122.

Anyone born on or after June 1, 1975, must pass an approved hunter safety course before purchasing a Florida hunting license…

Instruction is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 10. Students must complete the Internet course before coming to class and bring a copy of the final report from the online portion of the course.