MINNEAPOLIS — The problem with pulling a trigger is that you can’t unpull it — a lesson some hunters learn the hard way.

Excited to raise your shotgun in the direction of what you think is a snow goose, only to find out the bird you killed is a protected trumpeter swan?

Too late, once you’ve pulled the trigger.

Think that late-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — On a recent Sunday morning, Carrie Schmitz and her family were cruising to church in Golden Valley when they spotted an enormous buck lying dead in the highway median. Her three children went wild at the sight of its massive antlers, shouting dubiously that it must have been a “30-pointer.”

About an hour and a half later, at...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A deer hunter admitted he messed up and bagged a moose, whose population is a far cry from what it was in Minnesota two decades ago, according to a criminal complaint filed last Wednesday.

Dane Landon Nelson, 37, of Duluth, was charged in St. Louis County District Court with illegally taking the moose, a gross misdemeanor, while...Read more