Cumberland Times-News

Michael A Sawyers - Outdoors

Michael A Sawyers - Outdoors
  • Caution: numbers ahead!

    I know it can get a little crazy when we start throwing around deer harvest numbers.

    March 13, 2010

  • Now, now, let’s not be bow snobs

    I know this won’t happen, of course, but I’d like to see all hunters support the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service proposal that would legalize crossbows for all licensed hunters throughout the deer archery season.

    March 6, 2010

  • Mike_Sawyers_fc.jpg New Md. hunt rules look good

    The GPS unit on the dashboard of our hunting truck has gotten us halfway to our new hunting regulation destination in Maryland.

    February 27, 2010 1 Photo

  • Mike Sawyers Keep early hunts

    On Feb. 28, that’s next Sunday, West Virginia’s natural resources commissioners will be presented at a meeting in South Charleston with the recommendations of their biologists for the upcoming hunting seasons.

    February 20, 2010 1 Photo

  • Mike Sawyers Surprise fishing regulations not cool

    In a column in June I wrote, “I believe that the folks who run the Maryland Inland Fisheries Division are trying to become better communicators...”

    February 7, 2010 1 Photo

  • Conceive, propose, finalize

    From what I know thus far, this could be an exciting regulation year for Maryland hunters, especially turkey hunters.

    January 28, 2010

  • Hook slides! Hook spurs! Trout hooks!

    As you know, I’m gaga about spring gobbler hunting.

    January 21, 2010

  • That’s a shooter

    am the luckiest deer hunter in the world.

    January 14, 2010

  • Hunt regs up for talk

    In a little more than two months, probably sometime in March, the Maryland Wildlife and Heritage Service will conduct public hearings about changes to the hunting regulations that will be in effect from the fall of 2010 through the spring of 2012.

    January 7, 2010

  • Mike Sawyers Odds and ends at year’s end

    You may remember that I complained annually that it took the Maryland Wildlife and Heritage Service too long to let us know how many deer had been killed.

    It did. Take too long that is.

    December 26, 2009 1 Photo