http://www.times-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_194194751.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_194194751.html Most of you know that the writing of my hunting and fishing column and the construction of the Outdoors page is not all that I do here at the Cumberland Times-News. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:38:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_187183919.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_187183919.html Here is a tip for any of you who will be taking a 3-year-old on a fishing trip. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:51:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_179005413.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_179005413.html You may as well join the thousands of others who have viewed the YouTube video showing the recent incident in Claysburg, Pa. — just a hop, skip and tranquilizer-dart shot up U.S. Route 220 from Cumberland — during which a bear was first struck with a sedative projectile by Pennsylvania Game Commission personnel and then shot to death with bullets from the firearms of local law enforcement officers. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:49:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_172185102.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_172185102.html There likely won’t be many squirrels left in heaven once June Metz and Frank Sawyers get done with them. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:52:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_158235200.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_158235200.html Sat, 31 May 2008 21:03:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_152210447.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_152210447.html So here I am, or I should say there I was, sitting in my truck, the rain beating down, a chill in the May 10 morning air. Sun, 25 May 2008 01:07:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_146010901.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_146010901.html If it keeps raining the way it has, all of the trout that have been stocked recently are going to get soaking wet. Sat, 10 May 2008 20:37:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_131203720.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_131203720.html OK. There are bears in Allegany County. The reason I bring that up is because my phone and my e-mail and even my mailbox (yup, people still send regular mail, especially those who want to remain anonymous) have been busy because of folks seeing bears. Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:25:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_117192715.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_117192715.html I’m not like some turkey hunting partners I’ve had who can make every imaginable turkey call using just their throats and mouths Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:16:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_111011730.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_111011730.html The only place my deer tenderloin is going is into a marinade and then onto the grill. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:48:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_102214933.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_102214933.html Congratulations to the bowhunters in Washington County. Unless Gov. Martin O’Malley forgets to sign a bill that recently passed successfully through the General Assembly, they will have five Sundays to use their bows and arrows to try to bag deer this coming autumn. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:44:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_097002056.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_097002056.html Special note to fish and game outlaws. Officer Blu likes the way you smell. When Blu, a 98-pound black Labrador retriever takes off on the track of a person who may have killed an illegal deer or hunted without written permission or fished without a license he doesn’t know that the person has probably done something illegal. Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_091144329.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_091144329.html The Maryland Wildlife and Heritage Service has welcomed a new piece of ground into its system of wildlife management areas and it lies 55 miles to the east of downtown Cumberland. Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:42:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_083004316.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_083004316.html You know, traditional ways of doing things work. Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:24:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_075212504.html http://www.times-news.com/mikesawyers/local_story_075212504.html I’ll be up front with you. It’s been driving me crazy waiting for spring gobbler season. I know that those of you who know me are not surprised. I know as well that I am not alone.