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Ontario Out Of Doors magazine
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An award-winning print and digital magazine, @oodmag has been bringing you the best hunting, fishing, and outdoors content since 1967.
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner James Jenkins of Petrolia, whose twin girls Bernadine and Harvey joined Dad for a field duck hunt on New Years Day 2025. They all came home with a mess of mallards on Walpole Island.
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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#MemoryBank photos uploaded! 📸
Submit yours for a chance to win an Ontario Out of Doors prize via our weekly #PhotoFriday contest at: oodmag.com/mbentry/
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #GoneFishing #TightLines #FishON #ContestAlert #WinnerWinner #MemoryBank #PhotoFriday
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Holly Marr of Aylmer, who harvested her first deer midday at hunt camp when it came within 15 yards during a push while using her CVA muzzleloader.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Ontario is investing $180,000 to protect water quality and strengthen creeks and rivers on Manitoulin Island.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #ManitoulinIsland #ManitoulinStreams #Biodiversity
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#MemoryBank photos uploaded! 📸
Submit yours for a chance to win an Ontario Out of Doors prize via our weekly #PhotoFriday contest at: oodmag.com/mbentry/
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #GoneFishing #TightLines #FishON #ContestAlert #WinnerWinner #MemoryBank #PhotoFriday
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Max Turczyn of Goderich, who took this unique buck with a 12-yard broadside shot using a longbow Max made himself after grunting in Huron County.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Matthew Veroude of Cambridge, who recently enjoyed sharing the Niagara River with some beautiful fall steelhead.
“The best time of year is finally here!”
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Some yielded, No, not we! Not we, we swear
By these our wounds; this trench upon the hill
Where all the shell-strewn earth is seamed and bare,
Was ours to keep; and lo! we have it still.

“The Unconquered Dead” by John McCrae.
We remember.
#RemembranceDay #WeRemember #JohnMcCrae
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#MemoryBank photos uploaded! 📸
Submit yours for a chance to win an Ontario Out of Doors prize via our weekly #PhotoFriday contest at: oodmag.com/mbentry/
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #GoneFishing #TightLines #FishON #ContestAlert #WinnerWinner #MemoryBank #PhotoFriday
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Bryana Laporte of Dowling, whose moose hunt looks a little different this year having her 13-month-old daughter, Paisley, at the hunt in WMU 39.
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The Invasive Species Centre announces new funding through the Invasive Species Action Fund. Invasive species cost Ontario millions of dollars every year.
Source: Inside Halton.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #InvasiveSpeciesActionFund
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Ontario fire crews battled more wildfires in 2025, responding to 643 that burned some 597,654 acres from April to October. Read more on oodmag.com.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #Wildfires #Fire #FireCrews #WrapUp #BurnEvent
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The province is investing more than $10 million to upgrade two fisheries management facilities in Wheatley and Port Dover.
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#Fishing #LakeErie #Outdoors #Ontario #News #Funding #Fisheries #Investment
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Sam Holt of Oshawa, who had a great battle with this fall chinook salmon in Oshawa Creek.
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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A reader asks who is directly responsible for placing a tag on a harvested animal when it comes to party hunting. Read more on OOD Online.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #Tags #Tagging #PartyHunting #Responsibility #Harvests
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A reader asks about the legalities of sharing a gun when hunting with apprentice hunters who do not have a PAL. Read more on OOD Online.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #Guns #Firearms #PAL #SmallGameLicence #Apprentices
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A reader asks if the Traditions-manufactured NitroFire is considered a muzzleloading gun and legal to use during muzzleloading seasons. Read more on OOD Online.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #AskACO #Traditions #NitroFire #Muzzleloader
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A reader asks for clarity when accessing Crown land that has been leased out, and whether doing so is considered trespassing. Read more on OOD Online.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #CrownLand #Access #AskACO #Clarity #Trespassing
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Submit your photos to oodmag.com/mbentry for a chance to win an Ontario Out of Doors prize and appear online/in print as part of our weekly Photo Friday contest.
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #Guelph #ManitoulinIsland #Buck #FirstHarvest #Family #Contest #Winner
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Grace McPhee of Guelph (far right) who harvested her first buck on her first sit with her Mom, Laura (far left), at 25 yards using an Excalibur Micro Crossbow in WMU 43B. Grace's twin brother, Wyatt, and Copper the dog, were equally ecstatic.
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Looking for a local wild game butcher?
Are you a wild game butcher and want to be added?
Then this page is for you:
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #WildGame #Processors #Butchers #Local #Resources
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The November 2025 solunar calendar is now available! 🦌
Get the dates and times when fish and wildlife will be most active this month. ⬇️
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #November #BigGame #Deer #TurkeyReporting #Solunar #Calendar
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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#MemoryBank photos uploaded! 📸
Submit yours for a chance to win an Ontario Out of Doors prize via our weekly #PhotoFriday contest at: oodmag.com/mbentry/
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #GoneFishing #TightLines #FishON #ContestAlert #WinnerWinner #MemoryBank #PhotoFriday
October 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Congratulations to #PhotoFriday winner Alijah Chamberlain Roy of Belleville who caught this steelhead from the Saugeen River during a December camping trip using a crappie jig after wet flies and roe bags proved unsuccessful.
October 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Winchester branded its Model 70 bolt-action as “the rifleman’s rifle” in 1952. Despite changes over 90 years, this iconic rifle prevails. Read more on OOD Online.
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#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Firearms #Rifles #BoltAction #Winchester #WinchesterModel70
October 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM