A great service from the American Veterinary Medical Association. This was posted by Dr. Billy Griswold over on the Arizona Sportsman’s Journal. You can get to the podcast here: Hunting and Food Safety. Thanks Dr. Griswold! Related Articles:Sighting In Your New Scope by Vortex OpticsAwesome Safety Video Goes ViralCheck Out The Trophy RoomPrairie Dog Brouhaha [...]
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January 18th, 2011
Writers Block and Under The Weather
Between a bad case of writer’s block and fighting a cold it has been a bit slow. I’ll admit that the Tucson Shooting has gotten under my skin with the attack on guns and conservative views when this was clearly a deranged individual. Working in the Mental Health Field I can tell you there is [...]
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SHOT Show 2011 – Day 1 On The Floor
Today was the official first day of the 2011 SHOT Show (Media Day at the range is an “unofficial” first day). As usual, I spent the day getting totally overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff to see and people to talk to. I did have some excellent conversations, and hope to bring you those [...]
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2011 Shot Show Quick Draw for Tuesday January 18…
I have so much fun looking at the new products and of course right off the bat this morning I went to visit the Prois Booth and voila there it was! My Shot Show Quick Draw of the day! Actually I couldn’t choose so there are two for today! Prois has been hard at work [...]
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Win in suit against California ammunition law
Chuck Michel has announced that the NRA / Calif. Rifle & Pistol Assn suit challenging the California handgun ammunition restrictions (requiring registration and banning mail order sales) has won on a void for vagueness challenge. Among other vague provisions was…
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SHOT Show 2011: Ram’s Outdoorsman Pickup
by Phil Bourjaily
At the pre-SHOT Shooting day we saw lots of guns, most of them black, and tactical. We’ll have more video from that event soon but in the meantime, here’s a look at Ram’s Outdoorsman pickup which has some cool features like locking gun storage in the sides of the bed. Forgive the audio, which is a little out of synch, but we wanted to get this up and start our SHOT coverage right away.
January 18th, 2011
A Canoe Trip for Bear Lovers
A guiding service in Minnesota is offering bear lovers at once-in-a-lifetime chance: take a canoe trip specifically designed to get you as near bears as possible. This isn’t one of those wussy Canadian bear-watching trips where you ride in an armored car on 8-foot-tall tires and look through your 5000x binoculars at bears feeding in [...]
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Events
I’ve been offline for a few days due to work and personal matters. Update: Thursday I attended Judge Roll’s visitation and rosary. There were quite a few (as in hundreds) attendees, and tightest security I have ever seen, down to…
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Another Reason to Love Montana
Friendly folks, good skiing, great climbing and state-made commercials that seemingly promote drunken horseback riding. Montana Department of Transportation says the commercials are really about making sure you have a sober friend to drive you home when you drink, but then they also mention that it’s not explicitly illegal to ride a horse when you’re [...]
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Hunting HAM This Year
I’ve said it a million times – javelina are my nemesis. I’ve been hunting them a few years now, and have yet to fill a tag. My daughter even got one before me (read about the Sunset Sow). All of my tags so far have been archery tags. I have hunted 37B, 37A, and 20A. [...]
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Miniaturized Whistler Blackcomb
Why does making something smaller automatically make it cuter? I’ve honestly heard women describe travel-sized sticks of deodorant as ‘cute.’ I think miniaturization is creepy, but I like that it makes me feel like a giant. When I give up writing The Goat for Backcountry.com, you’ll all be invited to my Giant Rocky party, where [...]
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Details In The D’Acquisto Case
by Dave Hurteau
Earlier this month, I posted a link to a story by the Illinois Outdoor News reporting that Andrae D’Acquisto, former owner of Lone Wolf Treestands and current owner of Lone Wolf Productions, which produces Whitetail Addiction TV, had pled guilty to hunting without a valid Illinois hunting license and habitat stamp, and that in the plea agreement, baiting charges were dropped. You may remember that I promised you more information. I wanted to hear from D’Acquisto, as well as from a warden who was on the scene. On Thursday of last week, I received a statement on D’Acquisto’s behalf from Lone Wolf Productions, and on Saturday morning I spoke with Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police Officer Rich Logsdon, who worked the case.
January 18th, 2011
Natural Regulation Of Wildlife Is Voodoo Science
Voodoo Science should best be characterized as being deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas. Natural regulation is the theory that if man simply butted out of manipulating our wildlife, including all species of animals and vegetation, that it would seek it’s own balance. What is puzzling about such a theory is that nobody seems [...]
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What Should Have Been Written About Glock
By David E. Petzal
I read The New York Times because I’ve been doing it since 1958, and because there’s a terrible fascination in watching it decline from what it once was into the sad thing that it is now. The Times has never been one to pass up a shot at the gun industry, and in the January 15 edition was a piece entitled “Tucson Shootings Add to Glock’s Notoriety,” by a Andrew Martin. Mr. Martin is no lightweight. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and is co-holder of a Pulitzer Prize. His field of reporting is finance.
The article is a brief history of Glock and a review of alleged fiscal wrongdoing by members of the company. It was about what you would expect until it got to this sentence: “Made mostly of molded polymer, as opposed to metals, Glocks were lighter than other handguns and could carry more rounds.” Here is what should have followed, but didn’t. I can’t imagine why.
January 18th, 2011
SHOT Show 2011- Media Day At The Range
This is not your grandpa’s BB gun. Over the course of today’s Media Day At The Range, I shot a lot of pretty cool guns. I shot big-bore rifles, ARs, slug guns, hand cannons, and even crossbows. But out of everything I shot, the one that stands out to me now, looking back, was an [...]
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It’s Beekeeping Week On The Wildlife Pro Network (Podcasts)
It’s Beekeeping Week On The Wildlife Pro Network (Podcasts) Thursday Jan 20, 2011 How To Install A Bee Package: Shake, Rattle & Roll Our monthly beekeeping podcast with Certified Beekeeper David Burns. http://www.honeybeesonline.com David is back for his 6th podcast in a series of 14 podcasts. For those of you interested in getting into beekeeping what better podcast to tune [...]
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Skier with Avalung Survives Treewell Fall
A Montana skier emailed the folks at Black Diamond after a headfirst plant into a treewell to say ‘thanks for saving my life.’ On his last run of the day (everything bad happens on your last run) he caught an edge and got pitched into a treewell.
Here’s a bit of his email:
I did not have [...]
January 18th, 2011
Milt’s Corner – Immature Ibis
This photo was taken at the John B. Sargeant Park on the Hillsborough River a few miles north of Tampa. Milt believes this bird to be an immature ibis and comments that it appears the creature needs to wipe his nose. (Click on photo for a larger image.) Milt Inman Photo Related Articles“Ibis” I Could [...]
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Bullish Dealers Write Orders, Save Dollars At 2011 ATA Trade Show
INDIANAPOLIS — The 2011 ATA Trade Show attracted a business-ready crowd of more than 8,000 industry professionals last week, with archery and bowhunting manufacturers reporting heavy booth traffic and order-writing.
The annual event — held Jan. 6-…
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