Well, Arizona hunting message boards went crazy yesterday and today over HB2072, proposed legislation affecting the sale of hunting tags. You can read the proposed [...]
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January 10th, 2012
Arizona Commission Votes to Oppose HB 2072 (Sale of Big Game Tags)
Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Commission voted unanimously today to oppose proposed Arizona House Bill 2072, a bill that would have reserved a large number of big game tags for a “qualified organization” to resell at auction or raffle. As part of its 5-0 vote to oppose the bill, the commission also directed [...]
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Illinois DNR Extends Controlled Pheasant Hunting
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) today announced additional controlled pheasant hunting season extensions at Eldon Hazlet State Recreation Area in Clinton County and Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area in Franklin and Jefferson Counties. Four days – Wednesday, January 18, 2012 through Saturday, January 21, 2012 – have been added at Eldon Hazlet, and [...]
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Michigan DNR Conservation Officers Determine Marquette Moose Poaching Case a Hoax
Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers have determined an apparent moose poaching case reported in Marquette County in October 2011 was in fact a hoax, the DNR announced today. DNR officers, with assistance from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers, investigated the case and were able to determine that a severed moose head, left [...]
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Rage Introduces New X-Treme Broadheads
Rage broadheads swept the archery industry with their rear deploying 2-blade mechanical broadhead and now they’ve done it again with the all new Rage X-Treme.
The all new Rage X-Treme has a massive 2.3-inch cutting diameter. Rage claims that its new …
January 10th, 2012
Another Record Year for RMEF Membership
Membership in the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has swelled to an all-time high of 184,135. That total, posted at the end of December, is 6,135 members more than year-end 2010. It is the fourth straight year that RMEF has set a new membership record. “We’re grateful for the growth,” said David Allen, RMEF president and [...]
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Another Record Year for RMEF Membership
MISSOULA, Mont.–Membership in the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has swelled to an all-time high of 184,135. That total, posted at the end of December, is [...]
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SCI Announces Fauna & Flora Customhouse as 2012 Corporate Sponsor
Safari Club International (SCI) today announced that Fauna & Flora Customhouse Brokerage has renewed their corporate sponsorship for 2012. Fauna & Flora will be featured sponsor at the 40th Annual SCI Hunters’ Convention at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, NV. “Every year the international hunting community joins Safari Club International to celebrate our sport,” [...]
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Waves Wreck Ship Carrying Powdered Milk Off New Zealand Coast
I hope the Kiwis enjoy fried fish because they’re about to get all the milk and dead fish they can handle; now that the container ship Rena broke in two on the Astrolabe Reef off New Zealand this past week.
This latest disaster for the Rena com…
January 10th, 2012
Fast and Furious — every agency wants in on it!
Now come reports that DEA helped launder millions for a drug cartel. That much has been in the open, but now there’s a new twist: "They lost track of much of that money."…
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Mossy Oak Deer Thugs is Pleased to Announce Sponsorship With Charlie O’ Products
Deer Thugs welcomes Charlie O’ Products 100-percent pure estrus and related estrus products as a TV sponsor for 2012. Charlie O’Brien, former Major League Baseball player and current Deer Thug on the Mossy Oak produced television show Deer Thugs, started the scent company in 2010. Charlie O’ Products includes 100-percent pure doe estrus, mineral attractant, [...]
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Tenzing Introduces Industry’s Most Innovative and Complete Hunters’ Pack Lineup
Tenzing is a new line of high-tech, high performance packs engineered to enable hunters to go farther, stay longer, and carry incredible loads in and even bigger ones back out. Plano Vice President of Marketing Bryan Emrich and other Tenzing officials introduced the brand today at the Archery Trade Association (ATA) trade show, giving the [...]
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Florida Trapper Kills 400-Pound Hog
A trapper in Melbourne, Fl. caught a 400-pound wild hog Friday, after a week-long hunt with a three-man team and dogs.
The hog weighed about four times more than Florida’s average feral swine, and the trapper, named James Dean, told ClickOrlando…
January 10th, 2012
New York DEC Amends Chronic Wasting Disease Regulations in Response to Maryland Discovery
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has revised its Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) regulations to prohibit the importation of certain parts of white-tailed deer taken in the state of Maryland effective immediately, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. The first case of CWD in the state of Maryland was confirmed by the [...]
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Kansas City Preps for Pheasants Forever’s National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic
For the first time, the nation’s biggest event for pheasant and quail hunters and bird dog enthusiasts is coming to Kansas City. Pheasants Forever’s National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic will be held February 17, 18 & 19, 2012, at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Last year’s event in Omaha, [...]
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Prof. Lerner on self-defense
I blogged a presentation of hers years ago, now she has her paper online. By "proportionality" she means self defense law that implicitly treats the life of the defender as equal to the life of the attacker. If the defender…
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Excellent article on Heller/McDonald future
At Justia’s Verdict section. Hat tip to reader David McCleary….
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Trijicon Introduces Innovative New ACOG Crossbow Optic
The family-owned company best known for supplying the U.S. military with the finest battle optics in the world is reconfirming its commitment to American sportsmen with its ACOG Crossbow Scope. As more state game agencies recognize crossbows as legal arms for archery seasons, crossbow hunters now have a top-quality Trijicon scope for the ultimate in [...]
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Krenz Receives 2011 Fred Bear Archery & Bowhunting Communicator Award
The Fred Bear Archery and Bowhunting Communicator Award, created by the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) in 2005, recognizes outdoor journalists who make significant contributions to the sports of archery and bowhunting, excel at their journalistic craft, and mentor up-and-coming outdoor journalists. Although the award is presented to active journalists, a special exception was made [...]
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The 20th Annual Yankee Sportsman’s Classic Show Celebrate Vermont’s Hunting and Fishing Heritage
The 20th Annual Yankee Sportsman’s Classic Show, sponsored by NBT Bank and Myers Containers, will be held at the Robert E. Miller Expo Center in Essex Junction, Vermont. The three day, 100,000 square foot event brings together 15,000 sportsmen, women and their families from all over, to celebrate Vermont’s hunting and fishing heritage. During this [...]
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Monster Buck Classic Set for Topeka, Kansas Jan. 27-29
The first annual Monster Buck Classic We are Kansas event, Presented by Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland, will be making its debut at the Kansas ExpoCentre in Topeka, KS January 27-29, 2012. This will be Kansas’ first ever annual statewide Buck contest and Deer Hunting Expo. The Monster Buck Classic We Are Kansas event [...]
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Perverse Wolf Worshippers Gather. Honor Creation Desecrate Creator
On what was called the “Full Wolf Moon” deceived wolf worshipers gathered to honor wolves that have died. How sick.
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Under Armour Unveils “Game-Changing” Scent ControlTechnology
Under Armour, Inc., a leader in athletic performance apparel, footwear and accessories, debuts a new game-changing technology for the 2012 whitetail hunting collection, Under Armour Scent Control. This exclusive technology revolutionizes the way hunters remain undetected in the field with an innovative Zeolite-based scent control system with silver anti-microbial that lasts ten times longer than [...]
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Good Gear: The Haint Gobble Call
by Phil Bourjaily
My family does not give me hunting and shooting gear for Christmas, as they believe, incorrectly, that I already have everything. (I don’t, I just have more stuff than I have room for). One thing I didn’t have was a gobbl…
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Open Thread – January 10, 2012
Please use this open thread to post your ideas, comments and information about issues not directly related to articles posted on the Black Bear Blog. [...]
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