A party of pig hunters found themselves in the right place and right time after they rescued a stranded pilot on North Island in South Carolina’s Georgetown County. According to WWMB, the pilot found himself on the densely forested island after he was …
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Study: Gruesome Tumor-causing Turkey Virus Now in 17 States
A potentially deadly virus once only found in European domestic turkeys has found its way to North America, and according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Georgia, is much more widespread than previously thought.
Scientists with …
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California Lawyer magazine on Chuck Michel
It’s carried as the cover story….
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Ban on FFL handguns sales to nonresidents struck down!
Mance v. Holder, opinion in pdf. US District Court for the Northern District of Texas holds that the ban is unconstitutional on its face and as applied. A resident of Washington, DC (which now allows handgun in the home, if…
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"The 2A was only meant to protect muskets"
An amusing video takedown, from Louder With Crowder….
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Free Online Class Studies Hunting’s Role in Conservation
We should probably cringe whenever someone invokes the dead to make a point, whether to rhetorically ask what they’d say about a current issue or to claim the issue is making the deceased spin, roll, or otherwise agitate in their grave.
Who are we t…
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J-B Weld – The magical fixit potion
I spent much of my career working as a millwright in manufacturing plants so the value of J-B Weld isn’t lost on me. That being [...]
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Rosa Parks’ Experience with Firearms
The Washington Post, no less, discusses Park’s private papers and what they tell about guns. "When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, she would stay up at night, keeping watch with her grandfather as he stood guard…
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Bloomberg for once shows candor
Story here. Original story here. "Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them…
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Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015
On Thursday, US Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) introduced the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015. Like previous versions, the act includes a number of provisions that will protect the rights of hunters and…
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Video: What Happens to Shed Antlers You Don’t Pick Up?
Hunting for shed antlers is great fun and an easy way to get kids into the great outdoors. But there’s no way that shed hunters could collect every discarded antler in the woods, could they? So what happens to those racks left on the forest floor? Do t…
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Podcast on NRA suits against PA cities
Right here. It features Jonathan Goldstein, attorney for the good guys, and Shira Goodman, director of a Bloomberg subsidiary, excuse me, of CeasefirrePa….
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New World Record for Crossbow Elk Confirmed by SCI
Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest is widely considered one of the best public lands in North America to hunt elk, yet few people expected a world record to emerge from those woods. Albert Henderson of Burlington did not expect it either, yet by th…
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Video: Longtime Trapper Sticks His Hand in Trap to Prove It Isn’t Cruel
Donnie Leonard runs a 30- to 40-mile trap run in Northern Utah during the winter season for coyotes, bobcats, fox, beaver, and mink. He traps because it gets him outdoors and connected to the wildlife, though not all of his friends understand it.
When…
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Legal concealed carrier attacked by bystander
Story, with video, here. A Florida man with a CCW carry permit walks into a Walmart. Some guy sees him holster the gun in the parking lot, and tackles him, apparently trying for a chokehold. (Reports have it that in…
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NSSF Infographic: More and More Women Hunting and Shooting
There’s no denying it: more and more women are buying guns. Women are now the fastest growing segment of the shooting sports industry. According to a recent study commissioned by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), surveyed women who purcha…
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FDIC backs off "Operation Chokepoint"
Story here. Operation Chokepoint was aimed at discouraging financial institutions from dealing with certain forms of business that were supposedly likely to generate returns, credit card protests, and things like that. It quickly expanded into discouraging dealings with governmentally disfavored…
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Indiana Court Rules Against DNR in Dispute over High-fence Hunting
On Monday the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) does not have the authority to prohibit high-fence deer hunting, or the hunting of captive animals. This decision is a new wrinkle in the decade-long fig…
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Student suspended for threatening use of magic ring
Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. Fourth grader is suspended for telling someone he has the ring of power and can make him invisible. He’s already been suspended twice: for mentioning that a black classmate was black, and for…
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Video: Check Out This Six-year-old Bowhunter’s Big Bag of Trick Shots
Logan “Bowshootin’” Miller is only six years old, but he already knows his way around a bow like a professional. While he may just be at the very start of his “career,” Logan’s family said he has been around bow shooting and bowhunting since he was t…
Go to Video: Check Out This Six-year-old Bowhunter’s Big Bag of Trick ShotsFebruary 2nd, 2015
Oregon Wolf Population Meets Threshold, Officials Could Consider Delisting
Just seven years after wolves reappeared in Oregon, the state’s wolf population has hit a major threshold. According to Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), the latest census has found that there are at least seven breeding pairs of wolves …
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International comparisons
Bill Whittle’s presentation on the issue may just be the best one I have ever seen….
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Massive South Dakota Buck Could Unseat Two State Records
Mike Mettler, a seasoned bowhunter from Eureka, South Dakota, says he does not get buck fever as often as he used to. Yet last November, Mettler felt that familiar tingle when he finally got within range of a massive buck that he had been following fo…
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Quebec Ultimate Destination: The Super Bowl of Hunting Sweepstakes
While football fans were experiencing another kickoff heard ‘round the world on Sunday, the hunting world enjoyed the kickoff of the sixth annual Quebec Ultimate Destination Sweepstakes. February 1 was the first day to enter the 2015 edition of this …
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Video: Hunter Downs Three Ducks with One Shot
What was your greatest duck hunting moment? For Robert Arrington, this three-duck shot may count as among his most memorable. According to the hunter, the shot was taken at about 38 yards and nailed all three of the birds pretty good.
“We just got don…
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Video: South Dakota Trapper Releases Ticked-off Mountain Lion
All Dan Casey wanted to do was teach his two sons a bit about trapping, but he ended up catching something bigger than he expected. The Rapid City native usually finds foxes or other small mammals locked up in the trap, which sat about 300 yards from…
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Operation Choke Point creating a stir
The Washington Times has the story. The Inspector General getting involved sounds like a good sign to me. Now, if someone whose bank spurned them would file a Federal Tort Claims Act claim, citing tortious interference with contract, things might…
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New Hampshire Considers Prohibiting Use of “Guided” Firearms, Other Devices for Hunting
The New Hampshire Game and Fish Department held a public meeting on Thursday to discuss a possible ban on certain devices’ use in hunting, including live-action trail cameras, drones, and “guided” rifles. According to the agency, there are concerns in…
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Busy day
The Jay Dobyns story hit Fox News. The arrogance of Justice Department is staggering. A judge rules that their attorneys are liars and perpetrated a fraud on the court, and bans them from his courtroom, and they challenge this, arguing…
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North Carolina Hunters Bag Massive 707-pound Wild Boar
Bruce Florence and his son Jonathan Florence are experienced outdoorsmen. Between the two of them, the Caswell County natives have hunted or fished just about anything in North Carolina, but when a recent hunting trip brought them within sight of a mas…
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