to receive more than $20.5 million in fiscal 2014 for wildlife projects and hunter education. That’s more than $6 million more than fiscal 2013, and more than double the 2012 figure. One problem that DEC faces that they’ve been under a hiring freeze for several years, so they’re having trouble finding staff to design and execute the wildlife projects. Under the rules, states have only two federal fiscal years to make use of the money, otherwise it must be returned to the federal government.
Baltimore Police gunned down an escaped adult bull on Friday, following a 45 minute chase. The bull escaped from a slaughterhouse and was sighted trotting down the median of a busy downtown street, dodging traffic. After several attempts to corral the bull were unsuccessful and he became increasingly aggressive, police were forced to find a more permanent solution, and soon Ferdinand was pushing up daisies, rather than sniffing them.
Guns.com has a story picked up from Gawker about an Albanian man who shot himself in the head with a .22 revolver while playing Russian roulette, and lived to tell the story. In the process he literally blew his left eye out of the socket. Yes, he was drunk. The description seems to indicate that he put the gun in his mouth and fired it upward through the roof of his mouth, with the bullet passing behind his eye and out the side of his head. The story has a pair of photos, one from the hospital shortly after the event, and one from 30 days later. The hospital photo is pretty gruesome, so consider yourself warned. Guns.com & Gawker
Colion Noir’s quick tabletop review of the new striker-fired HK VP9.
I like his videos, but I sure wish he’d learn to lock the focus on his camera. The constant in-and-out as it refocused on his off hand was starting to make me queasy.