Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Dammit didn’t they ever see Bambi? . . . Hunter kills bear that had been saved from being euthanized
A hunter in Canada killed one of three young bears that were relocated to northern New Hampshire after the governor stepped in to save their lives.
The state’s Fish and Game department had planned to euthanize the black bears and their mother in May after repeated problems with them feasting on trash and bird feeders culminated with two of them entering a home near Dartmouth College. Several children were in the home at the time, but no one was injured.
Officials argued the plan was necessary because the animals were no longer afraid of humans, and would likely find new neighborhoods to frequent if moved. But Gov. Chris Sununu, a first-term Republican, instead ordered them relocated after public outcry.
This happens too often. I’m sad for the children who won’t have a father. Personally, I’m afraid of heights so I won’t be venturing into a tree stand anytime soon . . . Hunter dies after falling from tree stand in Clarkson
Monroe County sheriff’s deputies said John E. Henchen Jr., 35, of Greece went hunting Friday evening and fell from a tree stand on property near County Line Road and Edmunds Road in Clarkson.
Henchen’s fiancee became concerned when he didn’t return home and called his father, who along with some neighbors, found Henchen unconscious on the ground below his tree stand.
He was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries. He died from his injuries Wednesday afternoon, according to his cousin Colleen Pilon.
Atta girl! Much better than the majority of the current generation of women who believe Wonder Woman is a “real” hero . . . Girl bags quadfecta first year of hunting
A 12-year-old girl from Evanston (WY) has accomplished something in her first year of hunting that could make even some seasoned hunters envious. Kylie Hintz, a seventh-grader at Davis Middle School, successfully completed a quadfecta, harvesting a pronghorn antelope, an elk, a deer and a bear — all in 2017.
Although Kylie has practically been hunting since birth — her dad, Joe Hintz, started taking her when she was just 4 months old — this was the first year Kylie got to pull the trigger.
“I couldn’t be prouder of Kylie,” Melinda Hintz, Kylie’s stepmom, said. “From the beginning of the year she had a goal that she set her mind to and never gave up.”Melinda said Kylie had the persistence and patience to reach her goal. Melinda noted “the long days in the bear stand without a sound, the laughs and times we shared while out on long grueling hikes.”
Good God why didn’t I know this? As much time as I spend in the outdoors you would think this would have come up at some point . . . Chris Ellis: Purple means ‘No Hunting’
While walking in search of deer sign the other day, I ran into another sort of sign that seems to be very popular this season.
Nope, it wasn’t the usual blaze yellow cheap posted signs that are effective for notification but always seem to be an eyesore no matter how well they are placed. It was a shade of purple paint smeared on trees, fence posts and bushes. The purple paint sure did work and get my attention. I have to admit, it isn’t my favorite shade of purple but again, no one can argue on its effectiveness.
As hunters, most of us probably already have seen the purple paint and understand the new law just as we know the date and bag limits for the antlerless deer seasons. But for others, the purple paint is still very new and can be a little confusing and very intimidating. Having said that, in case you were wondering about the purple paint showing up across the rural backroads of our state, here is a little light on the subject.
In 2016, West Virginia passed a law that allowed purple paint to be an option for posting private land. In addition to the traditional ways of posting land, West Virginia landowners now have another option – the use of purple paint, (typically in a shade known as “No Hunting Purple”) to prevent unauthorized individuals from entering their property.
Many of the hunting cabins (a.k.a., shacks) I’ve been in are tinderboxes. Sometimes its safer to sleep in a tent than one of these fire traps . . . Sheriff: Cause May Never Be Determined in Fire that Killed 2 Brothers
They were in northern Minnesota preparing for the opening day of deer season, but the two brothers from the north metro never made it back home.
Fifty-seven-year-old Scott Shoberg and his 52-year-old brother, Kurt Shoberg, were in Clearwater County over the weekend getting their hunting cabin ready for the deer opener when they died in an early morning fire on Saturday.
“The damage is so extensive that it makes it very difficult to determine exactly what had happened,” said Clearwater County Sheriff Darin Halverson. “They were both probably sleeping in the living room area of the trailer. That’s where their bodies were located.”
Hunters against venison. I rather enjoy the rare surprise of finding wild game available at a restaurant. Not sure I’d want to see it in every fast food joint. What is your opinion? . . . Hunting Conservation Group Objects To Arby’s Venison
Like a lot of people in Montana, White is a lifelong deer hunter. And he’s just the kind of person Arby’s wants eating their new venison and elk steak sandwiches.
The company rolled them out on Oct. 21 as many states were starting their annual hunting season. Arby’s tested elk steak sandwiches in three locations and they’re the first major fast food chain to serve deer meat nationwide.
Not everyone was drooling with excitement.“We really shouldn’t be selling game animals for food,” Dave Chadwick, executive director of the Montana Wildlife Federation, says.
His organization was founded by hunters, anglers and other conservationists. This month the group sent a letter to Arby’s asking the company to reconsider serving venison and elk steak sandwiches, in part because they hark back to a long and dark history of selling wild game in the United States.
“One of the real drivers of America’s wildlife crisis in the 19th century was unregulated market hunting and the idea that big game animals were being shot and sold for food,” he says.
Here’s another must have product for hunting season. And it makes a great stocking stuffer for your favorite hunter. Way better than an electric razor, cologne or another tie . . . Bog-Pod® Rapid Shooting Rest Tripod
The BOG-POD® RSR (Rapid Shooting Rest) is the perfect compact, collapsible, and portable shooting platform. Easy to store in a backpack, and quick to set up, this rest will give you the accuracy and range you need to make that big game shot on the fly.
Yum Indian Bambi…meat is meat. Probably a whole lot better than a McRib mystery meat samich 😋
How about outlawing “Gun Free Zones” a/k/a “Killing Zones?”
Texas Churches are so-called “No Gun Zone” a/k/a “Killing Zones.” According to Dr. John Lott, in the article below, 98% of MASS PUBLIC SHOOTINGS take place in “No Gun Zones.” Fort Hood Texas was also a “No Gun Zone” and that is right where Army Major Nidal Hasan fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others in 2009.
Texas Penal Code 46.035 Unlawful Carrying of Handgun By License Holder (Aug.1, 2016)
A license holder commits an offense if the license holder carries a handgun on or about the license holder’s person under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, and intentionally displays the handgun in plain view of another person in a public place. It is an exception to the application of this subsection that the handgun was partially or wholly visible but was carried in a shoulder or belt holster by the license holder.
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a license holder commits an offense if the license holder carries a partially or wholly visible handgun, regardless of whether the handgun is holstered, on or about the license holder’s person under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, and intentionally displays the handgun in plain view of another person:
on the premises of an institution of higher education or private or independent institution of higher education; or
on any public or private driveway, street, sidewalk or walkway, parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area of an institution of higher education or private or independent institution of higher education.
A license holder commits an offense if the license holder intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries a handgun regardless of whether the handgun is concealed or carried in a shoulder or belt holster, on or about the license holder ’s person:
on the premises of a business that has a permit or license issued under Chapter 25, 28, 32, 69, or 74, Alcoholic Beverage Code, if the business derives 51 percent or more of its income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, as determined by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission under Section 104.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code;
on the premises where a high school, collegiate, or professional sporting event or interscholastic event is taking place, unless the license holder is a participant in the event and a handgun is used in the event;
on the premises of a correctional facility;
(4) on the premises of a hospital licensed under Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or on the premises of a nursing facility licensed under Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, unless the license holder has written authorization of the hospital or nursing facility [home] administration, as appropriate
(5) in an amusement park; or
(6) ON THE PREMISES OF A CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE, OR OTHER ESTABLISHED PLACE OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
(c) A license holder commits an offense if the license holder intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries a handgun under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, regardless of whether the handgun is concealed or carried in a shoulder or belt holster, at any meeting of a governmental entity.
JOHN LOTT: GUN-FREE ZONES EASY TARGETS FOR WOULD-BE KILLERS
Knox News, February 9, 2017
http://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/02/09/john-lott-gun-free-zones-easy-targets-would–killers/97645622/
WOULD YOU POST A SIGN IN FRONT OF YOUR HOME ANNOUNCING THAT YOU LIVE IN A GUN-FREE ZONE? WOULD THIS MAKE YOU FEEL SAFER?
To criminals, gun-free zones just look like easy targets. But in a recent column for the News Sentinel, Mark Harmon argues that killers pay no attention to gun-free zones. He incorrectly claims that this is the “consensus view” of academic research.
Since 1950, more than 98 percent of public mass shootings in America have taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. In Europe, every mass public shooting in history has occurred in a gun-free zone. And Europe is no stranger to mass public shootings. In the past eight years, it has experienced a per-capita casualty rate 50 percent higher than that of the U.S.
With permit holders preventing dozens of mass public shootings in recent years, it is unsurprising that killers try to avoid resistance.
Last year, a young Islamic State sympathizer planned a shooting at one of the largest churches in Detroit. A FBI wiretap recorded his reasons for picking the church: “It’s easy, and a lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church. Plus it would make the news.”
These killers might be crazy, but they aren’t stupid. Picking defenseless targets means being able to kill more people. A long list of killers explicitly have stated this reasoning, including the 2015 Charleston, S.C., church shooting, the 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., and the 2015 attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
In late 2013, Interpol Secretary General Ron Noble warned that even “extraordinary security” is unlikely to be enough to keep weapons out of soft targets. As a result, only the terrorists would have weapons.
In March 2013, 86 percent of police officers surveyed by PoliceOne, the 450,000-member private organization of police, said that casualties would have been prevented if legally-armed citizens had been able to carry guns in places such as Newtown and Aurora.
But Harmon insists that I am outside the “consensus view” of academics. To show this, he cites a survey by David Hemenway. But this survey primarily focuses on public health researchers, relatively few of whom have Ph.D.s and many of whom never have done any empirical research on guns.
Last summer, professor Gary Mauser and I released a survey of all economists and criminologists who had published peer-reviewed empirical research on firearms. The results were very different.
By 66 percent to 32 percent, economists and criminologists answer that gun-free zones are “more likely to attract criminals than they are to deter them.” A 60 percent to 40 percent margin thinks that guns in the home do not increase suicides. And a 62 percent to 35 percent spread says that guns are used in self-defense to stop crime more often than in the commission of crime.
Harmon personally attacks a few of the Crime Prevention Research Center’s 10-member board of academic advisers. He doesn’t mention that these researchers hail from universities such as Harvard, the Wharton Business School, the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. In one attack, it is just dishonest to suggest that those who fund academic chairs get to decide who holds the chair, let alone successive people who hold the chair.
Gun-free zones are magnets for murderers. Even the most ardent gun-control advocate — presumably even Harmon — would never put “Gun-Free Zone” signs on his home. Let’s stop putting them elsewhere.
John R. Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of “More Guns, Less Crime.”
Apparently he was denied a Concealed Carry Permit because of the domestic violence conviction from his court martial. Interesting that the information on that didn’t make it into NICS. He was still able to pass a purchase background check.
President Trump should find this guys chain of command and fire them and the admin commander at the base personnel office.
“Nagative” should definitely be a word.