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Project Alaska on TV Tonight

Biggest Show of the Season! Dropped:  Two-Hour Season Finale March 27 on Sportsman Channel

The True Test of Survival Comes to a Close with a One Hour Finale AND “After the Drop” Special Hosted by Realtree’s David Blanton

New Berlin, WI – (March 21, 2012) – Brothers Chris and Casey Keefer’s amazing 28-day Alaska survival expedition comes to a close with a special two-hour finale of Dropped: Project Alaska on Tuesday, March 27 beginning at 9 pm ET exclusively on Sportsman Channel A Sportsman Channel original production, Dropped: Project Alaska presented by Realtree®, has been engaging viewers with the Keefers’ experience of being “dropped” in a remote part of Alaska where they had to pit their skills as hunters, woodsmen and anglers against an unforgiving landscape. This special two hour finale of a series’ season has never before been done in outdoor television. Read more

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Microstamping Shot Down – Again

This from the Outdoor Wire:

Microstamping Fails (Again), HSUS Campaigns Against California Hunting Dogs

Microstamping advocates have once again failed to get the fallacious science introduced as a requirement for firearms and ammunition sold in New York…yesterday, a joint New York state budget committee voted on a revised state budget that repealed the ballistics-imaging requirement from state law. It’s another example of legislators listening to their constituents and eliminating bad legislation.

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HSUS Wants Chickens to have a Decent Life

A compromise brought forward by egg producers and animal-rights activists would double the required cage size for laying hens nationwide and provide  amenities that cater to natural bird instinct. The Egg Products Inspection Act  Amendments of 2012 (HR 3798) before the House Committee on Agriculture gives  farmers 15 years to replace the old-style cages with “enhanced cages” and must give each hen at  least 124 square inches.  More here…

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Too Warm for Maple Syrup

“We were going to wait,” Marvin Besteman explained, motioning towards the budding maples on his property, “but now its too late. We know we could have made some syrup, but not the good grade of syrup.”  More here…

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Pike County, Illinois Enacts Concealed Carry

“We the people” trump Illinois lawmakers at ballot box and want their Second Amendment rights restored.  A court battle looms to determine authority.

PASA Park, Barry, IL — In the election held Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the voters of Pike County, Illinois, approved a firearms concealed-carry ordinance by a 3,214 to 550 margin. It was one of the largest voter turnouts in county history. The ordinance directly contradicts current Illinois state law. As presented on the ballot, the ordinance took effect upon passage, and applies only to Pike County. The ordinance was placed on the ballot by a citizen initiative petition process that garnered three times the number of signatures required by law. Read more

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