PETA Chastises Scout Leader over Game Cooking

The troop leader of the Navarra Boy Scout Troop located in Florida has come under scrutiny from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) after demonstrating how to clean and cook two rabbits during a 36-hour wilderness survival training lesson. James Gary received a letter from PETA expressing their disapproval after he posted a photo of his scouts holding a dead rabbit on his Facebook page. Read more

Animal Rights

Great Lakes Wolf Management in Judge’s Hands

Because there is no dispute that the wolf populations in the Great Lake states have met and exceeded all recovery goals, HSUS has advanced baseless legal theories that, if accepted, would make it extremely difficult to ever take any species off the lists of endangered or threatened species.

Over the last six months, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (USSAF) has been hard at work defending against a lawsuit brought by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) seeking to return the recovered wolf population in the Great Lakes states to the Endangered Species List (ESA).  Just last week, USSAF submitted its last brief in the case and is now awaiting the judge’s decision. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

Save the Date – 2014 Demonstration Days for Mentored Youth Hunters

The Department of Natural Resources will once again offer Demonstration Days for mentored youth hunters at its shooting ranges in July and August. This fun event gives young hunters – and would-be hunters – an opportunity to shoot various firearms, crossbows and archery equipment. If you have children under 10, this is a great opportunity to familiarize them with firearms that are just their size.

The Demo Days events will be held: Read more

Firearms, Hunting

Michigan-caught Great Lakes muskellunge part of ‘best catches’ contest

The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) has compiled a list of what it considers to be the “best” record catches of the past year, which includes a World-record Great Lakes muskellunge from October 2012world-record Great Lakes muskellunge caught in Michigan.

The muskie is part of the IGFA’s 10 of the Best Catches of 2013 effort, which is now asking anglers to vote for their favorites. The voting contest launched on March 1 at www.igfa.org/contests/AnglersChoice. The catch that receives the most votes will receive the Angler’s Choice Award at the IGFA’s World Record Achievement Award ceremony in April. Read more

Wildlife

Idaho Completes Wolf Control with Helicopter

Fish and Game prefers to manage wolf populations using hunters and trappers and only authorizes control actions where harvest has been insufficient to meet management goals.

Idaho Fish and Game, in cooperation with the USDA Wildlife Services, has completed another wolf control action in northern Idaho’s Lolo elk zone near the Idaho/Montana border to improve poor elk survival in the area.

In February, Wildlife Services agents killed 23 wolves from a helicopter.  The action is consistent with Idaho’s predation management plan for the Lolo elk zone, where predation is the major reason elk population numbers are considerably below management objectives. Read more

Animal Rights, Wildlife

At least 33 dead, 130 wounded in train station ‘knife’ attack in China

GW:  OK, so we got rid of all the guns in China – at least among the commoners.  Now whoever wields the longest blade wins.  Gun Control means that at least none of the law-abiding citizens were killed with guns.  Ah, but they’re stone dead, nonetheless.

The killers stormed the Kunming train station in Yunnan province and started attacking people in the late evening.   See the results of complete gun control here…

Firearms, Gun Control, Self Defense
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