No Business Like Crow Business

L-R: Matt Arnold, Glen Wunderlich, Shawn Weaver

By Glen Wunderlich

What’s this business of groundhogs predicting weather anyway? They don’t know beans! Wait a minute; beans are something they do understand. In any event, here’s a forecast for this weekend: It’s going to rain. Not cats and dogs, but crows!

February Crows

The long-awaited, no-limit season of crow hunting began February 1st and continues through March 31st and that means it’s time to test new guns, loads, and wing-shooting skills. And, this season, we’ve got a few new tricks up our sleeves, including a new apprentice hunter, Mike, whose technique will be challenged by the aerial antics of the high-flying, menacing marauders.

Mike has never hunted before. His 20-gauge scatter gun Read more

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Anti-Dove Hunting Bill Introduced in Iowa

Sure sounds a lot like what happened in Michigan a few years back.  Big money from big, national animal rights organization HSUS paid for TV spots depicting sportsmen as anti-dove hunting.  Over 2.1 million flowed into the debate pitting science against emotion.

Emotion won by a 70 to 30 percent “victory” in a referendum vote to discontinue a newly adopted dove season, which was to be on a test basis with wildlife biologists to evaluate effects.  It never made it that far.

It’s odd how anti “big-anything” lefties never seem to complain when they have the almighty dollar talking for them.

Attack on Number One Game Bird Continues in Iowa
For more than a decade, sportsmen in Iowa fought for the opportunity to pursue North America’s number one game bird – the mourning dove.  Last year, the hard work and dedication finally paid off as the Iowa legislature passed Senate File 464 authorizing dove hunting in the state.  Now, just months after the first successful dove hunt, anti-hunting activists are pushing to have the season banned.

On January 19th, State Representative Mary Mascher (D-Iowa City) introduced House File 2061 that would prohibit dove hunting in the state. Read more

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Fishing and Hunting Protection Bill Introduced in the U.S. Senate

(Columbus, OH) – Protection of fishing, hunting, and shooting on national forest and public lands has taken a step forward with the Senate introduction of the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act.  Introduced by Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), the measure is backed by the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, American Sportfishing Association, National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, and others in the angling, hunting and wildlife conservation community. Read more

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Family of outdoors host Fred Trost in fight over debts, show tapes

Outdoor TV show host Fred Trost died a few years ago and now his family is slugging it out over debts and assets.

Sherry Trost, who married Fred in 1988, alleges that Trost’s son promised to pay her $109,000 to cover back taxes and loans owed by his father in exchange for the shows’ tape library and memorabilia she owned.

Fred Trost had promised his wife that if they took ownership, he would repay debts with an expected inheritance but Fred Trost died before receiving the inheritance.  Now it’s he said she said, because Fred left no will.  More here…

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HSUS Doesn’t Like “The Grey” Flick

Last week, HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle took to his blog to vent about a new Hollywood flick called “The Grey,” starring Liam Neeson. The basic plot is that a plane crashes in the frozen wilderness and Neeson and six other survivors struggle to make it back to civilization, while being molested by a pack of wolves.   Pacelle warned people to “stay away.” His gripe is that “The Grey”—a fictional movie—takes liberties with how grey wolves really act.

Pacelle’s solution is to watch “Babe”—a movie with talking animals—or “Bambi,” a Disney cartoon. Does anybody else see the irony here?

The political correctness coming from the animal rights movement is ridiculous. Read more

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Guided Bullets in Your Future?

Sandia, NM researchers Red Jones and Brian Kast and their colleagues have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile.   The projectile doesn’t spin like a typical bullet fired from a rifled-barrel; rather, it is designed more like a long dart.  More here…

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QDMA’s “Quality Food Plots” Book Breaks Sales Records

BOGART, Ga. — Only five years since publication, the book Quality Food Plots has sold more than 15,000 copies, making it the top-selling and fastest-selling book ever offered by the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA). That rate puts the book among the
top-sellers in the hunting industry and likely the highest-selling book ever on food plots or deer habitat. Read more

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