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A Guest Blog By Gayne C. Young:
After my PH Eric Sorour and skinner Alfred had successfully helped me “stage” my zebra for a few shots it was time to head back to camp. With night falling and an hour long drive ahead of us it was a good idea to get loaded and get back ASAP (because even if Africa, that beer don’t drink itself). Yet once again, the zebra failed to cooperate. This time it wasn’t the weight; it was the girth. [ Read Full Post ]
South Dakota and Alaska are the latest states where bills have been introduced to exempt domestic manufacturers of firearms and ammunition from federal regulations while, in Arizona, a house panel voted last week to allow state residents make their own guns and bullets—and offer them for sale—without having to comply with federal regulations. [ Read Full Post ]
Meet Otis McDonald, 76, a retired maintenance engineer, grandfather, and life-long Democrat who wants a handgun for self-defense in case gang members break into his Chicago home—again.
But, Chicago says he can't have one because the city has a 28-year-old handgun ban.
And so, on March 2, Otis McDonald will become the "new face of the Second Amendment" when opening arguments in McDonald v. city of Chicago begin before the U.S. Supreme Court. [ Read Full Post ]
Twenty-two executives and employees of firearms manufacturing companies were arrested this week at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas after a 2 1/2-year undercover sting operation aimed at schemes to bribe a foreign official.
The Justice Department calls the case the largest single investigation and prosecution of individuals in the history of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars bribery of foreign government officials. It also is the first large-scale use of an undercover operation in enforcing the act. [ Read Full Post ]
What do Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) of Detroit and Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) of Baltimore all have in common? Yes, the (D).
(D) for Democrat, disgraced, deposed.
Oh, and one more thing: All are vocal, fawning apostles of New York City Mayor Michael Bamboozleberg and henchmen in his "Mayors Against Illegal Guns," that smoke-blowing artifice created to bamboozle you from your Constitutional rights under the guise of benevolent Nanny-Fascism and elitist deceit. [ Read Full Post ]
How happy are you with your riflescope?
Before you answer, think about the last couple of years. Have you been jammed up on a shot opportunity because your variable-power scope was on the highest setting? Were you not able to find a close-in deer because you only saw hair at 12x? [ Read Full Post ]
After spending a couple days here in Vegas looking at new products it is clear that this is not going to be a huge year for new guns. No, instead the story is going to be ammunition. The themes? Value and performance.
For value there is a new line of ammunition that Weatherby is introducing that will cost significantly less than what we currently pay to shoot rifles in Weatherby chamberings. Shooters who own either a .257 Wby. or a .300 Wby. will soon be able to purchase a box of ammunition that doesn’t require a second mortgage. [ Read Full Post ]
The story in last weekend’s Poughkeepsie (New York) Journal immediately caught my attention: “Vassar Sharpshooters Kill 44 Deer.”
It was a story that’s been going on for several weeks—years to hear Vassar College officials tell it. The deer herd on the school-owned 500-acre farm and preserve had grown out of control and was in dire need of culling. They called in a professional. [ Read Full Post ]
If you think that Americans are obsessed with preserving their gun rights, you haven't seen anything until you've been to Switzerland.
Rich Wehr, in a column published earlier in the month in the Evansville, Ind. Courier & Press, offers some interesting observations about Switzerland that may stun Nanny-Fascists and anti-gun whackoes. [ Read Full Post ]
Have you ever opened up your freezer to find a package of venison only to be met with chunks of frozen ice on the sides due to someone not properly closing the lid prior to you? That's how I felt this past week while participating in Iowa's late-season muzzleloader hunt. If you haven't turned the TV on in a while or read the Internet, the Midwest is in the grips of a record-setting winter. As of this past Friday, Iowa already had reached its annual snowfall and it's only the beginning of January! [ Read Full Post ]
It is surprising that there has been little "told you so" cluckery from the Nanny-Fascists and anti-gun zealots about Gilbert Arenas brandishing unloaded firearms at a Washington Wizards teammate during a Christmas Eve gambling-debt dispute in their Verizon Center locker room in Wasington, D.C.
It is surprising they haven't seized the moment to shriek about the menace of the Second Amendment, about how freedom really shouldn't be free, about how 2008's U.S. Supreme Court rejection of the Washington, D.C., gun ban in the Heller decision should be overturned. [ Read Full Post ]
If you’ve been reading The Newshound in recent months, you’ve seen several references to the increasing number of women who own firearms in the U.S., both for hunting and for personal protection.
Just last week we told you about the growing popularity of firearms for women as Christmas gifts in 2009.
One woman who was fortunate to have a caring husband who gave her a handgun for protection this Christmas already learned the value of her gift when she thwarted a would-be armed robbery at her drive-in coffee kiosk located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Sunshine Espresso owner Michelle Cornelsen was working inside her shop last week when a 17-year-old male strolled up to the service window, pulled a gun and demanded money.
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Dallas.
Home of the Cowboys.
The Ewings.
And an ever-growing Yankee population.
Here, on the high Texas plain, under a constant cloud of Mark Cuban’s complaints and whines is the second largest hunting convention on the planet; the Dallas Safari Club’s 2010 Convention & Sporting Expo. Over a four day period more than an estimated 24,000 people will meet with over 1,000 vendors selling everything from six-figure priced hunts to equally priced custom rifles to Amazon fishing trips. Also available for those with an Everest-sized disposable income are $6 beers, $12 well drinks, and $10 sandwiches. [ Read Full Post ]
NBA all-star legend Karl Malone, who also happens to be an avid hunter and support of gun rights, weighs in on the stupidity that took place in the locker room of the Washington Wizards when one player allegedly brandished a number of firearms in front of his fellow players.
Malone (a finalist in the OL 25 awards program) rightly worries about the impact this has on the image of responsible gun owners:
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Sure, I want to be in better shape, a more thoughtful spouse, and in better touch with old friends, but my resolutions on this New Year’s Eve shade more toward the achievable.
Because I’m a hunter, I’m interested in both the journey and the outcome. I love where I’ve been, but I’m mighty curious about where I’m going, and in 2010 I hope to be going both far and staying near.
It’s both the curse and the blessing of all hunters that we are never quite finished. There is always another region to explore, another animal to study and pursue, another skill to acquire. So, in the spirit of self-improvement, here are a few simple goals and resolutions for a new year of hunting: [ Read Full Post ]
Having a difficult time deciding what to get those special women in your life for Christmas?
Well, those who track Americans’ purchasing and lifestyle trends say all the data points to firearms as one of the most popular choices for females this holiday season. In fact, some forecasters say the last 12 months of record-busting firearms sales will easily spill over into the Christmas season, especially for females who are both giving and receiving. [ Read Full Post ]
Outdoor Life Senior Editor John Taranto snapped this photo of a flier taped to the window of a Grants, New Mexico, restaurant. It speaks for itself. You can help make an American soldier's Christmas.
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Boom. Down. Dead bird. That's how we turkey hunter's like it. Get the gobbler in range. Drop him like a sack of post-hunt laundry.
A good turkey choke will tighten your shotgun load for that maximum one-shot performance. That single trigger pull you need to drop that turkey in range depends on it. If you're like me, part of the confidence factor in killing gobblers is proven time with a certain firearm, choke and load. You don't think too much about the matter after that. Clean your turkey gun, store it safely, maybe pattern it a little to get in the groove of things, then hunt the next time out. [ Read Full Post ]
If you think you’re a crack shot (and what self-respecting sportsman doesn’t?) then you could turn your shooting skills into cold, hard cash. The History Channel is putting together a shooting competition with $100,000 on the line.
According the news release, the producers of this show are, “looking for anyone with mind-blowing shooting skills and a big personality to take on exciting physical challenges with multiple guns and mystery projectile weapons.”
More info here. [ Read Full Post ]
After more than 30 days of chasing whitetails across the heart of the country, I swung back home for a break before I wrap up my season with a late-season Iowa muzzleloader hunt in early January. I’m wading through stacks of E-mails and have some good bucks to share with you, but for now I wanted to share my best buck for the fall.
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Just got out of the woods in Northern Saskatchewan after a week of stand hunting during the rut. Friday the 13th was my lucky day as this buck strolled by me at about 11:30 on the second to last day of the hunt. Like every mature buck my fellow hunters and I saw in camp this week, he was cruising. [ Read Full Post ]
I'm proud to say I knew the guy on my left before he became a celebrity.
In case you've been living in a cave in the Swat Valley, he is Jason Nash, the PR manager for Federal/ATK. And his 15 minutes of fame just kicked off in a major way in this week's edition of The New York Times Magazine. [ Read Full Post ]
The police officer who shot the suspected shooter in the rampage at Ft. Hood was an avid hunter and shooter, according to this (www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/us/07police.html?hp). She sounds like a remarkable woman. I hope she recovers quickly from her wounds.
I’m heading off to Canada next week for a Saskatchewan whitetail hunt and pretty quickly settled on bringing a lever gun with me. Took my Marlin 336C in .35 Remington out yesterday to get my new scope dialed in (and an interesting little scope it is too…more on that later) and after I got it on paper I cranked off this 5-shot group. [ Read Full Post ]
Few gun fanciers would argue that the Remington Model 870 pump shotgun is worthy of the moniker, “America’s Shotgun.” The fact is, one would be hard-pressed to find a devotee of upland bird hunting, gunning diabolical doves or chasing bunnies with beagles who doesn’t have a favorite Model 870 for such sporting pastimes. [ Read Full Post ]
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