Anti-Hunters: Two PETA workers charged with abducting hunting dog

Source: The Virginian-Pilot

NORFOLK - Two employees from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with abducting a hunting dog in Southampton County.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a witness reported seeing two women in a vehicle with PETA markings take the dog from the side of Meherrin Road, said Detective Cpl. Richard Morris of the Southampton County Sheriff's Office.

A witness alerted the county animal control officer - who happened to own the dog. The officer stopped the vehicle soon after and, finding his dog inside, turned the case over to a colleague, Morris said.

The dog's radio tracking collar had been removed and was found near where the women reportedly picked up the animal, Morris added.

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SHS Hunting Chat Contest 2006-2007

Take part in the SHS Hunting Chat Forum Contest and WIN!

I am proud to announce that we hold our very first forum members contest. The contest topic is, Hunting, Fishing or Outdoor Adventure. The idea is simple, write a story which can be true, fiction or humorous, as long it has to do with hunting and, or fishing. The contest begins on November 01. 2001 and ends midnight on November 30. 2006.

Here are some suggestions what you can write about. Your first hunt, a special memory connected with hunting or fishing, a humorous camp fire tale, what it is like to live with a hunter (if you are the non hunting spouse of a hunter). Or write about the biggest buck the longest fish you harvested. An exiting trip or a trip where Murphy’s Law was a constant companion and many more subjects, what ever you think is worth telling others about.

Every registered member of the SHS forum in entitled to take part in this contest. This is a good time to tell your friends and family about this contest too, because, in addition every new member registering between November 01. 2006 and November 29. 2006 is also eligible to take part in this contest.

Here comes the best part of this contest. Courtesy of Heirloom Custom Turkey Calls we have some fantastic prices to give away.

1st Price:
A set of two custom made turkey friction calls, one cherry with stained glass and one mahogany with a inlaid picture. These calls come in their own custom built case made from mahogany and maple that opens like a book to reveal the calls.
Retail price: $125.00











(Here is a small teaser of the 1st price. Heirloom Turkey Calls are not only pices of art but they bring gobblers in too!)
2nd Price:
A single custom-built turkey friction call also from mahogany with a blue/grey stained glass and no case. The striker on this call is made from mahogany, maple and birch for a sweet, soft sound.
Retail Price: $50.00

3rd Price:
Is custom-built picture frame made from mahogany. It is basically a circle with a recess for the picture and glass, it sits in a holder that allows the center to be removed for viewing and then put back in. The holder is a square piece of mahogany as well.
Retail Price: $30.00

4th Price:
A camo hunting baseball cap printed with "Heirloom Turkey Calls" on it.
Retail Price: $8.00

Now these are no ordinary prizes, each item, except the camo hat, are unique and specially made for this contest, as such these items are destined to become in a very short time collector items. As is custom with Heirloom Calls, they are of the highest quality and craftsmanship. Each call is a hand-tuned piece of art. So don’t delay and start writing your contest story today. To read the contest rules and other pertaining info or register as a member visit the SHS Contest Forum.

I am looking forward to read all you contest entries on the SHS Hunting Chat Forum.

Pheasant Hunter Bags Mountain Lion in North Dakota

It’s a well known fact that the mountain lion range keeps expanding all over North America. In case you’ve been wondering how the expansion of mountain lions might affect hunters read on.

“We saw some pheasants run into the cattails so we started working them,” recalled Ferguson. “My 1 1/2- year-old yellow lab went into the cattails and I heard a growl and a yelp. She came flying back with blood on her nose. About that time I saw the cat walking through the cattails and threw three shots at it right away.”

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How fast opinions can change!

My wife and I did our usual weekly shopping trip to the supper-store. This is a good time for me to browse trough the releases of hunting and fishing magazines on the newsstand. My eyes fixated on what seems to be a new hunting magazine aimed toward crossbow hunters. Of course I picked the Petersen’s Crossbow Hunting up and took a glance at it. My eyes almost popped out of the head when I read the names of well-known outdoor writers as regular contributors to the magazine.

What surprised me was the fact that quit a few of this big writer names used not so long ago their pen and influence to ridicule crossbow hunting while others used their popularity to become politically active in an effort to ban crossbows as a legal means to hunt with. Now I read headlines like, “Top Ten crossbow hunting spots” and “Review of the best Crossbows on the Market Today”. In short, all this anti-crossbow writers now have turned into crossbow hunting experts and proudly pose with a crossbow over a trophy buck they harvested with the very weapon they condemned only a short few years ago. How fast opinions can change! Some of the articles where not even new, I have read them years ago in bow hunting magazines, only now they have been rewritten to suit crossbow hunting. That is one way to recycle old articles.

However, I am not bitter, no, I am actually very happy that the crossbow finally becomes acceptable and it wont be long now when the crossbow will be legal in every single U.S. State, like it is for many years in Canada, as legal hunting weapon for all hunters and not only for disabled hunters. It’s about high time too!

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Ohio Hunter Bags Trophy Buck On Opening Day

October 4, 2006

For the second year in a row, an Ohio hunter has killed a 200-class trophy buck on the first day of Ohio deer archery season.

Once scored, the Adams County buck will easily score over 200 (non-typical). It has 33 points on its antlers and an inside spread of 24 inches. Jonathon Schmucker of Seaman, Ohio killed the buck with a crossbow on the evening of September 30. Last year on opening day, Mike Rex of Athens, killed a buck that scored 218 6/8. This is the first year deer season has started in September.

“Trophy bucks on opening day are getting to be a tradition in Ohio,” said Steven A. Gray, chief of the Division of Wildlife. "The state’s deer management program is designed to manage for trophy-sized bucks while controlling the state population through hunting of deer, especially does."

Ohio is gaining fame as a trophy buck state. The famous 39-point Beatty Buck was taken in Greene County in the fall of 2000. With a rack score of 304 6/8, it stands as the world's largest non-typical white-tailed deer ever taken by a bowhunter. A white-tailed deer killed in the fall of 2004 in Warren County, known as the Jerman buck, became an Ohio typical record with a score of 201 1/8. These two bucks and many other trophy bucks have focused national attention from the hunting community on the Buckeye state in the past few years.

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News: Country star to host hunting, fishing expo

Everybody who knows me also knows that at heart I am a cowboy, hence the nick name my friends call me by "Swiss Cowboy". I am also a huge fan of rodeo, my life ambition was to ride a bull, now at my age it has simmered down to a lost dream.

Given this background I was well pleased to learn that country singer John Michael Montgomery has teamed up with others to create the John Michael Montgomery Hunting and Fishing Show.

Country star to host hunting, fishing expo

BOB WHITE The Kentucky Standard

Montgomery teams with local hunting buddies

The first weekend in April means a lot of things for local hunting and fishing enthusiasts.

It means spring has just begun. It means only two more weeks must pass before the start of turkey season. It also means crappie are ready to bite just about anything thrown into the water.

This year, the first weekend in April holds something new for the area.

For the first time, country music singer John Michael Montgomery has teamed up with Nelson County native Chuck Filiatreau and Washington County resident Steve Nally for something new for local outdoorsmen - the John Michael Montgomery Hunting and Fishing Show.

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Giant Alligator Catches a Deer!

This picture was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe!
(For those of you who are not local, Lake Conroe is near Conroe , TX .)
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth

This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine , Texas near a house.
Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate...

Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.
Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the
waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.
"I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.

Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with
the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks ! past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.


That is one huge beast! I would likely pee myself if such a sucker would pull up beside my fishing boat.
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Idaho world record elk a lot of bull.

In my last posting I wrote about the buzz flying around the internet of several bull elks been taken that may be destined to become the new world record.

As it happens with rumors if given time the truth will surface. At least in one case the truth has surfaced sooner than expected.

For quite a while now there has been a rumor that a trophy world class bull elk has been taken in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of North Central Idaho with a bow. The elk scored, so the rumor, at 575 inches (green score) and should net out at about 530 nontypical. That would make it the biggest bull elk ever taken with any kind of weapon.

The bull in the photo apparently is real. The story that comes with it isn't.
Mark Hatfield, one of the official scorekeepers with Boone and Crockett Club in Missoula, said the elk came from a fenced game farm in Canada.

Tony Barber, manager and guide at Laurentian Wildlife Estate near Arundel, Quebec, confirmed the elk came from his private reserve.

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