Last spring, in his March column, F&S Fishing Editor John Merwin reported that plastic baits pose potential environmental and health hazards, that fish are eating plastic baits and dying, and that a switch (mandatory or otherwise) to biodegradable baits could be in our future.
I've always believed - and argued the point on this blog - that hunters who get worked up over the antics of groups like PETA, C.A.S.H. and In Defense of Animals are, quite frankly, wasting time and anger best utilized somewhere else.
Why? Because for the most part the wacky wing of the animal rights movement is a politically marginalized collection of barking moonbats whose constituency consists of groups like the Silkworm Liberation Front, The Vegan Unicorn Brigade and the Norway Rat Protection League.
Rush Limbaugh, the iconic radio voice of the conservative movement, has managed to draw the wrath of one of the country’s most reliably conservative groups — us — by recording a series of so-called public-service announcements for none other than the Humane Society of the United States.
From WEAU 13 News: Here's a bit of the 911 call: Jim Hoover: I got a bear in my basement. Dispatcher: A what? Jim: Yeah, you heard me. Dispatcher: No I didn't. A girl or a bear? Jim: No, a bear. Dispatcher: A bear? Jim: Yeah.
Every year I spend days poring over tax maps, driving around, knocking on doors, asking permission to hunt. At about 98 percent of the places I go, I walk away saying “Thanks anyway.” There’s got to be an easier way. And Ohio may have it—basically an online match service for hunters and landowners.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) and other plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, seeking to enjoin the City of Pittsburgh from enforcing a December 2008 ordinance that requires gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm to police within 24 hours.
The Raahauge's Shooting Sports Fair, a hands-on gun show where you can shoot all the latest firearms on the market, has been cancelled for 2009. The Sports Fair is normally held the first weekend in June each year at Mike Raahauge Shooting Enterprises in Corona. Mike Raahauge said the fair was cancelled because it had become impossible for all the firearm makers to get enough ammunition for this event.
A while back I wrote a blog that was fairly critical of Esquire magazine and its notions of manhood. Click here to read it.
While several readers pointed out (and rightly so) Esquire's long and distinguished record of truly first-rate literary journalism, my point was if you're taking your manhood cues from a magazine then you're probably already a lost cause.
You find a .22 cartridge. You do not have a .22 rifle. How should you dispose of the cartridge? A. Bury it. B. Bring it to a friend who does own a .22 rifle. C. Bring it to a gun shop for them to dispose of. D. Smack it with a hammer—hard.
Believe it or not, there was once a Field & Stream editor who had a morbid fear of squirrels. I used to ask to her: “What the hell is a squirrel going to do to you?”