By Kim Hiss

As I bring FSHuntress to a close, I want to thank you again for your wonderful participation in the women's blog, and for your support over the last week. I hope we'll channel the enthusiasm for the online community we've built into our local hunting communities, and get more women -- and kids and men -- into the field. Programs like Becoming an Outdoors Woman, the NRA's Women on Target and the NWTF's Women in the Outdoors are out there to help us do it.

By Philip Bourjaily

One of the most revealing posts I read on a waterfowl message boards after the unveiling of the Benelli Vinci expressed the author’s disappointment in the gun’s 3-inch chamber. “I may not shoot 3.5-inch shells,” he wrote, “but my gun had better shoot them.”

Now that I think about it, a lot of waterfowllers feel the same way: to them a proper 21st  century duck and goose gun has to be synthetic stocked, it has to be camoed, and it has to chamber 3.5-inch shells, even if they never plan to shoot them.

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.

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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.

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer: