By Dave Hurteau & Chad Love

From The Tennessean:

A 10-year project to restore elk in Tennessee and again make them hunted game is almost complete.
Final details for the state's first elk hunt in nearly 150 years are expected during the January meeting of the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Commission.

The first hunt is tentatively scheduled for October 2009. [ Read Full Post ]

By Dave Hurteau & Chad Love

This week’s Best of the Boards has the perfect ringtone for a fishing fanatic, a glowing lobster, and bucks caught battling in a deep freeze. See an amazing message board post our intern missed? Send it to him at fsinterns@bonniercorp.com and it could be in next week’s batch.

Pics: Hook straightening stripers:
stripersonline.com

Pic: Find all eight deer in this picture:
monstermuleys.info

Topic: Screaming drag ringtone?
2coolfishing.com

Pic: Photoshop or record buck?
biggamehunt.net

Pic: glow-in-the-dark lobster?
bloodydecks.com

Pic: Unbelievable Kansas Buck
huntingnet.com

Pic: Bucks frozen in battle
bowhunting.com

Pic: Can you fit an elk in a Jeep Wrangler
muleymadness.com

Topic: Easiest Elk ever taken (while fishing)
jesseshunting.com

Video: Mystery Kentucky Buck
huntingpa.com [ Read Full Post ]

By Dave Hurteau & Chad Love

It's a given that combining actors and real, functioning weaponry is a little like combining poodles and microwaves: put them together and bad stuff's gonna happen. It doesn't matter if it's a gun, a sword, a bow or a knife: Give a thespian a movie prop and he'll save the world. Give him a real weapon and he'll blow away the cameraman and/or lose an appendage. But even at that, this might be one of the most bizarre showbiz weapon whoopsies I've ever seen.

From the story:

An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one. Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests. Things went wrong at Vienna's Burgtheater as Hoevels' character went to "kill himself" in the final scene of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots, on Saturday night

It was only when he did... [ Read Full Post ]

By Philip Bourjaily

My friend M.D. called me a few nights ago to say he had permission to hunt a field full of geese and did I want to come hunt? I was already leaning toward “yes” when he delivered the clincher: “You can sleep in. They’ve been flying about 9:30 so if we leave my house by a little after 8:00 that’s plenty of time.”
    In the morning I drove to M.D.’s house. We hiked two blinds and 11 full-body decoys into the field and had a great time, even though there was something about our little spread the geese didn’t like. A few flared outright, most slid off just out of range, but one flock worked close enough that I was able to kill a bird.
A few minutes later, three locked up and sailed into the decoys on M.D.’s side. I didn’t want to shoot over his head and deafen him, so I watched while he shot a double, then swung on the third and lowered his gun. Our bag limit is two and he wasn’t going to shoot my second bird for me. I never did kill a second goose, but I appreciated M.D.’s gesture, which is increasingly... [ Read Full Post ]

By Dave Hurteau & Chad Love

From the Star-Tribune:

A declining moose herd in northeastern Minnesota could mean an end to moose hunting in the state. . . .

The fear is that a recent rise in temperatures could be causing the population decline. . . .

For now, it's uncertain whether Minnesota will have a moose hunting season next fall, said Dave Schad, DNR fish and wildlife section chief.

"We would like to continue hunting that population for as long as it makes sense and doesn't put the population at risk,'' Schad said. "It's a unique opportunity we provide that not many other states can provide.'' [ Read Full Post ]

By Dave Hurteau & Chad Love

From MSNBC:

It could have been the world's first prescription pistol. The single-bullet Palm Pistol set the Internet abuzz with speculation that Medicare might even pay for the elderly and disabled to pack heat.

But on Monday the Food and Drug Administration said the Palm Pistol doesn't have a shot of being listed as a medical device, and revoked the registration . . . .

[Inventor Matthew M.] Carmel said the elderly and disabled are easy targets for criminals, and the Palm Pistol could be an equalizer[, making them less susceptible to injury].

What do you think? Should Medicare pay for Palm Pistols? [ Read Full Post ]