Paw Print Kill Stickers cause uproar

Animal Rights groups that oppose any type of wolf control that includes the killing of the wolf pushed an old issue this week to stir controversy over aerial control. Photo taken 5 years ago showing the use of a “kill sticker”, like used by fighter pilot aces during WWII, surfaced this week. The use of such stickers was banned a few years ago because they could be viewed as offensive by some people. While it sounds ridiculous for anyone to even care about such a trivial issue the government still felt compelled to issue an apology.

This is much to do about nothing but it does show us how far astray we have become when an apology gets issued for something as dumb and useless as this.

Nevada hunting trip turns into an unexpected adventure when hunter Robert Pitzer encounters a UFO.

Pitzer was hunting alone outside Lovelock, NV when he looked up to see a strange-looking object descending slowly toward earth.

It touched down near Pitzer, the only human within miles.

“What in the world is this thing?” Pitzer wondered. “Had no idea,” he said later at his home in Auburn. “I didn’t know if it was a weather satellite.”

The strange object scraped the ground and sometimes bounded back into the air. It seemed to take a special interest in Pitzer’s pickup truck, as it hovered nearby.

Pitzer clutched his 12 gauge shotgun. If the UFO turned hostile, Pitzer was ready to say ‘Welcome to Earth’ with a couple of rounds of buckshot.

“I still didn’t know quite what was going on,” said Pitzer. “But I figured it’s an experimental aircraft. That’s when I noticed the JP Aerospace sticker on it.”

Turns out, the flying object had been launched under helium balloons, two hours earlier, 50 miles away. The high altitude balloon platform was carrying science experiments to the edge of space. One of the two helium balloons burst, and the craft fell slowly back to earth.

News 10

I’m not sure I’d be as brave if faced with a similar situation I’d be wanting to put some space between me and the UFO. Given the advancements in technology these days and the ever present threat of terrorism my thoughts would be not so much a threat from some alien planet but a threat from a foreign government or some anti government group. Needless to say as soon as that thing bounced back up and seemed interested in the truck I’d be moving on out.

So have you ever encountered anything unusual while hunting? I once was hunting in an area where a manhunt for a fugitive was happening. I didn’t know this until I came out of the woods and was approached by law enforcement at my truck. As I recall he was captured days latter after giving law enforcement the slip.

Needless to say Robert now has a story to share that some may find hard to believe…. but that never happens in hunting camp.

A Thanksgiving fishing trip off the coast of North Carolina will certainly be a lifetime adventurous memory for a group of men after a rare encounter with a Great White Shark.

Captain Watson has fished for about 25 years off Wrightsville Beach, where the shark close encounter happened.

“The fish kept circling. He kept getting closer and closer and he swam under the bow of the boat and hit it then came around the boat a couple minutes later, did a turn, and slapped the side of the boat with the back of his tail,” said Watson. “You could feel the whole boat shutter.”

According to the men, they were about 25 miles southeast of Wrightsville Beach when they saw the shark, which they estimate was at least 18 feet long and more than 4 feet wide. That’s nearly equal to the size of their boat.

It circled the boat for nearly 20 minutes

“I was probably 2 or 3 feet from the bow roller. His nose was at my feet,” fisherman Don Smith was quoted as saying. “His tail was pretty much in line with the rod that we had in the back of the boat in a rod holder. That’s a pretty good estimation of just how big the thing was.”

North Carolina waters are home to many sharks, but great white sightings like this are pretty rare.

Discovery News

A shark about the size of the boat I’m in? Hmmmm Nope I’ll stay on the mainland. Call me a wimp but I don’t want to even think about having to tangle with that guy.

Photo from Orlando Sentinel

This latest cold snap should put snakes out of our minds for the next few months anyways but here is a story out of Florida I just couldn’t pass up highlighting. A snake swallowing a adult deer whole is unbelievable and had I not seen the photo and the story I doubt I’d believe it.

An adult deer was found intact inside a huge Burmese python Thursday, after the snake was captured and killed in the Everglades.

Contractors for the South Florida Water Management District encountered the python on a tree island in western Miami-Dade County, according to the district. It was killed with a shotgun blast.

The 15.7-foot snake had a massive bulge from a recently consumed 76-pound female deer, the largest intact prey ever found in a Burmese python in Florida, said Skip Snow, a biologist and python specialist at Everglades National Park, who conducted the necropsy.

The python, an ambush predator, had staked out a known deer trail, he said. When the deer walked by, the snake presumably seized the animal in its sharp, backward-pointing teeth, crushed the deer under its weight and coiled around it, killing the deer before consuming it, he said.

Orlando Sentinel

Buck in NY that has tangled his antlers up in a Volley Ball Net

I came across this photo of a buck that appears to have lost a battled with a volley ball net in Ridgfield NY.

a buck that has been a visitor in her yard in nearby Brewster, N.Y. for about two weeks. Suddenly, one day he appeared with netting tangled in his antlers, which is worrying Ms. Hovey who has been in touch with wildlife officials about capturing the buck and removing the head-gear. According to Tom Belote, who leads the Deer Committee in Ridgefield, “The problem is that the bucks like this one will soon go into competition with other bucks — going rack-to-rack. The buck challenging this one could easily become entangled in the same netting, leaving the two deer locked together with both of them dying.

Ridgefield Press

Well I may have another idea what maybe happening here given the increased interest in antler restrictions when it comes to hunting maybe this is the evolution process at its finest. I suspect this maybe the latest in deer camo making it difficult if not impossible for a hunter to be able to count how many points this buck has thus making him unkillable. This buck may have just found a way to outsmart the hunters.

Missouri Car Dealer Mark Muller is about to launch his forth annual gun give away despite lots of pressure in the past to cancel the promotions.

Despite the White House harassment, and the loss of financing and insurance arrangements that came in the past, the Butler, Mo., car dealer who will be giving away AK-47’s again starting in October.

“Guess what? We are doing it again! It is the Fourth Annual Great Guns and Gas Give-Away!” said Mark Muller, the owner of Max Motors, whose July 17, 2009 interview with CNN’s Carol Costello about his promotion was great publicity, but brought him unwelcome attention.

Within days of the CNN broadcast, three agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrived at the dealership, he said.

Human Events has the details of all the pressure that has been put on Max Motors by the government and big business. As many of us know many individuals who call themselves “progressive” believe the 2nd Amendment and belief in God are old ideas that are no longer needed in a civilized society. How delusional are those folks? Whether you own a gun yourself or not denying people there God Given Right to own guns is about as anti American as you can get. I also get a kick out of people who think an AK 47 or other assault weapon is somehow more dangerous for the public to own. I’d be more fearful of a boomerang in the hand of a felon then I would of a citizen with AK 47.

I’m not in the market for a truck but if I was Max Motors sounds like my kind of place to do business. Here is the original CNN News Story back in 2009 that brought national attention.

A local news station (ABC 13) is reporting that a young man was confronted at gun point by a man claiming to be a NC Wildlife Officer.

A hunter claims he was hassled and handcuffed by a man pretending to be a wildlife officer. Daniel Pittman, 19, says he was hunting on land off Zion road in Rutherford County on Saturday, when a man dressed as a wildlife officer approached him. The man allegedly pointed a gun at him, handcuffed him and placed him in the back of his jeep. Pittman says he saw stains on the seats that resembled blood. Pittman says he was scared for his safety, before the man finally let him go unharmed. The hunter filed a report with the North Carolina Wildlife Commission. They say the man wasn’t an officer and are now looking for a white male in his mid-twenties, 180-190 lbs with brown hair in a military style buzz cut. The man was reportedly driving a 1996 dark Jeep Grand Cherokee. Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

WLOS ABC 13 News :: Top Stories – Wildlife Officer Impersonator.

Six and a half feet tall maybe seven feet? Sure does limit your suspect pool significantly. I’ll admit I got some serious questions about this story and wonder if it’s true. I sure hope know one would make up a story like this besides the height and weight that makes me wonder who when confronted by an officer at gun point would remove and reinsert their rifle magazine? The last thing I want to do is do anything that an officer could view as dangerous.
We don’t know what is going on but to be on the safe side make sure if you encounter someone claiming to be a Wildlife officer that you see some ID.

Breaking News….The Federal Government filed suit in Houston Texas today accusing Bass Pro of discrimination in hiring practices.

The lawsuit alleges that qualified African-Americans and Hispanics were routinely denied positions at Bass Pro stores and managers of stores in Houston, Louisiana and other locations made derogatory racial comments acknowledging the practice.

The commission also alleges that Bass Pro destroyed documents related to applications and internal discrimination complaints and retaliated against those who spoke up.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_dd058cf6-e478-11e0-858b-001a4bcf6878.html#ixzz1YcMiOXgy

Story is developing we’ll keep you posted……..

MerchantService.com is a credit card processing company that business contract with for the service. A quick trip around their website shows a Pro American, Pro Gun, Pro Individual Rights that offers gun vouchers as rewards for business that open accounts with them.

The reason we’ve launched this NoMerchantVictims.com program now is that I believe our benevolent democratic society has met a tipping point. A point where our society has instilled the “right” to a small (2 to 6%) portion of our population to commit repeated often time violent and fatal crimes. It’s called our “catch and release” criminal justice system. We even provide the criminals a center of higher education, prisons, where they can study to master their trades.

It’s our goal to promote a “societal shift expectation” from only Criminals “having rights to make you a Victim”, to Criminals “having the expectation of facing lethal force during the commission of a crime”. Just a very small reduction in the number of career criminals will free up vast amounts of funding for education and health care, rather than continuing to waste criminal justice funding on the repeat criminals responsible for about 80% of the crimes.

I’m sure in this politically correct world we live in some of the “elite” find this whole bonus program offensive. To me its a breath of fresh air in a society that seems to gnaw away at the individual rights our country was founded on and make us all subjects to the “elite” in Washington.

We don’t have to look far to see that hard times have certainly fallen on many in our country. Throughout our history as a nation when hard times hit we can become very resourceful living off the land to make it through. Seems like some people living in a NY City Park are doing just that living off the small critters they can trap or catch.

Cops have busted a group of oddball poachers in Prospect Park — a band of vagrants that was trapping and eating ducks, squirrels and pigeons.

Parks officers wrote four tickets — two for killing wildlife and two for illegal fishing — totaling $2,100 in fines during a two-day period last week.

The Brooklyn Paper

While I’m not big on poaching I got to wonder if this is the lesser of two evils when it comes to folks that are homeless and unemployed. I’d rather see them out trying to help themselves rather than pan handling. Of course many of our parks have an over abundance of wildlife populations so I’d rather see them go to sustain a hungry person. The last city I was in there seemed to be ample supplies of pigeons and squirrels and geese. I’d much rather see a homeless guy holding a sign looking for garlic and spices to make a jerked pigeon rather then willing to work sign.

For now, wildlife advocates were hailing this month’s busts.

“The fact that they’re ticketing is great — it’s so badly needed,” said goose lover Mary Beth Artz. “I hope they keep it up.”

What a sad commentary on our society when people care more about a critter than a fellow human being.

Matthew 25:40 ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’