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In this stretch of years the hunting pressure more than doubled. 448,204 duck stamps were sold in the all-time low year or 1935, and 1,487,029 in 1944. Then came World War II with another decline in hunting pressure and a rest for the ducks. But overshooting and the pressure of man made themselves felt again soon after the war. Ducks went into another tailspin. In 1945 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service estimated 20,000,000 fewer ducks than in the previous year. By 1946 the duck population had fallen to a total of 80,000,000 a decline of 45,000,000 from the estimated 125,000,000 population of 1944. So the 1946 season was cut to 45 days with limits of 7 ducks daily 14 in possession. Further reductions were necessary in 1947, with a 30-day season and four and eight limits in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways where the greatest waterfowl declines had been observed. Once again man’s self-imposed restrictions and the weather came to the rescue of the ducks. There was a slight improvement in the waterfowl population in 1949 and a 40-day season was permitted. But the limit was held to four and eight that year, and in 1950, when a temporary duck setback was recorded, the season was cut to 35 days.

Then weather intervened again in the form of good rains. In my 1952 Sports Afield survey of ducks in western Canada I reported the best hatch in 15 years. It was spectacular in Alberta, Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba. So the season was extended. By 1953 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service estimated the duck population at 160,750,000. In the fall of 1954 heavy rains provided conditions for a real boom in waterfowl the following year. The early spring and ideal nesting conditions of 1955 accentuated the boom. There was water everywhere, western Canada was in great shape for waterfowl and there was a great hatch of ducks.

The season was liberalized in 1955, with an all-time high sale of 2,181,566 duck stamps. Sales held pretty well through the next year, then went up to 2,332,014 in 1957.

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Ted Williams, new sporting goods consultant for Sears, Roebuck and Co., field tested a new model 20-gauge shotgun. Here’s what he said about it: “This gun is a real beauty. Perfect weight and balance. But let’s face it – the gun needs more punch.” Read what happened next.

“When I’m in a duck blind or in the field, I want a shotgun that can bring down game – and keep it down!

“This shotgun is nice and light. Feels great. But for big ducks or pheasants, it needs more firepower. Chamber it to take bigger shells and you’ll have a 20-gauge shotgun with the killing power of a 12-gauge.”

Ted’s advice made sense. Engineers redesigned the chamber to fire both the standard 2 3/4-inch shells and the heavier 3-inch magnums. With this added firepower, it’s ideal for shotgun hunting, and for trap and skeet.

Ted Williams is a perfectionist. His name on a piece of Sears merchandise means it’s the best value you can get for your money.

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1. Full-length ventilated rib gives straight sighting plane.
2. 6-position choke control lets you dial pattern you want in seconds.
3. Burnished breech bolt and etched scroll work give custom look.
4. Stock and fore-end of American walnut.
5. Rubber pad absorbs recoil.
6. Stock has full pistol grip with cap, fluted comb, inlaid nameplate. Diamond-design checkering gives slip free grip, adds to beauty.
7. Cross-bolt safety on trigger guard.
8. Weighs about 6 1/4 pounds. Steel frame construction. 27-inch barrel. 46 1/2-inch overall. 5-shot, 4 in tube, 1 in chamber, Plug for 3-shot limit.
9. Extra middle bead sights for split-second aiming.
10. Also available in .410 gauge without adjustable choke – $87.50.

This Ted Williams shotgun is available only at Sears. We do not know of any gun with these features at anywhere near our price of $94.50.

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The Central Plains Capitals midget girls took two wins in exhibition action over last weekend, defeating Interlake 3-1 on Dec. 12 and blanking the Central Plains Senior Women’s team 4-0 on Dec. 13.

The Interlake Lightning are hoping to make the jump to the Manitoba Female Midget Hockey League next season and have been scheduling exhibition games this year to prepare.

“It’s very difficult to run an exhibition schedule, especially starting late in the year when a lot of other teams already have their league schedules and their tournament schedules set. The first year we tried to do that it was hard, but I give them credit for starting it up,” Capitals head coach Ferdi Nelissen said of the Interlake team.

“They said they want to join our league, and hopefully that’s true,” he said, “because they’re very competitive.”

Earning a win on Dec. 12 was nice, especially since the team was short-staffed for the affair.

“We’re still missing our two girls with concussions,” said Nelissen. Jenna Cyrenne and Jillene Rodgers have both been out of the lineup with concussions. “And then there was some conflict with the high school tournament with the Sanford girls.”

The Portage Collegiate Institute Saints hockey team hosted a high school tournament in Portage la Prairie over the weekend and the Sanford Sabres high school team participated in the tournament. Unlike boys hockey, the girls may play for both the high school team as well as the Midget Caps and four girls suit up for both teams. Two of the players, Natasha Kostenko and Jennifer Bell, opted to play with the Caps on Dec. 12 while Nikki Bell and Steph Fehr suited up for their high school club, which was also short-staffed.

“The Interlake game was good. We outshot them badly; we probably had 40-something shots and they had maybe 18 or 19, but it was a competitive game,” said Nelissen. “And then Sunday we beat the Senior women and we did that without Natasha, our leading scorer, but it was good. The girls moved the puck well, cycled well, the goalies were solid, and make a few big saves when the games were tight.”

On Saturday evening, the Capitals will host Brandon at MacGregor. Brandon sits below the Caps in the standings in fourth place, with a record of 2-6. The Caps are in third with a 5-3-1 record, trailing the Yellowhead Chiefs who are 4-1-1.

The difference has been the undefeated Pembina Valley Hawks — whom Yellowhead has only played once, their only loss of the year.

The big test for the Central Plains squad will come on Tuesday when Pembina Valley visits Portage Centennial Arena for a matinee.

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FACE TO FACE: Should the feds shoot down the controversial long-gun registry?

If it feels like Canadians have been debating the merits of the long-gun registry for a long time, it’s because we have.

It was back in 2001 that Jean Chretien’s Liberals introduced the controversial measure that required all owners of hunting rifles and shotguns to register them with the government.

The debate was revived late last year when MP Candice Hoeppner of the Manitoba riding of Portage-Lisgar introduced a private members bill, Bill C-391, which

aims to repeal the registry. The introduction of the bill has caused political pundits, journalists and citizen groups alike to rehash old rhetoric.

“The registry does nothing to stop criminals from getting guns” was a common refrain for anti-registry lobbyists in the 1990s while registry supporters retorted with comments such as “The gun registry will save lives.”

The difference between the debate now and the debate in the ’90s, however, is that we now have almost a decade of empirical evidence about the program’s success — or lack thereof.

Coquitlam resident Gary Mauser, a business professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, will be travelling to Ottawa next week to speak to the parliamentary committee on public safety about gun control. “The key question is have you shown a link a between the [long-gun registry] legislation and homicide and suicide rates.” Mauser says. “The statistics clearly show that the long-gun registry has not been effective in reducing deaths or accidents.”

According to Mauser, suicide rates in Canada have slowly been declining since the 1970s — long before the registry. The homicide rate dropped dramatically, in both Canada and the United States, in the 1990s and has been flat since then. Accident rates with guns since the long-gun registry was introduced have also remained steady.

The long-gun registry has simply not made a difference.

Governments cannot continue to spend money on programs that aren’t working. The registry was budgeted in 1995 to cost $85 million to operate and is now up to an estimated $2 billion and counting.

It’s time to put a bullet in the long-gun registry and use that money in more effective ways: to hire more police officers, to fund victim services initiatives and to develop programs to combat gang activities.

Manitoba Conservation’s Wildlife and Ecosystem Protection Branch (WEPB) has conducted big game questionnaires for almost 50 years. This questionnaire is vital for the proper management and conservation of Manitoba’s big game species (white-tailed deer, elk, moose, barren-ground caribou, black bear and wolf). The main goal of the questionnaire is to estimate how many animals are harvested annually. This information is essential to determine the number of licenses available, set bag limits and maintain future hunting opportunities.

In the early days of the program, hunters submitted a questionnaire that was attached to their licenses. In other years, the program mailed questionnaires and did telephone interviews. More recently, a sample of non-draw license holders was randomly selected to receive questionnaires with postage-paid return envelopes. All draw license holders received a questionnaire. In 2009, the wildlife branch began collecting questionnaire responses online.

Under the previous, mail-based survey design, participants received paper questionnaires and postage-paid return envelopes. In the interests of efficiency, hunters now receive a postcard requesting that they complete the questionnaire online. As a result, WEPB can now survey every licensed hunter in the province as opposed to just a small sample. All hunters, including those who are not mailed a reminder postcard, are encouraged to go to the questionnaire website at the end of the hunting seasons and complete a questionnaire for each licence purchased. Hunters can receive multiple postcards that occurs when a hunter’s name appears in the database more than once.

Collecting questionnaire responses through the Internet is much faster. Once a response is submitted online, it is automatically put into a database. Receiving the responses sooner means faster reactions to the information. The new system also allows collection of more, and different, types of information.

For a variety of reasons, some hunters purchase a specific licence but do not hunt. Licence holders who did not hunt represent a cross-section of the entire hunting population. WEPB asks that you provide your information to ensure that we receive a representative sample of licensed hunters.

The basic questions asked are:

– How many days did you hunt?

– Where did you hunt?

– What type of animal was harvested, if any?

– How did the animal population in your hunting area compare to previous years? The answer to this question helps us estimate population trends since hunters are important “eyes and ears” in the field.

In addition to the web-based questionnaires, there is a toll-free number to collect hunter information. Call 1-877-892-7627, leave your name and phone number and someone will return your call and take your information.

All responses remain strictly confidential. Responses are used to estimate total harvest for each hunting season. Information is summarized and used by biologists and regional wildlife managers to establish bag limits, season dates and the number of licences available. These questionnaires are a very important part of big game management in Manitoba. Licensed hunters are the link between what happens during this year’s hunting season and how that will affect next year’s hunting season. Summary statistics are available on the WEPB website or by contacting the branch.

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Canadians, by a small margin, favour scrapping long gun registration, which hasn’t worked the way it was intended.

Once again, the gun registry is a political issue in Canada.

Tories want registration abolished for long guns — shotguns and hunting rifles — while the Liberals (as ordered by Michael Ignatieff) want it kept, but to make failure to register a gun a non-criminal, ticketing offense.

When gun registration was implemented in 1993 by the Liberal government of Jean Chretien (Bill C-68), the Canadian public was told it would cost $2 million — the difference between what the government paid and what licensing or registration fees would bring in.

By the end of that decade, it was apparent costs had reached $1 billion and rising, with no appreciable decline in the use of firearms in crimes. More significant is the goal of registering every firearm in Canada, largely aimed at reducing crime by making every gun traceable, has been a failure.

In 1974, prior to mandatory gun registration, the justice department figured 10 million guns were owned by Canadians. By 1994, a year after registration, it was estimated there were 7 million guns in Canada.

Does that indicate a 30% decline in gun ownership over 20 years when the population increased by some 40%? Nope. What it indicates is many people didn’t register their long guns, possibly fearing confiscation would be next, or simply mistrusting government intentions.

Whatever the reason, a huge percentage of Canadians who own unregistered guns are un-convicted criminals, which explains why Ignatieff wants to decriminalize failure to register.

Police chiefs (as opposed to police members) publicly support gun registration. Rank and file cops are not so politically correct, and have doubts.

Homicide and suicide rates over the years tend to argue against firearm registration as an inhibiting factor. After firearms registration, Canada’s suicide rate was relatively stable, with a decrease of some 20% in suicide by guns, but a similar increase of suicide “by other means.” Suicide with a gun can be impetuous and messy, but all suicides are fatal, and statistically are relatively constant year after year.

Homicides remain relatively the same before and after gun controls — firearms used in homicides are in the 30% range, with hand guns (banned or registered since 1934) by far the favoured weapon of murder.

Interestingly, Canada and Australia, both with gun controls, have roughly the same homicide rate per 100,000 of population (1.57), but Canadians are twice as likely as Australians to use a gun to murder someone.

In the U.S. the homicide ratio per 100,000 of population is three times higher than in Canada — but murders are six times more likely to be with a gun.

The private member’s bill (C-391) by Manitoba Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner squeezed through two readings (164-137) with the support of a handful of rural Liberal MPs.

Michael Ignatieff “ordering” all Liberal MPs to vote against it on third reading poses an interesting dilemma if there’s an election. Polls show Canadians, by a small margin, favour scrapping gun registration, which hasn’t worked the way it was intended.

Hand guns and automatic assault weapons are the real danger, while the shotgun and hunting rifle are part of the Canadian heritage. Many law-abiding citizens have been branded criminals because they haven’t registered these guns.

That, surely, is a reason to change a bad, unenforceable law.