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Fall is hunting season, and the County of Newell offers plenty of ideal scenic locations and amenities for hunters and their traveling companions.

If hunters need to practice their shots, the Books Clays and Feathers Club (www.clayandfeathers.ca) offers a shooting range that feels like golfing with a shotgun. Shooters perfect their shot at 24 stations over a 1.5-mile sporting clays range. The club also has four standard American trap layouts, equipped with voice-command systems, plus a wide range or target presentations, which simulate shotgun game hunting.

The Canadian Pheasant Company (www.canadianpheasant.com), just east of Brooks, is Canada’s largest pheasant production facility. With over 80 acres of irrigated flight pens and a state-of-the-art hatchery, they can produce 200,000 top-quality pheasants a year, many of which are released for hunting purposes.

When all that fresh air and hunting work up an appetite, gamesmen can satisfy their hunger at the Bassano Masonic Sportsman Supper(October 22) or with the western flavours of the famous Patricia Hotel Steak Pit (www.thepatriciahotel.ca). Patricia is the place to savour the taste of a tender, juicy beef steak, or genuine buffalo steak, with all the trimmings. The coffee shop welcomes families and lighter appetites, while The Water Hole Tavern’s dance floor, pool table and special drink, “The Patricia Blowout,” will satisfy a hunger for fun.

Once the evening has wounded down, several motels, campsites and bed-and-breakfasts are available for a relaxing, comfortable stay. Tillebrook Provincial Park, just east of Brooks, offers travellers a quiet, shady oasis surrounded by grasslands, and remains open until October 12. The Village of Tilley also has a new campsite next to the village, and winter campers are welcome at Dinosaur Provincial Park and Kinbrook Island Provincial Park.

The Douglas Country Inn, Stagecoach Inn, and the 100-year-old Imperial Hunter Hotel in Bassano (www.imperialhunterhotel.ca) are all well-known to pheasant, bird and game hunters. The Douglas Country Inn (www.bbcanada.com/10098.html), located on the road to Dinosaur Provincial Park, has in-house dining, friendly hosts and heated dog kennels for those furry hunting companions.

If you need activities for the family, there is a pumpkin-carving contest at EID Historical Museum (www.eidhistoricalpark.com) on October 30, or Country Christmas celebrations at Dinosaur Provincial Park on November 20. Visitors will find plenty of exciting activities in the Country of Newell this fall.

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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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You don’t just run out there and gun down the wary crow. Take time setting up. He has his blind spots. Learn to use them.

A pair of crows, their big mouths spieling out raucous threats, was tearing in from our right. “Take the front one,” I whispered to Gordie Pleiss, my hunting partner. Blamity blamm! echoed over the field. The pair collapsed in midair, thumping to the ground.

“They never saw us,” chuckled Gordie, stuffing in a new shell to replace the spent one.

“That just shows you how wrong you can be,” I laughed.

The crows were retrieved. They were the first of many to fall for the setup we’d thought impossible. By the time the sun was 10 o’clock high, a sizable stack of black marauders would be piled next to our blind. This first barrage was only the beginning.

Crow blinds are the most important part of successful crow shooting. They are equally as important as a duck blind or a goose blind, in my book – my theory being, the smaller and lower the better. Even if it means waiting and shooting from an uncomfortable position.

In 18 years of trying to outsmart crows, this one thing has been proved over and over. Shooting will be only as good as your preparation in building a blind.

Unfortunately, the best place to shoot crows is usually where there is a scarce amount of available cover. At least this is true in my part of Michigan, were farm fields offer little concealment. Gordie and I had run into this knotty problem on an early spring day last year.

The north-bound crows were just filtering into Michigan after spending their winter vacations south of the Mason-Dixon line. This particular spot was a cut over cornfield.

The crows were using it to supplement their meager spring rations. They were picking up corn left over from a mechanical picker. It was t a five-acre field, with nothing but an old barbed-wire fence and a few trees running through the center. We’d cased the place on numerous occasions; each time we’d given up. At times we’d shot a few crows by drawing them to the far edge, where sufficient cover offered concealment for a gunner.

When we’d arrived on Saturday morning there were about 150 crows frolicking around. Singles and doubles were dropping in quite regularly. Finally I couldn’t stand it any longer. In the back of the sta tion wagon was a brand-new 20-gauge shotgun. I’d gotten delivery on it on Wednesday and was bustin’ to try it out. We just had to figuic on a way to get at this noisy outfit.

Lookouts in trees are a must in crow shooting. Sentries give incoming crows the assurance all is well. They also can be seen a long way off.

“To heck with it,” I finally said, putting down the binocular. “Let’s try to make a blind with the camou flaged netting, right next to that tree. That way we’ll be protected from the right, and if we keep it low, we can pull up some grass to give it a natural look.”

“What can we lose?” agreed my partner.

I slung the carrying case over my shoulder, and after Gordie grabbed the guns, we set out across the field.

Crows lifted in a screaming mass, hollering about being disturbed from their morning breakfast. Dig ging out two rotten fence posts, we propped them up, stringing the 20-foot piece of camouflaged netting around them. With two six-foot pieces of light metal tubing, carried for just this purpose, we made enough room to shoot from a kneeling position.

A made-over mosquito-netting tent is the most important part of an effective crow rig, it can be used anywhere as a base to build from.

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New Brunswick’s largest gun shop owner is shedding no tears over the passage of a federal private member’s bill that is designed to kill Canada’s long-gun registry.

Ross Faulkner, the owner of the McAdam, N.B.-based Gun Dealer, sells more than 9,000 firearms annually.

That means Faulkner is required to enter data in a book and again online in the federal registry each time he sells a weapon. This task creates hours of work each day, especially in hunting season when he said he can sell 40 rifles or shotguns a day.

Faulkner said he is relieved to hear the registry could soon be shut down.

“I think common sense has prevailed. The objective to eliminate crime in Canada has not been met. It’s been too costly,” he said.

“I believe that the money that could be saved here would be better used by putting police on the streets where we do have problems with crime.”

Faulkner said he does not accept the position of Canada’s police chiefs that they need the information collected by the Miramichi, N.B.-based registry.

“I cannot believe that they continue to say this. The information is already available at store level,” he said.

“The police chiefs know there is a lot of inaccuracies in the system. It is not 100 per cent accurate.”

In an annual report from Canada’s firearms commissioner prepared by the RCMP, police said they used the registry more than 2.5 million times in 2007.
Liberals introduced gun registry

The Conservatives have long opposed the gun registry, brought in by a former Liberal government in response to the killing of 14 women at Montreal’s L’École Polytéchnique in 1989.

Conservatives often argue the long-gun registry has been a billion-dollar boondoggle.

However, a 2006 study by the auditor general found that eliminating the long-gun portion of the registry would only save taxpayers about $3 million a year.

Manitoba Tory backbencher Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill to eliminate the long-gun registry still has a few parliamentary hurdles to overcome before people such as Faulkner can finally say goodbye to the gun registry.

The bill must go to a parliamentary committee for examination before heading back to the House of Commons and the Senate for votes.

With support from 18 Liberals and New Democrats, the private member’s bill passed second reading 164-137.

Madawaska-Restigouche Liberal MP Jean-Claude D’Amours voted with the Conservatives in support of ending the gun registry.

Liberal MPs Dominic LeBlanc and Brian Murphy and NDP MP Yvon Godin voted against the bill, while the province’s Tory MPs all endorsed the private member’s bill.

If passed, Bill C-391 would scrap the decade-old registry and destroy existing data within the system on about seven million shotguns and rifles.
Rural opposition

Opposition against the gun registry was especially acute in rural areas of Canada.

In New Brunswick, several Liberal backbenchers have voted against the gun registry over the years, fearing a backlash in their ridings.

But not everyone is celebrating the loss of the gun registry.

Deborah Glazebrook, a St. Stephen resident, said the gun registry is needed to protect police officers entering homes where there are domestic disputes.

“They might be able to keep an eye on what’s going on with different houses,” she said.

“They could say, OK, this household has registration of four guns, this name keeps popping up.”

She said she hopes MPs think twice about scrapping it before their final vote.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/11/06/nb-gun-registry-reaction-541.htmlNew Brunswick’s largest gun shop owner is shedding no tears over the passage of a federal private member’s bill that is designed to kill Canada’s long-gun registry.

Ross Faulkner, the owner of the McAdam, N.B.-based Gun Dealer, sells more than 9,000 firearms annually.

That means Faulkner is required to enter data in a book and again online in the federal registry each time he sells a weapon. This task creates hours of work each day, especially in hunting season when he said he can sell 40 rifles or shotguns a day.

Faulkner said he is relieved to hear the registry could soon be shut down.

“I think common sense has prevailed. The objective to eliminate crime in Canada has not been met. It’s been too costly,” he said.

“I believe that the money that could be saved here would be better used by putting police on the streets where we do have problems with crime.”

Faulkner said he does not accept the position of Canada’s police chiefs that they need the information collected by the Miramichi, N.B.-based registry.

“I cannot believe that they continue to say this. The information is already available at store level,” he said.

“The police chiefs know there is a lot of inaccuracies in the system. It is not 100 per cent accurate.”

In an annual report from Canada’s firearms commissioner prepared by the RCMP, police said they used the registry more than 2.5 million times in 2007.
Liberals introduced gun registry

The Conservatives have long opposed the gun registry, brought in by a former Liberal government in response to the killing of 14 women at Montreal’s L’École Polytéchnique in 1989.

Conservatives often argue the long-gun registry has been a billion-dollar boondoggle.

However, a 2006 study by the auditor general found that eliminating the long-gun portion of the registry would only save taxpayers about $3 million a year.

Manitoba Tory backbencher Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill to eliminate the long-gun registry still has a few parliamentary hurdles to overcome before people such as Faulkner can finally say goodbye to the gun registry.

The bill must go to a parliamentary committee for examination before heading back to the House of Commons and the Senate for votes.

With support from 18 Liberals and New Democrats, the private member’s bill passed second reading 164-137.

Madawaska-Restigouche Liberal MP Jean-Claude D’Amours voted with the Conservatives in support of ending the gun registry.

Liberal MPs Dominic LeBlanc and Brian Murphy and NDP MP Yvon Godin voted against the bill, while the province’s Tory MPs all endorsed the private member’s bill.

If passed, Bill C-391 would scrap the decade-old registry and destroy existing data within the system on about seven million shotguns and rifles.
Rural opposition

Opposition against the gun registry was especially acute in rural areas of Canada.

In New Brunswick, several Liberal backbenchers have voted against the gun registry over the years, fearing a backlash in their ridings.

But not everyone is celebrating the loss of the gun registry.

Deborah Glazebrook, a St. Stephen resident, said the gun registry is needed to protect police officers entering homes where there are domestic disputes.

“They might be able to keep an eye on what’s going on with different houses,” she said.

“They could say, OK, this household has registration of four guns, this name keeps popping up.”

She said she hopes MPs think twice about scrapping it before their final vote.

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New Brunswick’s largest gun shop owner is shedding no tears over the passage of a federal private member’s bill that is designed to kill Canada’s long-gun registry.

Ross Faulkner, the owner of the McAdam, N.B.-based Gun Dealer, sells more than 9,000 firearms annually.

That means Faulkner is required to enter data in a book and again online in the federal registry each time he sells a weapon. This task creates hours of work each day, especially in hunting season when he said he can sell 40 rifles or shotguns a day.

Faulkner said he is relieved to hear the registry could soon be shut down.

“I think common sense has prevailed. The objective to eliminate crime in Canada has not been met. It’s been too costly,” he said.

“I believe that the money that could be saved here would be better used by putting police on the streets where we do have problems with crime.”

Faulkner said he does not accept the position of Canada’s police chiefs that they need the information collected by the Miramichi, N.B.-based registry.

“I cannot believe that they continue to say this. The information is already available at store level,” he said.

“The police chiefs know there is a lot of inaccuracies in the system. It is not 100 per cent accurate.”

In an annual report from Canada’s firearms commissioner prepared by the RCMP, police said they used the registry more than 2.5 million times in 2007.
Liberals introduced gun registry

The Conservatives have long opposed the gun registry, brought in by a former Liberal government in response to the killing of 14 women at Montreal’s L’École Polytéchnique in 1989.

Conservatives often argue the long-gun registry has been a billion-dollar boondoggle.

However, a 2006 study by the auditor general found that eliminating the long-gun portion of the registry would only save taxpayers about $3 million a year.

Manitoba Tory backbencher Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill to eliminate the long-gun registry still has a few parliamentary hurdles to overcome before people such as Faulkner can finally say goodbye to the gun registry.

The bill must go to a parliamentary committee for examination before heading back to the House of Commons and the Senate for votes.

With support from 18 Liberals and New Democrats, the private member’s bill passed second reading 164-137.

Madawaska-Restigouche Liberal MP Jean-Claude D’Amours voted with the Conservatives in support of ending the gun registry.

Liberal MPs Dominic LeBlanc and Brian Murphy and NDP MP Yvon Godin voted against the bill, while the province’s Tory MPs all endorsed the private member’s bill.

If passed, Bill C-391 would scrap the decade-old registry and destroy existing data within the system on about seven million shotguns and rifles.
Rural opposition

Opposition against the gun registry was especially acute in rural areas of Canada.

In New Brunswick, several Liberal backbenchers have voted against the gun registry over the years, fearing a backlash in their ridings.

But not everyone is celebrating the loss of the gun registry.

Deborah Glazebrook, a St. Stephen resident, said the gun registry is needed to protect police officers entering homes where there are domestic disputes.

“They might be able to keep an eye on what’s going on with different houses,” she said.

“They could say, OK, this household has registration of four guns, this name keeps popping up.”

She said she hopes MPs think twice about scrapping it before their final vote.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/11/06/nb-gun-registry-reaction-541.html

Oklahoma itself can be said to be the state in the US where American hunters score the greatest amount of Quail bird take downs.  With a bag of more than 3 million.

In the past years , the state of Oklahoma has had the nation’s best and most stable bobwhite quail population.  Other states occasionally equal or even top Oklahoma’s harvest , but not regularly or consistently.

The Oklahoma and Texas panhandle regions are probably the hottest of hotspots in a given hunting season.  North central and Northwest Oklahoma are consistently in the top areas of Quail bags in Oklahoma state.

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The state of South Dakota has fielded very high absolute duck game bird waterfowl counts.  It seems that mallard ducks , bluewing teal  , as well as  gadwallsbirds – which are by far the most common breeders of the waterfowl birds , in the geographic regions in and around South Dakota – are at very high count values.

Next in line are “pond numbers”  , which are yet again another critical index when it comes to waterfowl levels.  It can be well said that with all the ducks in the state and good reports coming as well from North Dakota and Manitoba Canada as well as the various Canadian hunting regions that waterfowl biologists point to another excellent , exceptional hunting season afoot in 2009.

In South Dakota itself it can be said that there is more than enough room to hunt and for avid hunters to roam and enjoy their days shooting.  The bulk of the waterfowl producing holes – and waterfowl producing areas are generally listed as being in the eastcentral ,  northcentral  and northeastern parts of th state.  There aer both state Game Protection Areas and federal waterfowl protection areas.   Lastly areas scattered throughout the pothole country are finding that hunting pressure is relatively light that is once you get away from the major population centers and areas of population such as Sioux Falls and Watertown.

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Do animals think ?       While its  true that  most animals could not figure out how to repair a computer to just get it out the door yet animals seem to be able to think and have the uncanny abilities to escape us hunters.  On top of that humans are descended from animal lines so it must not be far off that animals can think to a great degree.  Anyone who has had a cat , dog hamster or bird can tell you that animals do think , can reason and to a great degree have emotions as well.

You may well have come across deer that know full well when the  hunters are around – to stay out of the limelight during the day – and then when the hunters are safely drinking their Miller Lite beer with their buddies – and recounting the hunting tales of fame and legend – that never occurred in any way shape or form in their or their friend’s universe – for that same buck to come out of the shadows – safely – at dusk.

In the same way it is known on the outskirts of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada that waterfowl – be it ducks , mallard ducks  or Canada geese seem to know instinctively when hunting season for waterfowl and waterbirds starts – to the exact day and date in the fall,  and come gather within the city limits of Winnipeg , on the various ponds and municipal waterways -  knowing full well the safety there from the hunters.

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Next in step – if you hear a second clunk it means that your firing pin is the culprit and problem because as in getting two bad laptops in a row are against the odds of life , two bad ….. is just as unlikely.

All in all you must deal with the situation on hand and in hand.  Most likely the problem is accumulated grime and even “gunk”  inside the bolt and bolt area of the hunting rifle itself.  When the weather gets good and cold, the dirt , grime , and accumulated residues and gunk can harden and impede a or the firing pin.  Try that in a good Manitoba Prairie winter.   Hardened in the cold this stuff can harden and impede the firing pin.

The way to remove it ( assuming that you have a bolt action hunting rifle). is to take the bolt out of the receiver of the hunting rifle, unscrew the firing pin assembly , and clean the accumulated , cold hardened “crud”  out of the bolt’s interior with powder , solvent, white gas or whatever grease cutter that you have available on hand.  De-gunk the firing pin and firing pin spring and that should do it.  If you are using a lever pump or auto. you are totally out of luck until you can get to a locksmith, which is more than an excellent reason to take your lever, pump or auto to a gunsmith before hunting season and have him strip-clean the instrument.

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