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Police find bodies of five hunters

Police have launched a murder investigation after discovering the bodies of five hunters in a rural area of central Greece. All the men, aged between 17 and 33, had shotgun wounds, police said. The bodies were found late on Saturday in the region of Kalyvia, close to the central Greek city of Agrinio, about 175 miles north-west of Athens. Police said one of the victims made a desperate call from his mobile phone to his father but could only utter the word “father” before the connection was cut off.

Submitted: 11/26/2006 Source: Ireland On-Line

Rifle demonstration loaded with history

Firearms expert shares story of revolutionary British breechloader
The experimental rapid-fire rifle could have won the America Revolution for the British. Ricky Roberts is reminded of that every time he fires a replica of the Ferguson rifle, designed in 1776 by British Maj. Patrick Ferguson. It was the most advanced weapon of its time. But the flintlock rifle was expensive to make, and its inventor and pitchman died on an S.C. battlefield.

Submitted: 7/3/2006 Source: The Charlotte Observer

Moose Lodge plans events for disabled marksmen

NITRO — On Thursday, July 6, West Virginia’s many sportsmen with physical disabilities will be given an opportunity to improve upon their hunting and shooting sport skills. Beginning at 9 a.m. at the Nitro Moose Lodge (101 First Avenue), two of the nation’s top shooting sport coaches will be on hand to advise sportsmen on how to solve their disability-related challenges.

Submitted: 7/3/2006 Source: Montgomery Herald

California City Swaps Guns for Gift Cards

Authorities in the western U.S. state of California have collected hundreds of guns from citizens in an unusual exchange program. Dozens of residents in Compton, near Los Angeles, participated Saturday in the so-called "Gifts for Guns" event just ahead of Christmas. They were lured by the prospect of receiving voucher-like cards worth $100 from a variety of merchants. Authorities came up with the idea as a way of reducing violence in the crime-ridden city. At least 65 homicides have been reported this year, nearly doubling the killings of last year.

Submitted: 12/25/2005 Source: Voice of America

New year, new ideas at big show

Although still more than two months away, the Ottawa Boat, Sportsmen's & Cottage Show is set to return early in the new year. The popular event is now confirmed for Feb. 23-26 at Lansdowne Park and will boast three shows in one: The Boat Show & Sale, the Sportsmen's Show, the Adventure Show and the Cottage Show. For the 25,000 outdoor fans expected to stroll through the turnstiles, it is always a great opportunity to browse the latest and greatest gadgets available from more than 200 exhibitors. February's show will feature the usual rods, reels and tackle from the biggest names in the business, as well as all the major tackle shops and equipment supply stores. Demonstrations, prizes and local personalities like the Young Bison; Big Jim McLaughlin, will always ensure a successful show.

Submitted: 12/22/2005 Source: Ottawa Sun

Dirty bores can make shots foul

he old belief that a dirty bore (fouled) shot is more accurate than a clean bore (free of fouling) still exists today. It still may be around, but it's not true. Benchrest shooters spend hours cleaning the bores or their competition rifles. If a dirty bore shot is better, they would be the first to know it. To make matters worse, there's an old belief that brushing a bore vigorously with a brass brush is hard on the bore. That too, is not true. The brass bristles on a bore cleaning brush are softer than the bore metal itself. Pushing tight-fitting brass brush through a bore a dozen or so times will not damage the bore if the brush is new or still has a full set of bristles. Stop and think. A copperclad bullet sizzles through a bore at thousands of feet per second but really doesn't do much damage to the bore. Basically, it leaves a smear of jacket fouling (copper) on the sidewalls of the bore.

Submitted: 12/16/2005 Source: Pittsburgh Live

GCNO shooters win 3titles in Thailand event

Gun Club of Negros Occidental shooters showed world-class precision and brought home three crowns in the Thailand International Practical Shooting Confederation National Championship 2005 in Navamin, Chonburi in Thailand. Spearheading GCNO's campaign was its president Jannette Yulo-Gonzaga who ruled the standard ladies' division. Andy Gonzaga also gave honor to the Negros-based shooting club after he grabbed the championship in the production division, while Tootsie Anglo snared the standard shoot-off title.

Submitted: 12/16/2005 Source: The Visayan Daily Star

Is the SA80 Rifle Worthless?

Is the British SA80 rifle (officially designated the L85) a piece of junk? This is a question of no small importance to the grunts in the British Army. The rifle has been plagued with numerous complaints, much as the M16 was in Vietnam 40 years ago. Part of the problem is the fact that the SA80s predecessor, the L1A1 SLR (a variant of the FN FAL) had performed well in combat in numerous climates (including the Falklands War in 1982).

Submitted: 12/16/2005 Source: Strategy Page

Get yourself, your gun ready

Guns aren't unlike the people in our lives. Who would you trust more: someone you see two or three times a year, or someone proven to be reliable day in and day out? You can see that relationship illustrated at this time of year at any public shooting range. The people whose guns are a routine part of their lives shoot a lot better than people who let most of a year pass and pick up their guns only a couple of days before they decide to go hunting. If you're one of the latter, you have time to rectify things. A box of 20 shells for most rifles costs about the same or less than the food you'll eat on the first day of deer camp, and shotgun slugs don't cost much more. So there's no excuse for not running a box through your deer rifle or shotgun before you head to the woods.

Submitted: 12/4/2005 Source: The Sheveport Times

Christmas bells and shotgun shells

After foraging and fetching three 16-gauge shells — shot size didn’t matter, anything from No. 2 to 7½ sufficed — I’d slap my quarter on the counter, hie off and leg it to Brewer via the old Bangor-Brewer bridge. From there it didn’t take long to hitch-hike a ride to Grove Street in South Brewer, where I lived with my grandparents. If you know that, back then, Grove Street ended at the railroad tracks, you may also know that the fields, hedgerows and woodlands beyond produced bountiful crops of pheasants, partridges and rabbits. Until, of course, those game-productive covers were plowed under by Parkway South and the attendant domestic and industrial development. In any case, now you know that because I owned a birdy springer spaniel named, Snooky, and a single-shot Harrington & Richardson 16-gauge, it didn’t take me long to burn three shells.

Submitted: 12/4/2005 Source: Bangor News

'Moose, roe deer must be culled'

Stockholm - Sweden's moose and roe deer populations should be halved to reduce costs linked to road accidents and damage to growing forest due to the animals, the Swedish Forest Administration said on Thursday. Annual costs were estimated at 2 billion kronor (about R1.59m), of which deaths and injuries sustained in road accidents accounted for two thirds of the cost, the Forest Administration said in a new report.

Submitted: 12/4/2005 Source: News24

Gun owners to take their case to court

Thousands of South Africans will become criminals by default because police can't process licences in time

A constitutional court case is looming over the state's inability to process all firearm licence renewals ahead of the month-end deadline, which will criminalise up to 400 000 gun owners. The pending case follows remarks by Phuti Setati, the South African Police Service spokesperson, that those who failed to renew their licences by December 31 would be prosecuted, which could spell jail sentences of up to 12 months for thousands of law-abiding citizens.

Submitted: 12/4/2005 Source: The Sunday Independent

Hunting ban in eastern Romania after bird flu found

Authorities today banned hunting in an eastern Romanian county after birds in three villages tested positive for the H5 subtype of bird flu. Authorities in the Braila county will also continue to monitor wild birds, the agriculture ministry said in a statement. Meat, sugar and oil was sent to local residents after authorities killed 15,000 domestic birds. Further tests in a laboratory in Britain will determine whether the virus is the deadly H5N1 strain, which is being monitored for fear it could mutate into a form that is easily transferable to humans, the statement said.

Submitted: 12/3/2005 Source: Ireland On-line

Watch out deer! Hunting season opens

For the next several days, hunters with shotguns will replace speedy motorists as the top fear of area deer. There are approximately 475,000 licensed deer hunters in the state, of which 400,000 use a shotgun, said Jim Marshall, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division District 4 manager. And from Monday through Sunday it's the season they've all been waiting for.

Submitted: 11/29/2005 Source: http://www.chillicothegazette.com

Teen fatally shot by 10-year-old during hunting trip

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A 13-year-old boy died after he was shot by a 10-year-old boy while deer hunting Sunday in rural Washington County. Austin Richardson was shot in the left shoulder with a .22-caliber rifle. The boys were with 14 who were hunting in the Econfina Creek Wildlife Management Area, said Stan Kirkland, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The commission is investigating the shooting.

Submitted: 11/29/2005 Source: St. Petersburg Times

First day of hunting: Dad shoots boy, 13

EAST STROUDSBURG - A man accidentally shot his 13-year-old son in the leg while hunting in Monroe County yesterday, the first day of Pennsylvania's deer season. Rodney Gilbert, 45, of East Stroudsburg, was hunting with his son in the Delaware State Forest in Middle Smithfield Township when a deer walked between the two.

Submitted: 11/29/2005 Source: Philadelphia Daily NEws

Civilian Sales of Military Rifle Raise Concerns About Terrorism

MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Nov. 27 (AP) - When American soldiers need to penetrate a tank's armor from a mile away, they count on a weapon that evolved from the garage tinkering of a former wedding photographer. The weapon, a .50-caliber rifle created by the photographer, Ronnie Barrett, and sold by his company, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, is also the most powerful firearm civilians can buy. It weighs about 30 pounds and can hit targets up to 2,000 yards away with armor-piercing bullets.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: The New York Times

NZ teams win sitting down

Why is it that New Zealand teams are so sucessful at sports where you compete sitting down? Following the success of rowers, equestrians, yachties, cyclists and kayakers, New Zealand now has a gold medal winning shooting team that succeeded while seated. The Oceania regional shooting competition held recently in Noumea, Caledonia was the scene of the sedentary success. The benchrest shooting team defeated teams from the old rival Australia and two from the host country. Benchrest shooting consists of firing 20 groups of 5 shots at 100 and 200 meters and trying to get these shots to land as close as possible to each other. The ideal is to get all shots of one group through a hole the size of a single bullet.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: Scoop

Essential gifts for outdoorsmen

Twas the night before Christmas and all the through the house, not a creature was stirring except for... the nervous outdoorsman who couldn't sleep for worrying about all of the lousy gifts he might be opening at daylight. It's an unfortunate scenario -- but sadly, it's all too common in the homes of outdoorsmen around the holidays. It doesn't have to be that way. If you know anything at all about that special outdoorsman in your life, you should be able to browse this list and find something he or she can put to good use. If you ignore the list, don't blame us when your gift is gathering dust in the closet this time next year.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: Ledger-Enquirer

Bison hunt Quick & Clean

With a small group of people watching and filming, the hunt did not transpire exactly the way Rick Jaqueth wanted. But he came away satisfied after downing a large bull bison in the Eagle Creek area north of Yellowstone National Park Friday. “I don’t think he’s a real old bull. I think he’s going to be a good eater,” the Libby hunter said shortly after shooting the bison at 1:50 p.m. He estimated the bull weighed close to 2,000 pounds, and judging from its teeth, he figured it was a 5- or 6-year-old. The kill was clean and quick by the account of all witnesses, including Mike Mease, who heads the Buffalo Field Campaign, an activist group seeking changes in Montana’s policies regarding Yellowstone bison.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: The Daily Inter Lake

Deer hunter is on target despite having no hands

CATO, Wis. (AP) - Deer hunter Ernie Englund didn't have a steady hand as he spotted the buck walking slowly through the woods last Saturday afternoon. But Englund stayed calm, patiently tracking the animal on the first day of gun deer season. Finally, at about 70 yards, he pulled the trigger on his Remington 1100 rifle - with the hook at the end of his prosthetic left arm. "It was a heart shot," said Englund, 30, showing off the eight-point buck that will turn into venison steaks, chops and sausage.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: The Capital Times

The Great U.N Gun Ban?

As I conservative I have to stop and think about our rights as free Americans are sometimes. Our forefathers wrote a constitution for us to go by. In it was the Second Amendment that guaranteed us the right to bear arms. It seems like the liberals of the world are doing everything in their power to try to ban law abiding citizens from owning firearms. They have done everything from sue gun manufacturers to lobby congress for these actions. First of all, suing a gun manufacturer in rather silly. If someone runs over you in a Ford, do you sue Ford? If someone hits you on the head with a crowbar, do you sue the crowbar manufacturer? Why not? What’s the difference? The plain and simple fact is that a gun has never killed anyone. People kill people, not guns.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: The American Daily

The NRA and Gun Owner versus the Brady Campaign and Gun Opponents: Who Serves America Better

Which group has contributed more to America and our way of life? Who has contributed more to our overall well-being? Is it the National Rifle Association and the gun owners throughout America or the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and those who believe that gun ownership is dangerous for Americans?

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: mensNEWSdaily

Taking grizzlies off list would be very good thing

One of the best things that can happen for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region is for a successful follow-through on the recent U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proposal to take them off the federal endangered species list. If that plan comes to fruition, grizzlies there would be managed by state wildlife agencies in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho and limited hunting eventually could be permitted. That's a good thing, too. No doubt such a view will draw gasps of disbelief from some environmentalists, but such a view recognizes some facts of life that often are glossed over when debate becomes sharply polarized. For regulated hunting would be a useful management tool, not a new threat to delisted grizzlies, as some contend.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: toledoblade.com

Deer hunting largely successful except for a few spots

TOMAHAWK — Hunters in northern counties who prayed for opening-day snow frequently found themselves with too much of a good thing. "People up here did not see a lot of deer opening weekend," said Emmy Grigg of Chuck's Sport Shop in Tomahawk. "A group of about 25 hunters came in here and they had seen just five deer. A number of hunters were in the woods for two or three days and hadn't seen anything. The snow was so heavy on the trees you couldn't see five feet ahead of you." A bit further south, however, the snow provided hunters with better visibility, and they took advantage.

Submitted: 11/28/2005 Source: Appleton Post-Crecent

Hunt brings families together

The 21st annual Junior Pheasant Hunt sponsored by the Southern Tulare County Sportsman's Association took place this weekend on the back side of Lake Success. The STCSA and the local chapter of the Friends of the NRA put on the tournament every year as a chance to teach kids about gun safety, proper hunting techniques, and to help build stronger family bonds. At the event, free trigger locks were made available to all participants. Organizers also encouraged all present to get involved with the Eddie the Eagle Gunsafe Program that teaches gun safety to school children.

Submitted: 11/22/2005 Source: Porterville Recorder

Sniper finds monster buck in cross hairs

As a police SWAT sniper and life-long hunter, John Russo knows the importance of making a good shot, but none was more important than the one he took during a Colorado deer hunt to tag the buck of a lifetime. "I've hunted all of my life and bagged more than 50 deer, and this was by far the biggest deer I have ever seen," Russo said. He was hunting near Gunnison with three current or former Escondido Police Department SWAT snipers and spotted the seven-by-eight monster muley buck while scouting for elk the day before the opener. "We had both elk and deer tags, and while I was focused on elk, I had that buck in my mind on opening day," Russo said.

Submitted: 11/22/2005 Source: North County Times

Students speak out for 2nd amendment

Ten members of the College Republicans celebrated self-labeled "Second Amendment Day" Saturday at the Easton Fish and Game Association (EFGA). Range members taught students to shoot various types of weapons and about gun safety and legislation. First-time shooter Sara Walter '09 said "learning to shoot was very exhilarating because it was a chance...to physically exercise one of my rights as an American." Matthew Weiss '07, College Republicans vice president, who had never shot a gun before either, said that, for him, "physically, shooting a gun was a great challenge in stamina and marksmanship."

Submitted: 11/20/2005 Source: the Lafayette

One Killed As Wis. Hunting Season Opens

BLACK EARTH, Wis. (AP) - A hunter was fatally shot by a colleague, and a juvenile accidentally shot himself Saturday as Wisconsin's deer hunting season opened amid racial tensions stemming from last year's deadly attack on a group of hunters. On the second day of the 2004 season, a Hmong immigrant killed six white hunters after he was caught trespassing in privately owned woods. He was sentenced earlier this month to life in prison. Law enforcement officials worried tensions between Hmong immigrants and whites could lead to more conflicts during this year's nine-day gun deer hunting season.

Submitted: 11/20/2005 Source: Guardian Unlimited

Nosler Unfired Brass

The new Nosler brass is now available. I recently received a box of 50 of the .223 Remington brass. The brass is very good looking and packaged with foam-rubber inserts to protect it. The cases I received had round mouths, unlike most factory new unprimed cases. On the box it states "weight sorted and prepped." According to the folks at Nosler, "prepped" involves chamfering the case mouths inside and out, which also trims the cases to a uniform length during the operation. The cases also have flash holes deburred inside the case.

Submitted: 11/16/2005 Source: Shooting Times

Gunmaker readies new pistol

SPRINGFIELD - Smith & Wesson began production yesterday on a new pistol it hopes will crack the military and police markets. The M&P pistol should be shipping by the end of the week, said spokesman Paul Pluff. The new part-plastic gun has been designed specifically to appeal to law enforcement customers. It will simultaneously ship to retail and police customers, with a suggested list price of $695, Pluff said.

Submitted: 11/16/2005 Source: MassLive.com

Cash for Guns Campaign a success

TORONTO -- A Toronto Crime Stoppers campaign to get guns out of the hands of criminals is having nothing but success. So far, tips to the program have led to the seizure of seven guns and the arrests of nine individuals on a variety of serious charges. The Cash for Guns campaign, which was launched in October and has been extended through November, pays up to $500 to anyone providing information about illegal handguns and criminals who possess them.

Submitted: 11/16/2005 Source: National Post

Reader Review: Sniper Elite for Xbox: real-world ballistics make this WWII game special

I haven't been in the military, but my years growing up in the hills of Tennessee allowed me to hunt a few times. Most of the time when I play a "military simulation" on a console I find myself thoroughly agitated.

The reason for this is the power of the real world short range weapons (i.e. pistols, shotguns, and submachine guns) having the same level of damage/accuracy as the long range rifles. Games like Halo (Bungie really addressed this w/the sequel Halo2) for instance are sci-fi, but absolutely glorify this concept. Enter into the arena Rebellion and their title Sniper Elite.

Submitted: 11/16/2005 Source: The Mercury News

Uniting passion and patience

When Nate Heineke was 16, he found a book that changed his life. Working at the library in Gillette, where he’d grown up, he had the chance to pick through a pile of books the library had gathered for an annual sale. That’s when he discovered “Modern Gunsmith,” by James Howe. The two-volume tome on custom gunmaking, published in 1937, was a revelation. “I read the silly thing like it was a novel. And it’s a big, thick book,” Heineke recalls. As a kid, Heineke loved to draw. He also loved working with his hands, disassembling machinery and piecing it back together. The idea of making a firearm appealed to him both for its artistic and its mechanical challenges. Using the book, he took on the daunting project of building a stock for an old surplus rifle, a Swedish Mauser, from a block of American black walnut.

Submitted: 11/16/2005 Source: Laramie Boomerang Online

Is the fox hunting ban working?

The first fox hunting season has begun since a ban on using dogs in England and Wales was introduced, but campaigners claim the laws are being flouted. Thousands of people are expected to participate in around 200 hunts across the country to hunt within the law. Anti-hunt campaigners will also be out. The League Against Cruel Sports says 40% of hunts have broken the law, although the Countryside Alliance dismissed its report and said public support for the ban is falling. Is the fox hunting ban working? Have you been out to hunt or to protest? Send us your comments and experiences.

Submitted: 11/5/2005 Source: BBC News

Gun Control: No Illusion Without Collusion

In psychiatry the term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike an hallucination, which is a sensory experience in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a distortion of a perception so it is understood and interpreted differently. For example, hearing voices regardless of the environment would be an hallucination, whereas hearing voices which arise only from the sound of running water (or other auditory source) would be an illusion.[1] Following Florida’s passage of Senate Bill 436, CNN ran an article entitled Florida tourists warned of new gun law. The subtitle read: ‘Shoot first’ law expands use of deadly force. Featuring the Brady Campaign, the article printed sound bites from visitors to Miami International Airport to make it appear Florida had become a darkened country on the verge of war: It seems like everybody ought to be packing a piece… It’s a little scary. It’s “shoot first, ask about it later.”

Submitted: 11/12/2005 Source: ChronWatch

Firearm discharges inside store

WAUPUN — The apparent accidental discharge of a firearm inside a Waupun store caused a brief commotion Thursday morning. The Waupun Police Department responded to Farm & Home Ace Hardware, 1100 W. Main St., for a call of shots fired in the store and two men in full camouflage acting suspiciously. At about 10:45 a.m., officers stormed the store with firearms drawn while considering the incident a tactical situation, Police Chief Dale Heeringa said.

Submitted: 10/28/2005 Source: Fund du Lac Reporter

Group fears development could threaten rifle range

WAYNESBORO, PA.- For nearly 70 years, members of the Rouzerville Fish & Game Association have tried to be good neighbors to those living around their 37-acre site off Mentzer Gap Road. Now, they're worried that their neighbors might not be good to them. Last week, four of the association's members - Woody Stoner, Sidney Fitz, Reno Eyler and Joe Hess - met at the clubhouse to talk about their fears that new people moving into housing developments being built around the fish and game association property won't want to live near a place where there's a bunch of guys shooting guns.

Submitted: 11/13/2005 Source: The Herald Mail Online

Bushmaster Introduces Prototype 5.56mm Subcarbine/SBR and 9mm Subgun at IACP

Alright, get a load of these two little honeys. I found them at IACP 2005 Miami at the Bushmaster Firearms booth. They're Bushmaster Carbon 15 prototype shorties, and both are select-fire (full-auto). One's a 5.56mm (5.56x45mm) subcarbine/SBR (Short-Barreled Rifle) that's basically the select-fire version of the Bushmaster Carbon 15 Type 97S/21S Type series. The other's a 9mm (9x19mm) subgun (submachine gun).

Submitted: 10/8/2005 Source: Defense Review

State's first bison hunt in 15 years in world spotlight

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - Winter can seem cruel for the lumbering, snorting bison that call this place home. Snow piles heavy and deep, bitterly cold temperatures test thick coats, and food becomes scarce. But those bison that cross Yellowstone's invisible north and west boundaries this year face another challenge.Starting Tuesday, Yellowstone bison that wander into Montana can be hunted. The season, which lasts until Feb. 15, allows 50 of the park's estimated 4,900 bison to be killed. The hunt - the first in 15 years - is designed as “fair chase.” Hunters will have to find their own bison, shoot it and remove it from the field.

Submitted: 11/13/2005 Source: Missoulian News Online

USAMU hosts post’s first USPSA women’s shooting clinic

FORT BENNING, Ga. - Members of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Action Shooting Team coordinated with the U.S. Practical Shooting Association for the USPSA to conduct Fort Benning’s first women’s USPSA pistol clinic at USAMU’s Brinson Range Oct. 20 to 22. “The U.S. Practical Shooting Association Ladies’ Clinic was a great success,” said USAMU Commander Lt. Col. David J. Liwanag. “They were very happy with the location of the venue and support provided.”

Submitted: 11/4/2005 Source: Sport Features Communications

Ready, aim, fire

The name of game is Pistol IPSC. The goal - to shoot your targets in your current stage as fast as possible without making any errors. IPSC stands for International Practical Shooters Confederation. This is the first time the Prairie Rose State Games is having the shooting sport of IPSC. "An IPSC match usually has anywhere from four to 12 stages," Mark Carey, the PRSG IPSC event commissioner said. "Each stage is a different shooting event. Each stage is a scenario where you start in a certain position and then you have to do certain things to complete the scenario. Sometimes you stand in a box and you shoot down targets or paper targets. Sometimes you have to go through doorways, shoot through windows, move thngs, do things and step on things to actuate other targets that pop up and spin."

Submitted: 7/13/2005 Source: Minot Daily News