Global and International Hunting and Fishing News
May.05 - May.11 2008
- Eighty-year-old hunter is one bird away from completing the World Slam of Turkey Hunting
- So of the six types of wild turkeys in the world, which one is his favorite?
"Our Merriam's," he said quickly of Wyoming's wild turkey. But then he thought of that strutting peacock-like turkey of Mexico he bagged last month on his 80th birthday and changed his mind. "But now it's the ocellated. It's the color, its brilliant iridescent colors. They're small birds but they are so pretty. "
"They were good eating too."
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- Archery in the Off Season
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- Captive breeding to save Kashmir's rare red deer - India
- The antlered deer, known as the hangul, were once a major attraction in the mountain-ringed forests of Dachigam near Srinagar.
"The population of hangul as per the latest census has come down from 228 to 160 in the past four years," Jammu & Kashmir's wildlife warden Rashid Naqash said.
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- Two hunters wounded in turkey-hunting accident
The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says two turkey hunters are recovering from wounds suffered when they were shot by another hunter stalking the same birds.Officials say the two hunters were hit with pellets from a 12-gauge shotgun. One person was treated and released. The other is expected to be hospitalized for several days, but the wound is not life-threatening.
Game wardens did not release the names of the wounded or the shooter.
Officials say it was the first turkey-hunting related human shooting since 2006.
Hunter education coordinator Chris Saunders says stalking turkeys is foolish because the chances of success are slim and hunters could be sneaking up on another hunter.
- Peregrine falcons in California's urban areas are contaminated with toxic chemicals
- California's peregrine falcons, once driven to the edge of extinction by the pesticide DDT, now are contaminated with record-high levels of other toxic chemicals that may threaten them again.
State scientists have found that peregrines in Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Francisco contain the highest levels of flame retardants found in any living organism worldwide.
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- Hunt for coyotes called off in Chino Hills; continues in Lake Arrowhead - California
- As the Chino Hills park where two young children were almost dragged off by coyotes last weekend reopened, state officials continued their hunt Thursday for the animals in Lake Arrowhead, the site of Tuesday's attack on a girl standing in her front yard.
Coyote traps were removed from Alterra Park in Chino Hills after several coyotes were captured and killed, said California Department of Fish & Game wildlife biologist Kevin Brennan.
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- It's time to blast and cast
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- Gun control laws don't solve the problem
- There are already strong gun control laws in place, and the law-abiding citizens of this great nation do not need any more.
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- Lower Mainland Out Of Tune When It Comes To Hunting Bears - Canada
- For those who have a long memory they may recall when the old NDP government stopped the hunting of grizzly bears saying there were none left in the province. The biologists from the province didn’t agree but they didn’t get to sign the front of the pay check so they had to fall into line. As it turns out the population of Grizzlies was not anywhere near what the people who wanted the hunting stopped had said. In fact today, even with limited entry hunting, the populations are increasing.
Talk to the First Nations population of the province about the black bear population, it has been on the increase. In Prince George and other communities in the rural parts of the province, game wardens kill more black bears than are harvested by hunters because we have encroached on the territory they occupy.
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- Wild boars declared pests by province - Alberta/Canada
- Alberta's wild boars have become a nuisance, says the provincial government, which plans to add the animals to its official list of pests.
That will make the boars open targets for farmers and hunters.
By the time the law comes into effect at the end of the month, owners who find the animals on their land will be allowed, as with any pest, to get rid of them.
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- Six Days, Seven Bucks and 70 Pounds
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- Peregrine falcons return to breed for the first time in 200 years - UK
- "They are spectacular birds and seem to be feeding mainly on the feral pigeons around the Ipswich docks area and the numerous wading birds that use the Orwell estuary."
The peregrine chicks are due to hatch any day and conservationists expect many members of the public will want to see the adults hunting to feed them.
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- Monarch of the West Wapiti
- Elk evolved as a distinct species within the deer family (Cervidae) in Asia, then spread westward to Europe as the red deer (stag) and eastward to North America via the Bering-Chukchi platform over the tens of thousands of years it was exposed by lowered sea levels during the Illinoian and Wisconsin glacial stages — beginning possibly as long ago as 120,000 years. While the North American wapiti was long classified as Cervus canadensis, a species distinct from the smaller and more deep-voiced European red deer, most wildlife taxonomists now lump the two together as C. elaphus. The bugling of the bull elk during autumn rut is a magnificent sound ? from a soprano vibrato falling to sharp grunts.
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- Slow start to duck season - New Zealand
- IT WAS a slow but steady start to the duck shooting season in Wanganui-Taranaki at the weekend.
Fish & Game field officer Allan Stancliff said fine weather on Saturday favoured the ducks rather than the hunters.
"Opening day was similar to last season in that there were not a lot of birds flying."
Despite the dry season, most birds were in good condition and of "prime eating quality".
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- Jailed U.S. pastor appeals smuggling sentence - Russia
- Moscow's Golovinsky district court sentenced Phillip Miles, 58, to three years and two months in prison last month for the illegal possession and smuggling of rifle rounds, declarable under Russian customs law, into the country for his Russian hunting partner.
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- My two nights of hell... - South Africa
- "I could easily have died if they hadn't found me today," an exhausted, dehydrated but relieved Chris Koen told the Cape Argus after his rescue from a three-day ordeal in the Du Toitskloof mountains.
Koen, an astronomy specialist at the University of Western Cape's Department of Statistics, was found on Sunday afternoon, after rescuers had feared he was dead.
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- Discipline at her corps
- This weekend, Moore will travel to Vancouver as part of the team representing Ontario in the national air rifle competition for cadets. It's the first time any member of Moore's corps has entered the contest.
Moore earned the distinction by winning her way into a ninth overall ranking in air rifle competition amongst cadet corps across the province.
Despite her father's stories of his own time in the cadets, Jill never thought shooting would come naturally to her. "Concentrating, for me, is self-discipline," she admits.
Before Moore joined the corps in September, her only familiarity with a firearm was the one or two occasions when her dad let her see his hunting rifles.
Nowadays, she's quite comfortable in the prone firing position with her .177-calibre Daisy 853 - the same target rifle preferred by the U.S. National Rifle Association for adolescent competition.
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- Polar bear threat sparks debate over guns in parks - Canada
- Arctic adventurer and writer Jerry Kobalenko is usually happy to see wildlife on his excursions, but his most recent trip to Torngat Mountains National Park on Labrador's northern tip offered more than he needed.
"We had 13 polar bear encounters in six days and one was really close," said Kobalenko. "A bear came into camp and would not go away. It took us seven flares and half an hour to chase it."
Now, his rule for travel in polar bear country is simple. "You either have a firearm or you don't go."
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