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charity and expenses associated with volunteering may be tax deductible.
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Volunteers absorb all costs for transportation, lodging and meals. We are limited to ten volunteers per day and most stay 3-5 days per trip. Tools and gauges are available, but we encourage volunteers to bring their own.
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Volunteers must be pre-approved. Because of nature of the commodity with which we deal, all volunteers must be scheduled in advance. Walkons will not be accepted. We require you to submit your request at least two weeks prior to your visit, although we expect most dates to be booked months in advance.
Civilian Marksmanship Volunteers Needed – Firearms Inspection & Repair Operations CMP South
Cameras are allowed, but volunteers are asked to not bring their private firearms. Working conditions are what should be expected. It gets very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter, and the work is always dirty. We look forward to hearing from anyone interested in volunteering. For more information or to schedule days, please contact Brian Vick at bvick@odcmp.com, or call 256-835-8455 x 1126.
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Anniston, AL - -(Ammoland.com)- In an effort to give the Garand shooting and collecting communities an opportunity to intimately view and participate in CMP Inspection and Repair processes and to reduce our labor costs, we established a volunteer program that begin in July, 2010.
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Assignments are based primarily on individual level of familiarity with the Garand and CMP needs at the time. Although we do try to ensure that volunteers spend a part of their time learning about and working on the Garand, some time may be spent in warehousing, packing, or shipping operations. The CMP volunteer program that was in effect from 2001-2006 was a huge success and benefited the CMP and all the great people who had donated their time. Without exception, all past volunteers reported their visits as very educational, recreational and enjoyable. Most of the past volunteers had made several repeat visits from all parts of the country, and many have become ambassadors for the program. The CMP is a
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Why Was NJ’s Bow Perimeter Bill So Important? OCT 14, 2010 07:23P.M. Why Was NJ’s Bow Perimeter Bill So Important? By Ed Markowski
Gun Talk Radio MANDEVILLE, LA --(Ammoland.com)- Tom talks to Chris Cox of the NRA this Sunday on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk (R) Radio, the only nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns and the shooting sports. As Executive Director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, (NRA-ILA), Chris Cox heads up the NRA’s lobbying efforts. The NRAILA focuses on many issues affecting firearm ownership and the use of firearms, including law enforcement, hunting, wildlife, training programs, the justice system, products and manufacturers, etc. Cox visits Gun Talk today to talk about the NRA’s process of endorsing a candidate.
New Jersey Bow Hunting Bill Signed Into Law
Roger Bleile knows a thing or two about hand engraving: He’s a founding member of the Firearm Engravers Guild of America, (FEGA), is the author of American Engravers, and runs a website about engraving at www.engravingglossary.com. Bleile drops in to Gun Talk today to talk with Tom about the engraving process, how one gets into engraving, etc. About: Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk Radio is in its 15th year of national syndication, Gun Talk Radio airs live on Sundays from 2PM-5PM Eastern, and runs on 101 stations, plus SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio. All
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We must always remember that safety comes first and the best shot very often is the one not taken. If we continue to police our own ranks and prove to the public their trust in us is well deserved we will continue to make strides in increasing hunting, fishing and trapping opportunities in New Jersey. JOIN NJOA: http://www.njoutdooralliance.org/support/njoa.html About: NJOA – The mission of New Jersey Outdoor Alliance is to serve as a grassroots coalition of outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen dedicated to environmental stewardship. We will champion the intrinsic value of natural resource conservation – including fishing, hunting and trapping, among opinion leaders and policy makers. We will support legislation, and those sponsoring legislation, that provides lasting ecological and social enrichment through sustainable use of the earths resources. Visit: www.njoutdooralliance.org
New Jersey Outdoor Alliance TRENTON, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- Now that the bill has passed and will soon become law we can stop smiling over a job well done and answer the question, why was this bill so important to bow hunters?
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First of all we have to understand what exactly the bill does. It allows a legally licensed bow hunter to hunt from an elevated stand at a distance of 150’ from a building or structure.
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You still must have the legal right to be on the property, you can not trespass on posted private property and you can not be within 450’ of a school playground. If we take a quick look at the old 450’ law and draw a circle around a dwelling it excluded 14 acres of huntable area. The new law excludes only 2 acres.
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This becomes important if your neighbor is an anti hunter and wants to stop you from hunting your own property. If you and your neighbor own adjoining five acre lots the 450’ law would exclude you from bow hunting on almost all of your property. Also it allows the bow hunter to have more of an impact in controlling urban deer populations which before this law passed they did not have access to. These urban deer populations populations are also the ones causing most of the problems. The most common of these being deer car collisions, destruction of trees and plants and the spread of Lyme disease. When hunters have access to a deer population, the State, through the setting of seasons and bag limits can do its job in controlling these populations. Without access there is no control.
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With each victory by the sportsmen and women of New Jersey comes the responsibility to live up to the high expectations that are being placed on us. We will never convince the anti-hunters that we have a right to even exist. It is the non-hunting public that in the end will decide our fate. We have a great opportunity with the passage of the Sunday bow hunting bill last year and the perimeter bow bill this session to show the people of the State of New Jersey that hunters are an important tool in wildlife management. It is important to remember that hunting is a privilege granted by legislation.
New Jersey Fish and Game Trenton, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- The NJDEP Division of Fish and
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Wildlife would like to inform the public of an effort by the Phillipsburg High School Future Farmers of America Chapter to receive a grant which will benefit the state Hunters Helping the Hungry (HHH) program.
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The goal of the chapter is to use the grant money to improve their butchering facilities for HHH and to begin raising and processing livestock to give to the local food bank.
OCT 14, 2010 04:14P.M. Future Farmers of America Chapter President Brittney Smith nominated the school’s Agriculture Program for a $50,000 or $20,000 grant from the Clorox Grants for Schools program. Online voting by the public will determine the winner of the grant.
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Earlier this week the grant proposal was in 5th place overall out of 1482 schools. However, the proposal was in FIRST PLACE in the “LEARN” category. A win would mean $20,000 for the Future Farmers of America program. Voting is conducted daily now through November 1st. Those interested can vote (once each day is allowed) by following the directions below: • Go to: www.powerabrightfuture.com • Login: On the top right of the home screen, enter your email address. • Information: When you first register, you need to enter your name and birth date (Must be 18 or older for your vote to count!) This only needs to be completed once.
Champion Elk Caller Dieter Kaboth Joins The Hunter’s Specialties Pro Staff
• Visit the Nominee Gallery: Click on this tab on the right side of the screen after logging in. • Search: In the search box type in ‘Phillipsburg FFA Chapter’. • Vote: After completing the search, the Phillipsburg Chapter will appear. Click on the • photo and click VOTE. Hunter’s Specialties Remember: You can Vote Once a Day from October 5th Until November 1st!
Cedar Rapids, IA --(Ammoland.com)- Hunter’s Specialties recently announced the addition of champion elk caller and well known hunter Dieter Kaboth of Pierce, Idaho to the Pro Staff family.
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Dieter has recorded four Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation World Elk Calling Championships in the professional division – more than any caller in the history of the competition.
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Since winning his first title he has appeared on over 300 radio and television shows all over the world, including the PrimeTime Bulls DVD series and Hunter’s Specialties Outdoors. As a life member, Dieter has worked tirelessly for the RMEF and currently serves as a media representative for the organization.
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Although Dieter’s primary passion is hunting elk, he also gets great satisfaction from helping other hunters, especially those new to the sport. He also enjoys pursuing mule deer, whitetails, blacktail deer, moose, black bear, turkeys and waterfowl whenever he gets the chance. Dieter is also an expert predator hunter and caller.
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“Throughout the years I have called in and killed dozens of coyotes and bobcats”, said Dieter. “To me predator hunting is a necessary part of hunting and helps keep deer, antelope and elk herds strong and healthy by helping to increase fawn/calf survival rates to sustain or increase their populations.”
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Dieter will be featured on the “Operation Predator” video series from Hunter’s Specialties, hunting in various locations across the Western United States. Dieter has been involved in the elk hunting, calling and call development industry since 1985. He will bring his wealth of knowledge and experience to Hunter’s Specialties as he helps to develop and promote new and existing products. “I’m excited to be a part of the Hunter’s Specialties family”, said Kaboth. “I’m looking forward to helping promote both Wayne Carlton’s Calls and Johnny Stewart Wildlife Calls, looking for ways to make improvements and additions to such great product lines, along with the chance to share the knowledge I have gained chasing elk and predators throughout the west”.
Second Amendment Foundation BELLEVUE, WA --(Ammoland.com)- Acting on behalf of a Georgia resident and honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran, the Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of a federal statute that can deny gun rights to someone with a simple misdemeanor conviction on his record.
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The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Columbia. SAF and co-plaintiff Jefferson Wayne Schrader of Cleveland, GA are represented by attorney Alan Gura, who successfully argued both the Heller and McDonald cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In July 1968, Schrader, then 21, was found guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery relating to a fight involving a man who had previously assaulted him in Annapolis, MD. The altercation was observed by a police officer, who arrested Schrader, then an enlisted man in the Navy, stationed in Annapolis. The man he fought with was in a street gang that had attacked him for entering their “territory,” according to the complaint.
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Schrader was ordered to pay a $100 fine and $9 court cost. He subsequently served a tour of duty in Vietnam and was eventually honorably discharged. However, in 2008 and again in 2009, Mr. Schrader was denied the opportunity to receive a shotgun as a gift, or to purchase a handgun for personal protection. He was advised by the FBI to dispose of or surrender any firearms he might have or face criminal prosecution.
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“Schrader’s dilemma,” explained SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, “is that until recently, Maryland law
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did not set forth a maximum sentence for the crime of misdemeanor assault. Because of that, he is now being treated like a felon and his gun rights have been denied. “No fair-minded person can tolerate gun control laws being applied this way,” he added. “Mr. Schrader’s case is a great example of why gun owners cannot trust government bureaucrats to enforce gun laws.” The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
Hornady Ammunition Grand Island, Neb. --(Ammoland.com)- Speed Kills! Varmint hunters can now reap the benefits of Hornady Superformance propellant technology in their favorite varmint cartridges.
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• 223 Remington at 3,465 feet per second pushing the BRAND NEW, 53 gr V-MAX bullet that has been optimized for peak performance from the 223 Remington chamber. This new bullet boasts an amazing .290 BC that enables this load to produce trajectory and wind drift equaling that of a conventional 22-250! • 22-250 Remington loaded with the 50 gr V-MAX at 4,000 feet per second • 243 Winchester Superformance Varmint load pushing a 58 gr VMax at 3,925 feet per second Supercharge your varmint rifle with Hornady Superformance Varmint ammunition – It really IS…rocket science! About: Founded in 1949, Hornady Manufacturing Company is a family owned business headquartered in Grand Island, Nebraska. Proudly manufacturing products that are “Made in the USA”, by over 300 employees, Hornady Manufacturing is a world leader in bullet, ammunition, reloading tool and accessory design and manufacture. Visit: www.hornady.com
National Rifle Association Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- The Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, NRA’s groundbreaking gun accident prevention course for children, has surpassed yet another milestone by reaching its 24 millionth child. Created in 1988 by past NRA President Marion P. Hammer, in consultation with elementary school teachers, law enforcement officers, and child psychologists, the program provides pre-K through the third grade children with simple, effective rules to follow should they encounter a firearm in an unsupervised setting: “If you see a gun: STOP! Don’t Touch. Leave the Area. Tell an Adult.”
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“This is one of the NRA’s most successful and long-running programs, because it works,” said Kayne Robinson, NRA Executive Director of General Operations.
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Volunteers for the Eddie Eagle program might come from diverse backgrounds, but they share a commitment to protecting children from gun accidents. Those involved include teachers, NRA members, law enforcement officers, and community activists who teach the program, as well as private donors and Friends of NRA participants who raise funds to pay for the program’s educational materials.
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More than 26,000 educators, law enforcement agencies, and civic organizations have taught the program since 1988.
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“The Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program continues to receive outstanding feedback from program users and parents,” said Eric Lipp, Program Manager of the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program. “I am tremendously happy to be able to say that Eddie Eagle has now reached over 24 million children with his life saving message.”
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Team SIG Captain Max Michel, Jr. Secures Spot on Team USA for 2011 IPSC World Shoot XVI OCT 14, 2010 03:14P.M. Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program Team SIG Captain Max Michel, Jr. Secures Spot on Team USA for 2011 IPSC World Shoot XVI
Law enforcement’s partnership with Eddie Eagle has proven to be very effective. Along with schools and libraries, law enforcement agencies are one of the few groups allowed to purchase an Eddie Eagle mascot costume. NRA also offers free Eddie Eagle materials to any law enforcement agency, hospital, or educational facility across the nation. To receive these free materials, or to purchase an Eddie Eagle costume, please contact the Eddie Eagle Department at 800-231-0752. The Eddie Eagle program has been praised by numerous groups and elected officials, including the Association of American Educators, the Youth Activities Division of the National Safety Council, the National Sheriffs’ Association, the U.S. Department of Justice (through its Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency), and 26 state governors. Funds raised through Friends of NRA and distributed through The NRA Foundation (www.nrafoundation.org) enable budget-strapped schools and police departments to teach the program at minimal or no cost. The NRA encourages citizens nationwide to participate in heightening gun accident prevention awareness within their local communities. Schools, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, and others interested in more information about The Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, or persons who wish to see if free materials are available in their communities, should call the Eddie Eagle Department at (800) 231-0752 or visit www.nrahq.org/safety/eddie/.
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SIG SAUER EXETER, NH --(Ammoland.com)- Team SIG Captain, Max Michel, secured his spot on Team USA for the 2011 IPSC World Shoot XVI earlier this week at the 2010 USPSA Handgun Nationals. Michel competed against the country’s top shooters in this final qualifying match, which was held October 9-12, 2010 at the Desert Sportsman’s Rifle & Pistol Club in Las Vegas, NV. The competition
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proved fierce this year, leaving Michel in fourth place overall in the Pistol Open Division. He finished with 1617.5040 match points, or 93.89%.
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While Team Captain for Team USA has not yet been decided, Michel had entered the Handgun Nationals as the leading candidate for this position. Max Michel“I’m extremely honored to once again be a member of Team USA [for the 2011 IPSC World Shoot XVI],” commented Michel. “It is essentially our Olympics and nothing makes me prouder than to wear our colors on foreign soil competing for a Gold Medal. I can’t wait to compete in Greece in October 2011.”
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Michel has been a member of Team USA since 1999 and has won the gold medal every time.
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Michel’s next competition is the USPSA Production Nationals, held at the Desert Sportsman in Las Vegas, NV from October 14-16, 2010. • To follow Max Michel and Team SIG, click on to http://www.sigsauer.com/TeamSig/MaxMichel.aspx.
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OCT 14, 2010 02:49P.M. • Follow Max Michel on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Max_Michel. Johnson M1941 Semi-Automatic Rifle – Highly Prized By Gun Collectors By John Kullman of FirearmsTruth.com Gun Collecting
• For more information on SIG SAUER, or any of its products, visit www.sigsauer.com. • For hi-res images of the Team SIG Shooters , visit SIG SAUER on Flikr. About Max Michel By anyone’s account, Max Michel, Jr. is one of the best shooters in the world. With three World Speed Shooting Championships (2009, 2007 and 2005), five USPSA National Championships (2009, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004), 2 US Steel National Championships (2009, and 2008), more than 30 USPSA Area Championships, and over 80 Major Championship wins, Max Michel has become a dominant force in the pistol shooting sports. As an international competitor, Michel has represented the United States in the last four International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) World Shoots and returned home each time with team gold medals. He will again represent the nation in Rhodes, Greece at the 2011 World Shoot and anchor the USA’s Open Division team.
Johnson M1941 Semi-Automatic Rifle with original spike bayonet and leather sheath. The 10-round rotary magazine could be quickly reloaded using two clips of .30 Caliber M2 Ball ammunition.
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Michigan --(Ammoland.com)- The iconic M1 Garand isn’t the only semi-automatic rifle used by combat troops in WWII.
Approximately 70,000 M1941’s were produced during WWII. After the war, Johnsons were sold to civilians and ads for them ran until the mid1960s when supply finally ran out.
Marine officer Melvin Johnson began work on what came to be known as the Johnson M1941 in 1935.
Identifying an original M1941 is easy. The top of the receiver of the M1941 Johnson was marked:
At the time, the army was convinced that the M1 was the rifle of the future and some have speculated that when Johnson’s rifle was tested against the M1, the deck was stacked against him. But the Marine Corp wasn’t convinced by the Army’s praise for the M1.
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By 1940, a controversy grew between those who supported the M1 Garand and the Johnson Rifle. The press got involved and in February of 1940 the Washington Evening Star ran a series of articles entitled, “Battle Efficiency of Garand Rifle Provokes Controversy.” At the same time, the Rifleman published some articles that cast the Johnson Rifle in a favorable light. Life magazine called the Garand-Johnson battle “one of the greatest military squabbles in U.S. history.”
• Model of 1941 • Made in Providence, R.I., U.S.A. • Serial # The right of the receiver was marked “Cranston Arms Co.” enclosed in a triangle. The Johnson rifles were serially numbered in blocks up to 10,000. The first block ran from 1 to 10,000. The second block had a B prefix, the third a C and son on. So, a Johnson rifle with the serial number B3345 was the 13,345th rifle produced. Records don’t indicate which batch of rifles were issued to the Marine Corp.
In the end, the Garand won out. Both rifles fired the same .30-06 cartridge and performed similarly in extensive testing. The Johnson has the advantage of having a 10 round built-in cylindrical magazine, compared to the Garand’s 8 round magazine. But the Johnson used the energy from recoil to eject and insert a new round. As the bullet and propellant gases moved down the barrel, they imparted a force on the bolt head that was locked to the barrel. The barrel, together with the bolt, moved a short distance rearward until the bullet left and the barrel and pressure in the bore had dropped to a safe level. When a standard bayonet was attached, the rifle became unbalanced and could easily malfunction. Because of this, and the fact that the M1 was already in production, Johnson’s design was rejected.
1. Collectors who are interested in getting a M1941 Johnson in original military configuration should look at six things: 2. All exterior metal surfaces are parkerized except for the bright finished bolt. 3. The front of the barrel collar was marked “30-06” in the 12 o’clock position and “41” in the six o’clock position. There were some Johnson barrels made in .270 and 7mm caliber, but these were not used in the U.S. military service.
But he didn’t give up. By early 1941 he had completed refinements to the rifle and advertised the M1941 to other countries. The Netherlands orderd 70,000 of Johnson’s rifles to be used by troops defending the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese had their own plans for the East Indies and only a few thousand were delivered to the Dutch government in exile.
4. The buttplate was checkered metal with no recoil pad 5. The adjustable rear site was graduated for meters, not yards.
With America’s entry into WWII, the entire military was woefully short of weapons. At the time, the main battle rifle for the Marine Corp was the bolt-action Springfield. Most of the M1 Garands in stock were being procured by the Army, so the Corp looked to the Johnson to fill the gap. The newly formed Marine First Parachute Battalion was supplied with enough Johnson rifles to equip the unit prior to its deployment to the Solomons in 1942. As M1s became available, the Johnson was rotated out of active service.
6. The stock was plain and unadorned with no checkering or other embellishments. 7. The barrel should have a bayonet lug. John Kullman is managing editor of FirearmsTruth.com, a website that tracks and monitors media bias against guns and our Second Amendment rights. Visit: FirearmsTruth.com
The Office of Strategic Service used the Johnson in some clandestine mission into enemy territory. It has also been reported that the famous First Special Service Force, the ‘Devil’s Brigade’, used the Johnson rifle. And while the Johnson was rotated out of service in the U.S. military as quickly as possible, the M1941 did see action in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Collector, will be the special guest at Whitetails Unlimited’s Mid-Ohio Valley Chapter banquet at the Holy Smoke Event Center in Whipple, Ohio October 23.
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“T-Bone will be a great addition to a great banquet,” said WTU Ohio Field Director Denny Malloy, noting that “he’s one of the most down-to-earth celebrities you can ever meet, and he’s more entertaining in person than he is on screen.”
Travis ‘T-Bone’ Turner Featured at Whitetails Unlimited’s MidOhio Valley Chapter Banquet
The Mid-Ohio Valley Chapter banquet is a fundraising event sponsored by Whitetails Unlimited, the country’s premier white-tailed deer conservation organization. The evening includes a dinner, auction, and prizes with a wide array of products such as firearms, outfitter packages, hunting and outdoor-related equipment, artwork, and collectibles only available at WTU events. Doors open for a social hour at 5:00 p.m. and the prime rib and chicken dinner will start at 7:00 p.m. Tickets will not be sold at the door, but can be ordered online, or by phone at (740) 6781436, or toll-free at WTU National headquarters at (800) 274-5471. For more information visit www.whitetailsunlimited.com.
OCT 14, 2010 02:17P.M. Travis ‘T-Bone’ Turner Featured at Whitetails Unlimited’s Mid-Ohio Valley Chapter Banquet Holy Smoke Event Center in Whipple will be the place to be for deer hunters on October 23.
T-Bone Turner brings years of experience as a championship archer, hunter, and television personality. In addition to Realtree Outdoors, he is a pro-staff member of a number of outstanding companies in the outdoor sports industry, including Hoyt, Hunter Safety System, G5 Outdoors, and Bushnell. Turner is also the celebrity archery expert to the stars, working with Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Jordan, Michael Waddell, David Blanton, and several country music and major league baseball stars on their archery setups and shooting advice. Turner currently resides in Hogansville, Georgia, with his wife, Michelle, and son, Archer. For more information, please visit: www.TboneOutdoors.com, www.bonecollector.com, or www.realtree.com. “T-Bone brings that ‘Brotherhood of the Bone Collector’ attitude to Ohio,” said Malloy, “which fits in perfectly with Buckeye sportsmen. I’m really looking forward to sharing a great night with the best deer hunters in the world. We’re in the heart of Ohio’s hunting heritage, and T-Bone is traveling a long way to share his hunting stories from years of experience with Realtree and the Bone Collector, and celebrate the American tradition of deer hunting with us.” Malloy added that,
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“All hunters, sportsmen, and conservationists are invited, and for more information, to print out an invitation flyer, or order tickets, just go to the WTU website at www.whitetailsunlimited.com.” For more information about the Mid-Ohio Valley Chapter banquet or Whitetails Unlimited, visit www.whitetailsunlimited.com. Tickets are still available at the website, or by calling WTU National Headquarters at 800-274-5471.
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Ohio --(Ammoland.com)- Travis ‘T-Bone’ Turner, Realtree Outdoors pro-staffer and co-host of the top-rated television show The Bone
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education, habitat enhancement and acquisition, and the preservation of the hunting tradition for the benefit of the white-tailed deer and other wildlife. When it comes to the whitetail and its environment, WTU’s degree of professionalism and dedication has earned us the reputation of being the nation’s premier whitetail organization. Visit: www.whitetailsunlimited.com
Columbia, SC --(AmmoLand.com)- Down at the Plaza de Mayo, the Argentines are beating each other with sticks. The Peronists have stormed their own headquarters and will not come out until they call a bomb threat on themselves. We are a couple of miles away at El Aeroparque Jorge Newberry, and the pilots are on strike.
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Argentine pilots have not been paid in two weeks, but we are flying LAN Chile. There is no great love lost between the nations. Argentines tell you they are the steak and Chile is the bone for the dogs. If I told you what the Chileans say about Argentines, they would not print it here. So LAN will keep flying, but late. Instead of shooting birds in Cordoba, we are wishing it wasn’t too early for Senor Jack Daniels.
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Me and Claudette, my second trip, her third. Two hours later there is a stirring at the gate, an Airbus making ready to load. No jetway here, downstairs, across the tarmac and up a ladder. The guncase goes up the conveyor and thumps into the cargo bay.
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Argentina Dove Hunting – Do you Have What It Takes
Bringing your guns to Argentina? Not for the harried, hurried or the faint of heart. You send your outfitter the numbers six weeks in advance and he generates the papers on his end. Somebody meets you at the gate and escorts you to an office where special police check serial numbers and collect a hundred bucks a gun, more if they feel like it. A deal if you figure it by the page, the artistic flaring fancy wristwork in stamp, stamp, stamping each individual sheet half a dozen times. Argentines, weary of coups and threats of coups, keep a close eye on guns coming into the country.
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We have a side-by-side and an over-under, two high-grade Merkel 20s. Merkel was among the German gunmakers who wound up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. The Reds consolidated all the companies into one grand firearms collective to make shotguns for high-rolling Comrade Commissars. When the wall came down, Merkel reorganized and moved into the western market. And that’s where we come in. We’re taking Merkels to a land where Benellis and Berettas rule. We will see how they hold up. But we have to get there first. A bus from the estancia meets us at the Cordoba airport. We are late, but earlier than the sole Argentine flight, which delivers a contingent of Texans. Argentina Dove Hunting - Do you Have What It Takes “What yall got in the box?” one wants to know. “Merkels,” I say. “Myrtles?” This country looks like eastern Montana, broad flat fields, checkerboarded by fence-rows and hedgerows with a line of ragged blue hills in the distance, but the cowboys hanging around the crossroad cantinas wear berets, not Stetsons. Sporting Classics Magazine
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One town short, there is a barricade of tires, pallets and sections of dragharrow, teeth up. Dour campesinos are standing around with sticks.
bounteous breakfast at 8:30. Alex and I linger over coffee. “How many birds do you have?”
“Do not worry, senores,” the driver says, “it is only the farm protest.”
He smiles. “Twenty millions? Forty millions? Who knows? We have the largest dove roost in all of Argentina.”
The campesinos thrust leaflets through the windows, wave us on. We ride to the morning shoot with a new arrival, Harvey Alexander from London. He’s ecstatic.
We arrive at Estancia Los Chanares in time for lunch. Lunch is a serious undertaking in Argentina and will burn up about two hours. Fresh bread, an extravagance of salad, potatoes, steaks, ribs, dove breasts, wine, wine, wine and finally homemade ice cream and fruit cobbler. We waddle from the table and get introduced around.
“I can fly first class from London to Buenos Aires and shoot here for less than it costs me to shoot driven grouse in England!”
Alex, a Columbian and lifelong hunting guide, runs the lodge. His wife, Jessica, a veteran restauranteur from Buenos Aries, runs the kitchen. Martin organizes the shoots, ramrods the bird boys and fixes the guns when they need fixing, which is more often than you might expect.
We find Hugo and Juan on a foot-trail atop the brow of a long hogback ridge. There is a brightening field on one side, thornbush tangle on the other. After the pickup rattles away we notice a sound persistent as distant surf, as if the earth itself is breathing. Millions upon countless millions of doves are cooing up the morning. Already the air is full of them and the green hills echo with the crackle of gunfire.
Most estancias offer shooting wintertimes to help spread out the pesos – and to thin flocks that can easily flatten a grainfield in an afternoon. But Estancia los Chanares manages crops for the birds, instead. The lodge is grand enough for any exiled ex-presidente, white stucco, fireplaces everywhere, formal gardens, swimming pool, red tile roof and red tile floors. The fields are angular and irregular, troublesome for agriculture but perfect for food plots. All around are rotten stone hills of impenetrable thornbushes – chanares – hence the name of this distant, obscure and excellent place.
But how many doves can a man shoot? How many birds does a man want to shoot? Last year another Texan tried to figure it out. He shot 6,016 doves in 11 hours using three extended magazine Benellis. He kept three bird boys busy, two loading, one counting. Not sure of his shell bill, his hospital bill either. A couple of hours into it, Claudette cusses. A fine screw in the forend hardware has worked itself loose.
We meet our bird boys at the first stop, Hugo and Juan, brothers in their early 20s, swarthy, beady-eyed and diligent. Two cases of shells, two field-seats, two coolers of water and Quilmes, the favored local brew, feed sacks for the birds and the empty shells.
“Y’all got a screwdriver?” “No, senor, Martin will bring when he brings more shells.”
They lead us to a makeshift blind strung between two thorn trees. They break out the shells – Orbeas made right up the road in Tucuman – and we break out the guns. Hugo and Juan tip boxes and the shells rattle into our vest pockets.
I sit crosslegged in tall grass and pull the forearm off the gun. The screw retains a cam that cocks the top barrel ejector. “If we can’t get us a screwdriver, we won’t need more shells.”
I learn a lot that day. You can only shoot one bird at a time. A ventilated rib is a radiator. Your gun will cool faster open and propped vertically against a convenient tree. Finally, don’t forget your shooting gloves. Splat – blood across my glasses. The new checkering has worn the hide right off my thumb.
“No problemo, senor,” Hugo says and pulls a battered jack knife from his jeans. I baby the screw with a thumbnail instead. My nail splits, but the gun will shoot.
“You boys got any band aids?”
We break for lunch, I peel the forend again and pass it to Martin. He returns it with ceremonial flourish right at the table, along with an eyeglass screwdriver, custom ground to fit the fine Merkel screw. Back in business, for awhile anyway.
“No, senor, but Martin will have them when he brings more shells.” “More shells?”
A couple dozen boxes into the afternoon shoot, the double bellers and slaps my already pulverized shoulder twice as hard as expected. I reckon somebody in Tucuman got careless with his powder dipper. Juan comes to my side, looks over my battered shoulder as I puzzle over the gun.
“Si, senor, these two cases will not last you so long.” Winter daylight comes late in these latitudes. Reveille at eight, a
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“It has fired twice, senor.”
time, crack a Quilmes. Back at the estancia, they have a fire roaring in the outside pit and the liquor is going down.
He’s right. “Martin!” “The girls are coming out from Cordoba,” Alex announces. On our way out of the fields, we pick up one of the Texans holding what’s left of a semi-auto. The receiver literally fell apart in his hands.
“Who wants a massage?”
“I was hoping to shoot a thousand birds today,” he bemoans, “but damnit, all I got was seven-fifty.”
Eighteen hands in the air. The bus is idling in the driveway. We powwow with Alex and settle our shell bill, painful at ten bucks a box. That’s the way they do it down here, turn you loose in a blizzard of birds and keep careful count. Between the two of us, we have downed a thousand birds, an affront, an insult, a mockery. But Alex acknowledges our sensibilities.
Nothing serious. An aluminum receiver with egged-out holes. The pins that secure the trigger group fell into the thorn tree leaves. Martin has a zip-lock of them back at the estancia. I quiz Martin. “How many rounds been through that gun?”
“We have a couple from Sweden who come every year. They enjoy themselves but will only shoot five hundred birds each,” he pauses, then adds, “a day.”
He shrugs. “In two years, maybe fifty thousand.” “Fifty thousand? How do your over-unders stand up?”
Halfway to the airport, there is a monumental jam of trucks and cars and buses. The campesinos are still at it. Our driver hooks a hard right and takes us cross-country. After three or four miles eating dust, we are clear of the campesinos and on the main road again.
“They break hammers around sixty thousand. I can adjust them, but then they break springs.” “What’s the absolutely toughest gun?”
Back at our Buenos Aires hotel we are met by a harried bell captain who passes us a printed notice:
“The Browning Citori, senor. But the firing pins erode . . .” Clang, clang, bang. A wind is roaring down the Andes and every rattly piece of metal, every gate, every loose board for a hundred miles is picking up the lunatic rhythm. Clang, clang, clang. I ease out of bed and pad down to the great room looking for coffee. Harvey Alexander, the wandering Britt, is hooked over a Cuban cigar and his cell phone. The cigar works, the phone doesn’t.
“There are some issues of local concern that have prompted rallies at the Plaza de Mayo . . . ” We wake next morning to a rumble as pervasive as ten million doves cooing, heady as a wind coming off the Andes. Fifty thousand campesinos have bolted the pampas and are heading to the Plaza de Mayo. Busloads after countless busloads. Musicians on the back of flatbed field trucks. Funky little Fiat sedans with blaring loudspeakers big as the cars. Meanwhile, the government has laid off their legions of clerks, paid them 200 pesos each to go protest the protesters.
I leave my doubling Merkel on the gunrack and hornswoggle Martin out of one of the house guns, a Beretta Silver Pigeon 28. It’s only a year old, the checkering has worn right off the stock, but it functions flawlessly. And Brothers and Sisters, I am here to testify that you can kill the hell out of doves with a 28. I drop the first 16 straight. I tell you this not to brag, but only so you can share my astonishment. Forty yards, sixty yards, doesn’t matter. Deadly beyond belief.
Claudette considers the proceedings and then glances at the clock. “We have a couple of hours to kill. Let’s slip off to some sidewalk cafe and get us one good last meal before things bust loose.”
Claudette is shooting the Merkel over-under and besides having to keep after the troublesome screw, she is dropping birds left and right. But the wind is still ripping. We are shooting from a hole hacked out of the thornbushes halfway down a steep ridge. Birds careening downwind are just an impossible blur. Upwind it’s a little better. Upwind or down, the birds can’t see us until they are right on top of us. But we can’t see them either and have only about two seconds to mount, swing and fire.
Just a snack, a dozen poached shrimp on a bed of lettuce, tomatoes and avocadoes, home-baked bread and the obligatory local wine. Then a series of low concussive thumps comes rolling over the rooftops. “Hey waiter, what’s all the racket?”
Maybe you never reckoned wingshooting an endurance sport, but here in Argentina it is. Three days and it shows.
He wrings his hands, mops his brow and looks uneasily off into middle distance. “Please do not worry, senor. It is only the tear gas bombs.”
Poor us, too tired to shoot anymore. We let the guns cool down one last
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Ah Argentina, I have what it takes to love you, a little money, a little Spanish, a little patience, and a great sense of humor . . .
Editor’s Note: Roger Pinckney happily reports a drop of lock-tight fixed the over-under and there was nothing at all wrong with the side-by-side. His hand was so swollen, it crowded the selector button to middle position allowing both barrels to fire simultaneously.
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