Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
A 2006 study by the US Department of the Interior found that hunting, angling and wildlife watching was a $1.2 billion industry for Mississippi. A study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week indicates that more than 10% of the land mammal species endemic to Australia have been wiped out by cats and foxes since […]
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OK, I’ve never seen this headline before: “Beaver Attacks are Serious” We have beavers around our home property. But I always play offense, hence the item on shotshells below. Shotshells Have you noticed that since lead shot was banned for waterfowl hunting, shotshell loads with large size lead shot (BBs and #2s mostly) have all but disappeared? It’s a shame,
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About those grass eaters. Funny. And the tree huggers attack (links to “Green Scientists Conspire with World Wildlife Fund on Beepocalypse” at Ammoland).
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Pigs We now have a report that wild (feral) pigs now exist in 45 states, including Hawaii. Their large range expansions over the past two-plus decades have occurred mostly due to illegal translocation of pigs by humans. Whack ’em. Hunter kills 8-point doe A hunter killed an 8-point antlered doe over the weekend in Sedgwick County, Kansas. The man thought
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The US Senate has passed S.2621/H.R.5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act, which was passed by the House last month, and increases the price of federal duck stamps from $15 to $25 (a whopping 67% increase). The last price increase was in 1991. Meanwhile, there has been no commensurate long-term increase in the opportunity to hunt ducks or in the number
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In an unusual report out of Hollywood, we learned that Chris Pratt, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor who appears on the cover of GQ‘s December issue, is a coyote and varmint hunter. He revealed in his interview for the magazine that he skins and tans them, too. When asked why, Pratt replied “Because coyotes are a**holes, and they’ll eat
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An Arkansas deer hunter recently shot and killed a 148 lb. mountain lion in Bradley County, east of Hermitage (about 60 miles west of Greenville, MS).
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After being charged by three elephants simultaneously in 1989, Hungarian inventor Joseph Szecsei developed an exquisite double barreled repeating bolt action rifle in .416 Rem. Mag. 8 shots. Plenty of fun. http://www.nrablog.com/post/2014/11/03/Just-in-case-you-need-eight-shots-while-elephant-hunting-the-Szecsei-Fuchs.aspx http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum/the-galleries/robert-e-petersen-collection/treasure-chest/szecsei-fuchs-double-barrel-bolt-action-rifle.aspx
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