Letter from Hunting Works for Minnesota to Sen. Franken and Klobuchar

Again with the politics but I think this is too little too late. I don’t know about Klobuchar but Al Franken is as radical left as you can get so the idea that businesses would lose money over gun control laws will mean little to him. Maybe they should have tried harder to elect people who respected our American traditions.

But here’s the letter they sent which lays out how Democrat gun control proposals will cost Minnesota over $1,000,000,000 a year. Like I said I think it’s too late for Minnesota but we should all support Hunting Works for Minnesota.

Hunting Works for Minnesota Letter to Sen. Franken and Klobuchar on Anti-Gun Legislation by AmmoLand Shooting Sports News

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Wisconsin Democrat Gun Control Bill Would Have Banned Hunting … Drafters Claim Ignorance

Wisconsin Democrat lawmakers introduced a bill that would have banned hollow point and frangible ammunition which people were quick to point out conflicted with DNR rules mandating that only hollow points and frangible ammunition can be used while hunting deer and bear.

The three lawmakers were all from urban areas and knew little about hunting.

The law was walked back and one of the lawmakers signed a letter claiming they didn’t know the proposed law would conflict with laws already on the books.

I started this blog to get away from politics and crime but you can’t ignore politics if you want to keep your freedom. I know a lot of liberals who are hunters and gun owners who thought the defeat of Al Gore was the end of their fellow travelers designs on guns. It was not. Stand up for your rights.

 

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Around the Campfire 2/13/13 – Flying Squids and Other Horrors

They can what!?!

They can what!?!

No preamble here just pure unadulterated terror courtesy of Cyptomundo. You remember that episode of Monsterquest (season 2, ep 16) where they talked about the man eating Humboldt squids that were known to try to eat people who fell in the water? Well apparently if they’re feeling peckish they don’t need to wait for you to fall in the water. They can just fly right at you:

The Neon Flying Squid propels itself out of the ocean by shooting a jet of water at high pressure, before opening its fins to glide at up to 11.2 metres per second, Jun Yamamoto of Hokkaido University said. Olympic Gold medallist Bolt averaged 10.31 metres a second when he won at the London Games last year. “There were always witnesses and rumours that said squid were seen flying, but no one had clarified how they actually do it. We have proved that it really is true,” Yamamoto told AFP. Researchers say is the first time anyone has ever described the mechanism the flying mollusc employs. Yamamoto and his team were tracking a shoal of around 100 squid, part of the Japanese Flying Squid family, in the northwest Pacific, 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Tokyo, in July 2011. As their boat approached, the 20-centimetre (eight-inch) creatures launched themselves into the air with a powerful jet of water that shot out from their funnel-like stems.

Yeah. I’m canceling my squid fishing trip. Want some more horror stories?

A man was killed when a bullet ricocheted off the skull of a wild boar that was shot over a mile away.

An 8 foot alligator was pulled out of a sewer in a Florida suburb. The old alligator in the sewer gambit – clever girl.

A Nebraska mother and her 4-year-old child had to be rescued from a pitbull in an attack witnesses described as “Cujo” like.

There’s video online of an incident in Brazil where it literally rained spiders.

Mysterious demolition in Detroit has some people claiming that farms will be being built in the blighted city. Anyone up for some homesteading in the most dangerous ruins in America?

The mysterious animal attacking livestock in Shelby County has been identified as a pitbull. At least that’s the official story.

Toilet rats attack woman.

And here’s a little Internet created urban legend to keep you up at night next time you’re camping:

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Around the Campfire 1/23/12 – Weird Woods Edition

You never know who you'll run into on a ramble

You never know who you’ll run into on a ramble

I’m not an expert hunter or avid fisherman, as I’ve said before I tend to like to just explore – walking as far as my feet will carry me just to see what’s there. Part of the alure of taking to the less populated places for what used to be called a woods ramble is the very real possibility that you’ll run into something strange or unusual. After being cooped up for weeks and hearing nothing but politics my mind starts to drift to the old adventures I’ve had wandering and scouring the web for other stories both weird and wonderful and sometimes terrifying:

“Unseen beast’ is attacking dogs in a little Missouri town. Residents think it might be a mountain lion but the wounds look similar to the damage wild boars do. I’ve heard there have been feral pig sightings in the area.

Vultures are ripping the rubber out of cars parked near the Everglades. Apparently rubber is the same consistency as dead flesh leading some “expert” to claim they’re “practicing” to eat carrion. I prefer to think they’re psychically controlled a gang of eco-terrorist.

Speaking of which terrorist group Earth First! has a hit list published on the web. Since they tend to congregate in the woods to act retarded wanderers should be careful lest they fall prey to Earth Firsters unfulfilled bloodlust.

The ifish forum has a multi-year thread of weird, creepy and bizarre things sportsman have found in the woods.

This is the creepiest picture of an abandoned house in the woods that you’ll ever see.

Bigfoot, pig people and the Pink Lady – oh my!

The cries of a strange creature are terrifying the residents of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

Was a bigfoot “nest” found in the Arizona desert?

The hunt for the Minnesota Iceman.

Here’s an account of a haunted ranch in Texas.

There are reports of saber-tooth tigers alive in modern Africa?

To understand many of these stories you should read the book The Forest in Folklore and Mythology by Alexander Porteous

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Happy National 2nd Amendment Day!

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