Sports and Hunting

Which kind of gun owner are you?

By Steven Loos Having spent a fair amount of my impressionable years shooting alongside my WW2 veteran grandfather, I was fortunate to have been taught early on the great responsibility that owning a firearm brings. As far back as I can recall I have always understood owning a firearm had a deeper meaning. Later in life, and much to my surprise, I would come to understand that not all owners...

Around the Fireams Industry: Not everyone is running 24/7

By Jim Shepherd While the entire outdoor segment mirrors the general miasma of American industry and commerce (business generally stinks), there are some commonly accepted points being accepted as fact. In fact, they're not all dead on target. First, the commonly accepted belief that the entire firearms category is going like the proverbial house on fire, with gun owners and speculators buying...

Is Rush Limbaugh's cat being held hostage by animal rights extremists?

Our laws do not prevent us from killing animals for food or sport, so the right to life of an animal is nonexistent. ...[W]e are confronted daily by people who wish to obstruct human progress and individual economic choices by elevating the importance of animal existence to that of human existence. - Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought To Be , 1992 By Chad D. Baus I have been listening to Rush...

PETA can't afford to save pets, but offers to pay to fix Cleveland's potholes

By Chad D. Baus As Buckeye Firearms Association reported recently, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. Instead, since 1998, PETA has opted to "put...

Ohio hunter's weight-loss plan pays off with hefty wild boar

The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette has published an interesting article about an Ohio man's weight-loss plan that paid off with a recent successful hunt for wild boar in Hocking County. From the story : Goodfellow walked the hills of Zaleski State Forest looking for an opportunity to harvest the wild pigs - which have been called and are the same as feral swine, European wild boar, Russian wild boar and...

PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008

Hypocritical Animal Rights Group's 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339 WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills...

Ohio Hunters Provide Red Meat to Local Food Pantries

COLUMBUS, OHIO - Ohio deer hunters have donated more than 54,800 pounds of venison to local food banks through the 2008-09 deer hunting season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The 54,800 pounds of venison equals approximately 219,200 meals for Ohioans in need. Last year, FHFH collected 20,902...

This youth turkey season hunt yielded results - in more ways than one!

Editor's note: Ohio's spring turkey seasons are approaching rapidly, and we hope this story from last year's youth turkey season imspires you to start making plans to go afield! By Matt Sheterom Bo Stambaugh and I met for the first time at 6:00 a.m. on opening morning of Ohio's youth turkey season. His hunting partner was unable to take him so his dad asked if I would. I was excited because my...

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