Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Rifleman: Park Unprepared for Animal Escape
According to their website, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California has "a porcupine, an anteaters (sic), macaws and other fascinating creatures." Which includes tigers. And cougars. And elephants. According to the park's former "animal...
Michigan Mulls Moose Hunt
Here's a blurb about The Michigan Moose Project from the state's Department of Natural Resources: "By the 1970s, the white-tailed deer population in the Lake Superior watershed in the Upper Peninsula had declined drastically,...
UK Hunt Supporter Killed by Gyrocopter
Yes, a gyrocopter. Like the one in The Road Warrior. Except in this case, the pilot harried hunts, rather than hunted for juice. But the non-fictional British pilot, one Bryan Griffiths, faces a decidedly...
Pity the Poor Coyote. Or Not
There is this tension between your basic jobbing journo's tree-hugging proclivities and his local paper employer's need to stay on the good side of readers who hunt. Never have I seen a better example...
Question of the Day: Are Women Better Hunters Than Men?
Women hunt, too. And this is news because . . . ? Because it isn't. But why let a little thing like a worn story line and a lack of hard data on the...
Minnesota Mulls Special Deer Hunting Season for 10 to 17-Year-Olds
According to the startribune.com, The Gopher State is not lacking for hunters. The paper claims that Minnesota is home to 500 thousand Bambi killers (someone should have warned me). According to Wikipedia, The Land...
Hunting with Ted Nugent: As Surreal as it Gets??
You wait all day for a hunting story and BAM! Two come along at once. This time, we're talking about a truly unique (as opposed to somewhat unique) piece of sports writing: The Shawn...
Poacher of “Largest Eight-Pointer Ever Measured” Pleads Out
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) licensed Troy Alan Reinke to shoot one deer with a bow and arrow. Instead, Reinke shot three deer with a rifle, including what could well be...
Colorado University Alows Nerf Guns For Zombie Hunt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkMQLWeL2I&feature=player_embedded
Boulder Colorado is one of America's best cities. Disclaimer: this writer is moving there. Well, I was, before I learned that zombies lurk inside Colorado University's engineering building. And I am again, now that...
Shawn Clark: Parents Should Decide When Kids are Ready for Guns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGkRKT0Q-L4
Sport shooting scribe Shawn Clark popped-up on TTAG's radar with his column about shooting hogs with Ted Nugent, wrestler Dusty Rhodes and an NRA official (I swear didn't make that up). As I said...
Crashing Boar
From The Daily Mail:
Armed police had to gun down a wild boar that broke into the offices in Hamburg when a herd of the animals went on the rampage in the city's ...