very cool




Up to a point its specifications are nothing out of the ordinary – it has an eight-mile range and a top speed of five miles per hour.

But what makes this wheelchair different is that it has tracks instead of wheels, which means it can go almost anywhere.

The Action Trackchair is made by Action Manufacturing in Marshall, Minnesota, and is specifically designed to go off-road.

It’s happy powering across mud, rocky terrain and even in water.
gun racks and mounts are available, with many buyers delighted that they can go out hunting again.

(03-08-2012, 10:30 AM)Lady Cop Wrote: very cool




Up to a point its specifications are nothing out of the ordinary – it has an eight-mile range and a top speed of five miles per hour.

But what makes this wheelchair different is that it has tracks instead of wheels, which means it can go almost anywhere.

The Action Trackchair is made by Action Manufacturing in Marshall, Minnesota, and is specifically designed to go off-road.

It’s happy powering across mud, rocky terrain and even in water.
gun racks and mounts are available, with many buyers delighted that they can go out hunting again.

i don't want to see some old bat riding one of these at the grocery store.

they're so beautiful.










Stripping wolves of federal protection last spring opened the animals to state wildlife management, including newly licensed hunting and trapping designed to reduce their numbers from levels the states deemed too high.

Since the de-listing last May, Idaho has cut its wolf population by about 40 percent, from roughly 1,000 to about 600 or fewer. Some 260 wolves have been killed in Montana, more than a third of its population, leaving an estimated 650 remaining.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has also proposed lifting the protected status for another 350 wolves in Wyoming.

Once common across most of North America, wolves were hunted, trapped and poisoned to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1940s under a government-sponsored program.

Decades later, biologists recognized that wolves had an essential role as a predator in mountain ecosystems, leading to protection of the animal under the Endangered Species Act.

Wolves were reintroduced in the mid-1990s over the vehement objections of ranchers and sportsmen, who see the animals as a threat to livestock and big-game animals such as elk and deer.

Environmentalists say the impact of wolves on cattle herds and wildlife is overstated and that the recent removal of federal safeguards could push the wolf back to the brink.

The King of Spain has come under fire for hunting elephants in Botswana as his country is being sucked back into the eurozone's financial crisis and one in two youngsters are jobless.

Spanish media have slammed Juan Carlos for the reported £27,000 cost of the trip - and have published angry editorials alongside pictures of a previous 'Big Game' hunting expedition.

too bad that elephant didn't gore him and squash him like a bug.

WASHINGTON – A hunting bill passed by the House on Tuesday makes it harder to restrict hunting and fishing on public lands and ensures that the hunter's arsenal will continue to include lead bullets

The legislation, which passed 274-146, also allows those who have legally hunted polar bears in Canada to bring their trophies home.

Republican sponsors said the bill, which faces an uncertain future in the Senate, protects sportsmen from bureaucratic restrictions. Democratic opponents said it was unneeded because 85 percent of federal land is open to hunting and called it a sop to the gun lobby.

never never tell your girlfriend you mistook her for a hawg.


BUNNELL, Fla. -
A woman is recovering after her boyfriend accidentally shot her instead of a hog while the two were hunting in western Flagler County.

Deputies said it happened Saturday evening at the Cowart Hunt Camp on County Road 305, southwest of Bunnell.

Deputies said Steven Egan, 52, and his girlfriend Lisa Simmons were inside a tent when Egan saw a hog. He shot at the hog but wasn't sure if he hit it.

Egan then walked out of the tent to look for the hog. When he heard some rustling in the woods, he fired again.

Instead of hitting the hog, Egan shot Simmons with his .30 caliber rifle. The bullet went through both of her legs.

Egan told police he didn't know Simmons had left the tent. SURE BUDDY!!

that will teach him to try to shoot my wild turkey friends!


Maine Sun Journal

MACHIAS — Opening day of turkey season turned out to be a bit more than Bill Robinson had in mind Monday when he set out his decoy at dawn’s first light.
“I’ll never forget looking up and seeing a jaw full of teeth coming at me,” Bill Robinson of Edmunds Township said Tuesday, the day after being attacked and bitten on the right arm by a coyote.


“I’ll never forget looking up and seeing a jaw full of teeth coming at me,” Robinson said Tuesday, the day after being attacked and bitten on the right arm by a coyote. The wild canine sprang while the Maine Guide was hunkered down in the brush, using a mouth-call to lure a turkey into the open while hunting on private property near the Washington County community of Cooper.

“I had placed my turkey decoy in a field in front of me and then positioned myself in some cover,” said Robinson, 39, who lives in Edmunds Township, near Dennysville. “It was about 10 minutes after dawn, and right beside me was a short, thick spruce tree that had grown so thick you couldn’t see through it. That coyote came up the edge of the field and was one side of that tree, with me on the other.

“The distance involved was only about four feet,” Robinson said. “But that tree was so thick that he couldn’t see me, and I couldn’t see him. He was determined to have turkey for breakfast and was also determined that the sound he heard was a hen turkey.”

Robinson said the coyote “came in high,” a hunting maneuver designed to ensure his feathered prey couldn’t fly off.

“When he bit down on my upper arm, he went through four layers — a heavy jacket, a sweatshirt, a long-sleeve shirt and a T-shirt,” he said. “As I peeled off each layer there were two holes in each one. When I got to my arm, it was just burning and bleeding out of two holes.”

Once the coyote realized it had jumped a human, not a hen, it sprinted away.

“It turned and ran 100 miles an hour across that field,” Robinson said. “It was as shocked and surprised to see me, as I was to see it. I took a shot at it, but it was too far off by then. I turned it around for a second when I hit him in the haunch with a few pellets from my turkey load, just to say goodbye.”

Robinson packed up and headed to the nearby home of a friend, Joe Gardner, who is a district game warden. Gardner examined and took pictures of the wound before counseling Robinson to seek medical attention at the Down East Community Hospital in Machias, where he began a two-week regimen of precautionary rabies vaccine injections.

Robinson was given seven shots Monday, four in his right arm, where he was bitten, and three in his left. There are, he said, many more shots in his near future.

“I walked into that hospital with one sore arm and left with two,” he said Tuesday. “But I don’t blame the coyote. It was doing what coyotes do, hunting. My guess is that coyote was perfectly healthy and was not rabid. He was big, probably 50 pounds. I’m just glad it didn’t grab my neck.”

So is Gardner, who has been friends with Robinson since they were boys.

“That was a first-time event for me,” said Gardner, who patrols the Pembroke area. “I’ve heard people tell stories about coyotes coming into an area where they are calling turkeys, but then running off when they realize what they’re hearing are hunters, not turkeys. I told Bill that he must be really good at calling turkeys.”

A Maine Guide for eight years, Robinson said he’ll be turkey hunting again soon.

“I’ll be a little more prepared next time, in terms of not positioning myself where there’s a blind spot,” he said. “It was a freak thing. And an unforgettable thing.”

Fox




State and federal wildlife officials have put up a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the shooter of a Grizzly bear and her nursing cub in the wilderness of northern Idaho.

The dead bears were found May 18 by a hiker on Hall Mountain in Boundary County, near the Kootenai River valley. The shootings have outraged locals and hunting groups, who note Grizzly bears are a protected species. Hunting them can bring a year in prison and be fined up to $100,000.

“A good sportsman doesn’t go out there and do this," said Jon Meadows, president of the Kootenai Valley Sportsman Association. "I hope we find out who done it. It’s uncalled for.”

The reward is being offered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the Idaho Department of Fishing and Game. The carcasses of the bears were flown to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lab in Ashland, Ore., for further investigation.

Meadows scoffed at the notion the killings may have been in self-defense, noting someone who had been threatened by an aggressive bear before killing it out of necessity “would have turned the bear in to authorities.”

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services spokesman Jason Holm told FoxNews.com he hopes the reward will convince someone who knows the shooter to come forward.

"I trust the shooter is sleeping poorly tonight, knowing his softball teammates, drinking buddies and family members are currently weighing whether they appreciate him or the ability to receive $10,000 anonymously more," Holm said. "I hope the reward and the truly callous nature of the crime persuade someone to do the right thing.”

Anyone with information can contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent at (509) 928-6050; the Idaho Department of Fish and Game at (208) 769-1414 or the Idaho Citizens Against Poaching Program at (800) 632-5999.

works for me...make the poachers extinct.



AP

NEW DELHI -- A state in western India has declared war on animal poaching by allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks on tigers and other wildlife.

The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime.

Forest guards should not be "booked for human rights violations when they have taken action against poachers," Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam said Tuesday. The state also will send more rangers and jeeps into the forest, and will offer secret payments to informers who give tips about poachers and animal smugglers, he said.

No tiger poachers have ever been shot in Maharashtra, though cases of illegal loggers and fishermen being shot have led to charges against forest guards, according to the state's chief wildlife warden, S.W.H. Naqvi.