Sports and Hunting

Still a lot of fishing, hunting positives

12:10am Friday, March 28, 2008
By Jack Kiser It's an increasingly rare event in our culture for a hunter or fisherman to experience or even see cultural images or reminders at all beneficial or in any way even inferring even a hint of positivity towards the American outdoors tradition. The precipitous decline in sales nationwide of hunting and fishing licenses continues to fuel and propel the politically correct cultural...

Mobility-impaired hunting opportunities improved with passage of Buckeye Firearms Assoc.-supported legislation

1:05am Thursday, March 13, 2008
Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce passage of Senate Bill 209, which will, among other things, create mobility-impaired access lanes on various public hunting lands of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. In late February, after accepting testimony from Buckeye Firearms Association's Bob Harsanje and Larry S. Moore, the House Finance & Appropriations Committee voted to amend HB473...

Mobility-Impaired Disabled Hunter Access

12:10am Wednesday, March 05, 2008
By Larry S. Moore The upland game rabbit season has been pretty tough on me this year. My oldest female Beagle, Lucky, is 14 and has not been able to hunt. She is just too slow in her old age. My male, Hank, has encountered some heart issues so I am not running him very much. He is 10 and I was really hoping for a couple more years in the field with him. Both dogs jump at the gates and bark to go...

HB473: Aiding mobility-impaired hunters

12:10am Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Last week, Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer Bob Harsanje and Dave Graham, Chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife, offered proponent testimony before the Ohio House Finance & Appropriations Committee on House Bill 473. Proposed by State Rep. Peter Ujvagi (D - Toledo), at the urging of and guidance from Harsanje and fellow hunter, HB473 would, among...

Report: Ohio hunters, anglers spend $1.9 billion

12:10am Thursday, December 27, 2007
By Dave Golowenski Columbus Dispatch ...Calling Ohio's 1.5 million hunters and anglers "among the most prominent and influential of all demographic groups," the report says these outdoor enthusiasts spend more than $1.9 billion a year on hunting and fishing. That dollar outlay puts Ohio ninth among the 50 states. The report was issued by the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, an advocacy group...

Hunting as therapy

12:05am Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Injured soldiers find outdoors beneficial to rehabilitation By Kristi Hsu ReporterNews.com Josh Pappas, 21, looks like any other hunter in Shackelford County around this time of year. He wears a three-dimensional camouflage suit covered in waving leaf-like strips of fabric as he walks into an open field Saturday with rifle in hand to stalk deer. Pappas, a Marine corporal, suffered second- and...

Northern Ohio hunters stabbed during gun week

12:10am Friday, December 07, 2007
By Larry S. Moore The Sandusky Register reported last week that two deer hunters were brutally attacked during the 2007 deer gun season in a Berlin Township field when a drifter stabbed them repeatedly with a knife. First, all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families of these hunters and wish for a speedy recovery. Certainly these hunters headed afield...

Weather hampers 2007 deer-gun harvest

12:05am Thursday, December 06, 2007
Ohio hunters took 103,195 white-tailed deer during the state’s popular, weeklong deer-gun season, which ran November 26 to December 2, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In 2006, hunters killed a preliminary total of 111,672 deer during the same time period. Inclement weather on the opening and closing days of the season hampered hunters’ efforts...

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