Sports and Hunting

More than 200 exhibitors withdraw from PA outdoor show after organizer bans modern sporting rifles

OutdoorLife.com is reporting that, by mid-day on Jan. 23, more than 200 exhibitors -- and counting -- had withdrawn from the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show, Pennsylvania's largest annual outdoor sports show, following event organizer Reed Exhibitions' decision to ban the display and sale of modern sporting rifles and standard-capacity magazines. [UPDATE: Show "postponed" ] From the article :...

Greene County resident inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame

by Larry S. Moore Greene County resident Marty Murphy has been involved in the shooting sports nearly all his life. He has served both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) in a variety of positions. He was recently inducted into the NMLRA Black Powder Hall of Fame. The words on his plaque provide some insight to the commitment and impact...

ODNR Division of Wildlife to Hold Muzzleloader Deer Season in January

Ohio's white-tailed deer muzzleloader hunting season will open statewide Jan. 5-8, 2013, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Ohio hunters have harvested 188,853 deer this season. During the 2012 four-day muzzleloader season, 19,459 deer were harvested. Ohio deer hunters must possess the proper permits. Regardless of zone, method of taking or season...

Late-Season Deer Hunting Opportunities Available in Ohio

Muzzleloader season opens Jan. 4 COLUMBUS, OH - As the calendar turns to 2014, Ohio hunters have another opportunity to pursue white-tailed deer when muzzleloader season opens Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Deer-muzzleloader season runs through Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. "Muzzleloader season offers a great late-season opportunity for hunters to...

Meet the Brady Center's newest "assault weapon": Your upland/waterfowl/skeet/trap shooting shotgun

by Jeff Riley Several years ago, published at BuckeyeFirearms.org, I detailed the Brady Center for the Prevention of Gun Violence's call for banning "any ammunition that can penetrate ballistic armor" worn by law enforcement. This of course would ban almost any rifle ammunition used by big game and deer hunters in the United States. For years, gun-grabbers like the Brady Center have claimed that...

2012 - The Year In Review

By Chad D. Baus While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2012. January: The year begins with continued debate over whether or not Canton police officer Daniel Harless, who was caught on dash-cam video verbally assaulting and threatening to "execute" a concealed handgun licensee, deserved to be fired. Harless is terminated, and the...

Who Will Stand For Our Children? Voluntary Armed Parents in Schools

by Ron Borsch INTRODUCTION AND DEFINING THE PROBLEM It is important for us to first understand the "Rapid Mass Murder"© problem, the most common motivation of these active killers, how we can reduce the copycat effect, ( http://www.lorencoleman.com/copycateffect/ ), as well as the number of these incidents and then look at the "Final Option" of armed intervention. We hope to at least initiate all...

Ohio Offers Hunters Additional Weekend for Deer-Gun Season

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio's deer-gun season returns Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15-16, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Hunters can use a legal shotgun, muzzleloader or handgun to pursue white-tailed deer Dec. 15-16 from a half-hour before sunrise to sunset. The extra weekend days were added in 2006 in response to hunters' requests for extended weekend...

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