Gun Safety

This past week and all the way up untill this coming Friday is gun season for deer. Every year you hear stories of hunters getting killed or injured because of lack of responsibility or safety. With this upcoming Christmas there are sure to be a number of kids who will be asking for a gun from Santa. It is our duty as fellow hunters to insure and instill good safety habits in the next generation, we have to teach them how to use that gun as if it were always loaded (even though it may not be). Gun safety can affect anyone if not taken seriously, I lost a friend my freshamn year of college at Emporia State. He was shot and killed by some people passing by his duck blind, they fired a couple of shots at his decoys with a rifle. He was hit in the chest and died instantly. This is just one of the many sad examples that can take place if people are ignorant with the use of there guns. We must make it our responsibility to provide kids and new gun owners of these saftey tips. If you have any good advice you would like to share or stories explaining the need for gun safety please share.


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Hunting - Expensive sport

Hunters who have been around the sport know that it can get pretty expensive. You truly have to love the sport to really get into it. I feel that if they could lower the prices of some the accessories or permits that they could really bring in a lot of new hunters. Bows these days are really expensive. Even if you are trying to by a youth model for your son or little brother. A good youth model bow can range from $200 to $400 dollars. If we could lower these prices it would make people more likely to try the sport. Has price ever effected your decision to try hunting or not?

Duck Hunt

Last weekend I went duck hunting with Micah Lawson, Isaac Rushing and Wes Richards. Our hunt was located at Tuttle Creek near Manhattan, Kansas. We were hunting off of a marsh with some flooded timber across the water from us. We got in on a Friday night and set our decoys out early, since it was a public area we wanted to reserve our spot. We camped out there that night so that we could wake up and move right into the hunt. We did this same hunt last year, just in a different location. I would recommend doing this hunt to anyone that loves duck hunting, it is a blast sleeping out by the marsh and getting to hangout with your friends. That Saturday we killed twenty three ducks. We only had a few big ducks, but that is just because it has not gotten cold enough for all the Mallards and Geese to move south for the winter. I am looking to take my friends dad out duck hunting on some public land in about two to three weeks, let me know if you have any good spots that we could go.
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Favortie Hunts

This weeks blog I would like to give a chance to some of the people that are following our blog, to tell about there favorite hunt. It can be anything from small game like squirrels or something big like taking an elk in Montana. Either way, if you enjoyed your experience in the outdoors we would like to hear about it. With this blog we would like to reinforce the fact that hunting is about the experience and just being in the outdoors, its not always what you kill or how big the kill was. So share any hunting story you like this week. Thanks! And looking forward to hearing these excitng hunts!

FIshin Trip

Last weekend the mnu fishin team took a trip down to the Table Rock Lake where they got to fish with professionals. They pros taught them a lot and gave them tips of how to become a better fisherman. One thing I believe that seperates britt and some of his teamates is the equipment. These pros have gps sytems that tell them where the drop off points are and they can see if there are big fish their; thats why the mnu fishing team is trying to raise money to go on more trips to learn more from these pros but also they are raising money for the new equipment they need.

Last Friday I took my girlfriend hunting. I took her to ladder stand that is built for two people. She doesn’t have a bow yet but she brought my dad’s 30 30 to shoot any coyotes that walk by. For most of the night we didn't see anything until right after the sun went down. There were seven does that came out of the NW corner of our field. Bre and I sat quietly as we watched the seven does come directly at our stand. Two of the does came directly under our stand. I had my phone with me and videoed the does for about seven minutes. I am still trying to figure out how to post the video.

Fish and Game Director in Idaho May Face Tresspassing charges

Fish and Game Director in Idaho May Face Tresspassing charges

"Cal Groen, director of Idaho fish and game is being investigated for tresspassing on private land without permission from the land owner." Cal claims that he was helping some friends harvest an elk. The group he was with thought they still had permission from the previous year. The landowner is wanting to press charges against him for being there without permission and for the group not having signed documents stating their permission to be on the land. I personally think that this is something that is being taken too far by the land owner and probably could have been handled without pressing charges. If the group had permission last year to hunt the land and no other arrangements have been made, then they should be fine to ask for help when harvesting an elk. Do you think the landowner is in the right or the wrong here?