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4/6/07
Potential World
Record Turkey
Taken in Texas
After he saw the beard,
he knew it was something
special. After making a
few calls, he took the
bird to Savage Deer
Processing in Hooks, an
official Texas Parks and
Wildlife check station
(hunters harvesting
eastern wild turkeys in
Texas must check them in
at an approved station).
Owner Tina Savage
measured the bird.
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Why the
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important
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11/8/07
National
Geographic,
November 2007
Hunters: For
Love of the Land
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/
Many waterfowl
species may not
survive if not
for hunters.
Hunters have
paid 700-million
in duck stamps,
purchasing
5.2-million
acres of
wildlife refuge.
Hunters pay
250-million
annually in
taxes for
firearms and
ammo, much of
which is used in
wildlife
conservation,
both for game
and non-game
species.
Hunter’s make-up
5% of the adult
American
population, but
the number of
hunters drop
each year, and
youth are not
filling in the
gap.As we become
more urbanized,
we loose
connection with
the natural
world, and the
further we get
away from the
wild the less we
understand it.
Positive
Game Plan
The Changing
Face of Deer
Hunting
In a strange
new twist of
nature and
adaptability,
moose now
apparently
can take
advantage of
human
development
and use it
as a shield
against
predators.
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Did you ever
want to shoot
your limit of
ducks or geese
with one shot?
Then a Punt Gun
is what you are
looking
for…though not
legal in the US,
this bit of
English history
is fascinating
and this video
demonstrates the
gun’s power.
Read More About
The Punt Shotgun
A punt gun is a
type of
extremely large
shotgun used in
the 19th and
20th centuries
for shooting
large numbers of
waterfowl for
commercial
harvesting
operations. Punt
guns were
usually
custom-designed
and so varied
widely, but
could have bore
diameters up to
2 inches. A
single shot
could kill a
whole flock of
waterfowl
resting on the
water’s surface.
They were too
big to hold and
the recoil so
large that they
were mounted
directly on the
punts (boats)
used for
hunting, hence
their name.
Hunters would
maneuver their
punts quietly
into line and
range of the
flock using
poles or oars to
avoid startling
them. To improve
efficiency
hunters could
work in fleets
of up to around
ten punts.
In the United
States, this
practice
depleted stocks
of wild
waterfowl and by
the 1860s most
states had
banned the
practice. The
Lacey Act of
1889 banned the
transport of
wild game across
state lines, and
the practice of
market hunting
was outlawed by
a series of
federal laws in
1918. There are
few punt guns
remaining.
Comment
submitted by >
Conrad N. Arnold
1/26/07:
There are still
some punt guns
around
Dorchester
County.
One can be seen
in a local
Museum.
Stories have it
that on
occasion, the
punt gun which
was mounted in
the skiff would
recoil so much
that it
literally blew
the stern out of
the boat.
Not a good day
for that
waterfowler.
I saw a
demonstration
once on the
shore where
about a full
pound of
blackpowder was
used to fire the
punt gun.
The material
used for shot
could include
bolts, nails or
anything else
that could be
loaded and
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