Mistaken Identity (Hunting celebrity’s name misused for anti gun agenda)

by Othmar Vohringer (Urged Press Release)

Vancouver, Canada - Please be advised ... to all who have heard a recent United States political ad on the radio, the person speaking is NOT Jim Shockey. We have received many e-mails from fans who have misheard the person's name.
This radio ad is approved by the Obama campaign, and the speaker is Ray Schoenke, the president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA)*. He pronounces his name such that it sounds like "Shockey." Jim, obviously, has no affiliation with this group.

We would GREATLY appreciate it if all of you who read this would help to clear Jim's good name. As you can imagine, Jim has taken some unfair criticism as a result of this mistaken identity.

The fact that people don't take the time to investigate the facts before they lash out has caused substantial confusion. Many of Jim's TV sponsors, licensees and business partners have received e-mails and phone calls from angry consumers saying that they will never again buy their products. As you can see, this kind of error on the part of folks who rush to judgment can turn into more than just a rumor. It can begin to impact on a person's livelihood and reputation.

Here is a statement from Jim: "I am 100 percent for gun ownership by law-abiding citizens. As a Canadian I cannot vote in U.S. elections, of course, but I would never ever support any candidate who is anti-gun."
Thank you for your support and helping to spread the word. Please consider forwarding this important statement of fact to any and all persons on your e-mail list so that they can help us to clear Jim's good name.

(*) The American Hunter and Shooters Association (AHSA) is a anti-gun organization masquerading as a pro gun and pro hunting organization. The AHSA has in the past continually attacked the National Rifle Association (NRA) for their pro-gun and pro Second Amendment stance. Obama’s anti gun agenda is heard very loud and clear even up here in Canada and him being supported by the AHSA is very telling of that organizations real agenda. I am a Canadian and urge all my American friends to take this years election very seriously and act accordingly.

Tags: Jim Shockey, Obama Campaign, Anti Gun Message, Second Amendment, Right to bear Arms

My Resignation

by Steve Remington

I hereby tender my resignation as an adult.

I have decided to accept the responsibilities of an 8-year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald’s and think that it’s a 4-star restaurant.

I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks.

I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn’t bother you, because you didn’t know what you didn’t know and you didn’t care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible.

I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.

I want to live simply again.

I don’t want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So….here’s my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And, if you want to discuss this further, you’ll have to catch me first cuz’ “Tag!, You’re It!”

Author Unknown

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Shot Show Exclusive Dinner with Bill Engvall

by Steve Remington

Courtesy of Shot Show News

NSSF State of the Industry Dinner
with Bill Engvall

Don’t miss this annual and exclusive SHOT Show event the evening of the first day of SHOT Show. The evening features a cocktail reception, sponsored by Ducks Unlimited, dinner, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “State of the Industry” multi-media presentation and industry awards. Then get ready to be

entertained by one of the most popular comedians of our times, Bill Engvall, presented by Versus Country.

Bill Engvall is a master of finding humor in everyday situations. He stars and produces the hit, “The Bill Engvall Show” which airs on TBS and is host of one of the top-rated shows on CMT, “Country Fried Home Videos.” He has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, is a multi-platinum recording

artist and has written several books including his autobiography, “Bill Engvall – Just A Guy.”

Tickets are $90 each or $850 for a table of 10.

Please keep in mind when planning your ticket reservations that this exclusive event requires assigned seating at tables of 10. If you add guests to your initial order, they may not be sitting at your table. Priority seating is given to NSSF members followed by order date.

Expect to receive your tickets two weeks before the SHOT Show. International orders and orders received after the online order cut-off date will be held at “Will Call” outside the Valencia Ballroom starting one-half hour before the event and must be picked up before the event begins. Then get ready to be entertained by one of the most popular comedians of our times, Bill Engvall, presented by Versus Country.

Order online now.

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Finally a WOMAN on the Cover of Shooting Sportsman!!!

by Steve Remington

Courtesy of Bullet Points and Shooting Sportsman Online

At last month’s Vintage Cup World Side-by-Side Championship in Queenstown, Maryland, the event was abuzz with questions about the November/December issue of Shooting Sportsman magazine. Wing-shooting aficionados all knew it was news that the 20-year-old magazine had put a woman on its cover for the first time.  And, according to the magazine’s editor, Ralph Stuart, “The response was overwhelmingly positive.”

Stuart said he was not surprised when sportsmen and women wanted to know, “Is she legit? Is she actually a hunter?” While most of us realize magazine covers in all areas of interest frequently feature models who know nothing about the subjects they are representing, “Sportsmen are more demanding,” Stuart said.

In the cover photo, hunter and model April Moritz is carrying four mallard drakes and a Benelli Super Black Eagle II. Sportsmen and women demanded to know, could she have taken the ducks herself? Since she is outfitted entirely in Filson clothing and her cheeks are almost too beautifully rosy to be true, many also asked if she’d been made up for a fashion shoot to look flushed from the outdoor experience.

Others wanted to know if Shooting Sportsman editors, who work months in advance on each issue, were clairvoyant enough to know a dark-haired woman hunter would make the ideal November cover image even before the name of the maverick-vice presidential candidate was announced.

According to photographer Lee Thomas Kjos, model April Moritz did not shoot the particular mallards she is carrying in the cover photo, but she did bring down some pheasants during the three-day, dark-to-dark hunting trip—during which fellow hunters shot the ducks. And when she strode through the grass at the edge of a prairie slough near Veblen, South Dakota, her cheeks were flushed from the frigid temperatures rather than from makeup. “It was raw, raw-boned chill out there,” Kjos recalled. “That face and her lips and her chin—that’s not makeup. That’s cold!”

Because Kjos was doing some advertising photography for Filson during the three-day outing, the hunters in the group were wearing gear from that company. But, in fact, the photo was not posed. Kjos snapped it from across the slough using a long telephoto lens, which he had set up to focus on some men bringing in decoys and boats. “April just picked up that bird strap and started back toward the truck,” he said. “I saw her coming through the grass” and just started taking the pictures.

Moritz recalled the hunting trip, too. “We didn’t have a makeup artist out there,” she laughed. “What you see is windburn. The wind chill was so cold, I was hurting. My cheeks were flushed for a couple of days after that.”

Why did the editors of the world’s premier wingshooting magazine wait so long to feature a woman on their cover? Shooting Sportsman Art Director Lynda Mills said she long had been open to considering a woman for the cover. After all, Mills hails from a traditional Maine hunting family herself. She said she’d evaluated photos of women for this purpose before but that this image was the first that met all of her criteria for a cover. “I chose this photo because of its vitality and the fact that I knew the subject was the real deal. I thought people might question the authenticity, and I knew we had the facts to back it up.”

And here are the facts. Born and raised in rural Emily, Minnesota, Moritz grew up in a family of eight. Both of her parents hunt, with her mother even more keen on the sport than her father.  Moritz holds an MBA and a job in the field of financial management, and she sometimes models for Kjos. But she sees herself as a genuine sportswoman first. Moritz is a professional snowmobile racer who also pursues motocross in the woods around her home. Moritz is also a hunter whose first love is wingshooting.

She’s accustomed to receiving attention for her beauty but, she said, “People think because I’m a girl and I’m pretty, I might not be capable. Guys all the time want to arm wrestle with me. When they see me hunting or on a dirt bike, it gets attention because they think it’s unique. I get comments that start, “I didn’t expect….’ And I’m, like, ‘Well, yuh!’” It’s just obvious to her that plenty of women are capable at sports.

Moritz is not related to Sarah Palin. And Shooting Sportsman editors did not see Moritz in a crystal ball along with predictions of the vice-presidential news. They did know something about the future, though.

“Women are the future of our sport,” Stuart said. “As overall hunter numbers have decreased in the past couple of decades, female participation has increased. And when women become involved with the sport, they ensure that their families will take part as well. We’re proud to have a woman on our cover who truly represents the face of hunting’s future.”

For further information:
Rosemary Herbert, Publicity Director
800-766-1670; 207-596-6264
rherbert@downeast.com

NE Sled Expo Is Here

by Steve Remington

In case you forgot, this is the weekend–the New England Snowmobile Expo.  It happens today and tomorrow, so there’s still time to attend.

NOVI is coming up, too, at the end of the month.  More SeldChix details here (with links!).

Before I go, another thing you all need to know is that Kristy Martin has her own girly backcountry riding site up and running and promising really great things!  Stop in and have a look, but keep going back because there’s lots more in the works!

Dancing for snow….

I Love You In Leather !!!

by Steve Remington

To revive the beauty of leather, lightly beat two egg whites, and then apply to the leather with a soft sponge. Allow the egg whites to remain on the leather for three to five minutes, and then wipe it off with a soft cloth dampened with clear warm water. Dry immediately, and buff off any residue. For more neat tips visit my blog under Heather’s Feathers at www.skinnymoose.com/health Thanks and come back soon!!! Heather…

My kind of week

by Othmar Vohringer © By Othmar Vohringer

It stared with an unforgettable morning in the duck marsh and went on to become on of the most enjoyable weeks in my hunting career. In this blog post I will take you along on my outdoor journey illustrated through pictures. Enjoy.

As I said it all stared with that memorable waterfowl hunt. The day after that hunt I found myself sitting in my office cutting green cord pieces to the exact length needed to braid a duck call lanyard. With the memories that hunt stirred up in me it brought a knowledge that was buried deep inside me. The knowledge my father passed on to me of how to make your own duck call lanyard. It didn’t click right away but after the second try it all came back to me and within a few minutes I held a finished lanyard in my hands.

The next day I went back to the marsh for some more duck hunting. This time I was a little bit better prepared and knew what to expect. I planed on shooting a few mallards but ended the morning with a pintail hen, two gadwall hens and a green-winged teal. Mallards, the most hunted of the duck species, are very spooky at this time of season and to get them close to the decoys I have to camouflage the boat much better in the future. Still I had a good morning and I am very happy with what I got.

Two days later I headed out to scout at a new hunting area that I have discovered earlier in the fall. I found lots of deer sign, even some fresh rubs. The weather has cooled down over that last few days from warm to frost in the morning. That was all that is needed to get the deer in the pre-rut phase. Rubs start to turn up everywhere now. After the scouting I spent the rest of the morning hunting grouse. In the aspen grove draped in beautiful golden fall color I shot two grouse.

On Friday it cooled down even more which put the rainbow trout into a feeding frenzy. They have to eat as much as they can now to fatten up and make it through the winter when the lake is frozen over. This in turn makes for some excellent fishing. After changing lures a few times I found the one that the fish were going for. Within thirty minutes I caught these three rainbow trout. The largest is a monster that measured 1.5 feet and weighed cleaned out still over 3 pounds.

In between all these activity I continued on my quest to find a nice mule deer buck. Unlike whitetail deer hunting mule deer hunting involves sitting for hours at an elevated point in the landscape and glassing the terrain below for traveling or bedded bucks. If a buck is spotted bedded down the difficult task of stalking within shooting range begins. If the buck travels out of shooting range watch where he is headed and then try to follow him undetected and either anticipate where he is heading and try to get ahead of it and ambush the deer or stalk after it. Any which way you choose mule deer hunting is though.

This will be my last post for this week. On Friday my hunting partner comes up to us and we head together to our annual hunting camp for three days. I will be back here next week and hope to report that I have succeeded in my quest for a big mule deer buck. If the weather keeps as cool as it is right now the bucks should all be on the move and that makes hunting them a bit easier.

Hockey season begins: Calgary @ Vancouver, October 9th

by Steve Remington

Thursday night was a pretty amazing night. Hockey season began for the Canucks with a game against the Calgary Flames, their biggest rivals. The atmosphere on opening night is great enough anyway, but with it being a game against the Flames as well I knew it would be electric. Added to this, in the pre-game ceremony the team were going to pay an emotional tribute to Luc Bourdon, our defenceman who died at the end of May when a gust of wind blew his motorcycle into the path of an oncoming truck. As that event had hit me so hard, I truly didn’t want to miss this game. We paid more than we wanted to for tickets up in the second to last row, but it was a night I’ll never forget so it was well worth it.

When we arrived at the stadium we were all given a commemorative cap and a round silver pin with the initials LB etched on (the logo that all the Canucks will wear on their helmets throughout the season to honour Luc Bourdon). The pre-game Luc Bourdon tribute was so wonderfully done and extremely emotional. His mother and girlfriend went onto the ice to be presented with Luc’s last game-worn jersey (which had been given to a fan on the night and very honorably returned by the fan to Luc’s family). Then Tom Cochrane came onto the ice to sing Big League as a video tribute was shown. My god it was emotional, and there wasn’t  a dry eye in the house. The lyrics to Big League are so apt to Luc’s life cut so short, it could have been written specifically for him:

When he was a kid, he’d be up at five
Take shots till eight, make the thing drive
Out after school, back on ice
That was his life, he was gonna play in the Big League

Not many ways out of this cold northern town
You work in the mill and get laid in the ground
If you’re gonna jump it will be with the game
Real fast and tough is the only clear lane to the Big League

My boy’s gonna play in the Big League
My boy’s gonna turn some heads
My boy’s gonna play in the Big League
My boy’s gonna knock ‘em dead
The Big League

All the right moves when he turned eighteen
Scholarship and school on a big U.S. team
Out with his girl near Lake McClean
Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane
To the Big League

My boy’s gonna play in the Big League
My boy’s gonna turn some heads
My boy’s gonna play in the Big League
My boy’s gonna knock ‘em dead

Never can tell what might come down
Never can tell how much you get
Just don’t know, no you never can tell

Sometimes at night I can hear the ice crack
It sounds like thunder and it rips through my back
Sometimes in the morning I still hear the sound
Ice meets metal…
“Can’t you drive me down to the Big League?”

My boy’s gonna play in the Big League
My boy’s gonna turn some heads
My boy’s gonna play in the Big League
My boy’s gonna knock ‘em dead

Never can tell what might come down
Never can tell when you might check out
Just don’t know, no you never can tell
So do right to others like you do to yourself
In the Big League

You can watch the ceremony in its entirity here - kudos to the Canucks organisation, they did it so right. I had chills running down my spine all throughout, although also had a smile on my face as I remembered him. By the way, if you’re watching the video and aren’t a Canucks fan you’ll notice what sounds like a lot of boos from the crowd but they are really “Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu“’s for our goaltender Luongo, and “Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc“s for Luc - Canucks fans have never been particularly creative with their chants! You’ll notice the same Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc chant in this video - one of my favourite plays from Bourdon when he almost single-handedly stopped Ovechkin, one of the league’s top offensive threats, from scoring a goal.

The game itself was about a perfect a game as any fan can ask for. The Canucks were a bit nervy in the first period, trying to get their heads together after the tribute, but it was plenty physical and we managed to come out of it with a 1-0 lead. In the second period we scored 2 goals in the first 4 minutes and then we were away. There were hits and fights and harsh words spoken but the Flames couldn’t faze us and we went on to win 6-0 with our new captain, Luongo, getting a shutout and Alex Burrows, Luc’s closest friend on the team and by far the most emotional at the ceremony, scoring 2 goals. He dedicated the second goal to Luc by imitating Luc’s custom goal-scoring move - shooting an imaginary arrow to the heavens. Burrows actually had dinner with Luc’s mum and girlfriend the night before and they had asked him to score a goal for Luc - and he managed to score one for both of them. No one has a clue if Luc was watching over Alex and the team that night but it certainly felt like it, and the team did him proud.

I think any game I ever go to again is going to be a bit of a disappointment compared to that one - it was all just too perfect.

Fishermen Will Find Support With McCain/Palin

by Steve Remington

We are a mere 26 days away from Election Day, a day that is shaping up to be one of the most important in U.S. history. I am hoping and encouraging all anglers and outdoor enthusiasts to get out to the polls and vote but before you go, please consider the support we fishermen will be getting from the team of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Sportsmen for McCain describe the Arizona Senator as knowing the right end of a fishing rod.

“John McCain is the only choice for Sportsmen. John McCain is an angler; he knows the difference between spinning gear and a fly rod.”

Doesn’t it make sense to support someone who is a fisherman when it comes to protecting our fishing heritage and conserving our wildlife?

We are presently facing numerous issues that will have an effect on how and where we can fish in this country in the near future. Our fishing access to water is threatened and radical groups want to stop us from enjoying an afternoon on the lake, wading our favorite trout stream or spending time with our family on a fishing expedition. This makes no sense.

John McCain has been there. He calls himself a fisherman and doesn’t need to pose for photo opts in hopes of convincing some of us that he is. He fully understands the importance of every aspect of fishing for sport and industry.

As we all know by now, John McCain has teamed up with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. He’s asked her to be his running mate and fill the position of the Vice Presidency. In all seriousness, could we have asked for a better person to be on McCain’s ticket?

Sarah Palin has a rich background and a diverse one in fishing. Not only has she made a living as a commercial fisherman but has enjoyed countless times the thrill of wetting a line in some of Alaska’s great fishing rivers and streams. She is a true conservationist and with that understands the very importance of proper wildlife management that will protect our fisheries and take us into the future.

Sarah Palin has been scorned and scoffed because she is different than the usual Washington insider. While it is disturbing that our self-proclaimed progressive society shows itself as judgmental and intolerant, the team of John McCain and Sarah Palin sees beyond such nonsense and looks to protect our future.

Please help support the McCain/Palin ticket because I believe they understand my heritage as a free American and are the best people to keep that heritage alive.

More information on Sportsmen for McCain can be found on their website.

Tom Remington

Take the Obama test~

by Steve Remington

 

www.barackobamatest.com  Check out the site.. and see how closely you agree or disagree with baaraks view and choices for the future

 

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