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            Many Oklahomans have been hunting since childhood and are looking for a way to introduce a friend to their outdoor traditions, and for them, Oklahoma's apprentice-designated hunting license is a good place to start.
            The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's apprentice-designated hunting license allows hunters ages 10-35 to go hunting without first completing a hunter education course. The apprentice-designated license is the same as an annual hunting license, except it has an “apprentice” designation and the hunter must be accompanied by a mentor. The mentor must be a licensed hunter 21 years old or older who is hunter education certified or exempt from hunter education requirements. Those exempt from hunter education requirements include hunters who are 36 years old or older, members of the National Guard, or those honorably discharged or currently on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces.
            “Our apprentice-designated hunting license is extremely popular because it allows new hunters to get out in the field, even if they aren't able to get to a hunter education class in time for hunting season,” said Mike Chrisman, license supervisor for the Wildlife Department. “If you are an avid hunter, and you want to take someone new with you, the apprentice designation helps you do that.”
            The apprentice-designated hunting license is ideal for a range of circumstances, such as newcomers who are interested in learning more about hunting or for those who have been invited to go hunting before a course can be attended. Apprentice hunters can hunt big game with an apprentice-designated hunting license provided that the mentor hunter meet the specified qualifications and remain within arm's reach or close enough to take immediate control of the firearm or archery equipment. For small game, mentor hunters must remain in sight of the apprentice and both parties must be able to communicate in a normal voice without the aid of any communication device. When a license is not required (residents under 16 years of age, nonresidents under 14 years of age), the apprentice hunter still must be accompanied.
            Hunters age nine and under and who are hunter education certified can hunt big game or small game alone except during youth deer gun and turkey seasons and on public lands, where additional regulations may apply. Hunters age nine and under must be hunter education certified in order to hunt big game (deer antelope, bear or elk) but may hunt small game without hunter education as long as they hunt with an “accompanying hunter” who is within sight of and able to communicate with them in a normal voice without the aid of any communication device.
            Even those hunters who can hunt with an apprentice-designated hunting license are encouraged to enroll in a hunter education course.
            The Department's Hunter Education course teaches a range of topics including firearms safety, wildlife identification, wildlife conservation and management, survival, archery, muzzleloading and hunter responsibility. The course is available as a standard eight-hour course, or as a home study course.
            The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation offers a full listing of available upcoming hunter education courses online at wildlifedepartment.com. Visitors to the site can learn when and where classes will be held and, if pre-registration is required, a phone number is provided.

Oklahoman Editorial
Published: August 17, 2009

When do animal lovers become like the animals they purport to protect? When they become animal rights terrorists.

Terrorism comes in many forms, from raining death on humans to killing animals in order to save them. Violence, whether directed against animal researchers, abortion doctors or replacement workers at labor strike venues, is the wrong way to redress grievances.

The Wall Street Journal reports that animal rights extremism is escalating in Europe. Executives of firms that use animals in lab research are the targets of arson, vandalism and graffiti. The incidents bring to mind the 1992 case of Rodney Coronado, who was convicted of fire-bombing a Michigan research facility. Incredibly, People for the Ethical Treatment Animals contributed to Coronado’s defense.

In Europe, anonymous assailants are setting fires, damaging property and spray-painting hateful messages. The vacation home of a Swiss drug company executive was burned by the terrorists. The ashes of the man’s mother were dug up and stolen from a cemetery.

Animal rights terrorism has been rampant in Britain for years. It’s now being seen on a wide scale throughout Europe. Perpetrators aren’t always careful in choosing targets, picking those who are thought to be involved in animal research as well as those known to be involved.

We deplore the use of animals to test cosmetics, but animals must be used to test pharmaceuticals that save human lives. As far as we know, no human has been killed by animal rights terrorists, but it’s only a matter of time before a life is taken.

Oklahoma waterfowlers will be able to hunt pintails and canvasbacks throughout the entire waterfowl season this year as well as take an additional wood duck as part of their daily limit of six ducks.

The dates and limits for the 2009-10 waterfowl and sandhill crane hunting season were set by the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission at its August meeting.

Since 2003, pintails and canvasbacks have had a shorter season within the overall regular duck season was open, though dates for the two did overlap for some. This year, hunters will be able to take pintails and canvasbacks throughout the entire waterfowl season.

Additionally, last year a hunter’s daily limit of six ducks could not include more than two wood ducks, whereas this year a hunter can harvest up to three per day as part of their six-duck limit.

Aside from these two expanded hunting opportunities, the waterfowl seasons will be same as last year, with adjustments made to calendar dates.
"We’re living the good life," said Mike O’Meilia, wildlife research supervisor for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, in reference to the opportunities that waterfowl hunters enjoy in the state. "This will be the 14th year in a row we’ve had a liberal Adaptive Harvest Management regulations package, so somebody’s doing something right."

In zone 1 (most of northwest Oklahoma), the first half of the duck season will run Oct. 24 through Nov. 29, with the second half beginning Dec. 12 and running through Jan. 17, 2010. Youth waterfowl hunting days in zone 1 will be Oct. 10 and 11.

In zone 2, the duck season will run Nov. 7-29 and Dec. 12 - Jan. 31, 2010. Youth waterfowl hunting days in zone 2 will be Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.

Panhandle counties will offer the longest duck season, running Oct. 10 through Jan. 6, 2010. Youth waterfowl dates for the panhandle will be Oct. 3-4.

Hunters will be allowed a daily limit of six ducks combined, no more than five of which can be mallards. Of those, only two mallards may be hens. No more than three wood ducks, two scaup, two redheads, one pintail and one canvasback may be included in the daily limit. The daily bag limit for mergansers is five, of which no more than two may be hooded mergansers.

The daily bag limit for coots is 15.

The statewide Canada goose season will run Oct. 31 through Nov. 29 and Dec. 12 - Feb. 14, 2010. The daily limit is three birds.

The season for white-fronted geese will run Oct. 31 through Nov. 29 and Dec. 12 - Feb. 5, 2010. The daily bag limit is one.

The regular season for light geese (snows, blues and Ross’) will run Oct. 31 through Nov. 29 and Dec. 12 - Feb. 14, 2010. The daily bag limit is 20.

Sandhill crane season will be from Oct. 24 – Jan. 24, 2010, west of I-35 only. The daily limit is three birds.

Hunters who wish to participate in the waterfowl season must have a resident or non-resident hunting license, a 2009-10 Federal Duck Stamp, and unless exempt, a 2009-10 Oklahoma Waterfowl License and a Harvest Information Program Permit. The federal duck stamp is available at U.S. Post Offices. Hunters pursuing sandhill cranes must also purchase a separate sandhill crane hunting permit.

Hunters should consult the "2009-10 Waterfowl Hunting Guide," available in late September at hunting and fishing license dealers statewide, for complete hunting regulations and license requirements.

Edmond , OK --   Waurika Lake July 31^st through August 2^nd is the location of what will be a very new and exciting experience for women in Oklahoma.  The First Annual Women’s Noodling event hosted and developed by WILD Oklahoma Television will be filming a group of Oklahoma women bent on doing things their way, and not the status quo.

“WILD Oklahoma TV decided to get some daring and incredibly brave women together to get wet at Waurika Lake and do some noodling,” said Ron Black, Founder and President of WILD Oklahoma Media.  “I am surprised at the response and how brave these women are – I sure wouldn’t do it.”

Oklahoma is well known for its outdoor heritage and noodling, or ‘hand-fishing’ as it is called, is one of those traditions.  Paul’s Valley is home for a nationally-recognized noodling tournament.

The diversity of women in WILD Oklahoma’s First Annual Women’s Noodling Event is striking.  An attorney, a county emergency dispatcher, two business owners and a radiology technician are included in the mix and all of them are excited to have this new experience.  Black says that this year is their trial run, but next year the event will be even larger.

“What started as some buzz on our website, became an all out earthquake of excitement.  We’re still receiving notifications from women across the state who want to participate – we’re making it much larger and even more diverse next year,” Black stated.

WILD Oklahoma TV has a women’s division where women in the outdoors and shooting sports are the primary focus.  WILD Oklahoma is one of the few outdoor televisions where youth, women and disabled sportsmen are all celebrated with equal vigor and the programming is exclusively Oklahoma – WILD Oklahoma films only in the state of Oklahoma.

Yes, it's true.  Feral hog hunting is an incredible sport here in the great state of Oklahoma and we're one of the few serious hunting states that does not allow for night hunting on PRIVATE land during off-seasons.

Yes, you can go to the ODWC and beg your local game warden for a permit - but the landowner must be present and you have to show proof of depradation on your land.  Feral hogs do great damage, but depending upon the mood of your local game warden, you may not get permission to hunt them.

This was the vote to remove the amendment to hunt hogs at night...but they will probably pass the damned bill that allows wealthy folks with too much money on their hands to hunt from helicopters.  Highlighted/bolded are the folks who probably don't even hunt.

Guns-in-vehicle law ruled valid

by: ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ World Correspondent
Thursday, February 19, 2009
2/19/2009 2:47:18 AM

DENVER — Oklahoma's law requiring employers to allow workers to have guns in their locked vehicles at work is valid, an appeals court decided Wednesday.

The decision by the Denver-based court overturns a court order by a judge in Tulsa who in 2007 barred enforcement of the law.

A panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided 3-0 that U.S. District Judge Terrence Kern erred in concluding that the law is pre-empted by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act.

The appellate judges said Kern's ruling "interferes with Oklahoma's police powers and essentially promulgates a court-made safety standard — a standard that OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has explicitly refrained from implementing on its own. Such action is beyond the province of federal courts."

The law sparked a national dispute over gun rights, pitting some employers and gun-control advocates against workers and the National Rifle Association.

"We're pleased with the court's decision," said Charlie Price, a spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. "It was our opinion that the law is constitutional, and the court agreed with us today."

The law was passed in two stages in 2004 and 2005 by legislators who were incensed that the Weyerhauser Corp. fired eight workers at a timber mill in southeastern Oklahoma because they had guns in their vehicles at the mill in violation of company policy.

Over the years, a changing lineup of employers, including the Whirlpool Corp., which later dropped out, and more recently ConocoPhillips, challenged the law, starting with a 2004 lawsuit. Kern issued his permanent injunction in response to the challenges.

Gov. Brad Henry and Edmondson, the defendants in the lawsuit, appealed Kern's ruling.

ConocoPhillips spokesman Rich Johnson said Wednesday that "the safety of our employees is a top priority of ConocoPhillips, and we are disappointed with today's decision."

He said the company has not had time to determine what its next step will be.

In an unusual step, Edmondson had an attorney for the National Rifle Association, instead of one of his own lawyers, argue the case before the appeals court in November. The court had allowed the NRA to submit arguments as a "friend of the court."

Price said the NRA "provided great help."

The court allowed the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and other safety and business groups to submit arguments as friends of the court in support of Kern's ruling.

Among the employers' arguments against the law were that it violated their constitutional due-process right to exclude people from company property and that the law constituted a "taking" of their property.

The appellate judges disagreed with those arguments but concluded that Kern's basis for blocking the law — preemption by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act — was wrong.

Kern had held that gun-related workplace violence was a "recognized hazard" under the act and that the state law impermissibly interfered with employers' ability to comply with the act.

"We disagree," the appellate judges wrote in a 23-page decision. "OSHA is aware of the controversy surrounding firearms in the workplace and has consciously decided not to adopt a standard" banning firearms from the workplace.

The law does not conflict with any OSHA standard, the judges wrote.

"We understand (the) plaintiffs may disagree with the wisdom" of the law, the judges said. "Our task, however, is not to second-guess the Oklahoma legislature, but rather to interpret the Congressional intent behind the OSH Act and its general duty clause."

Edmondson's spokesman said the attorney general thinks last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a gun for private use "may have weighed in our favor in today's case."

It was the first Supreme Court decision to directly address whether the right to keep and bear arms is a right of individuals or a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias.

53^rd Annual Camp Provides Outdoor Learning Experience

It is not too early to think about enrolling your child in summer camp and what could be better than a week in the woods of beautiful BeaversBendState Park.  State forestry officials say only 40 campers can be accepted and they recommend those who are interested apply early. 

“The Oklahoma Youth Forestry & Wildlife Camp is one of the longest running summer camps in the state and we’re gearing up for another action-filled summer camp experience,” said Christina Stallings Roberson, educational coordinator for Oklahoma Forestry Services. “Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry has hosted this camp since 1956. It’s a great opportunity to get kids in the woods to learn about forestry and wildlife as part of an exciting outdoor adventure.”

The camp is for boys and girls aged 13 to 15 years old that want to learn more about forestry, wildlife and conservation, and that enjoy learning in the outdoors.  She said this is one of Oklahoma’s premier summer camps and draws students statewide and many are the children and grandchildren of camp alumni.

Field trips, Native Americancrafts, educational sessions and recreation programs are the heart of this weeklong camp, she said.

Older youth, ages 18 to 22, can also participate in the weeklong learning experience as camp counselors. Applicants should be mature, responsible young adults with an interest in outdoor careers such as forestry or wildlife, or education, and have the ability to guide younger youth throughout the camp.  Volunteer adult leaders are also needed.

Camper, counselor and adult applications will be accepted until May 1, 2009 and can be obtained by logging on to www.forestry.ok.gov , or by calling (405) 522-6158. The fee for campers is $175 and covers all costs including meals, transportation at camp, field trips, and workshops.  A limited number of partial scholarships are available.

  Applications must be accompanied by a letter of reference from a teacher, counselor, principal, or club leader that has personal knowledge of the camper’s interest and conduct.

Staff, wire reports

The country's financial tumult is exacting a toll on wildlife in California and Florida, where game wardens are seeing a surge in poaching for money as the economy declines.


In California, where officials are calling 2008 "The Year of the Extreme Poacher," state records show that arrests for the illegal killing of game birds, deer, bear, fish and abalone, which fetch $100 a pound, have risen dramatically since 2005.


One man was arrested four times for poaching lobsters in a La Jolla marine conservation area. A Gilroy man was caught with 335 waterfowl in his freezers, including protected species. And two people were arrested in Sacramento for allegedly poaching and selling deer to a meat market for $150 each.


With the struggling economy, some people are desperate enough to seek profits by poaching species that can be sold on the black market to consumers, retailers and restaurants. And officials say increased poaching here and in Florida may be a harbinger for the rest of the country.


"Most trends in the fish and wildlife world seem to start in Florida and California," said Lt. Col. Jim Brown of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.


Steve Adcock, chief of enforcement for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, said he's seen more activity. But he hasn't seen big numbers.


"We've seen a little bit of an increase in headlighting, but not really in greater numbers," Adcock said. "When the price of gas was higher, you didn't see as much."


Adcock said enforcement agents have been working together more efficiently.


"We've had a lot of details working with officers to curtail poaching as much as possible," he said.


Florida wildlife officials say that poaching arrests are down because of budget-related staffing cuts but poaching for sale has taken off during the recession. In recent months, authorities nabbed two men in Central Florida with 20 dead does and stags, and three men in the Florida Keys with 771 undersized lobster tails.


Poaching is not a federal offense, so U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials say they do not keep national statistics.


While wildlife authorities in New York have not noticed any increase in poaching, Michigan officials are seeing increased demand for legal hunting permits for female deer. "We were hearing a lot more people were out trying to take as many as they could to stock their freezers," said Mary Dettloff, spokeswoman for Michigan's Department of Natural Resources. 

Appeared originally in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/2/2009, section B , page 9

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee is sponsoring two bills aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence.

One measure by Coffee, an Oklahoma City Republican, would allow a rape victim to get medical care without having her case immediately reported to law enforcement.

Another would allow anyone who gets an emergency victim protection order to also obtain an emergency license to carry a concealed weapon.

Suspected burglar killed at Tulsa home

By KELLY HINES World Staff Writer
Published: 12/23/2008 6:24 AM
A Tulsa homeowner shot and killed a man who was breaking into his house early Tuesday, police said. Shortly before 3 a.m., three individuals broke into a home in the 1300 block of North Irvington Avenue, Tulsa Police Cpl. Mark Shelton said. Many of the 15 to 20 occupants were awake, including the homeowner, who heard the break-in and got his gun.

Two of the burglars, including one who was armed, were moving through the house when they encountered the homeowner, Shelton said. Gunfire was exchanged. The homeowner shot one of the burglars twice in the chest, and the homeowner's wife was shot in the abdomen. The wounded burglar left the house before collapsing and dying in the front yard.

His name has not been released.

The homeowner's wife was hospitalized but is expected to recover. The other two burglars ran from the house and were not located, Shelton said. They were described as black, in their late teens and wearing hooded sweatshirts and dark baggy pants.

Anyone with information about their whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 596-COPS or can text or e-mail the Tulsa Police Department at tulsaworld.com/crimestoppersemail. The Crime Commission offers rewards for information leading to arrests, and those reporting information can remain anonymous.

Safety Fears Spark Jump In Concealed Weapons Permits

By Darren A. Nichols and Iveory Perkins  originally published in The Detroit News

CANTON TOWNSHIP -- These days, Kirby Bunch packs more than credit cards in her purse.

Bunch carries a gun. In an age of increased awareness about violence, it makes her feel powerful.

"The first time I shot a gun was in February. I was a practicing at a firing range and I felt empowered when I held it in my hand and fired," said Bunch, 24, of Canton Township, who added her father was a military man so she was always familiar with guns.

"In that instant, I knew carrying a gun was something I wanted to do. I decided to get a personal weapon because of all the craziness going on today. My mother has been armed for many years and because of the times, it's more of a necessity."

Bunch has plenty of company who are locked, loaded and ready to fire. Fueled by crime fears and fading stereotypes about gun owners, she and other women increasingly are opting to carry concealed weapons six years after Michigan reformed laws making it easier to do so.

Permit applications have steadily declined among men after a surge in the first two years the law changed.

They fell for years among women as well, but are rising again. Women may set a record for statewide applications this year, and they're flooding ranges and prompting Wayne County and other training facilities to host "women-only" permit classes.

Bunch and other women remain the vast majority of the state's 150,000 who legally carry concealed weapons, but their ranks have jumped from 10 percent of permit-holders in 2001 to 17 percent this year. Women are on pace to receive nearly 4,100 permits this year, close to double that in 2003.

Some carrying weapons say their motives aren't mysterious: Just read the news.

Detroit last week was named the most violent community in the nation, according to rankings from FBI statistics that city officials vigorously dispute. Some suburbs, such as Troy, Livonia and Sterling Heights, routinely rank as among the nation's safest.

"After being bombarded with pictures of women being assaulted and raped, I said now is the time," said Noelle Dobbs, 37, of St. Clair Shores, who recently applied for a permit.

She's sharpening her skills and bonding with her father during weekly shoots at Target Sports in Royal Oak. "Coming here and hearing the story of some of these women, drug dealers coming in and people intimidated them makes me want to protect myself," Dobbs said.

Jerry Wrage echoed the sentiment. The owner of Handgun, Shotgun and Training Specialist in Rochester Hills said business increases when crime -- or perceptions -- rise.

Debbie Saari, 52, grew up with guns and hunting. Her father, Richard Totten, died in 2000 and left her a Colt .357 Magnum. It was locked away until she took a concealed weapons permit class this fall offered by Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans.

Now, the nurse and real estate agent said she's "hooked" and practicing regularly at ranges. Her permit should arrive soon.

"It's the increase in crime and in the bigger picture, with everything going on with terrorism and politics, we need to all take advantage of our constitutional rights," Saari said.

"If more people took advantage of their rights, we'd all be better off."

Others argue public sentiments about guns are slowly changing from an exclusively male domain. In the past 20 years, gun manufacturers have changed designs and make smaller firearms that fit easily into purses -- and they're advertising directly to women, according advocates on both sides of the issue.

Nationwide, Americans own more than 200 million firearms, more than 60 million of which are handguns, according to the National Institute of Justice. Figures vary widely about the gender breakdown of ownership, but federal statistics claim 9 percent of women own guns.

"It's becoming more socially acceptable," said Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel.

Brian Anse Patrick, a professor at the University of Toledo who studies gun culture, said the reforms on carrying concealed weapons helped change attitudes in part by bringing the issue into the mainstream.

Before the law changed, Michigan counties had their own boards whose standards for approval varied.

"Before the CCW laws were liberalized, the people getting trained traditionally in gun culture were the old white guys," Patrick said. "But after (2001) women said, 'I am a woman and at risk and it's a pretty sensible thing to do.'"

Just ask Laura Herfy.

"Being a young female in this day and age, it's great thing to have. You can carry a .22 caliber in your purse," said Herfy, 25, of Troy, who got her CCW permit three years ago.

"Before I was pretty frightened, but now I train males on how to shoot. It's something I learned to love. Some people run or jog to relieve stress. I come to the shooting range."

To meet the growing demand, the Firing Line in Westland offers a women's night at least once a month. There is normally a waiting list, and at least 30 show up each night, said Larry Sullivan, a retired police officer who works at the facility.

"Few women feel comfortable with a guy showing them how to shoot," Sullivan said. "A lot of the women come and become better shooters than their husbands. Others want to defend themselves."

Other gun ranges report a surge in female customers, including Target Sports in Royal Oak, which has about 100 women at the range each week, general manager Ray Jay said.

In Wayne County, a jump from about 200 annual applications a few years ago to nearly 1,000 caused Evans, the sheriff, to host a women-only permit class. Originally only two were planned. But when 150 women showed up, the sheriff offered six classes.

"That kind of struck us as being significant," Evans said.

"Some of the feedback is that they love the class but it would be nice to have it where women can be in their own peer group, because some women have never been around a gun.

"Generally a lot of them are women who are out alone at night and they just want to feel like they have that level of protection. There are also a lot of single moms who feel it is important to protect their family and their kids in that regard."

Chain Ranch invited me out to do some kill it and grill it Monday evening and yesterday and it was a much needed respite from the insanity that has been my existence for the last few weeks.  Chain Ranch is located 10 miles west of Canton, Oklahoma (home of the Crappie King, Donnie Jenkins) and hosts some of the best hunts in the state, without question. 

Newley Hutchinson and his staff have created an oasis of hunting and fishing that is hard to match in Oklahoma and frankly, I was pleased that they invited me to come up and put the smack down on a hog and Corsican ram. 

The hog hunt went off without a hitch - I shot a smaller, more easily roasted hog rather than a monster boar (and they have plenty of those too).  Friday is a birthday bash Steven Jones and I are hosting out at the Paradise property and the hog will be served up with Oklahoma's very own Head Country Sauce.

After the hog was down, we started out on a bow hunt for Corsican ram and I have to tell you, it was a tough hunt.  Ram aren't easy to take with a bow to begin with, but the group of rams we stalked knew we were stalking them and used the blazing heat to their advantage.  Finally, I found myself with a 25 yard shot with my bow but the doggone ram was obscured by tree branches and I just couldn't get off a clean shot with my trusty Parker bow.  It was time to bust out my 7mm Remington Mag once again.

Took the shot, and the ram was down.  All in all, a spectacular day.  Thanks again to the folks at Chain Ranch for having me out.  It was a blessing.

There's nothing like it...

You know, there's nothing like hanging out with friends around hunt camp and this season of WILD Oklahoma, you're gonig to get to experience it for yourself.

Tell your friends, your family and those who are not familiar with the kill it and grill it spirit...it's a new day in Oklahoma outdoor programming.

Ron

Newley Hutchinson and his staff have created an oasis of hunting and fishing that is hard to match in Oklahoma and frankly, I was pleased that they invited me to come up and put the smack down on a hog and Corsican ram. 

The hog hunt went off without a hitch - I shot a smaller, more easily roasted hog rather than a monster boar (and they have plenty of those too).  Friday is a birthday bash Steven Jones and I are hosting out at the Paradise property and the hog will be served up with Oklahoma's very own Head Country Sauce.

After the hog was down, we started out on a bow hunt for Corsican ram and I have to tell you, it was a tough hunt.  Ram aren't easy to take with a bow to begin with, but the group of rams we stalked knew we were stalking them and used the blazing heat to their advantage.  Finally, I found myself with a 25 yard shot with my bow but the doggone ram was obscured by tree branches and I just couldn't get off a clean shot with my trusty Parker bow.  It was time to bust out my 7mm Remington Mag once again.

Took the shot, and the ram was down.  All in all, a spectacular day.  Thanks again to the folks at Chain Ranch for having me out.  It was a blessing.

RB

There are so many outdoor programs to choose from right now that it is often difficult to sift through the product placement and over excited hosts to determine which is of value and which isn't.  Frankly, they ALL have value, yet some are clearly more entertaining than others.

We often get asked why we do what we do and the answer is simple:  We love Oklahoma outdoors.

SN & JN

Is there anywhere in particular you want to see us ride?

If there is please write us and let us know and we will make sure to add it to the list in the near future!

We go every weekend that we can that the weather cooperates and I don't have reserve duty.

Keep in mind locations that are several miles away from us may have to be done on a long weekend, but we will do our best to get there as fast as we can!

I was sitting here today reflecting on the last hunting season and had an epiphany....

What if I all of a sudden did not have the right to enjoy my passion for hunting, fishing or the shooting sports in general ????

What about all the good times with friends and family in the great Oklahoma outdoors ?

We had a successful year this year with our hunting adventures. Killed a buck and a couple of does. Saw a lot of other game....but again I thought what if we could not be here at this time, doing what we love......

It is our time to be sure the outdoors are available to us and others in the future.

So get the kids off of the X-Box, Wii and computer and take them outdoors.

Take a friend or relative who has never been out to see a sunrise or sober enough to see a sunset and show them the joy of just being there.

It is up too all of us that enjoy all of these things to be sure that our kids and grandkids have the right to enjoy them as well.

Hunt Hard, Fish Hard, Ride Hard and most of all Play Hard in WILD Oklahoma

Kenny