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North Dakota deer gun and bow hunters who use ground blinds or elevated stands should consider marking them so they are visible to other hunters from all directions.

In the last few years, and reaching a peak during last year’s deer gun season, some hunters have expressed safety concerns with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department when it comes to the use of ground blinds and elevated stands during the deer gun season.

The concern – from those who use them and others who don’t – is that many of the stands, elevated or not, often blend into the surroundings. Because they are hard to see, the stands often go unnoticed by other hunters who unknowingly might shoot in that direction.

While North Dakota law requires deer gun hunters to wear blaze or fluorescent orange so they can be easily seen in the field, there is no such rule for marking blinds occupied by hunters.

The Game and Fish Department plans to address this issue at the fall advisory board meetings, which will be announced in November.

Some Congressional lawmakers are questioning a National Institutes of Health (NIH) “study” designed to determine why inner city teenagers who illegally drink and carry firearms—and consort with others who do the same—run a different risk of getting shot.  If your “Duh!” meter just went off, don’t panic—you’re not alone.

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September 26 the weekend edition of Outdoors Live Saturday at 4PM. We welcome biologist Lynn Schlueter with some waterfowl hunting reminders also we check in with Miles from Minot for a little update on field conditions in central North Dakota. All that and our central dakota outdoors report with Pat Stockdill. Catch it again Sunday morning at 7AM.

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The Dillon, Montana ranching family who lost a historically unprecedented 120 buck sheep to wolves in August have reported losing an additional 23 weaned lambs to predators in the same area over the weekend, despite the presence of a herder and guard dogs.

full story here in Montana Standard

Make sense that fishing license sales increase in this state of our states. It’s relaxing, fun and as affordable as you want to make it. The 8% bump in fishing license sales is most dramatic in decades.
more from Field and Stream

October 24 the weekend edition of Outdoors Live Saturday at 1 PM We welcome Dave Aberle from Scheels with some tips on how to make your hunt more enjoyable this fall. We’ll also visit with Fisheries Division Chief for ND Greg Power. And a central dakota outdoors report from Pat Stockdill—don’t forget you can catch it again Sunday morning at 7AM.

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The North Dakota Game and Fish Department reminds hunters that hunting big game over bait on state wildlife management areas is prohibited.

In addition, hunting over bait is also not allowed on all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service national wildlife refuges and waterfowl production areas, U.S. Forest Service national grasslands, and all North Dakota state school, state park and state forest service lands.

Hunting over bait is defined as the placement and/or use of baits for attracting big game and other wildlife to a specific location for the purpose of hunting.

Baits include but are not limited to grains, minerals, salts, fruits, vegetables, hay or any other natural or manufactured foods. It does not apply to the use of scents and lures, water, food plots, standing crops or livestock feeds being used in standard practices.

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Investigators with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have determined a deer hunter who shot a 150-pound mountain lion on the opening day of the season was justified doing so. “He was worried about getting arrested for shooting it,” conservation officer Lt. Scott Davis said. “But we found the spent cartridge, looked at the footprints—all the evidence indicated that he was protecting his life.
full story here

The 4th mountain lion of the season was harvested today near Lone Butte in McKenzie county.  The harvest was a healthy 3-yr-old female weighing 92#s

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue to issue remaining doe licenses through the end of the archery season. There is no limit to the number of deer licenses a hunter can receive.
While more than 89 percent of the deer licenses have been issued, nearly 16,000 antlerless licenses remain for the 2009 season. Doe licenses are available in units 1, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F1, 2J2, 2K2, 2L, 3A2, 3A4, 3D2, 3E1, 3E2, 3F1, 3F2, 4E and 4F.
These remaining antlerless licenses – and doe licenses that have already been issued and are printed with second, third or additional concurrent season designations – can be used during any open season: bow season with a bow; the deer gun season with a bow, rifle, or muzzleloader; or during the muzzleloader season with a muzzleloader. Hunters must stay in the unit to which the license is assigned.
In addition, landowners in nine hunting units – 2K2, 3A2, 3D1, 3E1, 3F1, 3F2, 4A, 4D and 4E – are still looking for doe hunters.
Interested hunters can apply for a remaining doe license, or get their name on the hunter contact list for landowners, by accessing the Game and Fish Department’s website at gf.nd.gov. Hunters who do not have Internet access can call the department’s main office in Bismarck at (701) 328-6300.
North Dakota’s 2009 deer gun season runs from Nov. 6-22. The archery season extends through Jan. 3, 2010, and muzzleloader season is Nov. 27 – Dec. 13. License fees are $20 for residents and $55 for nonresidents.

Living in North Dakota I have a hard time realizing how off-center some gun/ammunition bills are in other states and if I didnt believe the NRA ...who knows…

This week, Governor Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) signed yet another severe, but impotent gun control measure into law.  Assembly Bill 962, which takes effect on February 1, 2011, mandates individuals purchasing ammunition to be fingerprinted and registered at the time of sale and outlaws mail order ammunition purchases.  AB 962 will also require dealers to maintain these records indefinitely and make them available for inspection by the California Department of Justice.  As an additional burden, ammunition retailers will also be required to store ammunition away from purchasers.  AB 962 failed to garner support from Attorney General Brown, or any law enforcement organization.  In fact, 15 sheriffs wrote letters of opposition to this legislation.

more on this from NRA-ILA

A 10-year-old English pointer is recovering from back surgery and chest trauma at WestVet in Garden City Thursday.

The dog fell 270 feet down an abandoned well while bird hunting about 15 miles south of Twin Falls.

A volunteer search and rescue member from the area sent a 150-foot camera down the well Sunday afternoon, but was unable to see any sign of life, WestVet said in a release. The following day rescuers returned to the well with a camera that would reach 300 feet. That’s when they saw “Jordan” the dog lift her head.

full story here from Idaho Statesmen

After a Redding, CT bowhunter tracked the deer he shot and found it dead on 3.5 acres of private property, he did the right thing: knocked on the door of the residence and politely asked permission to retrieve his animal. Unfortunately, the homeowner, Lynn Gorfinkle, is the CEO of Animal Rights Alliance in Redding and an adamant opponent to urban hunting there. “If someone’s going to eat that deer, I want it to be natural predators,” she said. “Not some hunter.” In the Danbury News-Times.

October 17 the weekend edition of Outdoors Live Saturday at 5PM We welcome Dave Aberle from Scheels with some tips on how to make your hunt more enjoyable this fall. We’ll also visit with Kim Schmidt from ND Tourism on some new way’s to enjoy ND Outdoors and Jon Hanson from NDGF on hunter safety. And don’t forget you can catch it again Sunday morning at 7AM.

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