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    Best place to get a Benelli neoprene sling and magazine

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    African Waterfowling

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    I wasn't sure what a Spur-wing or Knob-bill looked like so here's pics of all of them for everyone else to see better. Some cool looking birds you harvested there!

     

    Egyptian:

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    Spur-winged:

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    The NEW 2010-2011 Waterfowl Pictures Thread

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    This was a bird from the American Racing Pigeon Union and it belonged to a guy from Vacaville, CA (that was the info that I got from looking up the band number)

     

    I guess they need to teach those birds to fly a little faster :D

     

    I always wondered what someone would say if you contacted them and asked if it was a money band on their pigeon you just shot :D

     

    Shot a nice snow-white pigeon one time that was banded like that. Didn't think to look it up though...

    Please help out your Montana Brethren

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    If it can easily be corrected, why was it not done before it got out of hand?

     

    Again I would ask to see all of these instances where it got out of hand. I quoted actual hunters that had been there, but I've not seen the articles referencing slob hunters shooting private homes, as I would think that would have been quite news worthy. Or was that a line used by someone wanting people to stay away from their private ground which is bordered by a PUBLIC resource?

     

    If MT didn't want these guys, why did they invite them in?

     

    Montana invited them in? That might be true, I couldn't say as I don't know that for fact. I've not seen too many states that go out of their way to invite rich people in to buy up private ground. I could be wrong of course.

     

    But, it's your state, and it looks like you have plenty of signatures to proceed, so I wish you luck!

     

    It's not my state. I've never lived a day in Montana. In fact I've never even spent a night in that state. I've certainly been in it and passed through parts of it, but that's the extent of my citizenship for Big Sky Country. I just didn't think it made sense to not support law abiding waterfowl hunters when they needed it. Especially since I know some of them personally and know for a fact that they are not slob hunters.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Please help out your Montana Brethren

    in Waterfowling

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    Simply put, the ducks live a better life and return to the breeding grounds in better shape because of the fat cats. For this, I thank them, I don't sign petitions to allow slob hunters to float around and shoot houses...

     

    I haven't seen this. Do you have an article somewhere that shows this occurred?

     

    If the conduct is unlawful, I'm against it. If the conduct is lawful, I will not sign a petition against it in this case :)

     

    Fair enough, though a legal loop-hole is sure sh!tty, especially when that same loop-hole can now be used everywhere else in the entire nation. I sincerely hope they find fault in what he's doing in order to prevent this from happening everywhere else.

     

    I'm not opposed to logic or discussing things based upon fact, but saying that the area should be closed because of a slob hunter as you put it, seems extreme. How about they bust the one slob, if the one slob exists, and punish that person to the fullest extent of the law, rather than punishing law abiding hunters? What is irrational with that thought?

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Please help out your Montana Brethren

    in Waterfowling

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    So basically you're saying "It's not in my backyard so I'm ok with it." Er... ok.

     

    Isn't that the whole point? That it could very easily happen in areas that any one of us hunts that borders private ground?

     

    Basically they did this because the courts ruled that they could not keep people out of the waterway as long as they accessed it below the high-water mark.

     

     

    Is this one area a big deal in and of itself? Meaning, will the locals to that area suffer tremendously if they can't hunt waterfowl in that one spot? No.

     

    Is it the fact that they could set a precedent for everywhere else that's a problem? Yes.

     

    Should we care about what can affect us tomorrow if we ignore something today? Yes.

     

    Saying it isn't a problem in your area in California, and that they're good buds or whatever, that's all well and good, but that sure seems to be turning a blind eye to it.

     

    And no where did I or would I advocate destruction of private property. I wouldn't even advocate screaming and yelling at Huey, Dewey or Louie.

     

    It does however make me ill to think that someone who enjoys waterfowling would pull this type of garbage and leave the rest of us open to this. I am all for private land owners rights, but as long as no one breaks the law by accessing those PUBLIC areas then who are they to try and keep them off PUBLIC ground.

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