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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 6, 2017 22:44:38 GMT -5
Bottomline is that this is better than what we got last year...
,243 caliber and above
iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1415#document-4b12ddec
Rifle correction is on page 4
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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 6, 2017 22:33:15 GMT -5
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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 6, 2017 22:32:01 GMT -5
This doesn't quite cut it. Need to have a max allowable also, or some knucklehead will think it's OK to hunt with .50 BMG or similar type cannons. I testified to that effect last year...someone else can complain this time...
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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 6, 2017 22:30:13 GMT -5
You may want to start following HB1415 which passed the House Natural Resources Committee this morning. Am amendment was offered to change the wording on rifles to .243 and above. Should be posted with the update one day soon. So to answer Seiny's question you should encourage your local Representative and Senator to support the bill. HJ Will it also amend the sunset date? I don't think so...may need more research...
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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 6, 2017 14:19:07 GMT -5
HB1089 was passed by the House Natural Resources Committee by a 6-2 vote. Regulation of timber sales. Reins in Monroe County folks from overburdensome regulations that restrict private landowners from logging.
HB1415 was amended and passed. This is the DNR Omnibus bill. Of note were passage giving authority to the Natural Resources Commission to raise some license fees, for example, the commercial fishing licenses. Also the rifle rule passed last year was amended to allow ALL calibers .243 and above. You should contact your representatives and senators if you wish passage of these bills.
HJ
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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 6, 2017 14:03:47 GMT -5
You may want to start following HB1415 which passed the House Natural Resources Committee this morning. Am amendment was offered to change the wording on rifles to .243 and above. Should be posted with the update one day soon.
So to answer Seiny's question you should encourage your local Representative and Senator to support the bill.
HJ
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Post by hatchetjack on Feb 4, 2017 16:49:12 GMT -5
Tree huggers have pushed this bill for years. They will be having a hearing on February 13 around 9 AM. Looks to be like a hippie demonstration to get this voted on. I'm hoping they don't vote on it. Synopsis: Old forest areas in state forests. Requires the department of natural resources (department), before January 1, 2018, to designate at least one undivided area comprising at least 10% of each state forest as an old forest area. Provides that, wherever possible, the size of a designated old forest area must be at least 500 acres. Sets forth certain purposes to guide the department in designating the old forest areas. Prohibits the department from conducting or allowing timber management in the old forest areas. Requires the department to produce and keep on file maps and legal descriptions of the designated old forest areas. Provides that the designation of the old forest areas may not affect hunting, fishing, trapping, and other recreational uses of the state forests, the maintenance of access roads in the state forests, or rights of access through the state forests. Link to the bill: iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/420#document-8f2b379dMy opinion...let the professional foresters do their job and keep emotions out proper forest management. HJ
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 26, 2017 11:15:35 GMT -5
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 25, 2017 19:22:52 GMT -5
Each year our Pheasants Forever chapter sponsors kids to go to the Indiana Conservation Officers youth camp. We usually select 10-15 kids currently in the 5th or 6th grade to spend a week at the camp in Lafayette, IN. Campers earn their Hunter's Ed and Boater's Ed certification and learn a lot about the outdoors (not to mention they shoot up about 20,000 rounds of ammo on range day). We are currently looking for eligible kids to sponsor for the camp. We pay the $350 fee for each camper.
If you have a candidate please contact Tony Magnabosco @ tony_magnabosco@live.com
HatchetJack
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 25, 2017 12:05:05 GMT -5
Received this today:
While we are still screening the reports, we have had 45 hunting incidents with 23 involving tree stands. The majority of our tree stand accidents involve lock-on stands with the primary cause being broken straps. We will continue to stress the importance of checking your equipment on a regular basis which we hope will reduce this number. While we have always emphasized the need to conduct these inspections, repetition is what will eventually win out on reducing the overall impact.
Let me know if you need anything additional.
Lt. Larry W. Morrison
DNR Law Enforcement Division
Outdoor Education Section
402 W Washington St. Rm W255D
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 16, 2017 21:54:28 GMT -5
Looks like there is a delay with this proposal. NRC likely won't address this issue tomorrow.
Jack
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 16, 2017 8:51:30 GMT -5
Knew a fellow who was at Khe Sanh, he told me to change the subject that it was worse than I ever read or heard about. Met a guy later on my tour who was at Hue, not good. I was behind the wire, long way from it, just Russian made 122mm rockets with 20lbs.of HE calling on us every once in a while. Should have taken a picture when the sun came up of a tree top just outside of our hootch. I opened the door to see if there were any fires close and the darn thing tore some limbs out of it and buried itself in the sand about 6 feet from a guy looking out his door down in the next row of hooch's. If the tree had set it off, I would not be typing this. If it hadn't been a dud, he would have gone home in a bag. EOD dug it out and gave him part of it as a souvenir. He was a nervous wreck for several weeks after that. Forgot most of the funny times, but they were the good parts. Lost one of my high school classmates in a B52 raid, another when the chopper he was in got shot down, report said when he ran out the back [CH47} after it hit the ground and one of the rotors darn near decapitated him. Classmate in the Corps,little guy that everybody liked, got it during a mortar barrage on the base he was at. Stay in a guys house down south when I deer hunt, he was an infantry CO, I don't even ask him about his time unless it food, clothing, did he get an R&R, etc. unless he brings up something first. Got two "kids" who lived up the street from me, one went to Iraq, his younger brother went to Afghanistan both are bit scatter brained at times. Both were in the Corps. Don't know why but all the "kids" in our neighborhood joined the Corps except the draftees. Hardly any of the Marines made it to Nam. All the draftees did. Had one really good friend who lived 3 houses down and a year younger than me. He was killed at Khe Sahn. When they built The Wall in Washington, I made the trip just to see his name. Too many memories and stories to even start but lots of good to go with the bad.
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 16, 2017 8:44:06 GMT -5
MABS 12, Marine Air Base Squadron 12. Checked in Sept.'67, checked out Jan.'69. Our hootch area was just north of the big fuel tanks on the beach area. Most of MABS was East of the MSR. We made do living in those plywood living quarters, but it was the Ritz compared to what the '03 crowd had to deal with. Got to experience Tet of '68 when the bad guys got our bomb dump, darn near wiped out every thing on the new flight line from the blast wave. Read a report where the blast wave was just under the power of the Hiroshima mission. Wear hearing aids eventually from that morning, and unexpected loud noises stop me in my tracks to this day. We had A4 Skyhawks, Mag 13 across the way had F4 Phantoms'. Made E4 out of Electronics school at MCRD San Diego, so life in the Orient was bearable. Joined in July 1965. I was with HMS-14 in Cherry Point when I got orders to join VMA-533 (A-4 Skyhawks). I was also an electronics weenie working on the Vertical Display Indicator (VDI) that interfaced with the Skyhawk computer (first of it's kind). I did almost 9 months in Memphis in electronics school before I got to the squadron. A few months real work and then I get washed out from severe concussion side effects. I would have been there during Tet but I won't lie...I'm glad I missed it. Thanks for all you did brother. Semper Fi, Jack (retired E-4 also)
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 13, 2017 19:47:36 GMT -5
Most bills have to be submitted by next week. So far not much that affects sportsmen.
HB1095 - Plastic-coated ammunition. Defines "armor piercing ammunition" HB1109 - Say's Firefly designated as state insect. HB1089 - Regulation of timber sales HB1159 - Repeals the law that requires a person to obtain a license to carry a handgun in Indiana HB1161 - Income tax credit for firearms safety expenses SB350 - Designates the red fox as the official mammal of Indiana SB394 - Cost-benefit analysis of state forest logging SB420 - Old forest areas in state forests SB470 - Provides that the milkweed flower is adopted as the official state wildflower
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 13, 2017 19:17:55 GMT -5
I've been reading those excerpts lately, brought back memories of conversations I had with a bunch of those grunts. Although I was just a REMF at Chu Lai, all fun filled close to 16 long months. I got around to different parts of that huge air base, R&R's, and back home at some of the local bars, and the real life experiences mirrored to a T what's in those articles. How about Rontgen badges worn on white smocks going in and out of tunnels built into a huge hill west of Danang ? Helped reading and sorting out Top Secret messages one night for the next days bombing runs into Laos, even though I was not assigned to our Message Center, and only had a Secret clearance on a need to know basis. Just helping out a friend who was stuck there one night and was over whelmed with the overload of messages coming in. Never told anyone about that until I was out and home and the war was winding down years later. At one time I could have written a book on what I came across, but the idea of fellows in three piece suits showing up at the front door told me that would have been a bad idea. Same kind of conversations about Iraq and Afghanistan have taken place on my back porch. tenring - I may have asked before but what squadron were you with? Before I got hurt I was supposed to go with VMA-533. HachetJack
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 12, 2017 9:54:32 GMT -5
Question Jack, I didn't check in a deer this year so I don't even know what the screen looked like. Anyone - Was there a methods category that was HPR or was it just Rifles like it has been since PCRs were first being used? Not sure how they got HPRs if it was all under rifles..? I think Mark's statement was that they no incidents with HPRs and 20% of the deer taken were with rifles. I interpreted the 2 statements as only HPRs but in hindsight I bet the 20% was all rifles. My mistake. Jack
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 11, 2017 18:08:54 GMT -5
Question: Would anyone support increases to the waterfowl stamp, game bird habitat stamp or the trout stamp? I didn't raise the issue today but I may next week.
Jack
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 11, 2017 16:24:04 GMT -5
Fascinating comment from today's Advisory Council meeting was that the BOAH had discovered several cattle herds they had no record of existing.
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 11, 2017 13:01:57 GMT -5
Just home from the Advisory Council mtg. Here are my notes:
1. No issues with high power rifles. Approximately 20% of the deer taken were with an HPR. No one knows if the legislature will revisit the statue this session. 2. No Law Enforcement @ mtg so I couldn't ask about injuries etc. from this season. I'll find out next week. 3. TB update: 3 cattle herds have been affected. 2 of those herds have been depopulated and negotiations are on-going on the 3rd. 1 whitetail and 1 raccoon were found to have TB. 2000 hunters submitted samples in the management/surveillence zones. DNR staff stated that the strain being found is from captive cervid high fence outbreak. Costs to DNR were approx $200k in manpower and $100k in testing. Because of the public response supplying TB samples the sharpshooters have been called off. Could have cost upwards of $1,000,000 if they had been used. 4. Extensive discussion on new fee increases. Short term fix until a new funding plan can be designed. New 3 year licenses seem to be a large part of this initiative. Since the fee increase is not a rule change but a non-rule policy change it doesn't have to go through a public hearing. If you wish to make comments on this change either attend next week's NRC meeting or contact one of the Commission members with your comments. Advisory Council passed the fee increase forward with a favorable reccomendation. Fees would become effective on April 1, 2017. 5. Discussions going on about bobcat season. 6. John Davis spoke about Goose Pond Shooting Range possiblity and about trail funding. 7. Chris Smith mentioned the legislature and the upcoming forestry bills which will inhibit the existing forestry plan; also mentioned the DNR omnibus bill which has mainly corrections the DNR usually makes.
Jack
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Post by hatchetjack on Jan 9, 2017 17:23:33 GMT -5
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