Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, December 11 2008 Volume 12 : Number 772 In this issue: Abused senior now 'doing well:' Police Re: [AUS] Eat camels to protect environment, Aussies told Letter to Globe and Mail (just sent) re: "eat a camel" Fight When Attacked?/Skill Set: Tactical Slings- The Tactical Wire ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:06:11 -0500 From: Lee Jasper Subject: Abused senior now 'doing well:' Police Abused senior now 'doing well:' Police Crown praises York detective for putting together a case against wife By IAN ROBERTSON, SUN MEDIA, 11th December 2008, 2:00am > http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/12/11/7703866-sun.html NEWMARKET -- Thomas "Tony" Butler is doing much better than doctors expected after the battered and starved senior was rescued from his common-law wife and her drug-addicted new lover. York Regional Police Det.-Const. Hoyt Miller "deserves high praise" for patiently and thoroughly putting together a case against the man and woman who kept Butler, 69, chained to a bed with a cord on one hand, a dog leash on the other, Crown attorney Michael Demczur said. "The neglect Mr. Butler suffered was ... a long, slow, steady slide towards death," Demczur said in his summary of the case prior to the conviction Tuesday of Butler's common-law wife Yasmin Madi. [Cripes, the elderly chap's son and daughter and a community based health care org who saw him frequently weren't wise to the abuse. Who says you don't need a snubby stashed at the ready for defense against thugs on the inside]. [Word to the wise; guard Power of Attorney judiciously.] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:00:23 +1030 From: Terry Sotos Subject: Re: [AUS] Eat camels to protect environment, Aussies told I think you would be better off reading the news item below, which reports on plans to cull 400,000 of the estimated 1,000,000 wild camels in Australia, than the one from AFP which treats the problem so frivolously. Australia's wild camel herd doubles every nine years. In another nine years there will be 2 million of them and nine years after that, 4 million if no action is taken. The Outback is an extremely fragile place and cannot support these growing populations without sustaining great damage. The current plan is to cull 400,000, but it will have to be a continuing operation. The sad thing is that these animals are just doing what they do best. The fault lays with those who released them in the first place. Welcome to CLASS - Coalition of Law Abiding Sporting Shooters Our Aim Is Shooters Rights http://www.class.org.au Outback: Plan to cull 400,000 feral camels http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24774855-2682,00.html?from=public_rss A cull of 400,000 feral camels is being considered in light of a new report to federal and state governments. The report by researchers at the Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre will be launched in Canberra tomorrow. It states that Australia has the largest wild camel herd on Earth, with more than a million camels ranging over a vast area of 3.3 million square kilometres. Lead author Glenn Edwards from the Northern Territory says the camel population is doubling every nine years. RELATED: The report is available here: Desert Knowledge CRC http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/ Media Releases DKCRC Media Release December 9: Camels wreak havoc in the Red Centre [pdf 168.9 kb] http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/news/downloads/DKCRC-Media-Release-December-9-Camels-wreak-havoc-in-the-Red-Centre.pdf Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [AUS] Eat camels to protect environment, Aussies told http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081209070110.gs8vvzpt&show_article=1 Eat camels to protect environment, Aussies told Dec 9 03:01 AM US/Eastern Australians were urged Tuesday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos. A three-year study has found that Australia's population of more than a million feral camels -- the largest wild herd on earth -- is out of control and damaging fragile desert ecosystems and water sources. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:26:50 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Sciuk Subject: Letter to Globe and Mail (just sent) Opposition mis-steps (fwd) Dear Sir/Madame, I watch in amazement as opposition parties and their misguided supporters demand from the government a budget which would wrecklessly throw tax monies in all directions to bail out companies long since out of touch with consumer requirements. With job losses looming, and no guarantees that bailouts will prevent same, the opposition parties are looking to reward those companies responsible and leave the out of work Canadian tax payers holding the bag. Of course the Unions cry that they have done "enough" already, and I suspect that they are correct, though not in the way they meant. This crass political opportunism will leave our children the tab for yet another bout of wasteful tax and spend governance, and leave the government insufficient resources to be able to cope with the aftermath. I only hope that Mr. Ignatieff's vision is better than his predecessors. Sincerely, Robert S. Sciuk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:35:43 -0800 From: "Todd Birch" Subject: re: "eat a camel" An Australian exchange conservation officer paid a visit to our rod & gun club a few years back, showing us a film that sickened us. He was one of a select group of proven marksmen employed to cull feral animals of all kinds to include camels and 'brumbies', the famed wild horses of Oz. The selection process involved proving your skill in hitting the heart area of a life-sized animal silhouette from a flying helicopter. It is an extraordinary feat of marksmanship and requires team work with a pilot to be successful. Some combos didn't work and there was a effort to put together men who could anticipate the needs of the other, almost without speaking. The method that worked best was to come alongside a string of running horses and put them down starting with the rear animal. Heartbreaking to see some of these beautiful animals gunned down in this manner. The meat had to be recovered to meet PC requirements. Not even 'roos can be slaughtered without having a licence to do so and a reefer truck to transport the hides and meat. They tested many rifles; bolt and semi-auto. The weapon of choice for it's durability and accuracy was the American M14 in 7.62mm. He showed pics of himself and others at camp sitting on boxes of ammo, loading up cases of mags, their hands taped up to save cuts. Even the pilots got involved out of sheer necessity to fill mags. Most important flight of the day was the last - the beer run. He had pics of a helo crash and the major concern was not the pilot, but the beer. Fortunately, both survived. While impressive as a feat of marksmanship, it was reminiscent of the buffalo slaughter in North America, and not something for the squeamish or faint hearted. TB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:04:33 -0600 From: "David R.G. Jordan" Subject: Fight When Attacked?/Skill Set: Tactical Slings- The Tactical Wire The Tactical Wire : Thursday : December 11 Home: http://www.thetacticalwire.com/ Contact: info@thetacticalwire.com info@thetacticalwire.com Subscribe: http://www.thetacticalwire.com/subscription.html Around the Water Cooler: Fight When Attacked? By Rich Grassi A news story on Foxnews.com reported that Georgetown MA public schools are considering a proposal to teach children as young as 10 to fight off an armed intruder if he made it into their classrooms and to conduct that fight with backpacks or textbooks. The schools are in the process of re-examining their "Code Blue" emergency plans. James Mulligan, Georgetown Police Chief, told Foxnews.com that the resistance response was a "last ditch" effort to be used in the circumstance when an armed intruder was able to get into a classroom with students. The story continues, "But others think the last thing you want to teach young kids is how to fight off an intruder with a gun." A school security consultant from Ohio told the news service that ""To put that expectation on young, emotional, scared, frightened children is really a slippery slope. It has a high risk and higher probability of escalating a situation than it would to neutralize the situation." The district's SRO (School Resource Officer) proposed the training after finding it was in use in some Florida schools. When the choice is having school kids sit terrified in a classroom alone with an active shooter or having them attack and engage the offender, we have to wonder how the circumstances become "higher risk" or how fighting could "(escalate) a situation." The consultant said that staff training would be more relevant. We concur that staff training is invaluable, particularly if you have staff who would volunteer to be armed responders. That said, simply sitting and not attempting escape or attack is unacceptable. A colleague and correspondent - a trained, dedicated warrior currently overseas - told his son to seek an avenue of escape. "I told him not to stay in there and hide, waiting to die," he reported to me some years ago. "Hiding won't do it." He's right. We don't want our kids to have to face this kind of thing at all, let alone have to move in and engage a threat. It's not like it hasn't been done before though. In May 1998, Thurston High School in Springfield Oregon was the scene of a school shooting. A freshman who'd been expelled for bringing a gun to school came back with a gun. He'd killed his parents, placed home-made bombs around the homestead and went to school. How was he stopped? According to CNN, the offender stopped shooting "when he was subdued by several classmates." One of the boys went active when he saw the killer's rifle go empty. How did he know the rifle was empty? The young hero's mother "credited her sons' familiarity with firearms for helping them deal with the crisis." His dad wore an NRA cap to the press conference. Jake Ryker, the youngster who led the attempt to stop the killing was shot. His response was to continue to fight. His younger brother, who'd already been shot in the leg, joined the attack. They and two other students prevailed. Not all kids have the advantage the Ryker boys had - training in and a respect for firearms. It seems like the solution was always there, we just weren't looking. The Georgetown MA public schools are to be commended for taking a look at the 'fight back' program. - -- -- Skill Set: Tactical Slings By Tiger McKee In an earlier post I talked about the simple carry sling for rifles. For general-purpose use a simple sling works really well. But there is a big difference between defensive encounters, where avoidance or escape are not options, or it's your job to stop an unexpected confrontation, and offensive operations, such as military and law enforcement operations, when you know in advance there is a possibility of conflict. For offensive applications the tactical sling has the advantage. The advantage of tactical slings - I'm using this term for any sling that attaches the rifle to you by looping around your body - is that with the rifle slung you have both hands free, and with the rifle hanging on the front of your body it's readily accessible for immediate use. Another advantage of the tac-sling is that transitions to the pistol are simplified. Lower the rifle down with your support hand while presenting the pistol, and then with the rifle hanging you have the use of both hands for operating the pistol. With a tac-sling anytime you need both hands free, to climb a ladder, or take control of a suspect, you don't have to worry about what to do with the rifle. Plus, I've found that it works really well when I'm taking the dogs for their evening walk. I can control the dogs on their leash and still have access to my rifle. There are a lot of versions of tac-slings out there, but there are a few features that I think are mandatory. The sling should have a quick adjustment feature, so that you can leave it loose, throw it over your body, and then tighten it up. Proper adjustment should locate the heel of the stock just below your shoulder pocket. A tac-sling should also have a quick disconnect. If you need to switch hands because of injury, your rifle gets caught or hung on something, or a teammate needs your rifle, the quick disconnect feature will come in real handy. Personally I prefer a two-point sling so the rifle doesn't flop around while it's hanging and I'm moving. If you have to use a hand to control the rifle while it's slung that sort of defeats the purpose of having a tac-sling. It should also have the capability of being used as a simple carry sling if necessary, for times when you don't have a chance to loop it around your body. As with any other piece of gear the key is to pick what works best for your anticipated use, and then practice accordingly. And when practicing, don't forget to train for the unexpected. Just because you have a tac-sling doesn't mean you'll have time to loop it over your body. Or maybe you have to fight with someone else's rifle that is outfitted differently from yours. Learn the advantages and disadvantages of your gear, and remember, ultimately it's the person that wins the fight, not their gear. Tiger McKee is director of Shootrite Firearms Academy, located in northern Alabama, and author of The Book of Two Guns. (256) 582-4777 www.shootrite.org © Copyright 2008 The Tactical Wire. All Rights Reserved. - -- -- "The Book of Two Guns: The Martial Art of the 1911 Pistol and AR Carbine (Paperback)" by Tiger McKee http://www.amazon.com/Book-Two-Guns-Martial-Carbine/dp/1419601806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218765801&sr=1-1 - -drgj ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V12 #772 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:drg.jordan@sasktel.net List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)