Cdn-Firearms Digest Saturday, January 3 2009 Volume 12 : Number 927 In this issue: Re: US: Minn. lawmaker says she'll seek lead ammo ban...Pressroom Re: Police seek Yorkton handgun thieves Taking aim; Archery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:00:57 -0600 From: 10x <10x@telus.net> Subject: Re: US: Minn. lawmaker says she'll seek lead ammo ban...Pressroom At 11:01 PM 1/2/2009 -0600, you wrote: > > >Minn. lawmaker says she'll seek lead ammo ban-The Outdoor Pressroom >http://www.outdoorpressroom.com/outdoorpressroom/2009/01/minn-lawmaker-says - -shell-seek-lead-ammo-ban.html > >January 01, 2009 > >More lead-bullet hysteria in Minnesota. State lawmaker Sandra Maslin >(D-Eagan) told Minnesota Public Radio she plans to introduce legislation >to ban or significantly restrict the use of lead bullets for hunting in >the state. Folks seem to forget that automobiles put some 20 MILLION TONNES a year of tetraethyl lead into the enviroment. Tetraethyl lead was distributed as small molicules and dusted over roadside plants and into watercourses. Tetreaehtyl lead is easly bonded to organic material and goes into the food chain quickly. Where as the lead used in bullets is a solid lump that becomes inert. Folks seem to forget that there are streams and rivers that flow through areas with high amounts of lead in British Columbia and there is no measurable lead in waters of those streams and rivers - other than the galenium ore found on the bottoms. The people and wildlife in these areas seem to not be picking up lead as well. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:10:24 -0500 From: "D R Goodbrand" Subject: Re: Police seek Yorkton handgun thieves >They are all handguns, no long-barrelled rifles. > Some are restricted and some are prohibited so some are revolvers and some > are semi-automatic type weapons," said Fedorowich. The handguns are valued > at under $5,000. All of the firearms were registered. QUOTE: "Some are restricted and some are prohibited so some are revolvers and some are semi-automatic type weapons" What is THIS nonsense ? An RCMP Sgt infering that revolvers are restricted but semi-auto handguns are PROHIBITED ?? Who trains these fools ? D. R. Goodbrand ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:28:43 -0500 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 2" Subject: Taking aim; Archery PUBLICATION: The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton) DATE: 2009.01.03 SECTION: Life PAGE: E6 BYLINE: LAVERNE STEWART stewart.laverne@dailygleaner.com WORD COUNT: 552 - -------------------------------------------------------------- Taking aim; Archery | Fans of this sport meet regularly at First Wesleyan Church to indulge in their passion - -------------------------------------------------------------- He calls it a passion but Bruce O'Blenis' wife calls his love of archery an addiction. "She would call it a sickness. I definitely am addicted to it. It's become my release. It's how I can forget all about whatever's around me," he says. "You focus literally on the bull's eye and everything else disappears." This isn't a passion his wife shares. She tried it but decided it wasn't for her, he says. O'Blenis discovered this passion about five years ago after he and a friend went to the Department of Natural Resources to purchase a deer hunting firearms licence. At that time he was asked if he planned to hunt with archery equipment. It made him want to try bow hunting. His friend has archery equipment and showed him how to use it. "I learned everything I knew from him," he says. "Then we both learned from one another." Six months later he had his own bow and arrows. The bows are large but they weigh under six pounds. O'Blenis says until you decide this is a sport you want to invest time and money in it is best to borrow equipment and give this a try. "A new bow and arrow would cost anywhere from $600 to $1,500. It depends on what you are looking for." The best place to learn archery is at a club, he says. O'Blenis started one. It meets every Tuesday evening at the First Wesleyan Church. The club is open to everyone. Currently the club has over 40 registered members, he says. The archery happens in the church's gym. Very much like a rifle range everyone stands at a shooting line. A range officer gives both verbal and whistle commands to tell people what they are allowed to do and when. Safety is the first priority. "The range rules have to be followed at all times," says O'Blenis. "If you can't follow the rules and we see that then you are gone for the night. If you continue to break the rules you are banned permanently. We just can't take any chances." For O'Blenis archery happens outside too. He is a bow hunter who hunts deer in the early fall from October to mid November. As soon as it's warm outside he goes outside to practice in his backyard with a life-sized rubber target that looks like a deer and another one that is a bag filled with plastic. "We set them up at different distances and shoot the arrows at them. My effective range is about 40 yards." O'Blenis started to hunt when he was a nine-year-old boy. When he started bow hunting, he discovered it was a lot more exciting because it's much more of a challenge. Now 90 per cent of his hunting is done this way. "It's a different enjoyment." It's a total organic experience to get very close to animals. This is something he couldn't do if he were hunting with a rifle, he says. "I have brought home some game. The last two years I travelled to New York state and hunted there. I brought home a small deer. It's phenomenal." His family enjoys venison far more than beef, he says. "My kids will pick at beef. If I put wild game in front of them they will go back for seconds. It is so lean." Interest in archery is growing. For some reason it doesn't have the stigma that shotguns and rifles do, he says. "Is there really any difference? No. A well placed arrow will kill faster than a rifle." O'Blenis' interest in archery goes back to his childhood. He recalls fashioning a bow from a twig and string. Arrows would also be made from the nearest small branch. Now that he's an adult he is able to live out his child dreams, he says. Advancements in technology and improved materials have made bow limbs stronger. Newer bows will not be ruined if they are accidentally dry-fired without an arrow. "This destroyed older bows but it doesn't with these new bows," he says. There are compound bows and traditional ones. A compound bow has wheels at the top and bottom, a sight, and other attachments that help you be more accurate, explains O'Blenis. He now teaches an archery hunter safety course with the province. He will help people who are new to this sport who come to the club at First Wesleyan. This sport requires upper body strength and develops the upper middle back muscles. O'Blenis says he notices that he has much better upper back strength than he did before he started archery. If you would like more information about archery or the club that meets at First Wesleyan, contact O'Blenis at 459-2908 or 458-9232. You can write to him about archery and this club at; baoblenis@rogers.com ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V12 #927 *********************************** 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".)