From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #296 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Cdn-Firearms Digest Sunday, October 7 2012 Volume 15 : Number 296 In this issue: [none] [none] [none] [none] [none] [none] [none] [none] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: From: Subject: [none] At , you wrote: >A New Breed of Hunter Shoots, Eats and Tells >By DWIGHT GARNER - Published: October 1, 2012 >http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/books/new-breed-of-hunter-shoots-eats-and-writes.html?ref ooks&_r > >Who is the most famous hunter in America? If you’re over 30, the first names >that come to mind are probably Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent or Dick Cheney. Research in the media falls short. Any one who leaves out Jack O'Connor in the most famous hunter short list has NOT done their research. ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Subject: Burning Bibles by U.S. Troops This ought to raise a few hackles, even if you don't have much of a Judeo-Christian tradition. You're still an "unbeliever" and that makes you the enemy of Islam, according to the Qur'an. Now, somebody post something about how our Muslim brothers and sisters simply want to go about their lives live good citizens, living peaceably with us "unbelievers" ..... I have to admit that the Christian message from fundamentalist churches that condemn all others to the same "fiery hell" is in the same league. I know of at least three Christian denominations that claim to be the "true faith", all others being in apostasy. It's enough to turn you away from organized religions in general. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth as they will be too decimated to refuse it. Happy Thanksgiving! */The Absurd extreme extent of today's Political Correctness is well demonstrated here. 12 minute video posted online about 18 months ago./* */The tyranny of Political Correctness is slowly killing our liberty and culture./* http://www.youtube.com/watch?vrzxOz3Dzv8&featureplayer_embedded ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will100512.php3 Romney hits a trifecta in Denver By George Will 10/05/12 The presidential campaign, hitherto a plod through a torrent of words tedious beyond words, began to dance in Denver. There a masterfully prepared Mitt Romney completed a trifecta of tasks and unveiled an issue that, because it illustrates contemporary liberalism's repellant essence, can constitute his campaign's closing argument. Barack Obama, knight of the peevish countenance, illustrated William F. Buckley's axiom that liberals who celebrate tolerance of other views always seem amazed that there are other views. Obama, who is not known as a martyr to the work ethic and who might use a teleprompter when ordering lunch, seemed uncomfortable with a format that allowed fluidity of discourse. His vanity - remember, he gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod whose menu included two of his speeches - perhaps blinds him to the need to prepare. And to the fact that it is not lese-majeste to require him to defend his campaign ads' dubious assertions with explanations longer than the ads. And to the ample evidence, such as his futile advocacy for Democratic candidates and Obamacare, that his supposed rhetorical gifts are figments of acolytes' imaginations. Luck is not always the residue of design, and Romney was lucky that the first debate concerned the economy, a subject that to him is a hanging curveball and to Obama is a dancing knuckleball. The topic helped Romney accomplish three things. First, recent polls showing him losing were on the verge of becoming self-fulfilling prophesies by discouraging his supporters and inspiriting Obama's. Romney, unleashing his inner wonk about economic matters, probably stabilized public opinion and prevented a rush to judgment as early voting accelerates. Second, Romney needed to be seen tutoring Obama on such elementary distinctions as that between reducing tax rates (while simultaneously reducing, by means-testing, the value of deductions) and reducing revenues, revenues being a function of economic growth, which the rate reductions could stimulate. Third, Romney needed to rivet the attention of the electorate, in which self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals 2 to 1, on this choice: America can be the society it was when it had a spring in its step, a society in which markets - the voluntary collaboration of creative individuals - allocate opportunity. Or America can remain today's depressed and anxious society of unprecedented stagnation in the fourth year of a faux recovery - a bleak society in which government incompetently allocates resources in pursuit of its perishable certitudes and on behalf of the politically connected. Late in the debate, when Romney for a third time referred to Obamacare's creation of "an unelected board, appointed board, who are going to decide what kind of [medical] treatment you ought to have," Obama said, "No, it isn't." Oh? The Independent Payment Advisory Board perfectly illustrates liberalism's itch to remove choices from individuals, and from their elected representatives, and to repose the power to choose in supposed experts liberated from democratic accountability. Beginning in 2014, IPAB would consist of 15 unelected technocrats whose recommendations for reducing Medicare costs must be enacted by Congress by Aug. 15 of each year. If Congress does not enact them, or other measures achieving the same level of cost containment, IPAB's proposals automatically are transformed from recommendations into law. Without being approved by Congress. Without being signed by the president. These facts refute Obama's Denver assurance that IPAB "can't make decisions about what treatments are given." It can and will by controlling payments to doctors and hospitals. Hence the emptiness of Obamacare's language that IPAB's proposals "shall not include any recommendation to ration health care." By Obamacare's terms, Congress can repeal IPAB only during a seven-month window in 2017, and then only by three-fifths majorities in both chambers. After that, the law precludes Congress from ever altering IPAB proposals. Because IPAB effectively makes law, thereby traducing the separation of powers, and entrenches IPAB in a manner that derogates the powers of future Congresses, it has been well described by a Cato Institute study as "the most anti-constitutional measure ever to pass Congress." But unless and until the Supreme Court - an unreliable guardian - overturns it, IPAB is a harbinger of the "shock and awe statism" (Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels's phrase) that is liberalism's prescription for curing the problems supposedly caused by insufficient statism. Before Denver, Obama's campaign was a protracted exercise in excuse abuse, and the promise that he will stay on the statist course he doggedly defends despite evidence of its futility. After Denver, Romney's campaign should advertise that promise. ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] CBC - Coyotes may be start of larger urban carnivore trend Bears, wolves and mountain lions may be next to migrate to cities CBC News - Last Updated: Oct 5, 2012 12:05 PM ET http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/10/05/urban-coyotes-carnivores-cities.html First it was foxes, skunks and raccoons. Now coyotes are setting up shop in increasing numbers within urban settings in North America. Are larger carnivores next? A professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University says urban coyotes, the largest of the mid-size carnivores, may be setting the stage for their larger brethren to start migrating to cities. "They're the ones that are kind of pushing the envelope right now," Stan Gehrt said, suggesting animals like bears, wolves and mountain lions may be next. "It used to be rural areas where we would have this challenge of co-existence versus conflict with carnivores," said Gehrt, who gave a talk on the topic Friday at a conference in Columbus, Ohio. "In the future, and I would say currently, it's cities where we're going to have this intersection between people and carnivores." In an interview earlier this week, Gehrt suggested cities probably evolved because it was safer for people to live in mass settlements. When people lived in a dispersed fashion "we were prey," he said. But that freedom from predation also works to the advantage of wild animals, which are pushing into cities in huge numbers. Gehrt described Toronto's raccoon population, for instance, as "humongous" - a description no Torontonian would argue with. Coyotes on the rise in North American cities While pet owners and home owners in cities have been tussling with skunks and raccoons for years, coyotes have recently made appearances in urban centres far from the open range with which people associate them. "They don't have any predators in the cities," he explained. Greater Chicago, with a population of nine million people, is home to at least 2,000 coyotes, said Gehrt, who has been studying the animals in Chicago for the past 12 years. "That's minimum. That's a really conservative estimate," he said. He and colleagues even found a pack of coyotes living about eight kilometres from O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports. The animals live in the smallest coyote territory ever observed, less than half a kilometre. As the animals have lived at the site for years, the environment must be meeting all their needs, Gehrt said, adding that what scientists are learning about urban coyotes defies much of what was thought about the animals in the past. Canadian cities and towns are seeing coyotes with increasing frequency as well. Calgary has a large population of the animals; some people estimate as many as 600 to 700 live in the city. Toronto urges residents to report coyote sightings They are also seen in Saskatoon, said Dr. Emily Jenkins, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan's department of veterinary microbiology and school of public health. While those cities might not seem so far off the beaten track for the animals, Toronto certainly is - and yet coyotes are seen in the city from time to time. And recently in New Waterford, N.S., wildlife officials killed four of the animals after a teen girl was attacked by a coyote. Reasons for migration Why are carnivores encroaching on urban centres? Gehrt said the reasons are complex, and may differ from species to species. The ranks of coyotes has swelled in recent years, with fewer people hunting and trapping the animals. But the animals are territorial and can only tolerate so many members in a pack. When numbers get too large, young males are expelled and have to find new territory for themselves, Gehrt said. In some cases, cities have filled that need. Jenkins said the easy access to garbage is also a draw for some carnivores, such as bears. "They're just big raccoons," Gehrt agreed. The plentiful supply of raccoons and the occasional house pet may be a draw for mountain lions, which don't eat garbage, he said. With new animals may come new health challenges for people. Jenkins has been involved in research tracking the presence of a dangerous tapeworm in urban coyotes, Echinococcus multilocularis. Coyote tapeworm that infects dogs, humans spreading to cities But Gehrt noted that if larger carnivores prey on urban raccoons, the risk from raccoon roundworm might actually decline. Co-existing with carnivores Jenkins didn't necessarily agree that coyotes would serve as ice-breakers for larger carnivores. But she suggested the design of cities may be drawing the animals into closer contact with people, with ravines and green belts and river valleys acting as virtual highways for animals trying to traverse territories fragmented by urban sprawl. "It's not uncommon to hear about cougars and moose coming through town because they've just sort of naturally funnelled into the river valley and then pop out at a really bad place - like 8th Street in the middle of Saskatoon, which we've had happen," she said. "It goes both ways. Are we in their territory? Are they in our territory? It's kind of a moot point when we all just have to figure out if we're going to co-exist or if we're going to try and fight these battles as we traditionally have with bullets and trapping and poison." Municipal planners need to keep these kinds of issues in mind and should consult with wildlife ecologists, Jenkins said. Gehrt said it is difficult to predict how this convergence of cities and wildlife will turn out. "Basically it's an uncontrolled experiment that's going," he said. "It's hard to say for sure exactly what's going to happen." ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] http://www.thedailybell.com/28123/Another-One-Bites-the-Dust "From our point of view, the rising tide of police violence and brutality is no accident. It is being orchestrated to make people fearful and confused. The idea is to make people so cowed by "officers of the law" that they will put up with almost anything - any degradation of freedom - to avoid being maimed or killed. Even more perniciously, this sort of brutality acts as a kind of divide-and-conquer mechanism. People begin to doubt that they can have any impact on "their" communities and cease to believe they have the ability to affect public policy. Their own civic enterprises become estranged from them. Their law enforcement officials become a kind of occupying force for the larger central government. Enough police brutality erodes our ability to feel shock. It sends a message that we are insignificant beings in the scheme of things, that our lives are forfeit on the whim of authority. But what is even more worrisome is that such acts of violence erode the bonds of civil society itself. Conclusion: Police are taught to believe the public at large carries within itself the ever-present seeds of incipient criminality. Citizens increasingly feel isolated by the very organs of government once created to keep them safe. Clive Edwards 48610 Auchenway Road Chilliwack, BC V4Z 1B8 Tel: 604-858-1893 Cel: 604-250-7910 Fax: 604-858-1853 45clive@telus.net ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Somehow, I'm hoping this guy doesn't have citizenship status and can be returned and exchanged for... say for a G.P. ========================= http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Wife+counted+scars+body+from+attack +Humboldt+trial+attempted+murder/7338766/story.html Wife counted 40 scars on her body from attack Humboldt man on trial for attempted murder By Hannah Spray, The StarPhoenix October 3, 2012 7:47 PM In the midst of being stabbed repeatedly by her husband, Elvircia Carelse managed to get ahold of the knife and break the blade off the handle. It resulted in yet more wounds to her hands, wounds now among more than 40 scars from that night that she has counted on her body, she testified Wednesday in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench. Brandon Carelse, now her ex-husband, is on trial for attempted murder for the April 7, 2011, incident at a home in Humboldt. Elvircia, 28, took the stand Wednesday to recount what happened that day. She said she got the feeling something bad was going to happen when Brandon, 35, started kicking her in the face with his brand new sneakers. “He was always so obsessed with sneakers,” she said. After punching and kicking Elvircia in the entryway to one of the bedrooms in the house, Brandon went to the kitchen, Elvircia said. He returned with a knife and pushed his way into the bedroom, where she had retreated, and began stabbing her. A wound to her windpipe was the most life-threatening at the time, but in the months since, a wound to her kidney has proved most troublesome. An aneurysm developed in her kidney where the wound hadn’t healed well, recently requiring emergency surgery. The couple were married in their home country of South Africa seven years ago. They immigrated to Canada in 2008, settled in Humboldt and Brandon commuted to his job as a welder in St. Brieux. There was already strain in the marriage in South Africa, but the couple hoped a fresh start would help, Elvircia said. Brandon was violent toward Elvircia on a number of occasions in South Africa and in Canada, she said. but he would always say it wouldn’t happen again. “The next day everything’s supposed to be over, because he blacked out and he snapped,” Elvircia said. Brandon was charged with assault on Elvircia after an incident in December 2010. In January 2011, he received a conditional discharge with nine months probation. Brandon wasn’t living at Elvircia’s home when the April attack happened. A few days before the attack, Elvircia said she had a conversation with her friend Janine Hart during which she asked Hart to look after her two children if something happened to her. She said Brandon threatened her “a lot of times,” saying things such as, “If he can’t have me, no one else can have me. He brought me all the way here and he can kill me, or he will kill me,” Elvircia said. On April 7, Brandon came over to Elvircia’s house as she was making supper. He apologized “for everything,” Elvircia said, and kissed her. She asked him to leave. That’s when he pushed her into one of the bedrooms and began beating her. Court also viewed the videotaped statement Brandon gave to police on April 8, 2011. He said he “snapped” during the April 7 visit when she told him to leave after he hugged her. At first, he told the interviewing officer he couldn’t remember anything from that point until he woke up on a stretcher, but as the two-hour interview progressed, Brandon shared a number of details. He said that after retrieving the knife — which had a black plastic handle and eight-inch-long serrated blade — from the kitchen, he started stabbing the floor “to scare her,” but then realized he was stabbing her. Brandon said he didn’t remember going into the basement and trying to hang himself using an electrical cord. That’s where RCMP officers found him when they responded to a 911 call about the stabbing. Crown prosecutor Paul Goldstein is expected close his case when the trial resumes today. Brandon Carelse may be taking the stand when the defence presents its case, said defence lawyer Darren Armitage. The case is being heard before Justice Richard Danyluik. At the opening of the trial on Tuesday, Brandon pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and not guilty to attempted murder. The maximum penalty for someone convicted of attempted murder is a life sentence. hspray@thestarphoenix.com ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Gun Microstamping: Democrat Ignorance Threatens Manufacturing Jobs The expensive, useless technology may drive gun plants out of New York and Connecticut. By Bob Owens October 5, 2012 - 12:00 am http://pjmedia.com/blog/gun-microstamping/?singlepage=true Remington Arms has already moved much of their skilled operations and management to North Carolina because of the tax policies of New York state, and now it appears to be on the verge of moving the rest of its facilities, all due to microstamping legislation: Microstamping, or ballistic imprinting, is a patented process that uses laser technology to engrave a tiny marking of the make, model, and serial number on the tip of a gun's firing pin to allow an imprint of that information on spent cartridge cases. Supporters of the technology say it will be a "game changer," allowing authorities to quickly identify the registered guns used in crimes. Opponents claim the process is costly, unreliable, and may ultimately impact the local economies that heavily depend on the gun industry, including Ilion, N.Y., where Remington Arms maintains a factory, and Hartford, Conn., where Colt's manufacturing is headquartered. "Mandatory microstamping would have an immediate impact of a loss of 50 jobs," New York State Sen. James Seward, a Republican whose district includes Ilion, said, adding that Remington employs 1,100 workers in the town. "You're talking about a company that has options in other states. Why should they be in a state that's hostile to legal gun manufacturing? There could be serious negative economic impact with the passage of microstamping and other gun-control laws." Microstamping tooling is extremely expensive, prone to breakage, easily disabled, and ineffective on entire families of weapons. Let's take a deeper look at what microstamping does, and how easily it is beaten. Microstamping is a series of letters and numbers reverse printed on the firing pin of weapons. In theory, when a gun is fired, the firing pin will leave a mark on the cartridge's primer (the rim of a rimfire cartridge), and the shell casing recovered at the scene will provide law enforcement information about which gun fired the cartridge. Cops will enter the microstamping code into a computer, which will check it against a database, and the police will know who the shooter is within minutes. At least, that is the theory. Reality is another matter. For starters: microstamping fails to work on any firearm that already exists, something in the neighborhood of more than 300 million firearms. As firearms last indefinitely, it would be decades before they became a significant number of total firearms - even if the technology was foolproof. But microstamping is not foolproof. Let's look at the ways microstamping fails, beyond the numbers: .Microstamping does not work if shell casings aren't automatically ejected from the crime gun. Revolvers, derringers, double-barrel shotguns, pump shotguns and rifles, and semi-automatic firearms that can be equipped with inexpensive brass catchers (common among some shooters) would leave no cartridges at the scene of a shooting. .Microstamping does not work because firing pins are inexpensive and easy to replace. The firing pin for most weapons are easily replaced by someone with a minimum of ability to read and follow the basic cleaning directions for his firearm. The expense of millions of dollars in retooling is thwarted by the purchase of a $12 part. .Microstamping does not work because the stamping is easily defaced. It would take a matter of a half-dozen passes of a standard diamond file, and less than a minute, to eradicate the microstamping. .Microstamping is incredibly fragile. The stamping would wear out over time through simple use of the firearm, or be thwarted by the normal powder residue that builds up on small parts. .Microstamping could easily be spoofed and waste police time - or worse, send the wrong people to jail. Most shooters do not reload their own ammunition, and leave their shell casings at the range. All it would take to turn microstamping to a criminal's advantage would be for a criminal or one of his associates to pick up brass from a firing range in the same caliber as the weapon he carries. After he uses a microstamping-free weapon in a crime, he would merely drop the brass he recovered from Joe Citizen at the range at the crime scene. Joe will wake up with a SWAT team crashing through his door at 5:00 a.m., and if he's lucky, innocent Joe won't be gunned down along with his family pets. Easily thwarted and capable of being used to a criminal's advantage, microstamping is a horrible idea as well as an expensive one. Remington and Colt are right to threaten to leave New York and Connecticut if ignorant Democratic politicians push forward with their demands for microstamping legislation. As for Colt and Remington, I'd merely offer that North Carolina is a much more gun-friendly and intelligent state, and they would be more than welcome to relocate here. ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Don't wait until last minute to sight in your rifle By George Block 10/7/2012 6:56 AM http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/block11/10-07-2012_Block They say that when you grow old, time passes quickly, and the elderly move a little more slowly. That's not a good combination, and I fall into that category. Thinking along those lines, it seems to me that the big game - bear and deer - firearms seasons are not that far away, and few hunters have yet to sight in their rifles. Since the death of my wife, Eileen, I find myself at home less and spending a lot of time at the sportsman's club. I get my therapy at the rifle range and find it less expensive than driving medium-tolong distances. Come to think of it, with the price of gasoline, I could include short distances. I am a long-time member of a club with over 1,000 members, and yet I find myself alone at the benches. But wait until the last couple of weeks of November, and all the benches will be in use with others waiting for their turn. I can't help but think it's not too early to sight in. Of course, the crowding of the ranges is not the only problem associated with delaying preseason shooting. There is also the weather to be considered. The closer it gets to December the more likely it becomes that the shooter will be sighting in during a rain and cold temperatures. We all shoot better in nice weather. Another factor to keep in mind is checking the big game outfit for problems. Wait until the last minute, and there is little time to correct a problem with gun or scope. Do it early enough, and the problem can be corrected. Ask any gunsmith about last-minute problems. It's been some time now, but I once had a customer come to the store with a broken scope. It seems the reticle was in four pieces. The breakage had occurred the previous year but had been neglected until now. It was the Friday before the start of buck season, which was only one weekend away. His question: Could I send the scope back, have it repaired and returned before Monday? The company was in California, and even if it had been next door, his chances of using that scope in two days was nil. What could the poor would-be deer hunter do? My answer: Buy a new scope, and the next time it happens get it fixed earlier. It's when shooting that most problems rear their ugly heads. While at the range Thanksgiving week, I find a wide array of shooters with what are minor problems - under ordinary circumstances - but are major problems with just a few days until buck season. There is always the scope without enough adjustments to get zeroed. This is more common than some would think. And, of course, there are scope mounts with loose screws. I once saw a combo rifle scope where the person mounting the scope had used the wrong mounts. That rifle couldn't have been sighted in with a crowbar and pipe wrench. The scope and mounting system is not the only source of neglected trouble. There can be problems with the rifle itself. Screws work loose causing the rifle to shoot erratically. Triggers can become faulty from dirt and gummed up oil products. Even the safety should be checked, and the range is as good a place for that as any. If the person is shooting reloads, every round loaded should be run through the rifle and the rifle's magazine. I hunted with a fellow who had shot his rifle all summer only to find while hunting up north that his reloads were too long for the magazine and he was stuck with a single shot. He had loaded the darned thing one round at a time while groundhog hunting and shooting at the range, never thinking to check the rounds for length. It seems there is a lot of controversy about a big buck taken in 2006 by Johnny King in Wisconsin. Originally measured, it scored higher than the world record typical buck, the Hanson buck. As any potential record buck would be treated, the deer was remeasured by officials of Boone & Crockett and found to have a non-typical point on the right main beam, which dropped the score dramatically. There has been some debate on this point, so B&C appointed a panel of judges to decide the typical, non-typical status of G-3 on the right antler. They decided the point was non-typical, lowering the final score to 180. It's a fine buck but not a world record. I have seen detailed photos of this buck and do agree that G-3 right side is non-typical. George H. Block writes a Sunday Outdoors column for the Observer-Reporter. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #296 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca 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".)