Hunters' Perspectives on the First Hound Hunt for Wolves

Theodore Roosevelt and General Custer did it. Now, over 100 years later, a handful of Wisconsin hunters can also claim they’ve successfully hunted wolves with dogs.

The controversial hunt — that’s still being challenged in the state’s court system — began on December 2.  Prior to that date, the wolf season was open, but not with the use of hounds.  The hunt ended on December 23 when Zone 3’s (northwest Wisconsin) quota of 71 wolves, of the state’s 251 total, was met.  Wisconsin has an over winter population estimate of 809 to 834 wolves and is the only state to allow the use of dogs when wolf hunting.

The Controversy

But some interest groups, anti-hunters, and even some active hunters, compare it to dog fighting. This is an uninformed opinion. Unlike in the recent Wisconsin hunt, breeds like the wolfhounds used in Roosevelt’s day often killed the wolves themselves.

But two of the hunters in the photo above, Jay and Jake, had a successful and safe hunt with their hounds this winter. These hunters used the same trailing hounds they hunt bears with. “Our biggest concern over having a bad encounter with a wolf isn’t during the December hunting season, it’s during the bear season, especially if we get near a rendezvous site,” said Jay. Rendezvous sites are locations where wolf pups are left for long periods of time while the adults are hunting. These sites are used from mid June until early fall until the pups are strong enough to keep up with the pack. 

“We’re not going to release our dogs on tracks of multiple wolves, we look for one animal. Single wolves aren’t as bold as packs of wolves will be. When we released our dogs, which are basically athletes doing what they’ve been bred to do, we expected them to bay up the wolf just like they do with the bear that doesn’t tree,” Jay continued. Baying up is a term used by hunters when an animal holds its ground as the dogs’ circle it. 

“We used Walker hounds. These aren’t fighting dogs, they’re family raised pets. The smaller dogs in the 40-50 pound range were the ones that caught and bayed up the wolves,” added Jake.  No more than 6 dogs can be used at one time when chasing a bear or a wolf, although these hunters used only 2 or 3.

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EMA outpost for illegal quarrying

Environment Management Authority (EMA) chairman Dr Allan Bachan says it will open a post very soon in Valencia to address illegal quarrying. Bachan, addressing a joint select committee in Parliament on Friday, however, admitted he was still waiting for police to be assigned to assist the authority there. 

He told the JSC, which was chaired by Senator Elton Prescott, that the EMA had received approval for the re-assignment of officers to the post, but was still waiting for acting Commissioner Stephen Williams to assign them. The issue of quarrying was also raised at the EMA’s last appearance before the JSC in July. At that session Bachan said the EMA needed 100 more police officers, since most of the work it did was very sensitive and in some instances had led to death threats. 

At Friday’s hearing, Bachan, together with EMA director Phillip Vilain, technical director Hayden Romano and environmental manager David Persad, re-appeared before the JSC to address questions  about its policies and procedures.

He stressed that the issue of illegal quarrying and the protection of natural resources is a major concern for the authority. He said the EMA had been collaborating with other state agencies, including the Energy and Energy Affairs Ministry, to address quarrying and the environmental degradation of the Northern Range. Bachan did not say how many police officers the EMA had asked for.

Contacted by the T&T Guardian, Williams said the EMA had asked for support. “We have given the undertaking that we will provide Special Reserve Police (SRP) to assist with the policing aspect and before the end of the year they will receive some of the officers that they have requested,” Williams said.

Bachan: We have many challenges

The EMA chairman admitted the authority was challenged in many ways to effectively carry out its duties. He said apart from limited manpower, the very legislation it has to operate creates a challenge. In fact, Bachan said, the current legislation is “soft.” “When the EMA Act came into being it was intended to be soft legislation. So it is cheaper to pollute and break the law than to follow good practice. It is one of the issues we have recognised,” Bachan said.

He said the air pollution rules and water pollution rules were being revised to make them more relevant and strong. The EMA, he said, has no laboratory and this, he said, makes it difficult for the authority to address complaints about pollution. Companies seeking licences to pollute have to do their own tests for three years and provide the information to the EMA to be granted a licence to pollute.

“It is unacceptable to say someone is providing data on themselves. It should be the responsibility for us to assess the tests. The legislation has not worked for us to ensure the proper protection of the environment,” Bachan said. Small budgetary allocations, he said, also prevented the EMA from being effective. He said it often had to rent equipment to do tests because the money it was allocated was not enough to buy equipment.

Tourism Minister Gerald Hadeed raised the issue of the five dead sea turtles that were entangled in gill nets this week and asked why the EMA had not stopped the use of such nets, which have been banned around the world. But Dr Amery Browne said in all fairness to the EMA, banning gill nets in T&T must be a government policy decision and cannot be a decision taken by a regulatory authority.

Bachan announced that the EMA intended to establish an office in Tobago to deal with environmental complaints there. He also said it would soon launch an environmental hotline and an environmental channel.

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Hunting Ban Stays in place

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Singh: Hunting ban to stay in place

ENVIRONMENT Minister Ganga Singh has described as “alarming” the initial results of Government’s National Wildlife Survey, an exercise to determine game mammal stocks following the hunting ban which went into effect in 2013.

Singh, speaking at the launch yesterday of the second National Sea Turtle Symposium at Hilton Trinidad, said incoming results have indicated, through low game numbers, a lack of respect for wildlife reserves, where hunting was traditionally prohibited year round.

The survey, a component of the National Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, Wildlife and Livelihoods Project (NRCSWLP), is funded by the Green Fund and managed by the Environmental Management Authority (EMA).

Research and data collection is focused on five game mammals – lappe, deer, quenk, tattoo and agouti.

The University of the West Indies is responsible for the methodology of the project, which looked at Nariva, Trinity Hills, Southern Watershed, Central Range, Northern Range and Tobago.

A preliminary report, a combined effort between the UWI and the wildlife consultant on the project, has shown the alarming results, Singh said.

“Hunters have suggested that there are areas that were considered hunting sites and less hunted sites and suggested that areas not so identified should allow for a reference,” Singh said.

“The data analysis thus far shows no difference between the hunted sites and the reference sites. This may be indicating that hunting is ubiquitous and that there is no less hunted or ‘reference site’. That is to say all areas are hunted. The sanctuaries and reserves are being hunted; this tells us something about our society, our lack of enforcement and about our institutions that have responsibility for enforcement in the country.”

The preliminary figures indicate a decrease in wildlife species, Singh said, and as a result, the two-year moratorium on hunting will not be lifted.

The Minister said there were still many challenges in the enforcement of the ban, for which Government faced much backlash last year from the hunting community, including game hunters.

Singh said enforcement is key in ensuring the success of the ban and since the Wildlife Section of the Forestry Division does not have the capacity to handle enforcement on its own, Government will continue to collaborate with the Water and Sewerage Authority’s estate police, private security contractors, Petrotrin in the Southern areas, and the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) officers for the Northern area.

“We are also introducing systemic change through the transition of the Forestry Division to a Forested and Protected Areas Management Authority that will be systemically different from a public sector department,” Singh said.

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Hunters' Meeting 18/10/14 ???

Caiere Chase attended the hunters’ meeting held on Saturday 18^th October 2014 at the Preysal Recreation Ground as per the public notice given in the Daily Express newspaper on Friday 17 October 2014.

It was never made clear at the meeting (while I was there) as to which Hunters Association was sponsoring this event, so on that point I am in the dark.

As far as I could tell there was only one official speaker. I believe this event was the action of an independent hunter but on this I might be wrong.

Let me make it quite clear that Caiere Chase is not affiliated with this group nor do we condone the planned actions discussed at the meeting. 

Hunting Banned For Two Years

Minister in the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources Ramona Ramdial said today the main purpose for the hunting ban was preservation.

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Hunters, hang up your guns, and tie those dogs.

A two year moratorium on hunting was announced by the State
yesterday. The hunting season was due to open October 1.

Minister in the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources Ramona Ramdial said today the main purpose for the hunting ban was preservation.

During consultations regarding a wildlife policy that was implemented earlier this year, Ramdial said several persons called for the moratorium. She said the ministry was getting statistics from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and other organisations showing the degeneration of the wildlife population.

Ramdial said: " Therefore the moratorium on hunting would be to audit and assess what we have and then a way to move forward based on the statistics that we have."

She said a UWI professor would be partnering with the ministry to look at the possibility of breeding the wildlife population in captivity.
Ramdial said the main challenge for the government during the moratorium would be illegal hunting.

"The challenges however is the illegal hunting aspect.That is something that will need to be monitored and enforced with a partnership with the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry Division and National Security also."

And the ministry was attempting to address concerns that hunters would have.

Ramdial said: "An education and public awareness campaign is about to start and we have been laising with the hunters association.We are listening to them and we are going to find a way to deal with it (issues)."

Last month president of the Hunters’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago Buddie Miller said hunters will resist a moratorium if it was unfairly and unreasonably applied.

The last time a two-year moratorium was imposed was in 1987-89 and resulted in large sections of the forests in Biche, Charuma, Cumaca, Ecclesville and Moruga being overtaken by marijuana cultivators, said Miller.

A two-year moratorium which was imposed in 1987-89 and resulted in large sections of the forests in Biche, Charuma, Cumaca, Ecclesville and Moruga being overtaken by marijuana cultivators, said Miller. Mohan Bholasingh, President of the South Eastern Hunters' Association said he was against the ban " 150 per cent."

He said research showed that moratoriums were more destructive to wildlife than beneficial.

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Cops Probe Shooting Death of Teen in Forest

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A friend of Kyle Thomas tends to Thunder and Queen, the dogs Thomas went in search of when he was shot dead on Saturday night. PHOTO: ABRAHAM DIAZ

       

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By: Derek Achong

An 18-year-old boy who could not bear the thought of losing his prized hunting dogs ended up losing his own life after he was shot while searching a forested area in Santa Cruz for his four-legged friends. According to police reports, around 6 pm on Saturday, Kyle Thomas and his 16-year-old friend Anderson Baptiste were walking with his hunting dogs Queen and Thunder in a forested area off Santa Cruz Old Road in Santa Cruz. The dogs reportedly ventured off the path, forcing the teenagers to chase after them. 

Baptiste told police that upon reaching a densely-forested area he was separated from Thomas and he only began looking for him when he heard a gunshot in the distance. When his search proved futile, Baptiste made his way out of the forest and called the police. Officers from the North Eastern Division Task Force (NEDTF) led by Sgt Cornelius Samuel responded to the scene and accompanied Baptiste to the forested area to search for his friend. 

After several hours of searching, Thomas’s body was found. Thomas had a gunshot wound below his waist. The two dogs were eventually found and handed over to Thomas’ uncle who assisted him in raising them. Investigators initially believed that Thomas was shot by a trap gun used by illegal poachers but no weapon was found when police searched the blood-stained path used by a wounded Thomas before he collapsed. 

“By all indications it was not a trap gun. We are working on the theory that he stumbled on a marijuana plantation and was shot by a man guarding it,” a source close to the investigation said. No one was arrested up to late yesterday. Speaking with a news team from the T&T Guardian at his Assing Trace, Grand Curacaye Road, San Juan, home, Thomas’ aunt described the former student of San Juan North Secondary School as a avid hunter and outdoorsman. 

“He could go in the bush for days. That was a big part of his life,” his aunt, who asked to remain unidentified said. She said since Environment Minister Ganga Singh had instituted a two-year hunting ban in October, last year, her nephew would occasionally carry the dogs for long walks when they became restless. “He real like to take care of the dogs and they had loved him too,” Thomas’ aunt said. 

Thomas’ friend and fellow hunter, who was at the family’s home and only identified himself as Nathaniel, said the teenager was a loyal friend and skilled hunter. “Those dogs are A-class. That’s one of the few things a hunter willing to die for,” Nathaniel said. Thomas’ body was taken to the Forensic Science Centre in St James where an autopsy will be done today.

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No Lifting Ban On Hunting

Ganga Singh sounds warning:

Hunters have been told that there will be no lifting of the ban on hunting “in the foreseeable future”.

Minister of the Environment and Water Resources Ganga Singh yesterday sounded a warning to hunters that with the Christmas season fast approaching, there will be greater enforcement of the moratorium.

The two-year ban on hunting took effect from October 1 last year.

Speaking at a conference hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) in Port of Spain yesterday, Singh said a preliminary report of a survey aimed at determining the status of the country’s wildlife population showed an “alarming” lack of wildlife in protected areas and game sanctuaries.

He said it was for this reason the ban will not be lifted anytime soon.

He said estate police constables at several State companies including Petrotrin, the Chaguaramas Development Authority and the Water and Sewerage Authority have been ensuring the ban was adhered to in their areas.

He said he intends to ensure further enforcement by making estate police officers in State institutions honorary game wardens.

“We know that Christmas is coming and we intend to ensure there is greater compliance,” he said.

Singh said in addition to the two-year moratorium, and to address the “predatory culture in society”, the Office of the Attorney General was currently reviewing the penalties and fines in the Conservation of Wildlife Act in order to amend existing legislation.

“The current fines and penalty regime have done little to deter the illegal activities toward our wildlife resource,” he said.

Before the ban was put in place last year, Singh noted then that a total of 140,557 agouti, deer, lappe, wild hog, armadillo (tattoo), water fowl, alligator and other species were hunted over a three-year period.

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24 Vehicles Seized in Matura Forest

Let us hope this is a sign of things to come and the government is at last becoming serious about combating squatters and others destroying our forests. 

Gouti in de pumpkin patch.

Agouti turns out to be pest to farmers’ food crops

Had it been open season, it would have been ‘gouti and pumpkin on the plate for some. As it happened, there was only what was left of the pumpkin. The ‘gouti had already eaten its share and disappeared.
This column was called out to cover four such cases over the past week. One in Tabaquite, others in Paria and Lalaja, and this one in Lopinot. 
On the San Juan Estate in the heights of La Pastora, Lopinot, Cyril Cooper has planted fields of mixed species. Besides cocoa, coffee and citrus, he has planted patches of pumpkin and root crops.
In May of this year, he started his pumpkin patch and looked forward to reaping healthy bearings around this time. However this turned out to be the beginning of a series of serious losses for him.
“When I went up the hill to reap at least one pumpkin to cook, I saw the havoc that the agouti had done. This was not just one agouti but quite a few. You could see the big teeth marks where they skinned the pumpkin to get at the seeds.”
Cooper estimates that he lost over one thousand pounds in pumpkin in just one week. His pumpkin patch is now almost totally eaten out. Where the agouti has left remnants of the pumpkin on the ground, water is now collecting in them and hastening the rotting process.
The agouti is an herbivore and one of our most populous species of wild animal. It feeds during the daytime and is considered to be a pest by farmers. Now that there has been a moratorium on hunting, many reports of an agouti invasion are coming in.
Cooper complains that the agouti has not only destroyed his pumpkin, but also his cassava, yam, tania, cush-cush and corn.
“They dig holes and eat out all the cassava. One stool of cassava usually yields about fifteen pounds. They dug out and ate most of the stools. They are eating the head of the yam too. When you look up you see the vine drying down.
The agouti is getting bolder and eating everything. They are attacking the lower cocoa pods on the trees to get at the seeds. They are reaching up at the corn and pulling it down to eat. Corn is one of their favourite foods so what they cannot reach, they cut down the tree to get it. They also destroyed my sweet peppers to get at the seeds.”
Cooper related the story about the chataigne. 
“One morning at about nine o’clock we heard the chataigne fall to the ground. The tree is just about twenty feet away from the house. We left home and came back about five o’clock in the afternoon. When we went to pick up the chataigne, we found that the agouti had eaten the whole thing and as if to add insult to injury, the agouti left only one seed for us. We still keep the seed to remember this incident.
They also eat the breadfruit when it falls to the ground. It is hard for us because now we are not even getting our own food to cook and eat. In all of my 40 plus years on the estate, I have never experienced a situation like this.”
Most farmers in the area are suffering similar losses and Cooper thinks that this is because there is a shortage of food in the forest.
“There is a lack of seeds that our wildlife feeds on. People are cutting down bearing forest trees to plant garden and build houses. The agouti is now behaving worse than the squirrel. Just like the squirrel, the agouti is now also destroying farmers’ crops.
I think that farmers on private lands should call for the agouti to be classified as an agricultural pest just like the squirrel, mongoose and manicou. You put in all your hard labour and you are not getting the returns because of the widespread damage to your crops.
I understand that the animals have to eat too but this is reaching way out of proportion. I think that the Minister of Food Production should meet with the farmers who are facing this situation to work out how best to solve this problem.
What I would like to suggest is that farmers be given some sort of stipend to actually plant seed bearing trees in the forest. This would reverse the present shortage of forest food and stop the invasion of our food crops out here. This would be a win-win solution both for the agouti as well as the farmers.”
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IMAGINE THAT: Poacher, Not A Hunter, Kills Endangered Leopard

An unidentified Vladivostok (Yeah, I had to look it up too. It’s in Russia.) man faces up to seven years in prison after poaching a critically endangered Amur leopard.  The Interior Ministry’s Primorye branch announced Thursday that the man was caught when he tried to sell the animal’s pelt.

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UNC Activist Charged With Hunting Scarlet Ibis Gets Contract To Provide Private Game Warden Services.

ARE ANTI-HUNTERS RACISTS?: Emotional Anti-Hunting Policies Are Destroying Blacks In Africa.

Question: What do you think would happen to a conservative white dude with a high public profile, like Ted Nugent, if he supported pro-hunting policies in Africa that openly jackhammered black people?

What if, hypothetically speaking, what he backed up directly destroyed their lands and livelihood and their entire way of life?

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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Continues To Ignore Science & Upholds Ban

Washington, D.C. – Safari Club International (SCI) and millions of hunter conservationists worldwide are shocked and disappointed by the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today to continue the ban of elephant trophy imports from Zimbabwe.

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Govt Gave Away 100 Acres Of Prime Land In Tucker Valley

Hunting has been banned in Tucker Valley and the whole North-western peninsula for years, on claims of protecting the environment from us maniacal hunters who would "light forest fires to catch agouti" but steadily the various governments irregardless of party are slowly but surely destroying it in actual fact.

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Questions Over New Environmental Bill

An Interview with Kendall Jones

If you’ve turned on the TV, radio, looked at a newspaper, or used the internet in these past few weeks, you have heard of Kendall Jones.

Kendall Jones is a 19 year old cheerleader studying at Texas Tech who has stirred up some recent controversy. She is a seasoned hunter that has been lucky enough to travel to Africa to hunt the big five; work alongside organizations to provide meat to local communities and help treat wounded animals. Recently, she has been targeted on social media sites and attacked by news agencies for having pictures of her hunts published on Facebook. There has been much misinformation spreading around about what she has hunted and the specific role hunting plays in conservation. Bill McGrath, SCI’s Legislative Counsel was fortunate enough to sit down with Kendall to discuss the media backlash and correctly set the narrative.

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IN DEFENSE OF TROPHY HUNTING: Stupidity/Emotion, Not Hunting, Greatest Threat To African Game

This is a powerful and irrefutable apologetic in defense of trophy hunting.  Please forward this to anti-hunting people who can still reason and hunters who pooh-pooh, for whatever reason, trophy hunting.  

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VEGETARIANS ARE EVIL BASTARDS

How can vegetarians be so calloused and continue to eat vegetables, murdered vegetables, after watching this video which clearly shows plants reacting to pain?

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SUCK ON THIS PETA: How Wildlife Is Thriving Because of Hunting

NSSF has created a new infographic, “How Wildlife is Thriving Because of Guns and Hunting,” to illustrate how we as an industry and as sportsmen are the greatest contributors to wildlife conservation in America, providing nearly $9 billion over the past 76 years.

SUCK ON THIS PETA: How Wildlife Is Thriving Because of Hunting

Deer Hunting Helps Forests Regenerate

Regulated deer hunts in Indiana state parks have helped restore the health of forests suffering from decades of damage caused by overabundant populations of white-tailed deer, a Purdue study shows.

A research team led by Michael Jenkins, associate professor of forest ecology, found that a 17-year-long Indiana Department of Natural Resources policy of organizing hunts in state parks has successfully spurred the regrowth of native tree seedlings, herbs and wildflowers rendered scarce by browsing deer..................

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Ganga Says The Hunting Ban Will Stay Inplace

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10 Reasons Why Hunting Is Conservation in the USA

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How Banning Lion Hunting Destroyed The Lion

This is a very interesting short film of an anti-hunting animal rights conservationist, admitting it was a death sentence to the lion in Botswana when they successfully had lion hunting banned by lobbying the government through petitions.

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7 Ways Hunters Can Hammer The Anti-Hunting Lunatics

This past week, Facebook removed a page dedicated to the death of a Texas Tech cheerleader named Kendall Jones.  The page was titled, “Kill Kendall Jones”.Charming, eh?

Why did 300-400 people want to kill Kendall?  Are y’all ready?  Are you sitting down? It was because Miss Jones legally hunts animals that aren’t endangered, that’s why. .......

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Woman Hunter Sends Anti-hunting Community Bat Shit Crazy

A Texas cheerleader has infuriated many in the online community after posting photos that show her smiling while standing over wildlife she shot in Africa. 


http://www.people.com/article/kendall-jones-texas-cheerleader-african-hunting-photos-controversy

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IS THAT LEGAL: PETA’s Joanna Krupa Makes Death Threat Against Huntress Kendall Jones

http://clashdaily.com/2014/07/legal-petas-joanna-krupa-makes-death-threats-huntress-kendall-jones/

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I HOPE SOMEONE KILLS ‘CHEERLEADER BITCH ANIMAL MURDERER’: Tweeted Popular Song Writer

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Game Hunting Cheerleader Hits Back at Haters: ‘Economics Provides the Answer!’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/03/game-hunting-cheerleader-hits-back-at-haters-economics-provides-the-answer/

     Craig Boddington sets the facts straight in this youtube video.

From CAIERE CHASE, we wish Ms Kendall Jones all the best and for what little it's worth, we are fully in support of you and your enjoyment of hunting.

Dog Hunting the Ancient Right of Man (poster art)

Shotgunning Tip: Don’t Over Oil

Posted by: Phil Bourjaily 3 June 2014  on Field & Stream

Some oil is good for guns. Too much is bad. I was reminded of this once again at the Iowa high school state trap shoot this past weekend. One of our kid’s guns quit working in the middle of his second round of 25 targets. The gun was a fairly new 870 trap gun, and about every third shot the firing pin wouldn’t even dent the primer. He finished the event shooting one of my guns.

Meanwhile, we took his gun apart to see if there was anything wrong. Mechanically, the gun was fine, but it was awash in oil. Grit, dust, and powder residue stick to oil and gum up the insides, and that can be enough to make a gun stop shooting, even in 80-degree weather. When it’s cold, it’s even worse, as some oils will thicken. Often, brand new guns will misfire a time or two because there is still grease on the firing pin.

Over-oiling can damage a wood stock as well. If you soak an action in oil then store the gun standing up, oil runs down into the wood, soaks in, and turns the wood dark and soft. I have only seen one extreme example (on an 870 in a used gun rack at a store) but it’s not pretty. The wood turns very dark and swells at the head of the stock.

When I want to clean a pump or semi-auto thoroughly, I make sure to get all the old oil off first. I’ll either blast it with Gun Scrubber or wash the parts in hot, soapy water and let them dry. Spray it very lightly with oil, and then wipe some of that off.

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Trial results promising for curing parvo

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota company plans to market a treatment for a highly contagious viral disease that can be life-threatening for dogs.

Grand Forks-based Avianax (ay-vee-AWN'-ihks) is testing its cure for the canine parvovirus in seven states around the country. Results have shown a 90 percent rate among nearly 50 puppies that have been treated.

Some puppies die from the virus and others are euthanized because the medicine needed to treat it can be too expensive and take too long.

Avianax officials hope to start selling the parvoONE antibody-based treatment for $75 a dose by next spring.

The antibody was discovered about 10 years ago when researchers from the University of North Dakota partnered with a South Dakota farm to find a treatment for West Nile virus in geese.

RAW EGGS AS A SOURCE OF PROTEIN IN YOUR DOGS DIET

     Myths and folklore abound when it comes to including eggs in the general diet of dogs. The egg is too often regarded as a dangerous food for dogs. Opponents of feeding eggs claim that they are too high in cholesterol, they pose a risk of salmonella and that they cause a biotin deficiency. While this may be true for humans, eggs pose no such risk for a healthy dog. People generally tend to think that what is good or bad for them nutritionally also holds true for dogs, this line of thought is completely false. Dogs are not like people when it comes to nutritional needs, people are omnivores, we need a mixed diet of starches, greens and proteins both from plant and animal; while dogs are carnivores, they have evolved to live on a diet of meat, fat and bone, with little to no vegetable matter.       Here are the facts you need to know about eggs.Eggs are a complete food for dogs – Eggs are an important source of nutrition for many predators. Inside the egg are all the vitamins and nutrients needed for the growth of the chicken embryo that it holds. Eggs are also one of the most complete sources of amino acids, these are the building blocks of protein. Eggs are an excellent source of: Vitamin A, Riboflavin, Folate, Vitamin B12, Iron, Selenium, Fatty Acids and including the shell, calcium.
Enzyme inhibitors – One of the reasons that dog owners are told not to use eggs is that the whites contain enzyme inhibitors which interfere with digestion, especially in very young and old animals. While this is true, it only means that dogs should not be fed solely or even mainly on raw eggs. It is perfectly safe to feed raw eggs several times a week to the average dog. If there is no evidence of digestive upset when feeding eggs to your dog, then he should have no trouble if eggs are a regular part of his diet. However this problem may be overcome by cooking the egg white but much of the natural vitamin content would be lost so it is always best to feed eggs raw.
Egg whites destroy Biotin in the dogs’ gut – Egg whites contain a protein called Avidin, this is a Biotin (one of the B vitamins) inhibitor. (Functional Avidin is found only in raw egg, as the biotin avidity of the protein is destroyed by cooking. The natural function of Avidin in eggs is not known, although it has been postulated to be made in the oviduct as a bacterial growth-inhibitor, by binding biotin the bacteria need. As evidence for this, streptavidin, a loosely related protein with equal biotin affinity and a very similar binding site, is made by certain strains of Streptomyces bacteria, and is thought to serve to inhibit the growth of competing bacteria, in the manner of an antibiotic. The thermal stability and biotin binding activity of avidin are of both practical and theoretical interest to researchers, as avidin's stability is unusually high and avidin is an antinutrient in human food. A 1966 study published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications found that the structure of avidin remains stable at temperatures below 70 °C (158 °F). Above 70 °C (158 °F), avidin's structure is rapidly disrupted and by 85 °C (185 °F), extensive loss of structure and ability to bind biotin is found. A 1991 assay for the Journal of Food Science detected substantial Avidin activity in cooked egg white: "mean residual Avidin activity in fried, poached and boiled (2 min) egg white was 33%, 71% and 40% of the activity in raw egg white."
 The assay surmised that cooking times were not sufficient to adequately heat all cold spot areas within the egg white. Complete inactivation of Avidin's biotin binding capacity required boiling for over 4 minutes. extracted from Wikipedia.) Biotin is one of the group B vitamins and is important for cellular growth, fatty acid metabolism and good skin and coat. Deficiencies of this vitamin are rare and it would take an extraordinarily large amount of eggs to create such a deficiency, especially in a dog. Now when you take into account that egg yolks are very high in biotin, it becomes evident that as long as you feed the whole eggs (white & yolk), there should be no problems. Remember, cooking the egg white will denature or inactivate the Avidin thus eliminating the risk of Biotin deficiency but this will also destroy much of the vitamin content of the egg. Feeding your dog whole raw eggs will overcome the problem of active Avidin, so if you decide to use raw eggs on a regular basis and as a large part of your dog’s diet, use whole eggs.Egg yolks are high in cholesterol. I can’t tell you how many times I heard people say they remove the skin from chicken before they cook it for their dogs or discard the egg yolk because they are high in cholesterol so obviously bad for dogs. Total and complete hogwash, a dog is a carnivore it is naturally able to take in high levels of animal fats and cholesterol in its diet as a general rule. The only exceptions to a dogs’ ability to cope with high levels of cholesterol might be in instances of breed specificity and chronic long term inactivity. A healthy, normal and active dog not only can tolerate high levels of cholesterol that would probably kill most of us but they most likely need it for optimum health, remember they a carnivores and have evolved to live and thrive on such a diet. Eggs contain salmonella – Dogs are well equipped to handle the bacteria in raw foods, all wild and feral canids eat raw meat both fresh and putrid. The health of the hen and the freshness and proper storage of the egg is also important, so it is always best to choose eggs from organic, free-range chickens. Proper storage, keeping the eggs cool and using them within fourteen days of being laid will also go a long way toward keeping the harmful bacteria well within the tolerable level of the vast majority of dogs.Shells a valuable source of calcium – Don’t throw the shells away, if you give them to your dog along with the contents ie. whites and yolks, eggs then become a nearly complete food source for dogs, lacking only in fiber and bulk. Dry the shells out and grind them in a clean coffee mill until they are powdered and sprinkle the powder on your dog’s food, this is a very well digested source of calcium.
The only drawback I can see to using eggs as a major source of protein in your dogs diet is their cost. If one has to buy eggs then it becomes economically unfeasible if you own a large number of dogs.  If you have access to sufficient land to raise your own free range layers and grow their food then your problems visa vie the cost is solved.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Article first published in Caiere Chase (print magazine) vol 2 # 2 August 2013.