You could have knocked me over with a feather when I discovered that Rob Keck, for 27 years the chief executive officer for the National Wild Turkey Federation, had submitted his resignation.
Keck cited the usual “personal and family reasons” for his planned June 1 departure, but sources within the NWTF believe he was protesting the organzation’s board of directors recent vote to relieve two Keck assistants of their duties.
Details are in this week’s Sunday Gazette-Mail column.
Long gone are the good old days when ammunition reloading supplies were: 1.) easy to get,  and 2.) cheap.
Shortages caused by the United States’ war on terror have made brass and bullets hard to get, and have dramatically increased shipping costs for gunpowder. This week’s Sunday Gazette-Mail feature outlines the situation.
Members of Mississippi’s legislature are considering a bill that would make deer baiting legal in that state. Their debate, however, has centered on side issues that fail to address the bill’s biological and ethical shortcomings. See Sunday’s column for details.
Tried to order any gunpowder lately? Cartridge cases? Bullets? The United States’ ongoing war on terror has dried up some sources of the materials hunters and target shooters use to reload ammunition. Sunday’s Gazette-Mail feature highlighted the problem.
West Virginia conservation officers and hunter-education instructors will no longer have to beg their way through the doors of schools.
A bill, passed in the closing days of this year’s legislative session, allows the 10-hour hunter-ed course to be taught in any school in which 20 percent of the students express interest in taking it.
In the past, instructors had to go through a long, drawn-out process before school administrators would let them in.
Sunday’s column has details.
For the second year in a row, biologists from the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources are proposing only minor increases in the number of antlerless deer that hunters will be allowed to kill this fall.
If approved, the proposed regulation changes would be as follows:
In addition, DNR biologists want to allow 20 days’ worth of antlerless-deer hunting on 41 state-owned wildlife management areas. Last year, those areas were open for just six days.
For more detailed information, see the article published in Sunday’s Gazette-Mail.Â
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