Right to Carry is in Your Hands!

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Call your Senators! Write Your Senators!
Senate Bill 1618

Many of us are attempting to protect our communities by permitting licensed American citizens from all states to carry concealed handguns in public.

That legislation has now been introduced as Amendment No. 1618 to the defense authorization bill (S. 1390) by Senator John Thune (R-SD) and the Senate will vote on it on Monday evening, July 20.

Amendment No. 1618 would require states to accept concealed carry permits that are issued by other states. The practical effect of this change would be to streamline concealed carry permit regulations. This is particularly advantageous as many states have strong laws and safeguards, and only issue individuals permits after a computerized background check

Please call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard TODAY at (202) 224-3121 and ask to speak to your Senators. Tell them to vote YES on Senator Thune's Amendment No. 1618 to the defense authorization bill (S. 1390). If you do not know who your Senators are, check my links under the Sportsman Political Survival Links on the left hand side.

Amendment No. 1618 could dramatically increase the number of individuals carrying concealed handguns in public in your state thereby making us all safer. Law abiding citizens, Gun Owners of America, the National Rifle Association, and many others are determined to further strengthen our rights and laws after passing legislation to allow concealed handguns in National Parks.

The U.S. Senate will vote on Amendment No. 1618 on Monday evening. Please make your calls NOW to convince our U.S. Senators to stand up and say "YES" to law abiding citizens and "YES" to concealed handgun laws and safety in our communities.

Sincerely,
Albert

Fort Jackson Basic Training Graduation

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The Bear graduates Basic Training tomorrow, so the family and I are on post and having a great time!

It looks like he has grown a couple of inches and he looks great! We are so very proud of him and his accomplishments. I'll have pictures as soon as I can download them, assuming that I did bring the SD card reader.

More to follow my friends!

Best regards,
Albert

Florida Felons: Poaching Peabody the Tame Buck

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Dustin Cole Jernigan: Poacher, Criminal

Once again, some sorry excuse for a criminal has committed yet another crime that will reflect badly on everyone involved in shooting and hunting activities.

Thanks to the sharp eyes of The Portly Pirate at The Drawn Cutlass, my attention was directed to the conviction and sentencing of a Haines City felon, Dustin Cole Jernigan. Jernigan pleaded no contest on Friday to poaching the breeder deer named "Peabody," from Shadd's Game Farm near Lake Butler on September 6 last year.

Dustin Cole Jernigan will also have a restitution hearing in September where the owner of Peabody will be asking for $80,000. I hope he gets every bit of it in one way or another!

You can read all the details on The Gainsville Sun's web site: Man sentenced to probation for beheading buck.

Jernigan will likely be placed on the Wildlife Violators Compact list, and will not be able to get any hunting license in many states for several years.

Best regards,
Albert

Scheduling Blog Posts: How To

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Scheduling Posts

Call me dumb-ass but I never knew you could schedule posts to pop up when you want them to. Do you all know how many nights I stayed up a couple of extra hours just to post at 12:01 AM? Dozens of times! I could have been sleeping, getting rest. But no! I stayed up.

I remember Rick at Whitetail Woods mentioning it the scheduling function, but I never did figure out what he was talking about.

Well today I was just looking at the post editing page when I noticed there is a horizontal list near the top. It looks like this:

Your Posts: All, Drafts, Scheduled, Imported, Published

Hmmmm, I said to myself. I wonder where that came from...

So I clicked on each one to see what they could do and imagine that, I even found an old draft from months ago.

To schedule a post in Blogger is simple. (If you know how...) Obviously write your post. You would be surprised how many people forget that first crucial step. Now, click on the Post Options button on the bottom left hand corner of your editing window. Change the post date and time to the time and date you would like the post to publish on. Finally click the orange Publish Post button.

I've just tried it with a new Florida Felons post. At 2:14 PM a post should pop up!

This technology stuff is just great!

Best regards,
Albert

TROC's Link Rodeo!

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The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles
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Howdy folks!

I learned of this concept, "The Link Rodeo," somewhere on Al Gore's Internet over the last few days. Not only does it expose folks to other writers and their blogs, but on those days when you just can't come up with anything to write about, or in my case, too tired to take the photos for a half dozen posts, you can at least put something out there that is useful.

While fighting Mark Osterholt's plagiarism I found a couple of really good blogs.

First on my list is Fly Fish Chick. I found her post, Through Melrose Colored Glasses had been plagiarized and let her know we were on the job getting it removed. I took a look at much of her work and really enjoyed it. She has great pictures and storytelling. Great candidate for the OBS!

Steam of Time by Len Harris is a beauty! His stuff was plagiarized also. Great photos, video, and storylines make this one a real winner. It is incredibly smart and clever! Go check it out! NOW!

My friend Wild Ed over at Wild Ed's Texas Outdoors has had a series of posts with practical hints and techniques, and a really cool video on Spotted Cats right on our southern border. Another really good and very important one is his post on Ticks and Disease Prevention.

Whitetail Woods always has something interesting. Recently Rick posted Babbling in the Whitetail Woods, and I think it really is a fascinating and thought provoking post. So much so that I have been giving it a lot of thought. See what you think about it.

I've made some new friends too. Scott Croner is an outfitter in Nebraska. He just started blogging a week ago, joined the OBS, and got me thinking about turkey hunting. His blog, Nebraska Hunting Outfitters, is in its infancy but it should have very interesting perspectives from a professional's point of view.One of my Friends

Harris' Hawk Blog has a great post on doing the right thing with respect to global warming and the issues arising from it. Though the science is still out on the subject, there are things that are of great concern: glaciers retreating, ice shelf disappearing, shorelines encroaching. Maybe they are temporary, maybe not. I will say that many years ago I saw an art exhibition on American painters of the Naturalists persuasion where there were several paintings of ice skaters from Virginia to New York and further north. So something is going on.

By necessity, this one is a little shorter than I would like it to be. But from now on I am going to have a draft ready where I can cut and paste interesting links, blogs, and sites for everyone to explore.

Best regards,
Albert