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© By Othmar Vohringer A 65-year-old man and his friend, a 63-year-old man, from Winnipeg experienced a dramatic encounter while on a fishing and camping trip at Dunbar Lake, north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario, when a black bear attacked the older man and dragged him out of an outhouse on early Saturday morning. According to the Police report the 65-year old man was in the outhouse and was

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© By Othmar Vohringer Since the long-gun registry has been abolished it has come to the attention of the Public Safety Minister Vic Toews that the chief firearm officers (CFO) across Canada have taken it upon themselves to get gun shop owners to collect personal information from buyers of hunting rifles to establish what is termed a “backdoor gun registry”. In a stern letter to the RCMP the

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© By Othmar Vohringer Mitchell Guist, one of my favourite Swamp People cast members, tragically died on May 14 after collapsing on board of his boat. Sheriff Mike Waguespack of Assumption Parish said that Guist was pronounced dead at the hospital on Monday morning. It is assumed that Mitchell suffered a seizure. More information to what caused the death will be announced in the coroners report

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© By Othmar Vohringer A friend phoned me up a few days ago to tell me about a new program offered by the BC Wildlife Federation. The program is called “Outdoor Passport” and its intended to provide hunters easy access to private land provided the landowner participates in the program. Naturally, I wanted to learn more about it and asked my friend how it works. “Well, Othmar, it’s easy,” he said

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© By Othmar Vohringer It makes me cringe each time I learn of a hunting accident, especially those that occur because of mistaken identity. Last week two “mistaken identity” accidents occurred on opening day of the spring turkey hunting season in Indiana. In the first case 55-year old David Iron of Cicero mistook his brother, 35-year old Brian Iron of Noblesville, for a turkey. According to

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© By Othmar Vohringer Steve Remington from the OutdoorBlogger.Org has compiled a list of the top ten outdoor bloggers that have been doing it since beginning of the “bloger age”. I am humbled to be included in that list. Sure it is not an official ranking but nonetheless it is nice and encouraging to be recognized by a fellow blogger as one "of the first hour". Back then in 2005 when I

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(Originally published in the Merritt News – Othmar Vohringer The Outdoorsman) © By Othmar Vohringer On Monday morning at1:00 a.m. the alarm went off and an hour later I was on my way towards Kelowna to meet up with my good friend Rick. The sparkling stars in the sky promised a beautiful sunny day. “The perfect weather for turkey hunting” I thought as I drove along highway 79 in anticipation of

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© By Othmar Vohringer Yesterday was a gloriously nice day day. For the first time it felt like spring here in Merritt. My wife and I celebrated that day by taking our cameras and driving out on a Nicola Valley photography tour. In all the years we live here we've never seen that many deer out and about in the fields in the middle of the afternoon. Deer where everywhere and by the time we came

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© By Othmar Vohringer Every year like clockwork anti hunting and animal rights groups get together to launch a “ban grizzly bear hunting” lobbying assault on the public and the political parties. These operations are based on little more then myth. Not only is British Columbia home to a healthy and thriving grizzly bear population, in some cases grizzly bears have populated near towns and cities

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© By Othmar Vohringer Cabela’s, The Worlds Foremost Outfitter® for hunting, fishing and other outdoor activity gear has announced the opening of a new store in Tulalip, WA. The opening is scheduled for Thursday, April 19 at 11 am. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is set at 10:45. Outdoor celebrities and other special guests will be present for the opening ceremony and the following weekend-long

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© By Othmar Vohringer (Originally published in the Merritt News: "Othmar Vohringer - The Outdoorsman") March and April are for several reasons great times for me. The first is knowing that the winter soon will be over. Although having grown up in cold, snowy Switzerland I never liked it and I still don’t. As a hunter it also means that the spring hunting season is soon upon us. March and April

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© By Othmar Vohringer Once again PeTA and other notorious animal rights groups use the celebrity status of hunters to launch their usual misguided media frenzies against hunters and hunting. The following news has been supplied to me by US Sportsmen.org Donald Jr.  and Eric Trump Have you noted the growing trend in America? Citizens who go legally hunting and find success are finding

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(Originally published in the Merritt News) © By Othmar Vohringer When the bill to end the long-gun registry passed in the House of Commons there was a big cheer in the ranks of the Conservative party and from law-abiding firearm owners around the nation. Finally, the two billion dollar feel-good-legislation that did absolutely nothing to prevent firearm related crimes but, as Public Safety

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Our Fish & Game Club has asked me to provide one of my all day hunting seminars as a fund raiser toward the building of the new archery range. If you live near Merritt, BC plan on attending. This is going to be a great event with lots to learn, fun and entertainment while doing something good for our fellow hunters.

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© By Othmar Vohringer It’s that time of year again, were I  am getting ready for the seminar and trade show tour. Starting of with the BC Boat & Sportmen’s Show on March 2nd to 4th in Abbotsford. This years seminars are on how to get better results with calling whitetail deer and in the second seminar we will replace commonly held whitetail deer rut myth with scientific facts. Keith Beasley from

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© By Othmar Vohringer It has long been known that the white sturgeon, a fish renowned for its primitive appearance, is under threat. Once abundant, it has declined drastically since the 1990s, with research showing that only 1,000 wild adult sturgeon currently exist in British Columbia’s upper Columbia River. The federal government consequently classified the upper Columbia white sturgeon

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(Originally published in the Merritt News - Othmar Vohringer The Outdoorsman) © By Othmar Vohringer Taking my brother on his first hunting trip. As you read this the British Columbia 2011 fall and winter hunting season is closed with the exception of geese and coyotes. The reports I received from across North America suggest that this will be another of “those seasons”. It seems that the

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(Originally published in the Merritt News - Othmar Vohringer The Outdoorsman) © By Othmar Vohringer When I moved from Europe to America and for the first time saw people huddled up in warm clothing sitting on a frozen lake fishing through a hole in the ice I thought “They are crazy.” Since then I’ve become one of those “crazy” people too. Not only do I like ice fishing, I look forward to it

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© By Othmar Vohringer As an outdoor writer I spend a considerable amount of time researching news headlines on the internet to gather information about topics I want to write about. It’s a tedious job. On my research rounds I come across many newspaper articles that cover issues that are of importance to hunters and anglers, such as conservation issues, government regulations and many other

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© By Othmar Vohringer My first, but not last, coyote. Over the years I often thought about extending my hunting season beyond deer hunting, which around here closes on December 10. Hunting coyotes seemed always a possibility to do that but for some reason I never went out again once the deer hunting season closed. A few weeks ago as I walked to my stand I could hear coyotes howling from every

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(Originally published in the Merritt News - Othmar Vohringer The Outdoorsman) © By Othmar Vohringer Over the years the one thing I’ve noticed about successful hunters is a trait they all have in common: Knowledge! Successful hunters have spent many years perfecting their skills and have studied the habits and behaviours of animals. They have learned how wild animals use the landscape features

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(Originally published in the Merritt News – Othmar Vohringer The Outdoorsman) © By Othmar Vohringer This year’s summer was hot and the fall had the occasional rain, which provided deer with plenty of nutritious food and good conditions to raise their offspring. At the opening of the hunting season the deer usually grazed late in the fields; often after dark to avoid the heat of the day and

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© By Othmar Vohringer It was like a ton of bricks had been lifted off my shoulders when I heard it in the radio; “The Harper government announced this morning (October 25th) Bill C-19, a law to abolish the long-gun registry.” It finally happens. The two billion dollar feel-good policy introduced in 1991 that did absolutely nothing to keep guns out of criminals’ hands, that didn’t save a single

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(Originally published in the Merritt News –Othmar Vohringer The Outdoorsman) Part 1 of  BC Bear Facts © By Othmar Vohringer Ten years after the decision to cancel the spring bear hunt, the rural and urban Ontario people are now living in constant fear of bears attacking children and breaking into houses. In other words, in many rural areas of Ontario, bears have been declared a nuisance animal

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© By Othmar Vohringer When I think of Parliament Hill I think of politicians mindlessly bickering and pointing fingers at each other like kindergarteners. Imagine my surprise when I learned that an all-party team made up of such opposites as former Liberal cabinet minister Wayne Easter, Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan and Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and some

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