Fox shoots man - Fox Fights Back Against Hunter
(Reuters) - A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter's gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle, media said Thursday.
The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a distance, was in hospital with a leg wound, while the fox made its escape, media said, citing prosecutors from the Grodno region.
"The animal fiercely resisted and in the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw," one prosecutor was quoted as saying.
Fox-hunting is popular in the picturesque farming region of northwestern Belarus which borders Poland.
(Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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New Beretta Xcel Competition Shotgun
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Built on the Xplor platform introduced last year, the Xcel is the newest offering the Beretta line of competition shotguns. It has a traditional vent rib and is available with and without the patented Beretta Kick-Off(tm) recoil system.
There are a lot of surprises in the Xcel for those of us who would think it is simply a repackaged Xplor with a vent rib. In researching the need for a new auto-shotgun Beretta discovered that the Xplor was too light, so inside they took some of the aluminum and polymer components and replaced them with steel. They also added a weight system at the end of the screw cap, and completed the shotgun with a completely new piece of shotgun competition technology. There is a computer in the stock! Every round you shoot with the Xcel is counted by the gun, and you can’t reset it. Turn the gun upside down and you will see an LCD display with buttons, and this display will tell you a variety of factors about your shots. If the batteries run out, the Xcel keeps counting. When you put the new batteries in it will tell you what you shot when the batteries were dead. This is nifty new shotgun that we will hopefully pick up more information and better pictures for this week.
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Built on the Xplor platform introduced last year, the Xcel is the newest offering the Beretta line of competition shotguns. It has a traditional vent rib and is available with and without the patented Beretta Kick-Off(tm) recoil system.
There are a lot of surprises in the Xcel for those of us who would think it is simply a repackaged Xplor with a vent rib. In researching the need for a new auto-shotgun Beretta discovered that the Xplor was too light, so inside they took some of the aluminum and polymer components and replaced them with steel. They also added a weight system at the end of the screw cap, and completed the shotgun with a completely new piece of shotgun competition technology. There is a computer in the stock! Every round you shoot with the Xcel is counted by the gun, and you can’t reset it. Turn the gun upside down and you will see an LCD display with buttons, and this display will tell you a variety of factors about your shots. If the batteries run out, the Xcel keeps counting. When you put the new batteries in it will tell you what you shot when the batteries were dead. This is nifty new shotgun that we will hopefully pick up more information and better pictures for this week.
Orignal Post On Gunsamerica site
Nemadji State Forest Grouse
Thursday October 21st
Finishing Up After Dark
My initial impression was not favorable as my little backwoods trails are now ATV trails. Makes for easy walking but with how close this area is to two metro areas I know how much pressure these trails get and the grouse get pushed further back into the cover. Tina and I walked for about 30 minutes on the ATV trail before we could get to a non-motorized trail. 10 minutes down the trail she went on point. I missed the first bird but fortunately I connected on a second bird. This trail died out a short distance later so we turned around and headed back to the main trail. The trail went through some good looking cover but we weren’t seeing any birds. We approached an area that bordered some lower wet sections and Tina was going on and off point so I moved in front of her to try to block off the bird. She continued to work the area but we didn’t find anything. As I walked back up to the trail a bird got up, two shots, another bird, two more shots, reload another and another bird..... eventually 7 or 8 birds got up and I took 6 or 7 shots and totally missed on them and two of the shots were nice straight away trap style shots.. I was ticked... Tina was wondering what happened as there were no birds on the ground for her to find. We continued down the trail to where it came out on the main forest road in.
Finishing Up After Dark
I was able to make it up to Nemadji State Forest after work in time to get a couple of hours of grouse hunting in. I hadn’t hunted these trails in over 5 years but had good luck in years past and was anxious to give it a try.
My initial impression was not favorable as my little backwoods trails are now ATV trails. Makes for easy walking but with how close this area is to two metro areas I know how much pressure these trails get and the grouse get pushed further back into the cover. Tina and I walked for about 30 minutes on the ATV trail before we could get to a non-motorized trail. 10 minutes down the trail she went on point. I missed the first bird but fortunately I connected on a second bird. This trail died out a short distance later so we turned around and headed back to the main trail. The trail went through some good looking cover but we weren’t seeing any birds. We approached an area that bordered some lower wet sections and Tina was going on and off point so I moved in front of her to try to block off the bird. She continued to work the area but we didn’t find anything. As I walked back up to the trail a bird got up, two shots, another bird, two more shots, reload another and another bird..... eventually 7 or 8 birds got up and I took 6 or 7 shots and totally missed on them and two of the shots were nice straight away trap style shots.. I was ticked... Tina was wondering what happened as there were no birds on the ground for her to find. We continued down the trail to where it came out on the main forest road in.
After a short break we started back towards our parking area. When we got to the spot where I had missed all of the birds we bushwhacked around the area and Tina pointed one on the side of a small hill and this time I was able to complete the task at hand. After continuing back on the trail without anymore action I knew we were getting to within 5 to 10 minutes of where we had parked and Tina started to get birdy. I worked my way into the woods to help her out and she get relocating off to my left so I stopped to watch her and I could hear a bird moving to my right. I could tell that Tina could hear it also as she was looking in the direction of the sound. I took one step and the bird got up and came back down with one shot. In about 3 hours of afterwork walking on highly traveled public land we were able to put three birds in the bag.
Sunday October 10th 2010 - Emily Outing Area Grouse Hunting
Just in case you think I only write about my successful hunts..... Me after getting shut out.
Sunday was looking to be a continuation of the warm days. It is hard to complain about it being too nice to hunt after missing days the last few years because of rained out weekends. This was the third day in a row for the heat for myself and Tina. I decided to let Tina relax at Tony’s cabin. We were going to hunt the Emily / Outing area today. I had hunted this area quite a bit 10 years ago but shifted more of my hunting to Ely and Grand Rapids. We had good success in the years past so I was hopeful of a good showing. We hunted a number of areas that looked really birdy but only moved three birds for the day. It was dry and warm and I don’t think we were on the top of our games so I count out this area.
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