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Here’s what’s worth reading today, Monday, October 28, 2019:
Man and his young son harass deer hunter in a tearful, profanity-laced, and utterly bizarre video: A Long Island, New York, man and his young son were caught on video harassing a deer hunter who was minding his own business in the woods and looking for deer. Dominick Lobifaro, a 30-year-old hunter from Brooklyn, New York, caught the incident on camera. While Lobifaro was seeking for a place to hunt, he was approached by a man and his son as well as a throng of neighborhood youngsters. “Hey!” the unnamed man can be heard shouting to get the attention of Lobifaro, who was sitting in his truck at the time. “The kids wanna know — why you wanna kill deer?” The man’s son follows closely behind and adds, “What did the f***ing deer do to you?”
One arrow and two extra points, story of new archery record buck anything but ‘typical’ Guner Womack is a down-to-earth hunter, not a big talker, pretty humble, and it sounds like he’s a good worker. Pretty good shot, too. He’d have to be to go hunting with only one broadhead in his quiver. One broadhead and two small points play important roles in the story of 2019’s first big Oklahoma record whitetail. Womack, 18, an Oklahoma State freshman, rushed home after weed-whacking 300 yards of fence at the cross country track where he works as a groundskeeper on Tuesday, shot a great buck, posted the photo on Facebook before he went to bed and woke up living in a different realm of the hunting world. The large-bodied buck, likely 4½ years old, had nearly symmetric antlers. He scored a gross measurement of 209 4/8 inches and netted 192 6/8, according to green-score marks.
San Francisco’s Capt. Wacky Jacky still in search of salmon at 91: “Woo hoo!” Wacky Jacky yells as a customer hooks a salmon upon her beloved 50-foot sportfishing boat. Capt. Jacqueline Douglas, who turned 91 on Oct. 2, still runs sportfishing charters aboard her namesake the “Wacky Jacky” three to four times a week, heading out from her coveted spot next to Castagnola’s restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Thin, with wispy white hair, bright blue eyes and a quick smile, she’s a formidable force at the helm as she plies the sometimes treacherous waters outside of the Golden Gate. “I don’t feel my age. Ninety-one is just a number,” Douglas said. “Thank goodness we can still catch salmon out there.”
Faced with chronic wasting disease, what’s a hunting family to do? The fall sun warmed my face and a breeze rustled the leaves of a nearby aspen as my husband returned from a morning elk hunt. “Any luck?” I asked. He nodded, describing elk bugles and a clean kill as he headed to the truck for his pack, saw and knives. I scooped up our 1-year-old from a nap in our tent. “Daddy got an elk,” I said softly. “He needs our help.” The three of us stepped up a southeast Wyoming hillside covered in pines and fall grasses. The elk died not far from where Josh, my husband, shot it with his bow. It would fill our freezer for a year. Josh and a friend got to work: removing organs, peeling hide, placing tenderloins and backstraps in white cheesecloth bags. Both men learned to hunt from their fathers, who learned from their fathers. They continue because of tradition, relishing the lean organic meat and weekends spent sitting, backs against lodgepole pines, listening for the squeal of a cow elk or the bugle of a bull.
Florida captain gets a reminder that fishing can be dangerous: On Tuesday, a 66-year-old Arkansas hunter was gored to death when a deer he shot attacked him after the hunter thought the deer had been killed. Around 6:30 p.m. the hunter called family to say he had shot the deer. At 8 p.m. he called again, this time to say he was injured, before later passing on the way to the hospital. It’s a grim reminder there is always a risk when dealing with wild animals and in the pursuit of capturing game. Capt. Griffin Deans also was served that reminder recently on the water. Deans was out grouper fishing around Tampa Bay on Thursday when a fish got its revenge before it headed for the cooler.
How Democrats’ gun control plans would wreck wildlife conservation: People seeking public office should do homework before embracing bad policy. If they don’t have the time, at minimum they should require their staff to be informed. Every current Democratic presidential candidate is advocating an assault on wildlife and habitat conservation in America. It’s fair to assume they don’t know. They, like most Americans, are likely unaware that the bulk of wildlife conservation funding in this country comes from a healthy firearms industry. Almost $1 billion each year goes to state wildlife and natural resource agencies courtesy of checks written by firearms, ammunition, and related manufacturers. It is the result of an 11% excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and related goods known as Pittman-Robertson, or the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937.
Woman sues after husband killed in Oregon hunting accident: The widow of an Eastern Oregon elk hunter has filed a $960,000 lawsuit against the man’s hunting partner following an accidental shooting. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Friday that Vicki VanCleave, George VanCleave’s widow, filed the lawsuit against Richard Toubeaux in Baker County Circuit Court. The lawsuit says 76-year-old George VanCleave died Feb. 19 after Toubeaux checked to see if his rifle was loaded and it fired, the bullet striking and killing VanCleave. The Baker County sheriff’s office investigated the shooting involving the two Baker City men that occurred about 50 miles southwest of Baker City and decided not to pursue charges after determining it was an accident.
The 7 worst people you’ll meet on every fishing forum: Social media has given voice to the voiceless. That’s definitely true and is likely touted as a net positive by Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey as they’re reaching for another helping of pate’ at swanky cocktail parties, just an ivory-tower climb from the feces-infested and needle-strewn streets below. But some people are voiceless for a damn good reason: Society just doesn’t want to hear what they have to say. These people are so off-putting that coworkers ignore them and even family members shun them. They invariably end up alone, yelling at the sky or aiming the water hose at kids who play on their lawn. Back in the day, their banishment from civil society may have shoved them to the town square, where their insufferable diatribes and crackpot hypotheses earned them the whispered moniker of “village idiot.”
Deer dog hunting critic ponders lawsuits: Hunters whose dogs cross non-consenting property owners’ land while hunting deer in Pasquotank County could find themselves in civil court. Doug Lane, a Pasquotank resident who believes it should be illegal for a deer hunter’s dogs to enter private land without written and dated permission from the landowner or its lessee, said concerned landowners are considering taking civil action against hunters who violate property rights. Lane said he’s helping form the Albemarle Ethical Hunting Association, a group that plans to pursue civil action against any deer dog hunter that allows their dogs to enter private property without permission. He said a 1954 North Carolina Supreme Court decision, Pegg v. Gray, gives landowners legal standing to take civil action.
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