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Guinea Fowl Numididae | What Are They?

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The WWII Brazilian Flag

Early this January, around the time that I started operating my new business, Hampel’s Gun Co. in Traverse City, Michigan, Pete Zimmerman, a long time Hampel’s customer and family friend, came to store to meet me. And at that first meeting he presented me with a most unique and dear gift: the Brazilian Flag that you see in the photo above.

Pete, owner and operator of Rediscovered Shooting Treasures, that provides faithful “Reproductions of Classic Original Factory Firearm Manuals, Instructions, Boxes and Hang Tags”, explained to me that both his parents were in active service during World War II, his father being a bomber pilot and his mother a nurse, and that they were based in Natal, northeastern Brazil.

Once his father was done with bombing missions he started flying casualties between North Africa and northeastern Brazil. Just to refresh your geography, the straight line between Natal – Brazil and Dakar – Senegal, is the shortest distance across the Atlantic, and during World War II this airway was called “The Bridge to Victory.”

Anyhow, sometime during their war services, bomber pilot Zimmerman and soon-to-be nurse Zimmerman. met and fell in love and were married in Brazil, when they received this flag as a gift.

And so, the Brazilian flag was kept in the Zimmerman family for over seventy year, until it was gifted to me!

I must say that receiving it was a very emotional moment to me, and immediately I knew that I had not only the obligation to continue to preserve it, but also that it would be an opportunity to display a symbol of love and friendship.

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Clay Shooting: The Beginning

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Beginning
A Bogardus Glass Ball from the Karl Hampel Collection

Note: This article first appeared in Hooks & Bullets Magazine March/April 2017 issue.
The day I first met Kevin Speer, the heart and soul behind Hooks & Bullets, we talked about many different subjects, one of them being my on-going efforts to write something that is readable without too much pain and discomfort to the reader. Another was that Kevin thought it would be nice to have some articles on clay shooting, since many readers showed interest in the subject, but were not familiar with the different forms of the shotgun sports.
But before we go any further I must make it very clear that my shotgunning parallel my writing: I am an enthusiast at both, but not really good, or just good, at either. And although I have published three books and written twenty or so magazine articles, I never shot a single registered shotgun target in my life, so…thread these lines with care!
Nowadays we have an apparently ever-increasing variety of shotgun sports, also called “Clay Pigeon Shooting”, but the most common forms are Trap and Skeet. The basic difference is that in Trap the “birds,” as we call the four-inch diameter clay saucers lunched by a machine also called a trap, flies away from the shooter in a somewhat random pattern, while in Skeet the “birds” fly across the Skeet field in trajectories that are supposed to be fixed, unless wind plays tricks on the “bird,” or the shooter.
The other way of telling the difference between Trap and Skeet is by the behavior of their respective shooters: if everybody is hanging together, talking and laughing out loud you are in the middle of Skeet shooters; and if everyone is serious, concentrated, looking solely at their guns, and not saying a word besides “PULL”, the universal command to release a bird, now you find yourself among Trap shooters.
Since I shoot both Trap and Skeet, along with Sporting Clays, Five Stand, Skrap, and in more distant fields Bunker Trap (also called International or Olympic Trap) and Helix or ZZ-Birds, you could say that I must suffer from multiple personality disorder. C’est la vie!
But it amazes me is that with all the variety of clay shooting modalities that we have available in our modern times, many of us either forget or choose to ignore how the sport of shooting flying began.
Shotgunning as we know it today began in the later part of the XVIII century when the first practical shotguns came to light. By practical shotgun I mean a smooth bore long gun that was light enough that it could be handled relatively easily, ergonomically enough that a person could swing it while pointing at a moving target (for all practical purposes, a bird), and with a fast enough lock time (that is the time elapsed between pressing the trigger and the main powder charge being ignited and eventually the shot charge leaving the barrel) that would make it possible to hit a moving or flying target (again, a bird).
Bird hunting as a formal social activity originated in France, but was adopted by and perfected in England or the United Kingdom, and it is more than fair to say that shotguns first achieved perfection in that land, and a master gunsmith by the name of Joseph Manton is regarded as the creator of the first “Best Gun” and the forefather of the world-famous London Gun Trade.
The problem was, and continues to be, if you ever try shooting flying, is that once practical shotguns were available and hunting seasons were over, gentlemen of means, or of no means, still wanted to use them and demonstrate their newly acquired skills to the world, so friends began shooting at each others hats, thrown in the air for safety and to better imitate a bird (there is no historic evidence of that), but I imagine that they soon got tired of shooting at their hats, probably because it was boring and could become sort of expensive, since the beaver pelts to make those top hats had to be imported from America.
So they put their hats to use in a slightly different way. After digging a shallow hole on the ground, and place a live pigeon in it, they covered the hole and the pigeon with those hats. A long string was attached to the hat and the shooter (not a hunter anymore, but a shooter) would call “PULL” for whoever was manning the string to free the pigeon, and then shoot at it. In order to make the sport more challenging pigeons could be released from different positions, generally five.
Apparently those shooter had plenty of old hats (at least that is my assumption as they may have shot them before the pigeons became the accept flying target, again, no historic evidence), and they probably used those old hats, since one of the first famous Trap Clubs in England was called OLD HATS.
As the game evolved the old hats were replaced by wooden boxes that had a trap mechanism to release the birds and compel them into taking to the wing, therefore the name of the sport.
Eventually Trap reached the United States of America and the once abundant passenger pigeon became the target of choice, but once they became scarce (that was before they became extinct), and even in the XIX century animal rights activists began to make noise, the typical and unparalleled American ingenuity put itself to work to find suitable replacements for live pigeons.
First a Captain Adam Henry Bogardus invented the “Bogardus” glass ball in 1866. The glass ball was launched by a spring loaded trap with an arm that looked almost like a big spoon, but they made less than perfect replacement for pigeons: they were hard to see, hits were difficult to spot, so people started to fill them up with feathers, and many times shot would just slide around the smooth glass surface without breaking the targets. To correct that, the glass balls were made with textured surfaces, but the design proved to be a dead end.
Some years later, in 1880, the Cincinnati, Ohio, trap shooter George Ligowsky created the discoid clay pigeon, and we continue to shoot it today, launched from manual throwers or highly sophisticated automatic traps that hold hundreds of birds in their magazines.
From the humble beginnings (or maybe not so humble, as the first live pigeon shooter apparently were either of noble blood or had enough money to spend time with them), the multitude of “Clay Pigeon” sports evolved, but every single time I pull the trigger I envision my shot charge connecting with the feathers of a fast flying live pigeon against the blue sky.

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Five Little Ducks – THE BEST Nursery Rhymes and Songs for Children | LooLooKids

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Five little ducks went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mommy duck said: “Quack, quack, quack, quack.”
But only four little ducks came back.

Four little ducks went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mommy duck said: “Quack, quack, quack, quack.”
But only three little ducks came back.

Three little ducks went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mommy duck said: “Quack, quack, quack, quack.”
But only two little ducks came back.

Two little ducks went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mommy duck said: “Quack, quack, quack, quack.”
But only one little duck came back.

One little duck went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mommy duck said: “Quack, quack, quack, quack.”
But no little ducks came swimming back.

No little ducks went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Daddy duck said: “Quack, quack, quack, quack.”
And all the five little ducks came back.

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FWC Seeking Public Input on Chronic Wasting Disease Rules

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In late October 2019, in an effort to prevent the introduction of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) to the state’s deer herd, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) issued Executive Order 19-41 which prohibited the importation from other states of deer carcasses except for de-boned meat; finished taxidermy mounts; antlers; and hides, skulls, skull caps, and teeth if all soft tissue had been removed. Previously, hunters were forbidden from importing deer from a list of states and Canadian provinces which… Read More »
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Wildlife Basics: Deer Hunting

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Wildlife Basics: Deer Hunting

SCDNR Deer Project Manager Charles Ruth covers the basics of whitetail deer hunting in South Carolina – including seasons, regulations, habitats and equipment.

Home Grown Ep. 1 • Blank Slate | Hunting Giant Whitetail Deer in Kentucky

A 10 year span turned a three-generation cattle farm into a deer hunting paradise. Mossy Oak Capture presents the first episode of Home Grown that follows Austin Musselman, Todd Carter and Glen Eilers on Austin’s Kentucky farm. In this multiple episode series, we follow Austin and his team as they hunt giant whitetails over the course of the season. All of their hard work paid off when Austin killed the Kentucky state record nontypical buck with a bow. In this series we follow their hunts, and they show us why they are so successful at harvesting giant whitetails.

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Is a National Treasure Hidden in Traverse City?

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The “Lewis & Clark” Blunderbuss

Between May 1804 and September 1806 a group of about thirty-three intrepid individuals under a commission from President Thomas Jefferson braved virtually unknown territory, traveling westward from St. Louis, Missouri, across the continental divide until they reached the Pacific Ocean near present day Astoria, Oregon. Captain Meriwether Lewis was selected as commandant of the Corps of Discovery by President Jefferson himself, and he picked his close friend Second-Lieutenant William Clark as his second-in-command.
It is undisputed that there was a great deal of care in the preparation for the expedition in order to ensure its success, and the greatest proof of that is that all members returned safely to St. Louis, and part of that preparation was the selection of firearms to be used for an unknown amount of time in the wilderness.
According to the Western Explorers site “The journals and records prepared by the expedition members show that they carried U.S. military rifles obtained from the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and service muskets brought by soldiers posted from other units. Personal firearms were brought by Captains Clark and Lewis, and some of the hunters enlisted for the journey may have used their own rifles. The French-speaking boatmen may have carried “trade guns,” a common type of musket. Lewis brought an “air gun,” a case of matched pistols, and a fowler, and Clark brought his personal .36 caliber long-rifle, and an “elegant fusil”. A “swivel gun,” a small cannon, was mounted on the keelboat, and the two pirogues each had a blunderbuss, each also mounted on a swivel. All the firearms of the Lewis and Clark expedition were single-shot, muzzle loading, black powder guns with flintlock ignition, the notable exception being Lewis’s air gun, which on several occasions astonished native Indians with its repeating operation.”
Blunderbusses were short, heavy, smoothbore shoulder arms used for defense. They were usually mounted on a pivot in the rail of a boat or the top of a wall. The muzzle was flared for rapid loading and as an unforeseen benefit it also worked like a sound amplifier, increasing its psychological effect.
Contrary to popular belief blunderbusses were not loaded with stones or nails or broken glass or pieces of chains or horseshoes, but with a healthy load of buckshot, or grapeshot as it was known at the time, and they generally were used against a concentration of men.
While your typical 12-gauge shotgun loaded with 00 buckshot will put eight to twelve pellets downrange, you could easily loaded twice that much on a blunderbuss.
From a tactical perspective, and considering the personal firearms or light weapons of the respective eras, the blunderbuss at the times of Lewis and Clark would paly the same role as a light machinegun or a Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) plays today.
The blunderbusses came into play during the explorers’ confrontations with the Teton Sioux on September 25 and 28. On Lewis’s orders the men loaded the swivel gun with 16 musket balls and the blunderbusses with buckshot. On the second occasion, warriors seized the keelboat’s cable. Clark was ready to blast them with the swivel gun when a chief defused the situation by jerking away the cable. That winter, the swivel gun and blunderbusses were apparently mounted on the walls of Fort Mandan. Returning to the Hidatsa villages on August 14, 1806, Clark wrote, “we directed the blunderbusses be fired several times” -a peaceful salute to the Indians who had befriended them during the winter of 1804-05.
Again in salute, the blunderbusses sounded for the last time upon the explorers’ arrival in St. Charles, Missouri, a month later. As Clark recorded in his journal entry for September 21, “we saluted the Village by three rounds from our blunderbuts (sic) and the Small arms of the party, and landed near the lower part of the town. We were met by great numbers of the inhabitants.” Two days later, according to Clark, when the explorers arrived in St. Louis, “we suffered the party to fire off their pieces as a Salute to the Town.”
Upon returning to St. Louis, and following a well-deserved heroes welcome, the expedition was disbanded and all items were auctioned off, and partially due to that auction currently there is not a single firearm from the historic expedition known to the public. Or is that so?
In 2001 Hampel’s Inc. (the predecessor company to Hampel’s Gun Co.) was engaged by the family of renowned firearms collector Jack Berryman to handle the dispersal of his collection of fine, historical firearms. After the successful completion of this task, the Berryman family presented to Mr. Karl Hampel the opportunity to acquire the last item and crown jewel of said collection: a blunderbuss mounted on a swivel, that Mr. Berryman obtained from William Clark family descendants in the Detroit area in the 1950’s. He had actively pursued this gun, utterly convinced that this was one of the two blunderbusses mounted on the pirogues of the Lewis & Clark Expedition!
The blunderbuss has locks made by Cooper, of London, in approximately 1790, a 23 ¾” inches bronze barrel with a .729 inches bore (which is about 12 gauge), English walnut stock, and a total length of 40 inches. The complete gun weighs a bit over twenty-three pounds and would have been quite a load had it not been mounted on a swivel.
Mr. Berryman actively displayed the blunderbuss in multiple collectors meetings around the country and it was prominently featured at the “FIREARMS OF OUR WESTERN EXPANSION” at the NRA Annual Gun Collectors Exhibit in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 1992. Its description during that meeting reads as follows:
“#1. This flint-lock (sic) “swivel gun” was made by Cooper of London, ca. 1790. It was designed for fixed mounting on a riverboat or rampart. This type of firearms found favor with early explorers such as Lewis and Clark. Many such pieces were utilized along the rivers and by-ways of the far west where effectiveness in repelling would-be borders was an important function for a boat borne weapon.”
The NRA 1992 BEST ARMS AWARD RECOMMENDATION FORM provides the following additional details:
Description: Blunderbuss (shotgun), British manufacture, .729” bore, no serial number, flintlock.
Originality of Components: All original except possibility of replacement ramrod.
Provenance and/or historical importance: These were used aboard ships, early stage coaches, forts, and any place a yoke and swivel feature could be used. Lock-Cooper London, about 1790. The Lewis & Clark expedition carried two swivel guns on boats, which “saved the day” when they encountered the Teton Sioux on September 24, 1804. Scarcity of these boat swivel guns at the time could support a contention that this weapon or one like it had an important role in the success of that Missouri River exploration.
Other significant information: This blunderbuss had hand made forge welded chain links, ring and wedge, indicative of the time. It is probably the only one available with full brass barrel and original swivel hardware. This weapon, or one identical to it, is featured in a treatise by Cyril Bracegirdle, on page 35 of the August 1983 issue of the Gun Report publication. Picture here reproduced. A letter by Charles R. Suydam volunteered information as to this swivel blunderbuss authenticity. Letter and publication are available.
Note from Author: Unhappily I could not locate copies of mentioned publication and letter.
I think that nobody would disagree that the Lewis & Clark Expedition marks the beginning of the western expansion of the United States of America that eventually resulted in a country that extends “from sea to shining sea!” and while it maybe impossible to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the Karl Hampel blunderbuss is the only surviving firearm from the Lewis & Clark Expedition, it is nonetheless a unique artifact from a time when our great nation was being sculpted by the hands and will of giants, to the greatest extent of the word!

Currently the “Lewis & Clark Era Blunderbuss” which is consistent with descriptions from the Journals of the Expedition is displayed at Hampel’s Gun Co. in Traverse City, MI, on consignment from Karl Hampel’s personal collection. Unfortunately we do not have bulletproof documentation to confirm that the blunderbuss under our care is actually one of two carried by the Corps of Discovery, and the modest price of $ 250,000 reflects that.

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Avoid These 5 Turkey Hunting Mistakes

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Here’s 5 Common Turkey Hunting Mistakes That We Make

Wild turkey gobblers can be great at outsmarting us. Turkey hunters often give gobblers too much credit in the smarts department. Usually, when a turkey eludes us, we did something that was not so smart and gave him the advantage. Here are five common turkey hunting mistakes you should avoid making to give you a better chance of bagging that ol’ longbeard this season!

1. Returning to the Same Gobbler Every Morning
It’s really tempting; you know that he’s there, you know he’s probably going to gobble and you know what he’s going to do after he flys down off the roost. The thing is, you’ve been there and watched this show four days in a row, and you haven’t even been close to getting a bead on him. You need to let this relationship cool for a few days, maybe longer. Let this turkey do his thing for a while (maybe some of his girlfriends will sneak off and leave him), and after a week or so, you can show up refreshed and ready to take up the battle once more. Hunting the same turkey every day can get boring, and the season is too short for that. Strikeout and find a new gobbler to talk to — who knows, you may find a hot two-year-old that comes running in when you cluck one time.

2. Worrying About Your Calling
So you can’t turkey calls like Ben Lee or Ray Eye, that’s ok, the turkeys don’t care anyway. All that’s required to call in a gobbler is the ability to make a reasonable imitation of a hen yelp—that’s it. Sure, it’s nice to make fancy purrs, cackles, and clucks — and they can help for drawing in a stubborn tom—but the fact is, if a gobbler is ready to respond to a call and approach what he thinks is a hen, it doesn’t take calling-contest-level turkey talk to fool him. If he gobbles, answer with a few yelps; if he gobbles back at you, yelp again, then shut up, get your gun up and be ready. This may be all it takes.

3. Complaining About the Season Being Too Early or Too Late
I think this happens in almost every state. When your state game department sets the spring season, odds are good that at least half of the state’s turkey hunters will complain about it. “The season is too late!”, “By the time we get to hunt, they’re all gobbled out!” You’ll hear this all season, mostly from unsuccessful hunters. Maybe we should give the biologists that set our season dates a little leeway. Most turkey biologists will tell you that turkeys go through a couple of different cycles of gobbling activity, and the idea is to get as many hens bred as possible during the first peak of activity. This will hopefully give you a good hatch and continue the population. The season is often set during the second peak of gobbling so that hunters can get on vocal birds while a lot of the hens are on the nest. The point is, it’s spring; the turkeys are out there doing their thing, stop complaining about season dates and go hunting; the turkeys don’t have a calendar, anyway.

Wild Turkey PhotoPhoto by @jtaylor_creative

4. Not Walking Enough on Public Land
We often shy away from public hunting ground because there are just way too many hunters. We get tired of all the traffic and calling that seems to come from every ridge. When was the last time you left the vehicle an hour earlier than usual and struck out on a trail to take you far from the maddening crowd? More than one study in recent years has shown that gobblers on public land equipped with transmitters often lived through the season, and though they moved away from the heavy activity areas, they didn’t go far. Leave the turkey that gobbles close to the road every morning and look for the one that no one else can hear because they don’t want to walk too far.

5. Giving Up on a Gobbler Too Quickly
Maybe you’ve heard that turkey hunters are supposed to be patient. Many times, we go through an encounter with a turkey that is gobbling and seems like he is going to come and greet us, but then clams up or fades in the distance. Often, the inclination is to jump up and do the “run and gun” routine trying to find another turkey. Well, unless you know that another gobbler is waiting for you somewhere, what’s your hurry? Turkeys do things that we don’t understand. Sometimes they quit calling for no apparent reason—at least to us. Turkeys don’t wear watches and couldn’t care less what time it is. Unless you have someplace to be, when the gobbler hushes up, kick back and relax. Enjoy the spring morning; hear the songbirds, if the truth was known, I sometimes grab a quick nap.

You can relax, but remember this: the gobbler heard your calls and he knows exactly where they came from. Anywhere from thirty minutes to two hours later, he may well come and check on that hen he heard calling. He may gobble as a courtesy, or he might come in on you silently. Be ready.

Article By Larry Case from American Hunter / Lead in photo by @timberproductions

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