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    NRA Training Coordinator from MN & AL Passed Away

    Long time Instructor and NRA Training Coordinator Andrea Murphy Passed away Aug. 30th. Andrea owned the LLC Atalanta Lady Training Group. She was also very involved in the Minnesota Shall Issue law where she testified before the House and Senate. Andrea was my Trainer and I trained under her LLC...
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    Byron David Smith Trial

    The jury is being seated in Little falls MN This News link; Is the most current i can find on the upcoming trial. I am hoping someone here can bring in some of the testimony during this trial. This is the current list of court documents for Case # 49-CR-12-1882 That i find on this site...
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    Friend Survives Moose Attack

    Story Here Better Story Here On Feb. 26th Don was checking his trap line In Northeastern MN and was charged by a Cow Moose. For starters when he pulled to the side of the road he got sucked into the ditch and figured he would get help after checking the traps and was only in the woods 20-30...
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    Wolf attack at a Minnesota Campground

    http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/354*256/2wolf082713.jpg This attack happened on the same lake one week after my Daughter and her family were tent camping, and less than than a mile from where this happened. She also was the one who showed me this news release from the MN DNR Here; And...
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    On-Line Adults Hunter Ed

    This is the release i received; I took the 1st five chapters so far, and there is a feedback form for instructors to use.
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    Replacment Bolt/ Bolt Handle 788 Rem

    I have a broken bolt on a Rem 788 30-30 I have searched several on line parts and have been unable to come up with anything. Ok, i will tell, Last winter while shooting a New Years fun match at the club one of my Grandsons had an extraction issue and i whacked the bolt handle quite hard...
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    MN Wolf Hunt, Court throws out opposition petition

    Looks good for continued Wolf season here in MN. Of course the opposition is going to continue fighting any way they can. At least this can only be done on MN soil! Here is the link to the Channel 11 report,
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    Advantages of Being Color Blind

    Reading a very interesting article in the morning paper about a WWII Veteran who was turned away by the Navy because of being color blind and being taken by the US Army Air Corps because they believed he would be able to detect camouflage better from the air and they wanted him. He served as a...
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    Planning a Service Rifle Shoot

    OK, I am planning on setting up for The American Legion MN District 8 a service rifle shoot. (To include DAV) This would include rifles from the Spanish American 1892 -thru- 1957 Korea. My post has a few Krags and M1's that are shootable (no blank adapters). Planning on this being 50 and 100...
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    Why hunt Wolves?

    It was asked on my Wolf hunt progress thread why anyone would want to hunt wolves. I will start out with my reason for applying. Back before the federal protection was put on wolves they were regarded as vermin. Man had done everything he could to eradicate the wolf from this continent, if not...
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    Locked Antlers

    Here are some video's of locked antlers that i came across looking for one my wife showed to me on face book. I didn't find that one but here are some awesome video's; A group effort to free this buck. Part I of Canadian video of locked antlers. I didn't find any part II of this. This video...
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    Deer Crossing Signs

    I have seen a vehicle parked close to some of these sign but for the most part they seem useless. There is a lot of political whining to get the State here to put one up, and then in some cases there is only one sign that is seen by traffic. But maybe I was unaware of the real purpose of these...
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    Minnesota Wolf Hunt Progress

    This is a very eloquent wolf hunting story. PROGRESS is PROGRESS; http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/wolf/index.html Day 1 ZONE'S NW 12 NE 16 EC 4 daily total = 32 (11/03) Day 2 NW 8 NE 6 EC 4 daily total 18 = 50 (11/04) Sub total 20 22 8 Day...
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    Left over Wolf tags GONE

    I did not get drawn for the 1st ever Minnesota Wolf hunting season. Today at 12 noon the left over tags for the 1st season went on sale. I applied for the late season and there will be a sale if any of those tags are not purchased but my cousin a few towns west of me called to insure i was...
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    Can the gag order

    Can it include this and other forums and would the existing discussion on the Zimmerman trial have to be removed?
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    Old Cow

    I killed my 1st Elk last week during the Colorado Muzzleloader season. Because of 2 day's of rain I was running very low on B P as I had to change my load more than usual and that my powder flask wasn't in camp so after dropping the Cow I had to use the powder in my priming tool to reload for...
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    Cross domanince

    upon assessing the student in firearms safety class I was overwhelmed with the number of cross dominant students. There are 21 students with one being a lefty. I then planned to re-asses later during marksmanship night. We have a Dasiy Laser trainer and I let my teaching partner take that while...
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    Conclusion to; Hunter dies after his stand is pulled down...

    This is a follow-up on a Closed thread from 2010, http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=431591&highlight=mccormick This link is at the start of the trial and has more detail of the crime, Link As in any testimony, "TRUTH" is going to be Solid. I do believe there can be...
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    Need help opening a .rar file

    I have 2 files that were sent to me containing pictures of a shotgun and the files are compressed with a .rar extension. I and several of my friends are not able to open these pictures (tried Winzip)and I have been unable to make contact with the sender. Anyone willing to give this a try? PM me...
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    Medium Size Kitty

    This is a "Fresh" set of photo that have not even been taken off the camera. My Daughter took these with her I phone from the image on a camera's review screen. These were taken in the little town of Coleraine Minnesota on December 26, 2011 1630hrs. My daughter was waiting along with her...
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