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Here’s a good one for those that are too lazy to stalk an extra few hundred metres for a closer shot, or indeed those that are just a crap shot. for $22,000 US you can have a TrackingPoint rifle.

If you are a bad shot, lazy or just downright useless at hunting altogether, this is the firearm for you:

A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it’s not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public.

It’s called the TrackingPoint rifle. On a firing range just outside Austin in the city of Liberty Hill, a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try.

The rifle’s scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger. It’s like a video game. But here’s where it’s different: You pull the trigger but the gun decides when to shoot. It fires only when the weapon has been pointed in exactly the right place, taking into account dozens of variables, including wind, shake and distance to the target.

The rifle has a built-in laser range finder, a ballistics computer and a Wi-Fi transmitter to stream live video and audio to a nearby iPad. Every shot is recorded so it can be replayed, or posted to YouTube or Facebook. < more of the article here>

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Drone hunting is here…pig hunting with the Dehogaflier.

Wild hogs have become a huge problem in places like Louisiana, rooting up fields in their quest for food and generally being extraordinary 200 pound pests. Given their size, smarts, and tenacity, feral hogs can be hard to kill—and that’s when you can even find them amid all the vegetation. So how do you deal with the problem? If you’re like electrical engineers Cy Brown and James Palmer, you strap a $5,000 thermal imaging camera to a remote-controlled airplane, then fly the thing around farmers’ fields on weekend evenings until you spot a hog. Then you shoot it from the ground with a night vision-equipped rifle.  Read more »

Aaaah, so relaxing.

Melissa Bachman is a gator’s worst nightmare! She heads to 3 states taking out monster gators to complete her version of the gator slam. Melissa lands one with a bow, one with a rifle, and finally one on a hook.

 
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There are too many deer in Britain.

Although the deer population has never been measured, the animals are thought to number at least 1.5 million, and 50 to 60 per cent need to be shot each year just to keep numbers from growing, experts said.

For almost 1,000 years deer were virtually extinct in Britain but populations have exploded since they were reintroduced in the Victorian era, in the absence of natural predators such as wolves and brown bears.  Read more »

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A nice pair of safety jandals.

As recommended by builders, hunters and forestry workers.

Also very handy if you’re at bat during beach cricket.

Another awesome video from Fieldsports Britain:

We are launching eagles on hares in Lincolnshire, George Digweed on wild boar in Sussex and we are out with the Banwen Miners foxhounds pack in the Valleys of South Wales. It’s a packed programme this week, with incredible footage of hares’ tactics when faced with Roy Lupton and friends’ flying eagles. Meanwhile, George Digweed has been after a wild boar for months, and finally has his chance. And who says foxhunting is snooty when men come up from the coal pits, shower, change into hunting pink and ride out with hounds?

This is a great video about coyote hunting:

On this week’s show, we’ve come to America for coyote hunting, world record big game hunting, and the Shot Show 2013, the greatest gun show on the planet. Charlie Jacoby is after coyotes in California, the varmint of choice for the self-respecting American rifleman. We talk to Jason Bruce, star of Headhunter Chronicles on Sportsman Channel, about his world record big game heads. And we are reviewing useful and even useless new kit at the Shot Shot, and getting to try it out on a rifle range deep in the Nevada desert.  Read more »

I received this email from a  friend, see if you can help out:

Hello my fellow animal hunter type friends,

I have a good friend Garth, who has taken up taxidermy (see picture attached!) as a hobby & he would like some dead animals to stuff Anything bigger than a sparrow & he’d quite like rat, rabbit, stoat, ferret etc

There is no hurry on this extra special friend card favour that I am pulling, just when you happen to come across a dead animal in your hunting adventures

Garth is a mint guy & takes pictures of models all day long, so if you hook him up with some dead animals he might take a sweet picture of you with the taxidermied final product

You can let me know or Garth if you have any dead animals you wanna swing his way

Thanks heaps,

Readers can email me for Garth’s details or to let him know of all the animal corpses you have awaiting stuffing.

Meanwhile I think this calls for a Chuck Testa video:  Read more »