corn hunt - cold and hot Guest Post three, four hours by car to the new day. The trip had not been long. Even early in the morning not. Day before yesterday we received the message. Hunters are looking for. And good dogs. Today it's so far. The first summer was very hot. Then the weather was changeable. For now one of the last hot day is announced. I was on the verge of a hunting trip abroad and want to take the last summer in Germany. I know it is a beautiful, a hot day at the corn field. I'm at the meeting point. Five men get off three vehicles. It's still cool. You can see their breath. Peter laughs at me wide. He loves the cold weather over the summer. His dog howls. "Good morning. Well prepared?" "How can you be." Peter never talks too much. He knows that I have spent many hours in the cinema and shooting at the shooting range. Mostly he was there. He knows, as I did with the 8 x 57 IS schieße.Die thermos can only hold a pint. I had bought them for a mountain hunting. It is easy. Now it seems to me ridiculously small. But now is all hunting. The dogs make a noise. Them the long drive plugged into the bone. We furnish us a last drink coffee. Then we leave. The dogs are nervous. Now it is warm enough to take off the jacket. The first field is rectangular, we are half inclined to the north falls off the field. The farmer comes. The tobacco pipe between his lips. Does not talk much. If a Peter. The huge guy standing there, as always, leaning forward slightly with the much smaller, wiry peasants in the middle of the field. His dog is with him. Such a picture. I want to burn me. The two could also be stood 100 years ago. They talk their heavy, slow moving from their heavy dialect and Lower Saxony and head slightly. But we wear bright red vests. The dogs and harvesting machines are used. Now, we on our positions. ; Now. You press. Let them. I'm out of place. Peter holds iron on discipline. He's known me for over 20 years, knows more about me than most. Still, he has checked my hunting license yet. But he is right. Order must be and we must not jeopardize any frivolity. "That, my friend," he always said, if someone does not understand his accuracy, "would then be charged the entire hunt. And we must protect them". It should be about eleven clock. I'm sweating. The sun shines us stronger than ever. I'm already long since in the old olive green undershirt. On the orange vest, something I am also accustomed to. Peter with only the vest. My water bottle is empty. I shot twice. So far without success. We are on the second field. The fields are huge. I had not thought of. At home they are very well manageable. "What do you mean, why do we need so many hunters," Peter had said thoughtfully. ; He was shot once. Of course, successful. And he a defector had been using the Saufeder. Peter could handle it. The six-foot long shaft disappeared into his hand like a walking stick. "I do not want to go hunting with firearms through the field. Safety, you understand. Iff a pig in front of our dogs, is catching a cold weapon is better." ; me running down the sweat. It gets hotter. "My God, we are not Africa," rebukes Peter. The others sweat it. But me is the reminder. Our range is still low. My nerves are strained as on the prowl. The rustling in the field. The noise. Screams. Here they come. Da. I must away, away from the field look and shoot. Now. Weapon to his cheek. Wait. Just talk. Wait. Then it runs back out there. Long time no. Someone shoots. The dogs. Who's fucking time with the dogs. It is noon. We break off. We are all in a vest. The farmer gives us hot coffee. Bread and sausage, we have Peter himself is quite happy dar. He had shot two and a razor. Jochen had a one and Fred. Klaus, Rainer and I have nothing. After lunch, we wanted to take over, to another field. The Sun bangs on us to others. "Old African", Peter says to me, "age Africans, the sun makes you nothing." And really, I'm tanned than usual this year, my sunburn, I had already gone. He introduces me to the wide side. I am all alone. "You are talking thus not". He knows perfectly well that I would not like to go home empty-handed. Then I will still get into the brooding . Ah! what can they spinner still criticize the corn hunt. Lead-free ammunition. My God. What nonsense. We carry no infantry engagement in the maize plots. How many floors are there for. Not much. And the Abprallgefahr for soft iron. Even the safe shot. Well, yes just take one of us. Thank you, gentlemen. The same nonsense as in the water hunting. The heat can not be after. The Sun is burning and it's no wind. You can smell the field. The dogs are hungry for water. Peter drags now ran a wild bath. Bob Peters Dog drinks. Peter looks mild. His shirt stuck to the body. He laughs now over. In his hands he holds his Saufeder. Welding sticks to it. On the back it has the 98s. Looks like a toy gun at him. The dogs drink. No one speaks. Hunting continued peace prevails. You can hear Bob drink. Peter beckons silently. It goes on. The sun shines now more than ever. Dogs. Shots. Not me. I hear you calling Peter. Do not understand him. This is not me. I think the door. If there is a problem, we talk via radio. Damn old-fashioned in the age the mobile phone. But we know so and not otherwise. Long I hear nothing. I'm still standing with his back to the corn edge. Get rid of is not here. Excluded. Shooters only shoot forward. And stupid were those who clamored now or went away. For if a man is with us no place. Often sows changed after the quiet bustle of the direction or remained anyway in corn and can barely squeeze out, then suddenly depart. Anyway, it was so far so often. Stop. There goes one. To my right, he leaves. Gun to the cheek. Shot. Goes five yards. Six. Ten. Content. Good. Pretty good. I shot with the 8 x 57th That should be sufficient. Hopefully be back Aufbrechpause. I look at the Clock. My God, how time flies. These corn hunting stimulates all the senses. The whole man I am very thirsty. I listen tense. As I hear it. It is blown off. That's it for today. A sow stretched. Overall a very good track. No requesting. Of course, no incidents. One notices in many details, such as Peter has led the hunt. The Aufbrechpausen are fixed and it will work fast and accurately. He explained again and again the response to misses. It is one of the best teams requesting that I know in readiness. made-in and departure without barking, no chatter, and even without boots creak. We know how to avoid it. Although it is unappetizing. We go to the range space. It is really unnecessary because it is still light, but of course still burning fire. I hear what others have shot. None is seeking. No hunter and not a dog is missing. Now it's going to bowl after driving. In the old coaching inn with low ceilings and oak table, a lockable gun room is ready. The door is always in view. The beer is already in place. I'm still thirsty. It smells of frying. ; Peter draws his gun by briefly and wiped it off. "So much time has to be," he says. And then he is away, and he closes the door. I go to wash myself quickly. Above the first floor of each room is reserved. At nine, there will be breakfast. Until then, it is still long. And now I would not be the last at the table.
A year hunting guns network: prospects and retrospect was exactly a year ago established the network as hunting guns project a small group of hunters. Our intention was to link hunters and other lawful gun owners to each other, make reference to specific policy issues in hunting and firearms legislation, perform actions within the meaning of hunting and legal weapons possession and for all interested parties an easily accessible alternative public make - first off the combined politically bound or business-oriented magazines and second off the mainstream media, show the best little understanding of hunting and legal weapons law matters and at worst misleading information . operate The one-year anniversary is not a cause for celebration, but one for a brief review and outlook. the vast majority of texts we have written and discussed. We also have regular articles from guest authors published (eg by friendly foreign shooters or hunters), less individual contributions by experts or stakeholders, we have discussed. In the 12 months we have published 132 articles (we do not short "posts" on issues, but longer and more self-contained articles - not so much a newspaper, and more resemble a magazine). On average, there is a month 7-8 new posts. Recently we have started to add editorial notes to the articles and explain as to why we think this story is important. The resume is one year later positive. We have 20,000 visitors (different people) in those 12 months approached, who all together 45,000 pages viewed. Finally, we have over a hundred visitors a day reliably (a ranking of the most popular texts, see below). We are now mainly found on search engines (57%) and then recommend other sites or in forums (34%). Less people control regularly and directly to our site (9%). Because we want to work. One of the reasons is that you do not know when something new has been set. This is a proposal: Become a "friend" from us on Facebook . Then you can on a daily What we see - have not posted new - in addition to their other friends. And we can more easily than through the e-mail address jagdwaffennetzwerk@web.de correspond with each other. Finally we get to our concerns here represented more visibility. ; your three favorite topics A direct comparison is difficult because the articles published in different lengths and therefore unreachable. Heckler & Koch G36 and SL8 Remington 700: Not just a cheap classic Mauser M03 extremes: Field tested Our three most popular topics are in connection with the reason for the creation of hunting weapons network, the three topics that we were most important (in addition to the personal hunting reports, of course): fighters and weapons law, silence is consent Scientific facts to legal gun ownership Legal gun ownership and Homeland Security Occasionally we have also a theme other texts published, as such, about hunting or guns or gun laws, even when weapons and weapon law topics read most and recommended. With contributions to the military and armed conflicts, we have partially won new readers. This is good, hunting, and the legal gun ownership need every friend they can get, no matter whether it re-enactment interest, he or she collects knives, fishing trips or just a boyfriend / girlfriend of "the great outdoor "is. Maybe even get a new one or the other or first access to legal hunting and gun ownership. Less interesting are niche topics such as those on African issues the information war or self defense. Although important for us to always think of the reader, but we do like the long term, so to speak, our mission statement, a comprehensive, if also bring accented overview of hunting weapons and selected military topics and orient us as to reasonably content that could stand around in the dwj, the great mother ship of weapons reports. Therefore also appear in future such issues, but not in the foreground, but rather in its niche. ; Unlike traditional media, we want to do when it is necessary to search also focused on conflict, for example, with manufacturers such as Anscombe and Armatix, that in itself important and respected institutions such as the national hunting associations (if needed) and also with authorities ( think of our refreshing correspondence with the authorities in Munich or the Press). We have been working on other networks and are required to use it as soon as good as it goes, that is, encourage others to jointly take up a particular topic - for example, if someone comes back to reclaim the idea of something similar to a weapons control. ;
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CIC: National parks are not the panacea for the wildlife in Africa "Sustainable hunting and National Parks are not opposites. There are two sides of same coin, "said the President of the CIC Tropical Game Commission, Dr. Rolf D. Baldus in a press release of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Management (CIC). It said the CIC responded "to the increasing reports of dramatic declines in wildlife populations in Africa's national parks. This few days ago a research project of the University of Cambridge was published by an average of about 60% of large mammals in the park lost in Africa since 1970 have gone. The reasons lie primarily in poaching for the bushmeat trade and under-funding of parks. " This perspective is in the public perception of the trophy hunting abroad regularly overlooked. Instead, often made hunting and undifferentiated responsible for the decline of game with no distinction in legitimate trophy hunting, poaching or legitimate commercial meat hunting The CIC republished. "The International Council for Wildlife Conservation and Wildlife supports national parks, where they make sense. However, he disputes against start-ups, if not assured from the outset the long-term financing or is such parks are not acceptable to the population. National parks are often not even bring back the money that is spent on tourism infrastructure. In such cases it is better to allow there to sustainable trophy hunting. With minimal environmental impact and without infrastructure this will provide maximum income. This gives the rural people an incentive to preserve the game. In West Africa and Kenya in the wild stocks have declined the most. This is significant because there, the hunt is mostly prohibited. In southern Africa, however there are some recorded gains, not least because of the income the landowners and local flow to the hunt. National Parks are not islands. If the wild stocks are outside the protected areas due to poor management and hunting bans, then usually the stock is decreasing in the parks. " 
The relationship of Hege (here primarily but not only in the sense of protection from poaching) and income from sustainable trophy hunting is unfortunately still too little weight in the Western media, although talking the examples of countries with a largely hunting ban for themselves . The CIC seeks to stakeholders in this context to get to the table and noticed. "The CIC called on African governments, aid donors and conservation organizations to consider in conservation projects, the sustainable utilization of wildlife, including hunting, this is also consistent the requirements of the Convention on Biological Diversity. About the community-based wildlife protection in Africa, the CIC has submitted, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched a study that evaluates the experience of recent decades. It impressively demonstrates its potential for nature conservation and poverty reduction " more information CIC press release CIC-/FAO-Publikation hunting weapons network. Hunting abroad in Africa and its opponents hunting weapons Network: International hunting in Africa - sustainable for wildlife and people
arms dealers are out? Confrontation at a street level Those who doubt that the handling of dissidents in particular with regard to legal weapons and anything that has (supposedly) to do so, in Germany, constructive and open, may often confirmed by examples of intolerance . feel In Cologne last week as a "gun shop" opened. In contrast to the rapidly directed (guided?) "Popular anger" in a manner which may give rise to tragic associations. In any event with us. A film report of the Cologne Gazette as the alleged residents, against a "gun shop" in the south of Cologne . Demonstrate With this a Cologne SPD councilman is (for it is this store a threat to the Southern City, "says the comment). Initiated the protest was apparently Jusos of Cologne. The Young Socialists, whose acting strange today formally known as "Young Socialists" in the external presentation appears hardly belong in Nordrhein Westfalen majority of the left wing and to have himself as "We are left, feminist and international". was apparently provided for an inclined press, because "Big excitement in the southern city" suggests the speaker and the image appear Softairs, knives (including Swiss army knife!) and outdoor clothing. An excited elderly woman wants to give the store owner a Gandhi film, that he "gets a change of heart" and not "by force be money earned. We find that here the beginning can result in a Progromstimmung. Against shops whose owners have nothing to debt can come, the pressure of the street is mobilized. You can find this personal impression oversubscribed, good, but it is undeniably questionable whether anyone would go under the eyes of the morally indignant like in this place or even come out with a purchase? ; The corresponding article in the Cologne Stadt Anzeiger is certainly at times astonishingly revealing (emphasis added). It means, for example, "Many Südstadt residents do not tolerate the store . On the initiative of the Young Socialists nearly 150 citizens have demonstrated on the weekend before the deal." And are equal to it a kind of alliance for action 2.0 from the ranks of the Protestant Church: "Already has a citizens' initiative" Veedel without weapons. "Founded - at a meeting in the Lutheran Church of the southern city pastor Hans Mörtter was invited to the hall was packed." We want gentle pressure to bear that the shop as soon as possible disappears, "he says. It is interesting here is how deal with the economic existence of several people. Especially since you can not say that the south of Cologne stands out for special economic efficiency. The existence of the numerous porn cinemas, bars and casinos has given rise not a concern of the population, despite the vernacular expression "Veedel" [district], which will probably give local color, is probably in fact less interested in this subject. The article points to signs of discrimination back by fear of attribution (so as not to suspend the protest?) and a kind of distancing done. It is called "The owner of the premises, the especially do not like being called is torn. When renting, which took place over a property management company was her offering was not really aware she says." is In a articles of the Cologne Express from the same publisher mentioned that the pastor continues his mission: "Father Hans Mörtter wants every Saturday from 12 clock hold a vigil in front of the store." Local SPD writes the lyrics to your page, "Where once the company had a bath Stiller device business, then the" Inferno lived ", has now opened a strange business. It's called in fashion Anglizimen dressed "Outdoor, Defense and More" But there 's Wicked :.. a large Cutter selection for example those which no one may carry with you, telescopic batons and strikingly realistic Waffenimmitate can be had for our Pänz [children] aged 14 years And! the business is on their education and recreational trails. " In leaflet of the Young Socialists, under 'Our Veedel without weapons "to financially support the store," Young Socialists in the southern demand immediate closure of the new arms deal! " and unsuitable as a critical publican point (!) cited that cares for the children (that are weapons ! "). But ostensibly aimed Softairs found not only in wars of use, but also make serious crimes feed, because it said "Such strikingly realistic imitation, airsoft and blank firing weapons are rather likely to perpetrate attacks [the" arms "itself, mind you!?]. to distribute this in the immediate vicinity of the schools in Lorelei Street, Alsace Road and migration route is irresponsible " contrast course, the whole program of street protests are being driven". On Saturday, 27 November, we will be distributing flyers on the streets of Bonn. In addition, there will be both a website to exchange views as well as a petition. With celebrity support can be expected, also hosts some pubs have already connected the southern part of the action. " ; hear about the message we are really quite different reasons. Am 29.11. in Cologne, was shot in the street a couple. The police investigated the alleged fugitive offenders Tilki Mustafa (41) as image Cologne writes. The search went on as next to the article in the newspaper Bild, the history of the weapons store "from - and a article about a recent armed robbery. It is almost clear that on a few kilometers from the place of death of two people no vigil, no demonstration and otherwise nothing takes place, where the pastor, the councilman, the Young Socialists and others participate. The approach of the protesters (of which we do not believe that the majority was for residents) and the initiators of military actions against the store, we the political climate and the culture of substantive debate in Germany is not conducive for economic existence of a new business as fatal. The reactions and statements are so covered that they were almost unintentionally funny, if they did not shed light on how to deal with the issue of legal weapons and adjacent areas. ; In a song by the Cologne group BAP ("Crystal Night"), it was years ago (although it is difficult to understand for non-Cologne): "Et 'frilly noh Kristallnaach In the rest vor'm storm - that is. ?. that leaves very quietly who the city notables rush incognito past - are officially not like it when the soul of the people - always ready towards boiling point rages un yells. "Heil - Halali" un boundless cool noh roars retaliation, trembling vüür envy In Kristallnacht. ... On the market meets the Last Judgement, unmasked, with his true face, stones are collected, sharpened into knives to those who incited the lynch mob. " BAP was Others likely to say that a society must be careful exclusion and confrontation with the enemy. But of course that is a different story.
