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FORWARD ENDOWMENT will be accepting applications for grants through December 30th. The application asks for details of the requests and related projects. It also asks for background information on the organization and how the project will benefit the general public. To qualify, projects must have a public benefit and be tied to hunting, fishing and conservation. Call Leede Research at 920-683-5940 or email nancy@leede.com.


I would like to take a moment to thank all the hunters who made this year’s opening weekend a safe one again. I have never in my life been able to see so many Bucks and Does crossing the roadways near my land. Going to the dump at 8am I almost got ran over by two bucks flat out running across the road with a doe in toll. Lucky I got new brakes, the bucks made it across the road but the doe turned and ran back into the woods. Than an hour later I was coming back down the same road and this huge buck with 14 points and two drop tines crossed in front of me, so I turned around to get a better look at him as he crossed a plowed field. I met him at the next town road and he ran right next to my car, and before I could get my camera out of the case, he turned and headed back to the woods he came out of. One other question for you hunters, has anyone seen anyone wearing the Hot Blaze Pink hunting clothes??? With the weather to warm up a little bit more this holiday weekend, it should be putting more families into the field, so please remember the rules of safe gun handling. I wish everyone out there good luck and please remember, the life you save, might be yours, so use good judgment and common sense, no deer is worth a human life. Just think, here we have hundreds of thousands of people with firearms and we do not see the amount of killings like they do in neighborhoods of Milwaukee or Chicago. Makes you wonder why cities run by Democrats seem to always want to ban firearms and look how wonderful it’s here in Wisconsin with all the guys with firearms enjoying a sport that families have done for hundreds of years and feed their families with the meat. Good Luck and remember to BE SAFE.


I see that Howard Stern backs Trump’s plan for Interstate Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Law. This law has been NRA’s number one legislative agenda item for several years. Howard Stern used the considerable reach of his Sirius XM platform on Tuesday to voice his support for a national interstate concealed carry reciprocity law. Hopefully once Trump is sworn into office, both houses of Congress and Trump can get it passed.

I can’t understand how so many people can be allowed to skip out of school to protest Trump’s election and the President claims it’s okay to cause disorder in the streets like he did this past week. There was one particularly disturbing incident, a mother brutally shamed her 7 year old son in an online video for voting for Trump in a mock election at his elementary school, insisting he was no longer welcome at home.  All students who walked out of classes to protest, should be given F’s in all classes not attended during school hours, and college professors should have their wages docked for not conducting classes as scheduled. Everyone has a Right to protest, but not during school hours that disrupt normal class hours of others.

With all that being said, I wish all readers a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday shoppers good luck. Please don’t eat too much, and my diet will be placed on hold for one day, please pass the ham. Ha!

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THANK YOU TO ALL THE VOTERS!!!!  It could not have been done without all of your votes to win this past election and protect our Constitutional and Second Amendment Rights. More work needs to be done, so what I am asking of all of you is to please join a sportsmen club in your local area and memberships make a great Christmas gift for the family. Most clubs have individual and family memberships available to everyone. As an example of cost, the Manitowoc Unit of the Fish & Game has a membership for $5.00 a year. Where else in this world can you belong to one of the oldest conservation clubs in Wisconsin? If you want to belong to any other club in the county, go the Manitowoc County Fish & Game website at  www.mantyfg.org and check out the many clubs in the county. No where else in Wisconsin will you be able to find so many clubs so active in the outdoors. Please, this year give a gift that keeps giving year round, a membership to the club or clubs of your liking. If you need help joining a club, contact either Jeff or myself at this website and we will help you. Once again, thank you to all who voted this year.

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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS NEWS:   11-11-2016 ;  A historic election night for the Second Amendment as we observed how the mainstream media – which had become a little more than a Super PAC for Hillary Clinton  - had already tried to write off Donald Trump and his supporters. The media and Clinton campaign don’t get to write the final chapter to this story, You Did! Thank you for getting and voting for your Constitutional Rights and thank you from all the future gun owners in high schools and grade schools who will be growing up knowing their parents, grandparents and others stood up and fought for their Constitutional Rights. Voters sent a loud and clear message that our gun rights are not for sale. Despite the unprecedented efforts by New York Billionaire Michael Bloomberg and the gun control lobby, the Second Amendment prevailed. The NRA is offering all voters a special Thank You who made the difference in this important election. In light of the elections, we must not forget our Veterans who without them fighting for our rights and freedoms, we would not have a great country like we do now. Their sacrifices, after all, contributed to the blessings of liberty that allows even highly contested elections like the one America just experienced to resolve in a peaceful ad orderly fashion. God Bless All Military, Policemen, Firemen and the millions of others who work so hard to keep America Safe, Strong and Free!!!!! Thank you from all of us.

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FISHING NEWS:  Alewife levels are at an all-time low in Lake Michigan and that was the report by the U.S. Geological Survey. Researchers found a record low biomass of alewife in Lake Michigan in 2016. It’ the lowest in the history of the lake. The surveys have been done in the same areas since 1973 and the record keeping has been spot on. The recent decline in alewife abundance the Lake Michigan Committee to seek a stocking reduction. With that being said, state agencies in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana all agreed to reduce stocking of chinook, since the species is the primary predator of alewife. But in Wisconsin,  the DNR decided to maintain its current level of chinook stocking and reduce lake trout by 58% and brown trout by 50%.  In the waters off of Port Washington , 10 tows produced ZERO alewife. The drags were performed in water as deep as 420 feet and as shallow as 60 feet. But when the research boat returned back to the Port Washington harbor, alewives were visible in the water near the dock. If you want to learn more about our Lake Michigan fisheries, join the NEWGLSF club who meets at the City Limits. Look up the club on the web, and join now.

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Just think, the 2016 Deer Hunting season is about to start on Nov. 19th and it will be a 9 day season. State Wildlife officials are enthusiastic about the prospects for the 2016 season.  Something else you should know, as it’s in its fifth season, the first-time buyer license continues to provide an opportunity to explore Wis’s outdoors and experience its hunting traditions at a reduced price.. Something else you should know, thanks to hunters who work hard to learn the rules and regulations and practice safe hunting each year, Wis. Remains one of the safest places in the world to hunt deer. ATVs and UTVs are a good tool for hunters-be sure to check out some helpful tips and stay safe.

BREAKING NEWS: Sportsmen Defeat Montana Trapping Ban. Montana’s Initiative 177 was soundly rejected by voters in the Gem State on Nov. 8th ballot. Had it passed, it would of banned all trapping on all public lands , including city and county parks, municipal golf courses and more. The only states that have enacted a ban on trapping are Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington. These laws have been pushed by the Anti-Hunting groups in America. Had it not been for many pro-trapping groups, this bill would of passed and the Sportsmen’s Alliance was responsible for the information and help in defending the trapping rights of the sportsmen.

ATTENTION ALL SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN:  COW FARTS CAN NOW BE REGULATED IN CALIFORNIA, as Gov. Jerry Brown kept his assault on climate change Monday, pushing through a law meant to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from dairy farms and landfills.

DEER HUNT WISCONSIN 2016: tune in on the show on Nov. Nov. 9th @ 9 pm, Nov. 10th @ 9am & 1:30pm, Nov. 11th  @ 5pm, Nov. 12th @ 5pm and Nov. 13th @ 9:30am. Dan Small and Mark LaBarbera are the producers of the show. Tune in and learn something.

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COUNTY OUTDOOR NEWS: With deer hunting coming up, here are some issues you need to hear and read. Deer tags must be attached to the deer at all times unless you are right there with it. This means also, once you register your deer, the tag must remain on the deer. If you hang up your deer on a pole, the deer tag must be attached to the animal.  Question came up about quartering your deer to haul it out of the woods, tag it and haul the head part out first, then walk back in and get the second half of your animal. If you should happen to hit a deer with your car, call the DNR Info line at 608-267-7691 and once they give you a number, you are all set to go. Let’s all make this a super safe deer hunting season. Please remember the four rules of safe gun handling.

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CDAC MEETING DATE:  The Manitowoc County CDAC committee will be meeting on January 11th at 6pm at the Viking Bow & Gun Club. CDAC is the group of citizens who decide how many deer will be killed in Manitowoc County. Here is a fair warning to all of you who think the DNR are the ones who pick how many deer or types of deer you can kill, it’s the CDAC committee that makes all the decisions. Rumors in the community right now are pointing to an all doe season, no bucks will be allowed to be shot in this county. Look what happened in Waupaca county. Here is where you can have an input into the meeting and into the committee choices.

Remember, BUCK FEVER is this coming Thursday, Nov. 9th and it will be either a good one knowing our Constitutional Rights will be protected, or a sad one knowing we will have to fight for our rights if an Anti-Gun gets into office. Get out and VOTE on Tuesday.