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CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT FOR KIDS.  Woodland Dunes Nature Center is hosting a Christmas Bird Count for kids on Saturday Dec. 17th from 9am to 11:30am .  Cost is $2.00 per child and registration is required by Dec. 14th. Bird guides and ornaments included in the fee. Children ages 8 and up will learn birding basics at binocular-boot-camp, followed by a friendly morning of counting birds for the National Audubon Society's 117th Christmas Bird Count. Small groups led by experienced birders will walk a trail, document bird species and tabulate results. Dress for the weather. Free bird guides will be available for all children who participate in this group.  Kids ages 4-7 will participate in the Budding Birders program while their older siblings are on the trail. They'll learn about birds and help decorate a tree for them. They'll also make a bird feeder/ornament that they can take and hang at home.  Children must be accompanied by an adult. For more information or to register, please call Woodland Dunes at 920-793-4007.

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NRA-ILA DAILY ALERT FOR 11-30-16. California: Bullet Button Guns must be purchased and received by Dec. 31st. Persons who are wanting to acquire a firearm equipped with a "bullet button"  or that will be considered an "Assault Weapon" under the new law, must be processed and received by December 31st., 2016. With California's 10 day waiting period, the DROS process must be started no later than December 21st. 

New Jersey: Urgent! Legislation puts shooting ranges in Crosshairs.  Shooting ranges as we know them may be a thing of the past if anti-gun politicians have their way in the Garden State. A pair of dangerous bills are scheduled in the Assembly Law & Public Safety Committee as early as Monday Dec. 5th.

GUN BACKGROUND CHECKS HIT RECORD HIGH ON BLACK FRIDAY:  It wasn't just electronics and toys that bargain hunters sought on Black Friday, guns also appear to have been on many shopper's wish lists. This year's Black Friday set a single day record for the number of FBI firearms background checks.

ISIS CALLS OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ATTACKER A "SOLDIER": The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the attack at Ohio State University, calling the student who drove his car into pedestrians and then slashed people with a butcher knife a "soldier" of the terrorist group.

Once again, it's going to be the holiday season real soon and I hope you will please find it in your heart to purchase a sportsman club membership for the family or a friend. You really can not believe how hard it's been to recruit new members to all the clubs in the county. As an example, membership in the Manitowoc Unit of the County Fish & Game only costs you $5.00 a year and $2.50 for a youth membership. You can't even buy a meal for yourself for that price. So go to the new Manitowoc County Fish and Game website and sign up for a club or as many as you like. www.mantyfg.org. that's all you need to do to join a club in this county.

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According to outdoor writer Paul Smith, the Deer Kill, License Sales drop to lowest levels in more than 30 years. Gee, I wonder why?? HOw many of you already know the answer to that question. Hunters registered 196,785 deer for the 2016 season, a 1% drop from 2015. DNR sold 598,867 hunting licenses, 2% fewer tan 2015 and the lowest in 40 years. Only the northern forest region reported an increase in deer kill. I have to hand it to Paul Smith, he does a wonderful job in reporting the facts of the deer season. For the nine day season, the DNR reported two non-fatal shooting incidents in Taylor County and one each in Oconto, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties. Right now the Muzzleloader hunts runs through Dec. 7th and a statewide antlerless deer hunt is scheduled Dec. 8th to the 11th and the Bow season runs through Jan. 8th in most of the state.

ANTI-GUN MEDIA BLOWS LOAD EARLY ON PLAN TO BLAME GUN OWNERS!!!  The incident at the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY shows how gun ban extremists were so eager to pin another violent attack on your Right to Bear Arms that they got caught blaming Ohio gun laws for what turned out to be a violent attack by a person armed with a car and sharp-edged tool. Anti-gun groups and the liberal media all attacked the Ohio State gun laws for the violent attack, claim it was the state's laws responsible for the attack. The mainstream media should be ashamed, but we know they won't be. As we know what happened during the elections, the Liberal Media will double down and continue to demand the ban on firearms. (My personnel opinion about the Liberal Media is we should deny them their 1st Amendment Rights if they continue to attack the 2nd Amendment Rights of the people.) And like the NRA said after the news broke, "it's sad when politicians rush to a narrative that fits their own agenda, instead of waiting for the facts." Please get a membership to the many sportsmen clubs where ever you are and join the NRA now.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!   I want to thank all the deer hunters who did a wonderful job being safe in the outdoors. According to the DNR, the season turned out to be a safer one that in years past. Only five hunting-related incidents were reported in the state this gun deer season, and there were NO FATALITIES. That compares to eight incidents in 2015 , including three fatalities. But just think of it this way, there was only five incidents with 575,000 licenses sold, and that's a really safe season. Can you see that many guns in a big city like Chicago or Milwaukee and what those numbers would look like. I guess it shows the real world that sportsmen and women are some of the safest people in this state. Thank you once again for using common sense and good safety practices. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OUTDOORS.

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ATTENTION ALL HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS!! My land has way to many Coyotes on it and sometimes in the early morning hours you think there was over a few thousand of them howling in the woods. I want them out of the woods and land. Only one deer was taken out of the woods this year and even some of the neighbors reported they didn't see any deer either, because we think it's because of the coyotes. I really would like to treat them as wolves, so I think you get my drift. Several people who had permission to hunt on my land reported also seeing way to many of these critters. So contact me if you want to have some fun killing off these pests, I want my deer back on my land. Thanks!

FISHING in the local rivers has been spotty at times, as I have been seeing fishermen in the EAST and WEST TWIN rivers this past week and in the MANITOWOC river also. Manitowoc river produced a few bites, but there's nothing great about it.

Have some of you noticed that the number of geese are getting a little bit smaller around the northern half of the county, but the fields near Manitowoc are sure full.

THE FRIENDS OF THE BRANCH RIVER WATERSHED, are planning their Winter Luncheon for Dec. 4, 2016 at Gill's Restaurant in Whitelaw starting at 12pm when the doors open and lunch will be served at 12:30pm and the cost is FREE. This is FREE to members and their immediate families. If you are not a member yet, well now is a prefect time to sign up for your membership or give one as a gift to someone you would like to ride along to meetings or events with. Memberships as a Friend costs between $20-$99, River Protector is $100, Champion is $500, and you could also make a General Donation $______ or a Youth Fund Donation $_______.  Send your membership and checks into: Friends of the Branch River (FOBR), P O Box 301, Whitelaw, WI 54247. Dues are tax deductible due to their 501 (C) 3 status.  Any questions you have contact Emily Endter at 920-323-3486 or call Al Klingeison at 920-901-5166.

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE VOTED THIS YEAR FOR YOUR CONSTITUIONAL RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM SO MANY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR TO PROTECT. A special Thank You from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) to all who elected a president who has pledged to protect our Constitutional Rights and a majority of both houses to Congress that will work to ensure that our individual right to keep and bear arms will be preserved. The work of those who love liberty and our nations hunting and shooting sports traditions is never over. American’s need to remain politically involved to help ensure that the defense of our Second Amendment remains strong and the lawful commerce in firearms is protected at all levels of government. Please do not give up now that the election is over, as it’s never over, the liberals and the other party is always fighting to disarm all Americans and you see it still today with all the protests in the streets started by liberals and the other party. Please remember to pray for all our fighting men and women, police officers and fire fighters across our country. God Bless All of Them!

Read a sign the other day that says the following:  GUNS ARE WELCOME ON THE PREMISES, Please keep all weapons holstered unless need arises. In such case…Judicious Marksmanship is Appreciated.  In other news, Keep your Powder Dry-Democrats Doubled Down on Gun Confiscation. Nancy Pelosi is quoted as saying the following: “If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated.”

NRA ILA Alerts:  Some of the stories that came over the line this week. After attempted robbery over the weekend, police stress self-defense from the Midland Police Dept.; Here is the best news I read all morning, Four Predictions about President Trump’s Supreme Court, and the court may also expand the rights of gun owners beyond its rulings in 2008 and 2010. One judge that Trump has put forward, Diane Sykes, has already issued a decision in favor of gun owners. Judge Sykes was from Wisconsin. She is one very good judge on the 7th Circuit Court that covers Wisconsin.  Pennsylvania hunters will be allowed to use semi-automatic firearms and handguns. GOP’s new muscle may remake Minnesota Capitol agenda, as the liberals and Democrats were ready to dump all kinds of new firearm laws against the owners.

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In Manitowoc County:  Antlered deer  772,    Antlerless Deer  981    for a total of 1,753 deer.   Thank you to all hunters for being so safe in the field so far this year. Please keep it up.


Manitowoc Unit of the Manitowoc County Fish & Game will be meeting on Thursday Dec. 1st at the Manitowoc Gun Club, near Clover, WI.  This meeting has been changed from the Lincoln Park Cabin #1.  The meeting will start at 7pm and there will be a short business meeting and a lunch and refreshments are available.  Remember to sign up for the 2017 membership at this meeting and remember this, where else can you paid $5.00 for a club membership in this world. Jr. Members are half price, so sign up your children and grandkids also. All us older members are looking for some younger people to help take over the club duties real soon please. Please be a part of a club that was founded in 1907 and is recognized as one of the oldest conservation organization in Wisconsin and the Mid-West. The organization works to protect the rights of sporting men and women and promote conservation and related education. Where else can you spend only $5.00 and be part of conservation history.  See you at the meeting.

I would like to say that during this week while driving around the central part of the state, I met and spoke with many hunters and we all agreed that there are deer out there to be killed, but no one today seems to know how to hunt for them like many of us were raised to hunt them in our youth years. Today to many kids think if the deer doesn’t jump out in front of them while they are playing on their phones or other items some of them take out in the field, there isn’t any deer to hunt. Children today need to know how to hunt, not watch all those TV shows where everyone kills a deer every time they walk out into the field. Kids need some parents who know how to hunt or else only grandparents should be allowed to take the kids out to hunt. Of course, these are my opinions, but it’s also the feelings of many others I have spoken with this week. Please be safe and enjoy the rest of this season.  In the Spirit of the Outdoors, Roger