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Whiskey shootin' police officer facing criminal charges after shooting fellow hunter 🥃
+ Magic Valley poacher still at large, Snow White bird, Oregon's battle against thermals and one tough young deer
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the newsletter. If you’re still with us, that means you’ve made it to the middle of yet another week.
With that said, let’s all take a minute to grab a coffee or whiskey and get this mid-week dispatch out the door.
Here's what's worth reading about this morning:
Bad mix - Pa. police officer facing charges after shooting fellow hunter under the influence 🥃
Magic Valley poacher - Idaho officials are stumped and looking for answers 🕵️♀️
Snow White - ‘Sip hunter bags a beauty bird ⚪️
Thermally recognized - Oregon is cracking down on thermal use in hunting 🔎
Tough ol’ deer - Watch this young buck who likely survived a viscous coyote attack 💪
NOT A GOOD MIX
WHISKEY SHOOTIN’ POLICE OFFICER FACING CHARGES AFTER SHOOTING ANOTHER HUNTER
My grandfather always said the only time for whiskey was inside the camp after all of the guns had been put away and I’ll bet this Pennsylvania police officer is wishing he’d followed that advice.
In a story coming out of Berk’s County, Pennsylvania a police officer is now up against criminal charges after accidentally shooting a fellow hunter while they were hunting Canada geese last fall.
David Qawasmy, 30, of Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, faces misdemeanor counts of shooting and causing injury to a human and reckless endangerment.
The incident, which occurred only a year after the state of Pennsylvania saw the fewest number of hunting-related shooting incidents since 1915, took place on the morning of November 23, 2024…
QUICK HITS // FROM AROUND THE WEB
Idaho Fish and Game seeks information into the illegal shooting of an elk in the Magic Valley Region : The elk was discovered near Clover Creek Road, north of Bliss, and was determined to have been shot. The minimum fine for hunting elk during the closed season is $300, plus a civil penalty of $750. Read the full story.
Siletz Tribe regains full fishing rights, 45 years after being forced to give them up: For decades, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have faced strict limitations on their hunting, fishing and gathering under a 1980 agreement between the tribe, the state of Oregon and the federal government. That agreement was recently repealed, fully restoring the tribe's right to access its traditional foods. Read the full story.
Mississippi hunter bags rare, snow-white turkey. 'Seeing him is just a miracle': "I've hunted my whole life, and I've heard about them, but I've never seen one. It's like hunting a unicorn." Glace Rone said the bird showed up in trail camera photos during the 2024-25 deer season and not just on the property that Rone was hunting. Read the full story.
It's time to apply for North Dakota elk, moose and bighorn sheep hunting: Here's what to know: The hunting licenses for elk, moose and bighorn sheep are issued once in a lifetime and are distributed through a lottery system. Any hunters who have already received a license through the lottery are not eligible to apply for the same species again.Read the full story.
Oregon cracks down on hunters using thermal imaging cameras: The OHA wants fair chase hunters to understand that hunting is not only about what is legal, but also about what is honorable. The group said technology shouldn’t reduce the skill of hunting to simple shooting. Read the full story.
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
🤕 Not sure what happened to this fella, but he sure does look sore. I’ve got my money on coyotes, but a lot of folks are rumbling about disease.
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HUMPDAY MEME // IT’S BEEN ROUGH
WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
There’s so much going on out there about sleep, it’s any wonder we can’t get any. According to some interesting pieces of history, modern lighting really did a number on our sleep patterns. Maybe it’s time we start trying out biphasic sleep. This photojournalist does it right and makes a living spending most of his time overlanding with his family. Speaking of overlanding, it would be nice to do it in a truck like this Defender with restomods coming out the yin yang. I used to have an old Jeep from when I first move to Florida. It was rad, until everything went wrong and never stopped going wrong. I spent a lot of time fixing things and tinkering with it before it almost killed me on a sunny day on US-1. I’ve since come to realize that my love for old Jeeps, Toyotas and 911s is simply something I will never financially recover from.
EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
Just out for a rip, bud.
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