Recent content by Beavertrapper

  1. B

    Danny Davis's Gun Tax and the The Pittman-Robertson Act

    Yes it would be nationwide legislation as far as I can tell he hasn't introduced it in the house yet he said he will sometime this week tho so we will have to see if he does
  2. B

    Danny Davis's Gun Tax and the The Pittman-Robertson Act

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/chris-kennedy-danny-davis-gun-violence-federal-taxes-guns-ammunition/ So U.S. Rep. Danny Davis from Illinois is planning to introduce a bill this week called The Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act and it would increase federal excise taxes on...
  3. B

    Property Clause / Federal Land

    VikingsGuy and Sytes I can see and understand both your points. One how we can not feed the uneducated rants of people twisting the different clauses to benefit them self's and to trying and undermined the great institution of public lands and by engaging in these distorted views with those...
  4. B

    Anyone done any hunting in Okalahoma?

    Thanks for the info guys ya I'm mainly bow hunt so I would think the public land pressure wouldn't be to bad and I'll have to do some looking in to the Sooner and Kaw lake areas that you all listed. Now Paddlefish fishing I would never have thought of that one at all I'm definitely going to...
  5. B

    Anyone done any hunting in Okalahoma?

    Hey everybody just wondering if anyone has done any hunting/fishing down in Oklahoma? I have a cousin going to school at Oklahoma State and I promised him I would make the drive and visit him sometime and I thought I would plain a hunting trip while I'm down there I got three years left to plan...
  6. B

    Midwest BHA Group??

    Seeing how I'm in Northern Illinois and our public land in my part of the state is little no none I would love to see a Midwest BHA chapter to help work on the public access issues we have.
  7. B

    CNN's Film 'Trophy; Big-game hunting and wildlife conservation in Africa'

    This popped up on my radar a few months ago, looks to be an interesting film at least I'm curious to see what the over all view/point the film takes. Sounds like the two producers come from both side one went in anti-hunting and one came from a pro-hunting background. At least every thing I...
  8. B

    If you voted for Trump with on the basis of public access.....you were dead WRONG!!

    Reading your comments reminded me of a passage from one of my fav books “All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here...
  9. B

    Hello From Northern Illinois

    north of the city of DeKalb and you?
  10. B

    Hello From Northern Illinois

    Hi Everybody, The online name I go by is Beaver I'm a 29 year old husband of one wonder and understanding wife and father of two beautiful daughters (4 and 8 months). Currently living in Northern Illinois roughly 70 miles from Chicago, far enough from the big city but yet not far enough if you...
  11. B

    If you voted for Trump with on the basis of public access.....you were dead WRONG!!

    I'm with you on this one just because more people are visiting our public lands doesn't mean we give up or walk away when someone try's to remove some of the protections given to those lands Aldo Leopold said it best "all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and...
Back
Top