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A pheasant hunter was acciden tally peppered with bird shot by a shooter from another sportsmen's party yesterday morning in Oxford Township, authorities and witnesses said. Nabhan Elsamara, 47, of Landing was hit by bird shot pellets from the gun of Frederick Flake Jr., 41, of Denville while the two were hunting in a state game preserve, according to Oxford Police Lt. Charles Lilly. Elsamara was airlifted to Morristown Memorial Hospital around 8 a.m. and released in the afternoon. He said in a phone interview he was "okay, so far," but still smarting from wounds all over: "My eyes, my...

DOUGLAS n- It had been a good morning in the field for Arkansas sportsman Roy McKim. He'd shot a wild turkey on his first try and was enjoying a day off from work as a dispatcher for the Arkansas Forestry Department. Then a friend from work called, excited. "He said, 'Roy, you know that hunt in Wyoming you’ve been trying to get in? They called,'" McKim recounted. He thought surely the call was a prank n- he’d been putting his Helluva Hunt application in the mail faithfully for six long years. But sure enough, this was his lucky day, and...

Unicorn buck makes Crestline hunter a legend John Moore, 32, of Crestline shows off the unicorn buck he killed in Knox County on the opening day of gun season. "I think I missed him three years ago ... I know some people were hunting it, Moore said. "I noticed there was a cut on his leg that probably came from a crossbow. CRESTLINE -- John Moore went into the woods as just another hunter, but he emerged a star. That's what getting a unicorn deer can do for a guy. "It's pretty cool. I never knew it would go this...

Humane Society of the United States to challenge hunting via courts U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance — Dec. 3, 2004 The nation's largest anti-hunting group has launched a new legal department to challenge sportsmen in the courts. An Animal Protection Litigation section was created in the wake of the recent merger of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the Fund for Animals. Attorney Jonathan Lovvorn was selected to head the department. The organization intends to add four litigating attorneys by the end of the year. "The animal rights movement sees the courts as the easiest way to realize its...

In the episode, "The Executive Pond", host Roland Martin joins President George W. Bush and Barney for a half hour of Bass fishing in Crawford, Texas, on the president's personally designed 10 acre pond. The episode will air on The Outdoor Life network on Friday, August 6th @ 8:00pm ET/PT.

It all started when a hunting party that included Teddy Roosevelt killed a sow bear, only to discover afterward that she had a cub. When one of the hunters raised his rifle to dispatch the orphan in order to spare the poor creature a slower death by starvation, exposure or predation, T.R. intervened, commuted the sentence, and the cub was led off, presumably to a zoo. This compassionate gesture is better known today than any of President Roosevelt's executive decisions, treaties or other accomplishments while in offlce — thanks to a toymaker. It seems the sparing of the bear cub...