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OSP Writers Conference with Gil and Vicki Ash - Steve Helinski

On June 24, 2010 Gil and Vicki Ash hosted outdoor writers at the sporting clays course at the Hill 'n Dale Club in Medina Ohio. I was lucky enough to be invited.

Being a novice at sporting clays, I was apprehensive about attending the conference. I am left eye dominant and right handed. This had caused me lots of problems in the past while shooting sporting clays. I had resorted to using a piece of scotch tape on the left lens of my shooting glasses. I knew the Ash’s opinion on this…..

Leading up to the class I had practiced the OSP (Optimum Shotgun Performance) Shooting School flashlight drill. This drill has you stick a small mag light down the barrel of your unloaded shotgun while you practice instinctively mounting and swinging the gun, while keeping the beam of light on a wall/ceiling seam. Practice this as I may, I couldn’t seem to put it all together at the range. I resorted to pre-mounting the gun and then swinging at the target at the range. The amount birds I missed was staggering. I wasn’t getting a clear view of birds with the tape over my eye. I only was succeeding in making my shoulder sore.

In the days approaching the conference, I went back and re-read the Ash’s book “If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It”. I re-watched their videos. I wondered if I could put it all together. I left the tape on my left shooting lens......

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Crossbow Regulations Today

Thirty years ago in North America only Arkansas, Ohio, and Ontario allowed hunters unrestricted use of crossbows during archery season. During the next ten years, Wyoming and the Canadian Provinces of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut lifted their restrictions.

Since 2002, however, there has been significant growth in unrestricted crossbow use. Joining the states and provinces above, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana*, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland*, Pennsylvania**, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and the Province of Quebec have added crossbows to their entire archery season, portions of it, or in select areas of their state during archery season. More recently, Michigan*, New Jersey, and Texas have also added crossbows to their archery season.

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Pictures posted on Michigan-Sportsman.com lead guilty plea

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This picture posted in a December 22, 2009 thread here on Michigan-Sportsman.com lead to plea of guilty of one count of possession of game unlawfully taken. Martin Polasek was order to pay $500 in court fines and $1000 in restitiution to the state and his hunting privileges were suspended for three years.

deerMembers of this website who had frequented the Troy nature preserve recognized the photo of the deer posted on a thread here and contacted police.

The investigation that took place based on this led to a gulty plea. Police are still looking for the antlers to put them on display in the nature center. The Troy Police department can be contacted at 248-524-3477.

Grand Slammin' with a Crossbow - Lane Kinney

ten point crossbowsMy quest to become the first person to take the Grand Slam of North American Wild Turkeys with a crossbow actually started six years ago. It was at that time that I purchased my first crossbow, a TenPoint Pro Fusion.

During that first year I took 8 species of animals with my crossbow including several SCI world records. Two of the animals I was fortunate enough to harvest were a Rio Grande Turkey in Texas and an Osceola Turkey in my home state of Florida. 

After taking those two turkeys I realized that I was already half way to my Grand Slam. It was at this point that I started checking the SCI record book and realized that no SCI member had ever taken the Grand Slam with a crossbow let alone doing it in the same season.

Being goal oriented I decided that the 2008 spring turkey season would be the year I dedicated myself to taking the Grand Slam with my crossbow.

The first thing I needed to do was research where it was legal to hunt spring turkeys with a crossbow. I quickly learned that many states have not yet legalized crossbows. The other requirement I had was that I be allowed to hunt on my own and do all my own calling. This was a very personal quest I was about to embark on and if I succeeded, I wanted to be able to say I did it without someone else calling my birds. Luckily my home state of Florida allowed crossbows. I immediately booked an Osceola hunt with William Welbourn Outfitting for the opening week in south Florida. I live in the panhandle of Florida where our turkeys are the Eastern sub species. It would be on my home hunting grounds where I would attempt to take my Eastern bird.

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