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March Madness, isn’t it great! as to facility needs and/or any chapter Jeremy Belk
Frankly I don’t know whether to try rules for our ranges. So if you have Roger Butters
and get the boat out or sit tight and thought of any new suggestions, Mark Davis
think about the quality buck that please bring them on. Safety remains Ryan Denton
walked right on by my tree back in the our first and highest priority. The Ed Grubbs
late season. Actually there isn’t much first hurdle is to identify the budget Scott Harrison
time to just lie around and contem- options which will guide the time Dan Henson
plate with all the meetings and frame for completion of any building Bob Howard
functions to attend to. It seems that projects. The first priority for Melvin Joyce
there is a hunting convention or fund construction is the safety baffling on Jack Judd Jr.
raiser scheduled for every weekend the rifle ranges, but that requires some Jeremy Kyncl
and during the week our legislature feasibility engineering work. We have Clay Livingston Jr.
just can’t seem to get it right. identified a few potential grant Ryan Miller
The Ikes are coming out of options but they will need some Raymond “Gus” Miller
hibernation too, what with all the expertise in writing. If anyone can Stephen Mossman
shooting events getting warmed up help, let us know. In the meantime, Charles “Chuck” Pfitzer
for the spring and summer. This we must be on our best behavior. Thomas Raudenbush
month will finish up with a very large STATE’S POLICY Randall Sailors
group of young trap shooters on hand In the big picture, our elected Peter Schlette
for our first of two conference meets. officials in the Capitol have some Brandon Siefert
Earlier this month there were 360-plus huge issues trying to decide how to Clifford Smith
at the first meet over at Lincoln Trap spend our tax dollars. We hope that Roger Uttecht
and Skeet Club. Look for the same at the periodic email newsflashes can be Cameron White
our place. Of course if you would like helpful for you to help yourselves. It
to help with an even bigger event, is true that state budget deliberations Ikes NewsFlashes are a
stopover at the Lancaster Center to can be contentious when considering great way to know the
watch 500 kids shoot off in the NASP the use of tax dollars. But should they
archery tournament. March 26th is the breaking news affecting
tamper with the will of the citizens
day of the kids. OUR future. Your who voted to use our gambling conservation and out-
hands could be useful. proceeds for specific uses: aid to door sports. To get
PLANNING FOLLOW-UP education and The Environmental them, all you need to do
Just to follow up with results Trust? I am speaking of currently
of our chapter general planning meet- proposed LB229 that takes half of the is get your email address
ing, our board is carefully considering dedicated environmental funds and to Mike Moore at
many of the issues brought up, both puts those dollars into a regular webrat@windstream.net.
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budget for a state agency. That bill Probably a second topic for news- roster and no longer will have ac-
has now advanced to general file flashes and grassroots support by cess to the ranges. If you are one
debate, which may be scheduled calling your senators. It is never of those, please know that we value
before this goes to press. If there too late until the final vote. your friendship and would miss
ever was a proposal to break the As I sit here I am pecking seeing you at the chapter. Next
trust of the citizens that voted 18 away at a newsflash from the month you will be dropped from
years ago for gambling, it is this NFOA (our sister, the Nebraska the newsletter list.
one. Firearm Owners Association). It SPECIAL EVENT
Secondly, on the agenda in notes that LB298, the Victim A special heads up for 2012
the big house under the Sower, is Protection Act, is still stuck in the to put on your calendar. The an-
LR40CA, and that is important to Judiciary Committee and needs nual national convention of the
us. This is the proposal that would some help from concerned citizens Izaak Walton League will be com-
provide for a constitutional amend- willing to contact senators, espe- ing to Lincoln. The convention
ment, to be voted on in the 2012 cially those Judiciary Committee meetings will be centered down-
general election, to add specific members. town at the Cornhusker Hotel,
language to the State Constitution In all of this business, you however our chapter should host
that protects the right of all can find communication can be an evening dinner to show Ikes
Nebraskans to hunt, trap and fish. very easy by working your way from around the country what
Recently several states have done through the legislative website at fabulous facilities you all have built
just that, however voters defeated http//nebraskalegislature.gov. to enjoy our sports. This will be a
an amendment last fall. And if you are interested you may great chance to engage in the work-
The proposal is in response even watch all of the floor or com- ings of the Ikes organization. Our
to the growing activities of various mittee hearing on the NET live chapter gets nine votes in all busi-
anti- hunting groups, most notably streaming. ness on the table, but everyone can
the Humane Society of United MEMBERSHIP REPORT be engaged. It’s a great chance to
States (HSUS). This measure intro- Thank you to all who have learn more about the League.
duced by Senator Pirsch has responded to the notice to renew
quickly developed a lot of traction, your membership. If you sent your Enough ramblin’
maybe in response to the HSUS check and did not receive acknowl- But remember this;
finger pointed at our hog farmers edgement, please get right on the “When everything is coming your way,
and the recently created HSUS phone to me. I have screwed up you probably are in the wrong lane.”
office in Omaha. This is on a fast on at least two (hopefully corrected From the desk of Larry the Cable
track and received instant priority now) memberships of the 708 guy.
status last week at the close of its returned members, and I apologize. Cheers,
hearing. And today is on the That just leaves 146 members who Wes Sheets
schedule for first round debate. will soon be dropped from our
I N M Y O PINION
The recent decision to allow sportsmen and other stakeholders who fore this goes to press. At the very least
crossbows in archery season was a slam would help narrow the field before every senator needs to know what is
to the bowhunting fraternity. This very recommendations are sent to the good for us as their constituents. Hope-
distasteful and disgusting political governor. This will not be easy to fully they already have a positive opin-
decision goes against most every bow- accomplish, but that’s the way our ion because we educated each one of
hunting archer in Nebraska. But, I be- system works. them at home. Our real test comes if
lieve that we should not just react by In the meantime, our actions and when we get to see it on the ballot
throwing in the towel and refusing to or lack thereof, will determine just how in the general election. We must be
look for other solutions to this latest successful we may be in the next battle. sure to go vote, and also to have edu-
slap in the face. The war is not lost. I, And there is a great project ongoing that cated our fellow voters, on the need for
at least, still plan to have a permit and I believe will help protect our sport if this to safeguard our future. If this
hunt with my bow in the coming sea- completed. Again, politics at a high could make it all the way and pass the
sons. Political decisions are made every level. Senator Pirsch of Omaha has politics would be rewarding.
day at all levels of our community gov- introduced LR40CA on behalf of all Last year a similar measure was
ernments, that’s reality. But we can sportsmen, which provides that citizens presented in Tennessee, Arizona, South
affect those political decisions if we act. would vote whether to add into the Carolina, and Arkansas. Citizens in
We have at least one ally at the state’s constitution language that pro- three states passed it but the measure
next higher level of oversight, our state tects the right to hunt, trap and fish. went down in Arizona thanks to much
legislature. I know, it’s politics again, You can read about this proposed con- anti-advertising by a healthy budget of
but a necessary action that could undo stitutional amendment in “Wes’s Note- you guessed it, the Humane Society of
some of what has been done, or at least book” on page 2. the United States. Can Ikes members
prevent similar decisions in the future. Today LR40CA is on a fast be counted on to join the team of
One proposal on the table would re- track, having been reported out of com- sportsmen to fight this and other
quire that candidates for the appoint- mittee with a priority status that means important battles while continuing to be
ment to the commission in question it likely will have been debated on the engaged in the war?
should first be reviewed by a panel of floor and either killed or advanced be- Wes Sheets
BOW Workshop Set for Ponca SP You will save the chapter
nearly a dollar if you make
LINCOLN, Neb. – Ponca State Park who want to learn, in a friendly envi- sure we have your new ad-
will host a Becoming an Outdoors- ronment, various skills so they may dress.
Woman (BOW) workshop April 8-10, become active outdoor participants. Call Wes (466-9040) or
according to the Nebraska Game and send an update to:
Visit NebraskaBOW.com or call Peggy
Parks Commission. The sessions will LIWL
Kapeller at (402) 471-5482 to register.
cover birding, archery, fly-fishing, bot- PO Box 6755
any, and muzzleloading. Lincoln NE 68506
BOW is for women age 18 or older
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Last year the Ikes hosted their need more instructors. Becoming an skills. With two days of intensive
first Appleseed shoot, and since then Appleseed instructor involves attend- training in both Revolutionary War
we’ve hosted one other, in the snow ing several shoots and progressing history and marksmanship we’ll soon
and ice of January. Despite the frigid through multiple levels before one is have several new instructors ready to
temperatures we made two new rifle- qualified to run a shoot on your own. move the program forward. If you
men and had a great time teaching To help speed the process along, the would like to learn more about Project
marksmanship and passing along the Ikes hosted an Instructor “Boot Appleseed, visit http://
story of April 19th, 1775. Camp” on January 29th & 30th. Over a www.appleseedinfo.org.
The Appleseed program in dozen people from Minnesota, Kan- Brian Koenig
Nebraska has grown quite a bit in the sas, Missouri, Colorado, and Nebraska
last couple of years, and to keep up we attended to sharpen their instructor
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