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I was reading the Outdoor Life magazine tonight and found some interesting world records.

A northern pintail banded in Sep 1940 in Athabasca county, Alberta Canada, lived until Jan 1954, where it was shot near Macuspana, Tabasco Mexico. Considering the 3,000 miles between band site and death, and assuming the bird made the two - way migration each year for 13 years, the pintail would have logged nearly 80,000 migration miles during its lifetime.

At South Dakota’s Lead Club Range on Aug 20, 1932, Ed McGivern of Montana fired a .45 caliber revolver five times from 15 feet into an area with a diameter of 1.1875 inches. He accomplished this in 0.45 seconds (including the time needed to draw the gun form his holster), and did it twice that day.

Today’s game law violators get off easy compared to poachers of yesteryear. Under French King Clovis, who died in A.D. 511, the slightest trespass into the royal hunting preserve occasioned public whipping.
Poaching drew the stiffer penalty of torture on the rack, burning and finally death by decapitation.

At one time, the laws of California required a person to purchase a hunting license before setting a mousetrap.

There are many more but as I have to type these instead of copy and paste, you are going to have to buy the April 2006 edition to see them. :D
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