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Mark Mingain's www.RIHunts.com Has It All

August 10, 2004

If you're an outdoors man/woman shooter or hunter, or someone wishing to engage in those activities for the first time, you can find all the information you're looking for by clicking on to www.RIHunts.com

Mingain a few short months has created a site that is second to none with the information it dispenses with a quick click on your computers mouse. He is a member of Ducks Unlimited, Wallum Lake Rod & Gun Club, National Wild Turkey Federation, Federated Rhode Island Sportsmen's Clubs, a life member of the North American Hunt Club (NAHC), the National Rifle Association (NRA), and a member of the Northeast Big Buck Club (NBBC) of Chicopee, Mass.

Last week he attended their awards banquet and there was a great turnout of members and friends to the event: In fact there was a full house that took part in the numerous raffles, won door prizes, received awards, and overlooking all were the mounts of game decorating the trophy walls. Kudos go out to Chair Jeff Brown and crew for organizing such an awesome program. For more news visit Mingain's website or www.bigbuckclub.com.

Mingain's site also has a Forum Index consisting of Political issues facing hunters, trappers and firearm owners, plus current local and national news that effect them. The forum index also contains a section for critics, questions, comments, praise or complaints. In addition, there's a Trading Post where one can sell or buy, Gear Review and Recalls, Game Recipes to check out or you may add your own, and a section listing Guides and Outfitters you may want to contact for information on a future hunting or fishing trip, or comment on a trip you're already taken.

There are maps of Rhode Island's Wildlife Management Areas, an ATV section, and a special forum section for Bow Hunters, Shot gunners, Muzzle Loaders, trappers, upland game, water fowlers, and turkey hunters. Also, Women in the Outdoors, young hunters, disabled hunters the laws and equipment, and sporting dogs.

The firearms forum covers guns, reloading, black powder, and clays for sports, skeet and trap shooting, offering tips and techniques. Bow hunters can get information on the latest equipment and how too set up, tune, and shoot your bow. In addition, a gear review of arrows, broadheads, bows, and targets can be found here, besides a list of area sportsmen's Clubs.

There's a forum section for piscators who enjoy fishing in fresh and saltwater, a fly fishing section, and an area set aside for those submitting pictures of catches made in Ocean state and other waters by an angler, with a few making the state record book at times.

There's a forum section containing columns authored by Providence-based Anna Minicucci and other area outdoor writers with what's happening in the outdoors in the Ocean state, New England and states across the country besides.

Sponsors of the site are also listed; included are Bullseye Shooting Supplies, Dave's Wholesale Guns, Eastern Security Safe, Wayne's Place in Pascoag, and Beverly and George's Big Bear Hunting and Fishing Supply on Rte. 44 in Harmony.

Also included on Mingain's site are 3-D shoots, R.I. bow hunter, Hunter Safety Courses and shooters clinics statewide and in the Bay state with who to contact, the days and times It's a site to behold. Links to RIDEM can be visited for regulations on the fishing and hunting scene. The site is also assisting Brian Tefft, DEM's turkey project leader, asking Rhode Islanders who observe turkey flocks in their neighborhood to count the birds seen and where, and reporting this information to RIHunts.com. This will be reported directly to Tefft at DEM.

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