Rifle

LEXINGTON - Three area people have been indicted on unrelated federal charges in U.S. District Court. A federal grand jury returned indictments March 5 against: Verna Davis of Stanford In the first count of a three-count indictment, Davis is accused of failing to disclose circumstances and events affecting her right to benefits under the Social Security Act with the intent to fraudulently secure more Supplemental Security Insurance...

The 4-H Shooting Sports program continues to be one of the fastest growing projects in the state. The program provides human growth and development. It's an introduction to the safe and responsible use of firearms and archery equipment. Shooting Sports is a volunteer-based and led group. All instructors are volunteers that go through days of training. A state committee develops rules and organizes state participation events. Disciplines offered in the Clark County 4-H Shooting Sports program are: shotgun, archery, 22 rifle and air rifle.

When I planned to take my grandson hunting during the recent free youth weekend, in my shortsightedness I forgot that it probably wouldn't have been a good idea for him to shoot a high-powered rifle after an eye injury he suffered last year without consulting the specialist who was treating the injury. So I was putting the cart before the horse, but with everything I have seen my grandson do in the past six months I couldn't see how the small recoil of a .243 could have any ill effects on his eye. I have seen C.J. jump from moderate heights that would give him quite a bit more of a jolt than he would have experienced from the rifle recoil.

It's amazing to me how I plan things and seemingly have things all worked out, and how when the time to execute those things I planned draws near, everything just falls apart. I refer to my Free Youth Weekend hunt with my grandson. I had the promise of a rifle to use if I wanted to borrow one, and I had the option to buy one if that was the way I wanted to go. So, what went wrong? "You do remember that Jackson's birthday party is scheduled for that Saturday afternoon, don't you?"

By Todd Kleffman WAYNESBURG - A Lincoln County man died early Saturday morning after he accidentally shot himself while leaving his home to go hunting. Kevin Manuel, 22, of Shake Rag Road in Waynesburg, was headed out his back door about 6:30 a.m. to pick up his father and brother when his rifle accidentally fired and killed him, said Lincoln County Coroner Bill Demrow. "He was carrying his gear, including a 50-caliber rifle, loaded, which it shouldn't have been, and he either dropped or hooked it on some obstacle in his path," Demrow said.

David Caldwell, the Winchester Police and the Clark County Sheriff's Office all got lucky Tuesday afternoon. Caldwell happened to be in Winchester on a family errand when he spotted his nephew's stolen car in traffic and blocked it in at McDonald's. When he confronted the occupants, all six occupants got out of the car and ran on foot. Two of them were later charged with stealing two handguns, the car and breaking into a home on Donaldson Road. "It looks like they just got started," Winchester Police Capt.

WAYNESBURG - A Lincoln County man died early Saturday morning after he accidentally shot himself while leaving his home to go hunting. Kevin Manuel, 22, of Shake Rag Road in Waynesburg, was headed out his back door about 6:30 a.m. to pick up his father and brother when his rifle accidentally fired and killed him, said Lincoln County Coroner Bill Demrow. "He was carrying his gear, including a 50-caliber rifle, loaded, which it shouldn't have been, and he either dropped or hooked it on some obstacle in his path," Demrow said.

Gun season is over, so fitting my rifle with another scope would seem to be an exercise in futility at this point, wouldn't it? I hadn't made up my mind about changing the scope and didn't want to change anything before the end of gun season. However, I did have in mind what I wanted to do. I had been foaming at the mouth for a Nikon Monarch scope for about three years, but they were just out of my price range. This scope is waterproof, fog-proof and shock-proof, the latter of which sets this scope apart from a lot of the higher-priced scopes.

LANCASTER - Two teenagers were indicted last week by a Garrard County grand jury for allegedly breaking into a Garrard County man's house and stealing 16 guns. William Joseph Roark II, 18, of Bardstown and Chris Terrell, 19, of Berea each are charged with one count of first-degree burglary and 16 counts of theft for allegedly breaking into Chad Issacs' residence on Maupin Road on May 22. According to the indictments, taken in the burglary were a Smith & Wesson Model 66 pistol; a Southeim-Brenz .22-caliber revolver; a Charter Arms .38 Special; a Winchester .22 semi-automatic rifle; a .22 Remington rifle; a Remington 12-gauge shotgun; a SKSM 7.69x39 Norinco carbine; a SKS 7.69x39 Romania firearm; a Knight .50-caliber black powder rifle; a .40-caliber Norinco carbine; four J. Stevens .22-caliber rifles; a Stevens .410-gauge shotgun and a Stevens 20-gauge shotgun.

The old rifle wasn't what it used to be, and probably not what it will someday be, but Jimmy Caudill used it Thursday night at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum to aim back into history. Caudill was raised at the site of historic Strode Station and his grandparents and parents operated Caudill Implement Co., which they acquired from the McCormick brothers. The company made bluegrass seed harvesters. The speaker, who worked for East Kentucky Power Cooperative for 38 years, is a farmer.