Federal Premium® Ammunition’s “Bullet Breakdown” Video Educates, Informs Hunters on Bullet Selection

ANOKA, Minn. – Federal Premium® Ammunition’s award-winning “Bullet Breakdown” video shows hunters how different bullets perform and why selection is so important. It is available to watch on Federal’s channel on YouTube, at www.youtube.com/user/FederalPremiumAmmo#p/u/1/nMKvetaMqhE.

Breaking down the Options
Hunters have many different ammunition choices as they prepare for their next hunt. The experts at Federal Premium created a testing scenario to help show what to look for in a rifle cartridge-and what to expect on impact.

Four bullet types and three different impact tests give these Federal Premium rounds a workout. Read more

 
Michigan deer hunters harvested 6 percent fewer whitetails in 2010 than in 2009, but they said they found the season more enjoyable than the previous year, according to the Department of Natural Resources annual mail survey.
 
An estimated 656,500 hunters spent 9.6 million days afield, taking nearly 418,000 deer. Overall, 44 percent of hunters harvested at least one deer.
 
The survey was sent to more than 50,000 deer-license buyers.
 
The survey showed a 4 percent decrease from 2009 in the number of individuals buying deer licenses in 2010 and a 4 percent decrease in the number of licenses sold.
 
Hunters killed 1 percent fewer antlered bucks and 10 percent fewer antlerless deer than in 2009. However, hunters reported increased satisfaction with the season in terms of number of deer seen, deer harvested and overall hunting experience.
 
The complete survey is posted online at www.michigan.gov/dnrhunting.

Jim Orsello is the hero of his Woodbury neighborhood for solving a miserable problem – goose poop.

His apartment complex was thrown into a fecal furor this spring when an infestation of geese carpeted lawns and sidewalks with the birds’ stinky nuggets.

Orsello’s solution – deception – was as old as nature itself. He installed a floating alligator head…more here

By Glen Wunderlich

When I began deer hunting, I had never heard of any type of record books for hunters.  And, when I took a big buck in 1986 in Michigan’s Iron County in the Upper Peninsula, I performed the field dressing duties, as I had in the past.  To get the meat cooled quickly, I had learned that it was good to open the animal well into the neck.  It had always been about the meat.  I never learned about any techniques to preserve a trophy until I had spoiled the cape of what was to be my first mount. 

I was able to trade the entire hide of the 190-pound field dressed buck for a cape from another deer.  (The hide from my deer was used on a full-body mount of an 18-point buck displayed in a sporting goods store in St. Claire Shores, where my unwitting incision was cleverly hid from view.)   Since then, the substitute cape and rack have hung on a wall. Read more

The opinion article concerning bears by Jennifer Hobgood of the Humane Society of the United States misleads the public.

The Humane Society of the United States, or HSUS, is an animal rights organization that preys on urban folks who wish to support wildlife and animals but are clueless to the organization’s true goals and its “animals have the same rights as people” policy. The HSUS is not associated with nor supports any local animal shelter or organizations that provide services helping animals as their leaders believe no person should benefit from animal use or “ownership.” Their goal is to raise money to perpetuate animal rights by opposing through the legal and political systems sustainable, conservation based hunting, farming, ranching and pet ownership.

The Florida black bear is the same species found in stable and increasing numbers across the country. Never was it in danger of extinction. Unfortunately, through politics and financial might, the HSUS more here…

Published: June 9, 2011

President Obama has nominated the leader of a conservation group to be the Interior Department’s next assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, a position that oversees national parks and the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Rebecca Wodder, who since 1995 has served as CEO of American Rivers, a national river conservation group, was picked to replace Tom Strickland, who left Interior for the private sector in early January.

Wodder’s selection is seen as a nod to environmental groups and could draw opposition from some…more here

 Michigan 2011 license holders enjoy big discounts on MIS tickets
 
Hunters and anglers – show your 2011 Michigan hunting or fishing license at Michigan International Speedway and get 50 percent off Friday and Saturday tickets for June 17th and 18th, and $10 off Turn 1 Sunday tickets for June 19th. Just go to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) booth, show your license, and get a voucher for the MIS box office.
 
Michigan is home to some of the finest hunting and fishing around, with more than 11,000 inland lakes, 36,000 miles of rivers and streams, more freshwater shoreline than any other state and 8 million acres of public hunting land. Pick up your license and find out why we rank third in the nation in licensed hunters and why Field and Stream recently named us the No. 1 fly-fishing destination in the nation.
 
When you buy a Michigan hunting or fishing license, you’re doing so much more. Every license purchased aids the push to keep Michigan’s hunting and fishing heritage alive by contributing to fish and wildlife management and research, enforcement of fishing and hunting laws, and acquisition of land to be used for hunting and fishing. Now that’s a race worth winning!
 
To plan your next hunting or fishing adventure, visit www.michigan.gov/dnr.