Category: Hunting

Silencerco Announces Photo Contest

WHAT:
Living in the Red means being ready for anything. SilencerCo’s new photo contest represents an opportunity for you to show off your gear, assembled to get you out of a tight spot when the going gets beyond tough. What do you carry in your rig?

WHEN:
Beginning today, photos can be submitted for one month, through October 19, 2014. After the submission period is over, SilencerCo will narrow the submissions and open the best photos for public voting.

WHO:
Anyone who wants to showcase their gear for the chance to win some awesome prizes.

HOW:
Find more info and submit your photo at http://www.silencerco.com/living-in-the-red

WHY:
Being prepared for the unexpected is reason enough, but submitting a photo to the contest gives you the chance to win some great stuff.

GRAND PRIZE:
Any three SilencerCo suppressors of your choice. Be strategic – the most expensive or largest-caliber suppressors alone may not be the best for you in a survival scenario. But if you win, it’s your call.
A Goal Zero solar station valued at over $800 – the perfect setup to allow you to power necessary devices without the need for fuel.

RUNNER-UP:
One SilencerCo suppressor of your choice.
Goal Zero Nomad 7 Solar Panel in Realtree Xtra Camo

About SilencerCo:
Founded in West Valley, Utah in 2008, SilencerCo began with a belief in the fundamental premise that firearms don’t have to be loud and has now become the market leader in sound suppressors, muzzle devices, and related products. By investing in innovation, customer service, organic manufacturing, advocacy, education, and talent, SilencerCo is now focused on making firearms hearing safe for all hunting and shooting applications, introducing products that have never been made before, and improving the buying experience.

Hunting, Self Defense, Wildlife

Yellowstone Plundered by Market Hunters

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (Sept. 19, 1876) – Soon on newsstands in all 38 states, an upcoming edition of “Forest and Stream” will feature a report by editor George Bird Grinnell on a poaching crisis still plaguing Yellowstone even in its fourth year as a U.S. national park.

Grinnell, back from an expedition in the area, witnessed the sad carnage and writes, “It is estimated that during the winter of 1874-1875, not less than 3,000 buffalo and mule deer suffer even more severely than the elk, and the antelope nearly as much.”

The concerned editor is urging Congress to help stop the rampant market hunting and exploitation of wildlife, timber, geysers and other natural resources of the park.

That’s how early sportsmen might have announced the launch of a long crusade that would change the course of conservation in America.

The plight of Yellowstone and the public outcry that followed Grinnell’s articles on what he called “the park grab,” proved to be a tipping point that rallied the 1887 formation of the Boone and Crockett Club. Founder Theodore Roosevelt was resolute in establishing the fledgling outfit’s first order of business: Protect the park.

Yellowstone elk poached by Fredrick and Philip Bottler near Mammoth Hot Spring during the spring of 1875.

Today, Boone and Crockett is commemorating the 120th anniversary of the Club’s first major success, the Yellowstone Protection Act of 1894.

“The campaign to preserve Yellowstone was the first time a natural resource issue secured the popular support of both sportsmen and non-sportsmen,” said current Boone and Crockett Club President Bill Demmer. “Yellowstone thrust Boone and Crockett into the national limelight as an organization of hunters leading America’s early conservation movement.” Read more

Hunting, Poachers, Wildlife

Michigan’s Small Game Hunting Bonanza

On the third day of small game season, I sat quietly in the squirrel woods.  Within two hours, I was heading home with an unusual mixed bag.  Details will follow in a few days, but here is a photo of the results.  All taken with single shots from the venerable Marlin 39A stoked with sub-sonic target ammo.  A camera sits atop the long gun to record the action.

Squirrels and Coyote Taken with .22 Rimfire
Squirrels and Coyote Taken with .22 Rimfire
Ammunition, Firearms, Hunting, Wildlife

Gov. Snyder celebrates successful conservation project at Maple River State Game Area

 Gov. Rick Snyder and Department of Natural Resources Director Keith Creagh – together with Pete Albrecht, Michigan Ducks Unlimited state chairman, and Dave Brakhage, Ducks Unlimited director of the Great Lakes/Atlantic Region – today celebrated the completion of important wetland and waterfowl habitat restoration projects at Maple River State Game Area, north of St. Johns.

The event showcased a powerful partnership that included the state of Michigan, the federal government and conservation organizations such as Ducks Unlimited. The groups worked together to restore wildlife habitat in an area that will benefit natural resources throughout mid-Michigan. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Michigan-based group to “monitor” Yellowstone wolf hunt

Montana has opened its 6-month rifle season for wolves but will have to contend with Rodney Coronado and his group of whackos said to be shadowing and video recording hunting activities.

Coronado, a SHAC speaker & organizer; editor, the Earth First! Journal; Animal Liberation Front arsonist jailed for 57 months for torching a university research lab; confessed fur-industry serial arsonist; recipient of $70,400 from PETA. Rodney Adam Coronado is a long-time ringleader of the Animal Liberation Front, a criminal enterprise that the FBI classifies as America’s most dangerous domestic terrorism threat. He was sentenced in 1995 to 57 months in federal prison, for the 1992 arson of a Michigan State University research laboratory. In a November 30, 2002 speech, Coronado openly confessed to at least six other arsons, all of them part of a crime spree known as “Operation Bite Back.” While the FBI was most intensely investigating Coronado, PETA gave him over $70,000 in “grants” from its tax-exempt coffers.

Details here…

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

NSSF Says California Ammo Ban Will Cause Shortages, Price Spikes

GW:  This isn’t rocket surgery and is totally predictable – just what the gun grabbers desire.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) today released a new report demonstrating the negative effects that the State of California’s ban on the use of traditional lead ammunition in hunting will have on hunters, the state’s economy and wildlife conservation. That report, commissioned by NSSF on behalf of the firearms and ammunition industry, was presented today at a public hearing of the Wildlife Resource Committee of the California Fish and Game Commission. Read more

Ammunition, Gun Control, Hunting

Barnett BCX Crossbow

At a blazing speed of 365 fps with a 13 3/8-inch power stroke, 118 ft. pounds of kinetic energy, 19 7/8-inch Axle to Axle and only weighing 7.1 pounds, the BCX leaves nothing to chance.

The Barnett BCX features an ADF (Anti Dry Fire) Trigger, a state-of-the art mechanism that protects the user from shooting the weapon without an arrow in place. The patented Anti Dry Fire Trigger has a spring loaded redundant safety bar that remains in place until the arrow is seated properly, which finally allows the  user to switch the safety off and shoot the bow. Read more

Hunting

Purchase Any New Full-Size, Leica Ultravid HD Binocular, Receive a Filson Medium Field Bag

Purchase a new ultra-light, but durable full-size Leica Ultravid HD from any authorized North America Leica Dealer and receive a classic and versatile Filson Medium Field Bag ($250 value). Send in your mail-in rebate form and a copy of your sales receipt for your purchase, made between Sept. 15 and Dec. 31, 2014, to Leica to receive the field bag. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Safari Club rewards Michigan hunters for survey participation

Bay City and Unionville residents win crossbow, rifle

Two Michigan hunters were presented with new hunting equipment by the Michigan Involvement Committee of Safari Club International at last week’s meeting of the Natural Resources Commission in Two Michigan hunters hold a new crossbow and rifle with representatives from Safari Club International.Lansing, Michigan. The gear – a Weatherby rifle and a TenPoint crossbow – was given by the committee as thanks for all hunters’ participation in Department of Natural Resources hunter surveys. Read more

Firearms, Hunting, Wildlife
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