Powderhook Finds Hunting and Fishing Places Nationwide

LINCOLN, Nebraska – Powderhook.com, a free web and mobile service that connects hunters and anglers with places to hunt and fish, announced today the company has now mapped public land in all 50 states. Total acres available for public hunting and fishing access now total over 535 million.

“We’re on a mission to make it easier to find a place to hunt or fish,” says Eric Dinger, Powderhook CEO. “It’s 100% free to use and it’s likely we’ll have several places nearby for just about anyone in the United States.” Public data is being collected by working with state and federal wildlife divisions in combination with other proprietary sourcing methods. Read more

Bushnell Outdoors Offers Brighter Light and Better Sight with New RUBICON Flashlights

Overland Park, Kan. — Bushnell Outdoors, an industry-leader in outdoor product innovation, has introduced five new flashlights in its new RUBICON line of lighting products. From the compact, do-it-all 152-lumen flashlight to the almighty 1080-lumen flashlight, there are a total of six RUBICON flashlights for virtually every task and adventure.

Purposefully crafted to offer brighter and more consistent light, the RUBICON flashlights pair top-quality Cree® LEDs with proven optics technology developed during Bushnell’s 65-year history. The innovative Total Internal Reflective (TIR) optic collimates light for better visibility, while the Cree LEDs provide bright, consistent illumination throughout the beam. Read more

Sightmark® Debuts its First Hybrid Night Vision Riflescope

(MANSFIELD, TEXAS) – Sightmark® is excited to announce the release of the Photon 5×42 Digital Night Vision Riflescope, an exclusively modified unit never before accomplished in the market. By taking a daytime riflescope, removing the objective lens, and replacing it with a cutting-edge night vision attachment complete with a CCD sensor and built-in infrared illuminator, Sightmark has created a unique product capable of vivid daytime and nighttime viewing. Read more

Bear Archery & Rose City Archery – Partners in Tradition

Bear Archery a leading manufacturer of bows and archery accessories for over 80 years is proud to announce a partnership with Rose City Archery who has been producing Port Orford cedar arrows for over 80 years. Bear Archery and Rose City are partnering to bring the same cedar arrows once designed by Fred Bear and produced during the golden era of bowhunting. These arrows will be manufactured by Rose City and licensed under the Bear Archery name. The arrows are reminiscent of the product offering that Bear sold in the late 1950s. Read more

More Legal Wrangling over Michigan’s Wolves

By Glen Wunderlich

Michigan wolf management is now in the hands of a Washington D.C. federal district court judge.  At issue is whether wolf populations have fully recovered.  On one side of the matter is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), which claims that the gray wolf still needs protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA); on the other side is the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (USSAF) and others such as Michigan United Conservation Clubs defending the 2011 delisting rule against the HSUS lawsuit.

The decision may well determine whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has the authority to delist recovered populations of a species, and return that recovered population to state management, while continuing to manage populations of the same species in different locales under the ESA. Read more

Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Celebrates Virginia Decision

Washington, DC – Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed Sunday hunting into law, allowing Virginia to join the 40 other states that allow hunting on privately owned lands on Sundays. Sponsored by Delegate Todd Gilbert, and cosponsored by many members of the Virginia Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus, HB 1237 passed the Senate on February 18 (28-11) after clearing the House of Delegates on January 30 (71-27). An identical bill (SB 154) sponsored by Senator Phillip Puckett also reached the Governor’s desk, after passing the Senate on February 10 (29-10) and later the House on February 28 (73-24). Read more

LaPierre Blasts Mainstream Media and Obama Administration at CPAC

“A little over a year ago, I offered the answer for school violence,” said the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, “and the media elite called every nasty name imaginable. Fortunately, Americans disagreed.”   That was the opening shot, and LaPierre never stopped firing at the “media elite” and the political figures he says are dedicated to “fundamentally changing America” as he addressed the attendees of the National Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington. Read more

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