Category: Hunting

WildEar’s SafEarz Protects Hearing While Filtering Out Unwanted Sounds

WALKER, Minn. – SafEarz™ is a simple, affordable way to protect your hearing against unwanted sounds. SafEarz ready-fit earplugs are available with three distinct filter options, Shooter, Everyday, and Toggle. The Shooter filter reduces high-intensity sounds such as gunfire, while still allowing you to have face-to-face conversations and hear sounds around you. The Everyday filter turns down the volume (noise) without sacrificing listening quality (the sounds you want to hear – music, warning signals, speech, etc.). The Everyday filter is ideal for lawn work, indoor or outdoor music concerts, and other activities with moderate noise. Our special Toggle option engages the Everyday filter when the toggle is in the open position and offers full protection when the toggle is closed. This product is best when you are in and out of the noise and would like the option to close the toggle for full protection (great for power tools and loud sporting events).

SafEarz incorporates a three-flange earplug design for a tight but comfortable fit in the ear canal, with four sizes (small, medium, large, and extra-large) to ensure you get the right fit for your ears. Unlike disposable products, SafEarz are simple to clean and will provide months of reliable use. Each package includes one set of the selected filter, a lanyard, and a convenient storage case. The suggested retail price is $44.50-$49.50. More information on SafEarz ready-fit hearing protection and the entire line of WildEar products is available at https://www.wildear.com/, by calling 855-494-WILD(9453), or simply Click Here.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Walker, Minnesota, CavCom is the leader in innovative industrial hearing protection and communication systems. CavCom’s WildEar designs provide advanced electronic and passive hearing protection for avid outdoor enthusiasts, weekend warriors, music lovers, cell phone users, and those desiring comfortable, undisturbed sleep. For more information on the full line of state-of-the-art products visit https://www.wildear.com/, call 855-494-WILD(9453), or Click Here.

Firearms, Hunting

Michigan early-season elk hunters find success

Hunt period 1 proved to be successful for 80% of early-season elk hunters. There were 98 state hunters who took to the field over the 12-day season. Hunters harvested 24 bull elk and 52 antlerless elk, including six calves. Additionally, two Pure Michigan Hunt winners harvested bulls.

Of the 100 hunters issued elk licenses for this hunt period (70 antlerless and 30 any-elk), 76% of antlerless hunters and 87% of any-elk hunters were successful in their pursuits. This season’s success rate is comparable with previous seasons.

The season began in late August and spanned 12 days throughout September and into early October. Hunters had mild weather during the whole season, with a few warm days with cooler nights.

The early season is designed to remove elk living outside of the designated elk management area, which is primarily the Pigeon River Country State Forest. The second hunt period will begin Dec. 10 for 160 hunters.

Learn more about Michigan’s elk:

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Hunting

Top 10 best practices for firearm deer season

Hunters can expect excellent conditions for the 2022 firearm deer season, which begins Tuesday, Nov. 15. To ensure a safe season, too, Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers are sharing best practices and tips to avoid the most common violations and mistakes they see every year.

“Most of the violations conservation officers encounter during firearm deer season are simple mistakes people make when they get caught up in the excitement of the hunt or forget to put safety first,” said F/Lt. Jason Wicklund, DNR Law Enforcement Division. “Our top priority is keeping people safe, so they have a good story to tell friends and family about their successful hunt.”

Here are 10 best practices for hunters to remember: Read more

Hunting

Whitetails Unlimited Encourages You To Donate Your Harvest

With recent inflation spikes, the need for food assistance has grown even greater. Food pantries rely heavily on donated items to stock their shelves. In many cases, food pantries also accept donations in the form of processed game. In areas where herd populations are high and harvest tags are available, it’s a tremendous help for both conservation and the community for hunters to donate harvested game.

There many organizations such as Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry and Hoosiers Feeding Hungry that raise funds to offset the processing costs associated with donated game. These organizations also work with food pantries in their respective areas to see that they are stocked with donated game. Many state fish and game agencies also have their own programs to distribute donated game.

If you are interested in donating your harvested game this year, please contact your state fish and game agency to find a donation site near you. Read more

Hunting

Hunt with Legendary Bowhunter Chuck Adams

Pope and Young Raffle gives you a chance to hunt with Chuck Adams at Liberty Ranch Outdoors

November 1, 2022 – Pope and Young, North America’s leading bowhunting conservation organization has teamed up with Liberty Ranch Outdoors to offer one lucky winner the opportunity to share camp and hunt with legendary bowhunter Chuck Adams.

In their continued efforts to Preserve, Promote, and Protect bowhunting, Pope and Young has created a unique raffle that not only provides one lucky winner the opportunity to hunt Liberty Ranch, but the chance to share that experience with legendary bowhunter Chuck Adams. The winner will spend one week with Chuck at Liberty Ranch a 7,000-acre deer hunting paradise in Oklahoma with incredible lodging, great deer hunting, and amazing food.

Tickets for this once in a lifetime raffle are $20, and the funds raised go to supporting bowhunting rights, and Pope and Young as they fight for YOUR rights as a bowhunter. The hunt will take place in December 2023, and the winner of the raffle will be announced on December 25th, 2022. Make sure and get your tickets bought before December 23rd as the ticket sells will stop, and your chance to hunt with Chuck will be gone. Read more

Archery, Hunting

Top Five Ways to Stay Warm This Hunting Season

Hunter, Producer, TV Host and Mom Melissa Bachman Shares Best Practices in the Blind

MINNEAPOLIS (Nov. 1, 2022) – Don’t get caught in the cold this hunting season. Increase your time in the field with a few experts tips from hunter, TV Producer and mom, Melissa Bachman.

“The more comfortable you are, the longer you can stay out, which increases your chances of success,” Bachman says. “And when you’re warm, you move around less, which minimizes the risk of deer catching your movement.”

Melissa Bachman’s Top Five Ways to Stay Warm Read more

Hunting

Know Your Point-Blank Range

By Glen Wunderlich

Charter Member Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA)

Hopeful hunters will be sighting in their firearms during the next two weeks in preparation for the big event:  opening day of regular firearms deer season November 15th.  Assuming we’ve settled on a firearm and ammunition and that reasonable accuracy has been achieved at the firing range, we must understand the flight of the bullet to maximize its potential.

One term loosely tossed around in today’s vernacular is point-blank range.  We may think of the term as being extremely close to given target – a can’t-miss proposition.  However, the point-blank range of any firearm’s chosen ammo is the distance out to which a hunter can hold right on the center of the kill zone and be able to hit within the vital zone.  This means, if you set up your gun properly, you won’t have to guess whether to hold high or low on the deer at a particular range, as long as you are within your maximum distance, as determined by the following example.

It is strongly suggested to assume a six-inch kill zone, rather than the actual dimension of a deer’s kill zone of some nine inches in diameter.  Doing so provides the hunter with a margin of error for shooting in conditions that are less than ideal in comparison to bench testing.

A lot of hunters make the mistake of sighting in dead on at 100 yards.  That’s fine if you are hunting in thick cover or a cornfield, where maximum shooting distance doesn’t require much contemplation.  However, if there is the possibility of shooting at longer ranges, a basic understanding of ammunition ballistics can deliver a distinct advantage to the thinking hunter.

A 30-06 with a 180-grain spire point bullet traveling 2700 feet-per-second (FPS) at the muzzle, with a 100-yard zero puts the bullet three inches low at 175 yards.  Using the 6-inch kill zone, 175 yards becomes your limit, because the bullet is at the bottom of the vitals.

However, if the same cartridge is set for a 215 yard zero, the bullet reaches its peak of three inches high at 130 yards and drops to three inches low at 255 yards.  As long as you know the deer is no farther than 255 yards, you can aim dead center for an ethical kill.  Just by changing the zero, you gain 80 additional yards.

There are several means of determining velocity, the best of which is through the use of a chronograph that measures the velocity of fired bullets.  If you don’t have access to a chronograph, many boxes of ammo have velocities printed on them.  If not, manufacturers have websites with the requisite information for given ammunition that can be used as guides.  Understand, however, that certain variables are at play such as barrel length that will affect outcomes to some degree.

Computers and associated graphs are great tools, but what if none is used?  Simple.  Get to a range where you can actually shoot at various distances and punch some paper.

Once you get sighted in, you can shoot from various positions and with rests you may use in the field.  As long as you can keep 9 out of 10 in the six-inch circle, you are shooting within ethical your personal limits.  If you fail the test, get closer until you pass the test.

When finished, don’t clean the gun’s bore, because a clean bore may change your point of impact.  Just unload the gun, wipe off the exterior, and put it away and it will be ready for action.

Ammunition, Firearms, Hunting

Enter animals before the end of the year to make Pope and Young 9th Edition Record Book

Pope and Young, America’s leading bowhunting conservation organization, recently announced the deadline for entry into the two-volume 9th edition Record Book. The 32nd Recording Period will end on December 31, 2022. This will be the deadline for consideration in the massive two volume Pope & Young 9th Edition Record Book. To be considered for entry, your official entry must be post-marked by 12/31/22.

“Entering an animal in the books is something special, something that everyone with a qualifying animal should consider” says Dylan Ray, Marketing Director. “It isn’t about the hunter, it’s about honoring the animal, an animal that deserves to be in a book amongst his peers, for everyone to celebrate. We put our animals on a wall, and celebrate them in our own homes, but putting them in a record book will honor that animal forever, for everyone to celebrate.”

Pope and Young believes it is important to celebrate the majestic big game animals we pursue as bowhunters, and the Record book is the ultimate way to honor both the animal and the hunter. The record books came into existence to illustrate the effectiveness of bowhunting as an ethical conservation management tool for fish and game departments throughout North America. These records are still used to this day for conservation across the country, and we encourage hunters to enter their harvests to continue those conservation efforts. Read more

Hunting

Babe Ruth’s Record-book Buck

Every October, baseball fans and hunters have reason to rejoice. Between hunting season and the playoffs, what’s not to be excited about? Babe Ruth, the Yankee slugger and Hall of Famer from the 1920s and ‘30s, loved hunting and baseball. Along the way, he killed at least one mighty fine whitetail buck.

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George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr.’s 22-season professional baseball career was legendary. He started as a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in 1914. By the time he retired in 1935, he was knocking the stitches off baseballs as an outfielder for the Yankees, including a 587-foot dinger that is arguably the longest home run ever. With a .342 career batting average, Babe chalked up 2,214 RBI and 714 home runs.

His exploits off the field were legendary as well. He liked to drink as much as he enjoyed the ladies. He gambled on horse racing like it was his job. After all, he could afford it. In 1930, he made $80,000 annually ($1.4 million in 2022). And he loved hunting.

Babe was an avid outdoorsman, chasing everything from trout to pheasant to moose. In November 1940, Babe was hunting around Fredericton, New Brunswick, when he killed a “typical head, heavy with long tines. Main beams meet in front,” according to Boone and Crockett records from 1948. Newspaper clippings note that the “…horns are notably, symmetrical.” Babe died in 1948, the same year that taxidermist John Hansen of Jersey City, New Jersey, entered the antlers into the Boone and Crockett records.

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Unfortunately, no photos of Babe Ruth’s award-winning whitetail antlers can be found in B&C’s records archives. The only evidence resides in these newsclippings and a vintage score chart shown at top.

Babe’s whitetail rack was honored at the Club’s 3rd Awards competition in 1949. There, the antlers received a second award. In 1950, the Club refined its series of measurements into the system that we have today. Any records measured before 1950 had to be remeasured with the new system if they were going to be in the records. Unfortunately, Babe’s buck was never rescored. Babe retired from baseball in 1935, and we like to think he spent plenty of time hunting once his falls were free of the playoffs.

Hunting

Show Off Your MSR Hunting Photos to Win Hunting Trip

WASHINGTON  — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, is helping hunters to reject gun control’s accusations that Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) aren’t meant for hunting. Nothing could be further from the truth. Today’s hunters have plenty of options when it comes to hunting, and MSRs fit right in.

Now, NSSF has teamed up with The Confluence Group for hunters to proudly show off their 2022 hunting season photos with AR-platform rifles and be entered for a chance to win a Mississippi Deer or Louisiana Hog Hunt.
Entering is easy as sharing.
  1. Take a photo while hunting using an MSR.
  2. Post the photo to Instagram including #LetsGoHunting in the caption.
  3. Submissions are reviewed to ensure they meet requirements.
  4. @letsgohuntingusa may reach out via Instagram to request permission to share the photo on its pages.
MSRs & Hunting
Hunters have been using the latest advancements in technology and tactics for centuries. Today’s hunters have a wide array of tools to choose from when it comes to firearms, concealment, lures (decoys, calls, scents, etc.) and scouting. MSRs, today’s very popular semiautomatic rifle designs, are used by more and more hunters and offer a number of benefits that can suit most hunters. The rifles’ accuracy, reliability, ruggedness and versatility serve hunters well. They are true all-weather firearms and their modularity often allows them to be configured for various applications and body types.
For hunting, these commonly-owned rifles are used for many different types of hunting, from varmint to big game. Today’s MSRs are chambered in nearly all calibers, including those popular with large game like the .243 Winchester, the 6.5 Creedmoor, the venerable .30-06 Springfield and .338 Winchester Short Magnum. The NSSF encourages hunters to share memorable moments from the field when using MSRs through its #LetsGoHunting with MSRs Photo Challenge. There are many photo styles that can be submitted including selfies, trophy photos, group photos and firearms in the field.
MSRs are semiautomatic rifle designs, including the AR-15, AR-10, carbines and similar variants. We challenge you to share a snapshot or video from the field while using your MSR for a chance to win a Mississippi deer or Louisiana hog hunt.

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