OLATHE, KS /September 1, 2021 – Garmin® International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), today announced the Alpha® 10, a compact, versatile tracking and training device for outdoor enthusiasts and their dogs. This new unit incorporates Garmin’s proven sporting dog technology in a uniquely designed form factor, making it Garmin’s smallest and lightest dog tracking and training solution. The Alpha 10 also provides easy-to-use, versatile operation as a stand-alone unit, paired with a compatible smartphone or tablet for enhanced dog tracking, or paired with a compatible Garmin device as a buddy-tracking system.

“When outdoors with your dogs, your activity will change, but one thing remains constant — the need to quickly determine their location and help keep them safe. The Alpha 10 provides outdoor enthusiasts with a unique dog tracking and training solution for various situations,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of global consumer sales. “Dogs are our best friends, but the Alpha 10 will be your closest companion in the outdoors whether you are hiking, hunting or just outside exploring with your dog. Additionally, its compact design allows users to go light, go far, and engage with Alpha 10 only when wanted or needed.” Read more

Pearl, MS – Millennium for years has brought innovation to hunting from a hang-on stand. Millennium brings innovation once again with the ability to swivel and see a full 360 degrees with the M360 Revolution Hang-On Stand.

Anyone that has used a conventional treestand understands the height advantage. Thick impenetrable woods look like a snarl at ground level but open into clear shooting lanes where wildlife is identifiable from above. At the same time, the hunter stays concealed at an elevation where game typically don’t look. Treestands truly provide a bird’s eye view of the setting.

The M360 Revolution is a swiveling seat built on a 40-inch circular platform, with the seat in the middle, so the hunter is set back from the tree. This provides the ability to swivel and keep track of everything around you. Of course, Millennium has built the stand to be rugged, stable, safe, and stealthy. The oversized platform provides plenty of room to stretch your legs and use your feet to check your hunting area slowly and silently in every direction. Read more

By Ken Perrotte

While discussing my late June South African hunt with outfitter Phillip Bronkhorst and professional hunter Pieter Taylor, I mentioned that I really wanted to sample any game we took, especially cape buffalo. And I’m not talking about just having grilled backstraps or tenderloins, I wanted to make “bufftail soup,” a cape buffalo version of a classic oxtail soup.

Oxtail soup is a tradition in many European countries and Great Britain, as well as Africa. Except for cultural pockets within the United States, it never seemed to gain a huge following here. Recipes abound for oxtail soup, some more of a broth-based with chunked vegetables and others with a smoother consistency. Read more

Dorsey Pictures announces a unique podcast as author Michael Sabbeth joins host Chris Dorsey for a lively discussion in defense of trophy hunting. The two discuss why the non-hunting public perceives ‘meat hunters’ as being superior to ‘trophy hunters’ and how we can combat the threats facing our outdoor sports and heritage.

Michael Sabbeth’s new book, “The Honorable Hunter” serves as a textbook for those looking to defend and promote hunting. During this new podcast, Sabbeth and Dorsey share their knowledge and insight gathered from years of research and first-hand experiences regarding how to honorably and persuasively win a debate with an anti-hunter. On a larger scale, the one-on-one debate personifies the cultural war facing the hunting community at large, and how the narrative and very definition of ‘trophy hunters’ needs to be written by those who live and breathe the hunting lifestyle rather than those who wish to destroy it.

You can listen to the Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey podcast here.

By DAVID RAINER

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Beginning on Monday, August 30, the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division will offer a one-click solution for those who want to hunt feral swine at night.

The new law that allows nighttime hunting of feral swine and coyotes went into effect on July 1, 2021. When the 2021-2022 licenses become available Monday, hunters can choose from a variety of all-access packages, including the “Hog Wild” package that gives hunters all the license privileges needed to take advantage of the new nighttime hunting opportunities.

“When the nighttime feral swine and coyote hunting license was passed, it seemed like a good idea to create a new license package,” said WFF Assistant Director Fred Harders. “In that package, residents and non-residents will be able to click one button and purchase a small-game license, a bait privilege license, which would allow folks to use bait while hunting feral swine at night, and the nighttime license. We felt that those three licenses would be what most people would like to purchase. Read more

Don’t forget to grab your reserved waterfowl hunt application, available through Aug. 28. Applications are $5, and hunters may apply only once. Drawing results?will be posted Sept. 20.

Reserved hunts will be held both mornings and afternoons of the Middle Zone Oct. 2-3 waterfowl season opening weekend and the following weekend, Oct. 9-10, at Fish Point State Wildlife Area and Nayanquing Point State Wildlife Area.

In the South Zone, reserved hunts will be held both mornings and afternoons of the Oct. 9-10 opening weekend at the Harsens Island Unit of the St. Clair Flats State Wildlife Area, Pointe Mouillee State Game Area and Shiawassee River State Game Area. Reserved hunts also will be held both mornings and afternoons Oct. 16-17 at Harsens Island and Shiawassee River. Read more

Tucson, AZ – Safari Club International (SCI) and Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) are proud to announce their official support of sustainable predator management in North America, management which plays an essential role in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.

SCI and SCIF adopted this position following extensive support for research on the dynamics between large carnivores and their prey, and SCI’s involvement in numerous lawsuits and legislation on predator issues. These issues revolved around state and federal species recovery efforts, delisting decisions for predators, states’ authority to manage wildlife, and the American freedom to hunt.

SCI and SCIF have adopted a position on this issue given the significant public interest and attention predators and their management garners. Unfortunately, much of that attention is the source of widespread misinformation about a subject of real importance to hunters and conservationists. As government bodies worldwide take an increasingly active approach to restricting hunting, it is more important than ever that SCI and SCIF convey the truth about hunting both prey and predator species. Read more

BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA — A new habitat modelling technique will allow The Duck Hunters Organization to produce maps of breeding waterfowl habitat conditions like never before. As first published in Delta’s “Fall Flight Forecast” media release earlier this month, The Duck Hunters Organization believes the innovative strategy marks a vast improvement in accuracy and precision over conditions maps of its kind.

“We’ve produced conditions maps in the past, but nothing ever on this level,” said Mike Buxton, Delta’s waterfowl programs manager and engineer of the new mapping technique. “Most duck production conditions maps are pretty rudimentary — they chart out these large ‘blobs’ of general areas based on direct observations and sometimes even educated guesses. It simply isn’t feasible to have enough staff spread across the entire breeding range to accurately gauge conditions firsthand throughout the year.”

Buxton’s mapping technique, on the other hand, relies on a series of complex computer models. While he won’t reveal all of his tricks — the innovative software strategy required considerable effort and a number of map iterations to perfect — precipitation as well as groundwater estimates are central to his computer modelling. Read more