Category: Hunting

SCIF Launches Grizzly Bear Conflict Mitigation Work With Bear Spray Giveaway Event

Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) over the weekend participated in its first bear spray giveaway event with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department (WGFD), publicly launching the organization’s new work on grizzly bear conflict mitigation.

Thanks to a recent grant award from the Wyoming Wildlife Foundation’s Memorial Bear Fund, SCIF donated 100 cans of bear spray to the WGFD for distribution out of Dubois, WY for the local area’s shed hunting season opener on May 15 at the Thunderhead Campground up the East Fork of the Wind River in the Absaroka Mountains.

This year, as a pilot project WGFD permitted 25 shed hunters with 3 guests each onto the Spence & Moriarity Wildlife Management Unit to better manage the influx of humans into grizzly country and any potential impacts to wildlife. The area has been at high risk of conflict, especially as both bears and humans become more active on the landscape during the spring. While luckily there were no incidents this year, a man was mauled last year on this same unit on the opening day of shed season.

“This event is a continued effort by the WGFD to reduce human-bear conflicts in occupied grizzly bear habitat,” said WGFD Bear Wise Coordinator Dusty Lasseter. “It’s important that anyone recreating in bear country is prepared for a bear encounter and can protect themselves in the rare case of an aggressive encounter.” Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

NSSF Sponsors POMA Conference

Johnstown, PA – The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, will proudly sponsor the 2021 POMA Business Conference on June 15th – June 17th in Franklin, Tennessee, just seventeen miles away from Nashville. As a long-time sponsor, the NSSF graciously continues its relationship with POMA and the outdoor media industry at the 15th annual POMA conference. This year the NSSF is sponsoring the lunch on June 17th, from 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM, at the Cool Springs Marriott Conference Center. Following lunch, attendees will get the opportunity to participate in POMA’s Shooting Day event at Strategic Edge Gun Range in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. Media members will be shuttled to Strategic Edge Gun Range as provided by Visit Franklin from the Cool Springs Marriott Hotel.

The NSSF, at its core, passionately promotes gun safety, most notably with their Project ChildSafe program, which focuses on the promotion of safe firearms handling and storage education. The NSSF also conducts state-of-the-art research, including customized market reports, industry intelligence reports, consumer studies, and other research topics, and works with all branches of the government to assess, address, and resolve issues within the industry lobbying, advocacy, and public affairs. Bill Brassard and Justin Morrissey, the Senior Director of Communications and Social Media Manager, respectively, will be representing the NSSF at the POMA Business Conference. Justin Morrissey said that “NSSF is proud to continually support POMA and its hundreds of media members who contribute greatly to the representation of the firearm and ammunition industry. This invaluable network of creative storytellers and subject matter experts provides a reliable source of information for our industry and its consumers – which is critical following a record-setting year in which more than 8 million U.S. citizens became new gun owners and outdoor recreation participation soared.” Read more

Fishing, Hunting

Firminator: Best Cultipacker Makes Food Plots Healthier

It starts with the soil. Ensuring your soil has the proper chemical composition is critical to food plot success, but it doesn’t stop there. The physical condition of the soil is just as important. This is why components like the Firminator’s built-in cultipacker are so essential in allowing you to get the job done right, and more efficiently.

Before you can plan your food plot, you need to prepare the site by turning the soil. Shortening the top link on the Firminator’s main pitch adjustment leans the implement more heavily onto its disk assembly for a deeper cut into sod and stubborn soil. Switching to a mid-range setting gives varying degrees of disk depth, while simultaneously allowing the built-in cultipacker to maintain good ground contact. This helps break apart clods while leveling and firming the soil.

One of the most important, yet often overlooked steps in maximizing the productivity of your food plots is compacting, or “firming,” the soil. This improves seed-to-soil contact, which dramatically improves germination rates and plant growth. This also saves you time, money and effort that would otherwise be wasted on poorer growing crops. Proper firmination means better germination. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Pope & Young Ultimate Dream Raffle

May 17, 2021- Pope and Young, America’s leading bowhunting organization announces the Ultimate Dream Raffle. The Ultimate Dream Raffle allows one lucky winner to select from one of four, once in a lifetime, hunting experiences:

If your ticket is drawn you will then be able to choose your hunt from the following truly remarkable opportunities:

This amazing opportunity represents the largest raffle Pope & Young has ever put on, and you won’t want to miss your opportunity to win! Tickets can be purchased in the following packages: (1) for $100, (4) for $300, or (15) for $1,000. Read more

Hunting

SCI Opposes U.K. Proposal as Threat to Wildlife Conservation

This week the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced their Animal Welfare Action Plan containing new proposals that threaten how, when, and where Britons can legally hunt. Among other potential harms, implementation of these proposals will detrimentally impact the conservation programs of countries effectively conserving the world’s largest populations of some species such as elephants, lions, and rhinos.

Safari Club International (SCI) strongly opposes these proposals in the Action Plan, which are unsupported by scientific evidence and will harm wildlife conservation efforts in and outside of the U.K.: Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Hawk Releases ‘Compound’ Box Blind

Irving, TX – The new ‘Compound’ box blind by Hawk provides hunters with a truly superior box blind! With steel surfaces for both the interior and exterior as well as an insulated powder coated steel floor, Hawk has created the next-level box blind that is built to last. This unit gives stealth a new meaning with insulated steel walls and a steel foam insulated floor topped with a 1’’ high-density rubber mat. The ‘Compound’ provides plenty of comfort and space, measuring 7.25’ W x 5.75’ D x 6.5’ T. With the addition of the ‘Compound’ box blind, Hawk continues to provide high quality products that help hunters get it done in the field!

This unit has an ultra-dark black interior, preventing shadows and allowing for easy movement to help make the perfect shot. Oversized horizontal windows along with the vertical windows allow archery hunters the ability to shoot out of any window. The windows are equipped with eaves to help keep hunters dry, even in the most adverse weather conditions. The ‘Compound’ windows are a one-handed operable silent window system that is made of residential glass. The door is a full-frame “RV” style door with a handle and secure lock.

This unit ships fully assembled and field-ready! With foam insulated walls, triple drip pane window gaskets, and an awning, the ‘Compound’ box blind by Hawk is ready to handle the toughest outdoor conditions and is the ultimate in thermal, scent, and noise control. Multiple tower combo options can also be purchased, including a 5ft and 10ft tower base, sold separately. Every Hawk box blind comes with a limited lifetime warranty. Read more

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IHEA, Boone and Crockett Club Partner for Exclusive Giveaway Hunt

In support of Hunter’s Connect, The IHEA-USA’s suite of educational videos served to hundreds of thousands of Hunter Education students each year, The Boone & Crockett Club has partnered with the IHEA offering one lucky hunter access to the exclusive Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch near Dupuyer, Montana.

Coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the IHEA-USA, this giveaway offers hunters a number of ways to enter. The easiest way to enter is to complete the IHEA-USA Hunter’s Connect Survey, and help the IHEA-USA better understand their awareness level in the United States. Hunters can also enter by becoming an associate member of the Boone & Crockett Club.

The hunt itself is valued at $4,500.00 and offers 3 days of self-guided hunting access to the Ranch in the window of October 24-30, 2022. Meals and Lodging are included. Read more

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NWTF Applauds Introduction of America the Beautiful Initiative

EDGEFIELD, S.C.—The National Wild Turkey Federation praises the Biden Administration’s recent announcement of a collaborative plan to expand conservation across the nation with a target of conserving a third of all lands and waters by 2030.

In a report released by the administration, the Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful Initiative will be a “locally led campaign to conserve and restore the lands and waters upon which we all depend, and that bind us together as Americans.”

The report identifies multiple priority areas that the NWTF provided early feedback on, including:

  • Expanding collaborative conservation of fish and wildlife habitats and corridors.
  • Increasing access for outdoor recreation.
  • Incentivizing and rewarding the voluntary conservation efforts of sportsmen and women, ranchers, farmers and forest owners.
  • Creating jobs by investing in restoration and resilience projects and initiatives. Read more
Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife

Michigan: apply for a bear license now through June 1

New this year for bear hunting: license quotas, archery-only seasons in the northern Lower Peninsula and a ban on bait barrels on public lands. Find the 2021 bear season dates, license quotas and hunting regulations in the Bear Hunting Digest.

Curious how the preference point system works? Check out this video: MI Bear Draw Preference Point System Explained.

There are 7,001 bear licenses available to hunters this year.

Apply for a bear license at Michigan.gov/Bear. The application period is open through June 1. Drawing results will be posted online July 6.

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