New Zealand Trophy Hunting at its Best

World Record Trophies in Stunning Alpine Scenery

New Zealand Trophy Hunting offers the finest red stag hunting in New Zealand. It has produced several former world records, and there will be more!

The red stag typically rut from mid-March through mid-May, a period popularly known as the “roar”. If you are a bowhunter, this is your best opportunity for hunting this majestic animal while also experiencing the privilege of this exhilarating encounter.

When a stag roars, it is a guttural, hair-raising, lion-like roar that will be sure to get your heart racing. To hunt a roaring stag at close quarters is one of the world’s most unforgettable hunting experiences. Read more

Hunting

California Vintner Steps Forward to Protect Endangered Salmon

A vintner in Northern California is upgrading a concrete fish barrier to return native salmon and steelhead to valuable spawning habitat that has been blocked for nearly a century. A cooperative “Safe Harbor” agreement between the landowner Barbara Banke, Chairman and proprietor of Jackson Family Wines, and NOAA Fisheries and other state and local agencies has fostered the improvements. These agreements provide incentives to private landowners who help recover threatened and endangered species.

The story begins in the late 1800s, when two real estate speculators, F.E. Kellogg and W.A. Stuart, bought part of a Spanish land grant in Sonoma County and built a post office, general store, school, cottages, a hotel, and a diversion structure on a nearby stream to provide water for residents and visitors to the town.

Bypassed by the railroads, however, the little town of Kellogg eventually faded away, its remains razed by a wildfire in the 1960s that left only a handful of homes, agricultural buildings, and the water diversion structure and associated water system. Like many such remnant barriers, the concrete barrier reduced stream flow and blocked native fish, such as Central California Coast (CCC) steelhead and CCC coho salmon, a critically endangered species, from reaching their spawning habitat.

Fulfilling the recovery plan

NOAA Fisheries considers restoration of Yellow Jacket Creek an essential component in the Central California Coast Coho Recovery Plan. Read more

Fishing

Ruger Awarded at NASGW

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is proud to announce that it has been recognized by the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) as Firearms Manufacturer of the Year for the thirteenth consecutive year. The Ruger Precision® Rimfire Magnum was also awarded the NASGW Caliber Award in the Best New Rifle category. Read more

Firearms

Weatherby Introduces New Mark V Carbonmark Models

Sheridan, WY – Weatherby is excited to announce three new Mark V Carbonmark rifles providing custom-built features in a stunningly-precise rifle. The newly introduced Weatherby Mark V product line launches many all-new models with features and technologies at aggressive pricing levels. The new Weatherby Mark V Carbonmark, Carbonmark Pro, and Carbonmark Elite have the following features:

  • New TriggerTech Mark V trigger
  • SUB MOA Guarantee
  • Cerakote on all metal work
  • New spiral fluted bolt
  • Accubrake ST with standard 5/8×24 threads on all calibers
  • Monte Carlo Fiberglass Stock or Carbon Fiber Stock *Select Models

In addition to the above, the new Weatherby Mark V Carbonmark features a BSF Carbon Barrel which is lightweight, accurate, and fast-cooling. Using a 416R stainless steel match barrel roll-wrapped with a carbon fiber sleeve loaded under tension to create strength and reduce overall weight. 95% of the carbon fiber does not touch the barrel allowing air to foil around the steel and rapidly cool the barrel, adding rigidity and reducing overall weight. This creates an incredibly strong barrel that dissipates heat very well and provides consistent accuracy with high shot counts.

  • The Carbonmark has a hand-laid fiberglass black stock with gray and tan sponge accents. FDE receiver/brake/trigger guard with a graphite black spiral fluted bolt and safety lever .

MSRP $2,499 Weight Standard Action: 7 LBS / Magnum Action: 8 LBS

  • The Carbonmark Pro features a charcoal carbon fiber stock, tungsten on receiver/brake/trigger guard, and graphite black bolt and safety.

MSRP $2,999 Weight Standard Action: 6.7 LBS / Magnum Action: 7.5 LBS

  • The Carbonmark Elite features an adjustable comb carbon fiber stock with brown sponge pattern. Coyote Tan Elite on receiver/brake/trigger guard with a graphite black spiral bolt and safety lever.

MSRP $3,299 Weight Standard Action: 7.2 LBS / Magnum Action: 8.4 LBS

“We are incredibly excited to launch these three models of Mark V Carbonmarks in partnership with BSF Barrelsl. New technologies and high performance lift the entire Mark V family. The new carbon fiber stocks of the Pro and Elite offer many shooting options from hunting to bench shooting all while saving weight. ” Says Kevin Wilkerson, Director of Marketing. Read more

Firearms

Bergara Rifles Introduces the B-14 .22 LR Rifle at NASGW

Bergara Rifles to introduce their B-14 .22 LR Rifle at the NASGW Expo in Orlando, FL Oct. 22-25, 2019

Lawrenceville, Georgia – BPI Outdoors / Bergara Rifles is pleased to announce the release of the Bergara B-14 R .22 LR Rifle at the NASGW Expo in Orlando, FL Oct. 22-25, 2019.

The Bergara B-14 R .22 LR is the latest offering in their ever-popular B-14 series of rifles. Ben Fleming VP of Sales for Bergara states. “Our team has been working on a very accurate full size .22 precision trainer for several years now with a goal to help set the bar with the .22 shooters. With this gun we are confident that it will help long range .22 shooting grow for years to come.” Dakota Russell, National Sales Manager for Bergara added, “Our customers have been requesting a gun like this for some time, and with the growing NRL22 and PRS .22 competition matches the timing was right to introduce a rifle of this nature.”

This rifle is designed as a true rimfire “trainer” being that it works within the dimensions of a REM700 platform, allowing shooters to have a similar size and feel to their centerfire rifle, or even set up as a clone to their centerfire to train with. It therefore fits REM700 compatible stocks, bases, and triggers.

This being the case, it gives a perfect platform to allow any shooter the ability to customize their rifle with all kinds of compatible accessories already on the market. The magazine is a single stack .22LR mag that is built within the same dimensions as a standard short action AICS mag. Read more

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North Dakota Elk Habitat, Hunting Heritage Gets Boost from RMEF

MISSOULA, Mont.— The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and our partners awarded $197,340 of grant funding in North Dakota to benefit habitat stewardship and hunting heritage projects. RMEF directly granted $38,170 and leveraged an additional $159,170 in partner funding.

Seventeen projects benefit Barnes, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Dickey, Eddy, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, McLean, Morton, Ransom, Richland, Rolette, Sargent, Stutsman, Towner, Ward, Wells and Williams Counties.

“Invasive weeds crowd out native grasses and forbs that are vital to elk and other wildlife. This funding, in part, helps treat noxious weed growth across a 329-square mile project area,” said Blake Henning, RMEF chief conservation officer. “The grants also assist a number of different youth archery, shooting sports and other outdoor-related groups and events.”

North Dakota is home to 10 RMEF chapters and nearly 4,000 members.

“We salute and thank our volunteers for their time, talents and dedication to raise this funding that is put back on the ground in their home state,” said Kyle Weaver, RMEF president and CEO.

Since 1991, RMEF and its partners completed 231 conservation and hunting heritage outreach projects in North Dakota that protected or enhanced 56,011 acres with a combined value of $11.6 million and opened or improved public access to 33,148 acres.

Below is a sample of North Dakota’s 2019 projects, listed by county. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Garmin® to offer expanded and enhanced high-resolution relief shading cartography

Garmin® to offer most comprehensive U.S. coast line coverage with its expanded and enhanced high-resolution relief shading cartography

Premium charts and maps offer industry-leading coverage and advanced detail

OLATHE, Kan. – Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), today announced significant coverage and detail improvements of the high-resolution relief shading coverage and detail offered in its exclusive BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVü g3 Ultra cartography products for coastal and inland fishing and boating. Now available with coverage for the entire continental U.S. coast line and more than 150 lakes, Garmin’s high-resolution relief shading combines color and shadow to bring an entirely new level of detail to the ocean floor and lake bottom. Garmin will display its latest relief shading data in booths #326/355 at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Oct. 30 to Nov. 3.

“We remain committed to giving our customers the highest quality and most detailed, accurate charts and maps on the water, so we’re pleased to now offer the most comprehensive U.S. coast line coverage available on the market today,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of global consumer sales. “By blending Garmin’s high-resolution relief shading with the fishing layer contours generated from the Navionics detail in our charts, anglers and divers will see a tremendous improvement both in freshwater and saltwater, making it easier than ever to find structure, artificial reefs, underwater shelves and more.” Read more

Fishing

Hodgdon Announces Voluntary Powders Recall

PRODUCT SAFETY WARNING AND RECALL NOTICE FOR IMR®4007SSC POWDER

IMR Legendary Powders is officially announcing a product safety warning and recall notice for IMR 4007SSC smokeless powder. All lots of powder are included in the recall. IMR has received reports that this particular powder, sold in 1 pound and 8 pound containers, could become unstable due to possible rapid deterioration. Use of this product may result in combustion, fire damage and/or possible serious injury.

What to do: Read more

Ammunition

Hodgdon Announces Release of Winchester StaBALL 6.5

Winchester Smokeless Propellants, a brand licensed by the Hodgdon Powder Company, is pleased to announce the release of Winchester StaBALL 6.5, the world’s first temperature-insensitive BALL® Powder, stable in extreme-hot or -cold conditions.

“Precision rifle shooters are a demanding lot,” says Ron Reiber, Hodgdon chief ballistician. “We identified a market need for a high-performing powder that metered precisely to be loaded on a progressive press, featured temperature insensitivity and a copper fouling elimination agent. Our testing revealed handloaders can load this powder much faster than traditional extruded powders on a single-stage press, which will result in less time loading and more time shooting. This powder is a game changer.”

Typical of a ball powder, precise metering contributes to improved velocity and pressure standard deviations, ingredients that are paramount to match grade accuracy. StaBALL 6.5 is ideally suited to 6 Creedmoor, 6GT, 6.5 Creedmoor, 7MM-08, 270 Winchester and many more – all loads which can now be found on the Hodgdon Reloading Center. As a ball powder, StaBALL 6.5 provides optimal loading density in cartridges appropriate for the burn speed. Read more

Ammunition

Bergara Announces Addition of 6.5 PRC and .300 PRC to B14 Series

.300 PRC calibers to the B14 series at the NASGW Expo in Orlando Oct. 22-25, 2019

Lawrenceville, GA – Bergara will introduce two new exciting calibers in the popular B-14 HMR and Ridge models at the NASGW Expo in Orlando, FL. on Oct. 22-25, 2019. These new configurations will be available for immediate shipment to the market. Bergara feels that these new high-performance calibers provide their customers with what they have been asking for. “We have been very pleased with the demand for the new PRC calibers in our Premier series, but equally as import, the actual performance they are delivering.” Stated, Nate Treadaway, CEO of BPI Outdoors, which is the parent company of Bergara. He continues, “Based on these two facts, it is only natural that we extend the chamberings to our two most popular B14 models.” The B-14 Rifle was designed with the purpose of offering customers a feature-rich hunting / match rifles ideal for longer range big game hunting, varmint hunting, and also a versatile target shooting rifle. The Bergara B-14’s are built in Bergara, Spain, at the same factory where all of our Bergara barrel blanks are manufactured.

Like all Bergara B-14 Series rifles, they are affordably priced and packed with features. rifle a unique cosmetic appeal. All B-14 rifles are guaranteed capable of producing sub-1.0 MOA groups or less at 100 yards using factory match grade ammunition. Read more

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