Frabill Encourages Ice Fishermen To Look Out For Number One

Plano, IL (December 3, 2014) -Walking on ice to fish is nice. An unexpected plunge into the drink is not. In fact, it’s a serious situation.

Odds are you’re not “that” angler who takes life-threatening chances on lunchmeat thin or rotted end-of-season ice. But as with any extreme outdoor activity, there’s always the possibility of plans going awry and you find yourself in dire straits. And time is of the essence when frigid water and wintry temperatures suddenly encase you. There’s no waiting around for your buddies or emergency crews.

This one’s on you… You are your own best chance of getting out alive.

This Self-Rescue initiative is evident in Frabill’s new I-Series ice apparel. Every new I-Series jacket and bib sports a detailed Ice Safety Label sewn inside. You’ll be informed before embarking about how to avoid breaking through altogether. The Ice Safety Label also provides life-saving information, just in case that unforeseen circumstance should arise.

Need to know the ice thickness requirements for when on foot or motorized transport? It’s there. How about a listing of the four critical steps to self-rescue? You betcha. There’s even a reminder to always carry ice picks – the single most important piece of ice-safety equipment you can own.

Speaking of ice picks, Frabill’s so serious about your wearing them at all times that it has included a FREE set of Frabill ice picks with every I-Series jacket. And, those essential life-saving picks aren’t just slapped in the packaging, but already fitted in the garment’s custom ice pick holsters for immediate access and out-of-the-way positioning while fishing. Read more

Fishing

More Elk Poached In NW Colorado, Hunters Can Earn A License Or Points For Information

GW:  An innovative reward system that could prompt someone to come forward…

MAYBELL, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is investigating three additional incidents of illegally killed bull elk in high-quality hunting units in Northwest Colorado, adding to three high-quality bulls illegally killed in Game Management Unit 10 in early November, near the town of Dinosaur.

Two bulls were found along Highway 318 late last week, northwest of Maybell. Both were estimated to have been killed before Thanksgiving and were entirely field dressed. The other was found several miles away on Highway 10N, south of Irish Canyon. Thought to have been killed at the end of the Fourth Rifle season, only the front shoulders and backstraps were removed from that bull.

With the known total of illegally taken elk in this area now at six this year, CPW officials are asking the public for help, reminding of a unique, CPW reward program available to anyone that can provide information about the person or persons responsible for killing the high-quality bulls. Read more

Poachers

Streamlight Introduces Siege AA Lantern

EAGLEVILLE, PA – Streamlight® Inc., a leading provider of high-performance lighting, introduced a streamlined, compact version of The Siege® lantern, the Siege® AA. The cordless LED lantern, which uses easily sourced AA alkaline batteries, is ideal for a wide variety of outdoor, safety, and do-it-yourself applications. Weighing about half a pound, it also is easy to carry and store.

The Siege AA features one white C4® LED and two red LEDs to provide five output modes. The new lantern has a polycarbonate, glare-reducing globe cover that makes it comfortable to use in close quarters without impacting vision, providing 360 degrees of soft, even light. With the cover removed, the lantern also can be used to illuminate large areas, either by standing it upright or hanging it upside down using the light’s bottom D-ring for easy attachment. The lantern will float when its globe cover is in place. Read more

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Lapua Announces New Products for 2015

GW:  Some new offerings from a truly quality ammo manufacturer…

Few cartridges have generated as much immediate interest as the 300 Blackout. Standardized by AAC, this diminutive cartridge is derived from the 223 Remington. Intended specifically for use in suppressed firearms, the versatility of the Blackout has appealed to a much broader range of shooters than just the audience for which it was originally designed. Intended to drive 220 grain bullets at subsonic velocities, the switch to lightweight bullets such as the 125 grain offerings delivers performance very similar to the venerable 7.62×39 cartridge.

This makes the 300 Blackout potent enough for a wide range of shooting tasks, from certain tactical applications to many short range hunting situations involving medium sized game. The ability for many 5.56mm/223 systems to be switched over to the 300 Blackout, merely by changing barrels makes this an incredibly versatile combination. Read more

Ammunition

12th Hodgdon® Annual Manual© Features Imr® Enduron™ Technology Powders

Shawnee KS- Hodgdon® The Brand that’s True presents the 2015 Annual Manual©. Now in its 12 consecutive year this 8 1/2″ by 11″ magazine style publication is still jam packed with Hodgdon®, IMR® and Winchester® powder brands and reloading information. This manual has the widest variety of pistol and rifle cartridge reloading data on the planet with well over 5,000 loads.

Featured in the 2015 Annual are the new IMR® Enduron™ Technology powders that include IMR4166™, IMR4451™ and IMR7977™. Each powder has a built-in copper fouling reducer, are insensitive to temperature extremes, have small sized grains for easy flow with an ideal loading density and have no ingredients considered harmful to the environment. There is extensive information for all three powders; data for forty-one rifle cartridges and articles from some of the top industry writers. Read more

Ammunition, Firearms

Recover Tactical Launches BC2 Grip and Rail System for Beretta

Los Angeles, Calif. – Recover Tactical is proud to announce the release of the new Recover BC2 grip and rail system for the Beretta 92/96 series of pistols. The Beretta grip and rail system follows on the success of Recover’s CC3 grip and rail for 1911s. The patented design of the BC2 adds a fully functional picatinny rail to the Beretta and can be easily installed in about three minutes without a gunsmith. Read more

Firearms

Colorado Sportsmen Applaud Renewed Effort to Protect Browns Canyon, Colorado

Hunting, fishing and existing public access would also continue as is, while future inColorado Sportsmen Applaud Renewed Effort to Protect Browns Canyon

SALIDA, CO – After more than 15 years of bi-partisan efforts to protect Browns Canyon, sportsmen are pleased by the prospect that more than 20,000 acres in Browns Canyon could finally be conserved as a National Monument under the Antiquities Act.

On December 6th Colorado Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet join key officials from the Obama Administration for a public meeting aimed at gauging public support for a National Monument Designation for Browns. The meeting will take place at 1:00 PM at the Salida Steamplant.

Browns Canyon is well known by sportsmen for its gold medal fishing waters and mid-elevation elk, mule deer and bighorn sheep habitat.

“As a backcountry hunter, angler and outfitter I admire greatly those rare mid-elevation corners of our state that offer stunning landscape, chances for solitude, and extremely important habitat for big game,” said, Paul Vertrees of Canon City. “The momentum to protect Browns Canyon for generations to come has endured a long and winding process. Now is the right time to give this special place permanent national monument status.” Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Illinois Charges Wired Arrow Outdoors Owners, Pro Staff With 134 Wildlife Violations

GW:  More heroes to zeros.  From wannabes to wanna hide their faces in disgrace.

SPRINGFIELD, IL – An Illinois Conservation Police investigation into the Wired Arrow Outdoors television show has resulted in the company’s owners, pro-staff members and guests being charged with 134 wildlife violations, including the taking of 18 deer illegally in Illinois. After viewing videos of hunts that aired on the Sportsman Channel or were uploaded to www.YouTube.com, Conservation Police determined that hunting and filming were conducted on properties in the Chicago region without permission from landowners making hunting permits invalid. Hunting and filming allegedly took place on properties owned by several private companies, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, and the Village of Lansing.

During the investigation, it was determined the pro-staff members had unlawfully harvested a total of 18 white-tailed deer, including 10 bucks and eight does, nearly all of which were aired either on the Sportsman Channel or the Pursuit Channel. On Sept. 16, 2014, a joint operation involving several state and federal agencies was conducted to interview all pro-staff members who had previously hunted in Illinois. Cooperating agencies included the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Missouri Department of Conservation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Seized during the joint operation were eight unlawfully-taken white-tailed deer heads, one set of antlers attached to a skullcap, and one unlawfully-taken turkey fan, beard, and spurs. Charges include violations documented from the 2012 and 2013 deer seasons. Read more

Poachers

Final Season Deer Habitat Improvement Report

Upper Peninsula – Delta & Menominee Counties

Field with completed habitat workSeveral locations in Delta and Menominee counties will soon be a bit fruitier. Over 4,000 fruit-bearing trees were planted, providing a great food source for deer. A variety of trees were planted, including black cherry, elderberry, high bush cranberry and serviceberry, to name a few. The trees were planted along the edges of maintained openings, and along hunter walking trails where adequate food was lacking for wildlife. Many of the trees were sheltered to provide protection from deer browse, and they will be a great benefit to deer for years to come.

Northern Lower Peninsula – Lake County

Approximately half of Lake County (around 200,000 acres) is public land open to hunting, and about a 1/3 of the land is state-managed, with the remaining public land being federally managed. With good access off major highways, it can be a great destination for hunters. Over 300 acres of alfalfa and rye were maintained this year, giving hunters locations to focus their hunting adventures. The state land is primarily forested and managed through timber sale activity to provide even more valuable food sources for deer – oak and aspen stands. Use Mi-HUNT to search for a great place to start a new late-season tradition.

Southwest Lower Peninsula – Allegan County

The Fennville Farm Unit, located within the Allegan State Game Area, is 4,100 acres of wildlife habitat that provides opportunities for archery deer hunters. In part, this is because there is no firearm deer hunting allowed on the unit during the Managed Goose Hunt (Nov. 1, 2014 – Jan. 31, 2015). The numerous corn, rye, sorghum and hay food plots, coupled with the woodlots and wetlands, result in this being a quality archery hunting area with higher deer densities than surrounding forest land. Zones 1, 9 and 10 are open to archery hunting every day except Dec. 27, 2014 (Youth Waterfowl Hunting Day). Zones 2-8 are open to bow hunting Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday after 3 p.m. “The Farm has experienced lower pressure from archery deer hunters this year,” said DNR wildlife biologist Mark Mills. “The Farm Unit is primarily managed for waterfowl and pheasant (grassland) habitats, which suit the deer as well.” Check out the Fennville Farm Unit for your next archery hunting excursion!

Southeast Lower Peninsula – Monroe County

Field habitat in southeast lower MichiganPetersburg State Game Area, just southeast of Petersburg in Monroe County, is 469 acres of prairie grass, oak openings and woodlots. The area is heavily managed as an oak savanna (a globally rare ecosystem type) for species such as Karner blue butterflies, grasshopper sparrows and white-tailed deer. The ecosystem is a natural home for deer, and the acorns from the oak trees provide an important food source, while the prairie grasses provide excellent bedding locations. This year, dozens of acres of food plots were planted with sunflowers, soybeans and buckwheat as food sources for deer. The Nature Conservancy Lakeplain Prairies Office partners with the Michigan DNR to help remove invasive species and complete habitat projects on the game area. This extensive management creates excellent opportunities for deer hunting.

Hunting, Wildlife

Dangerous distortions about cops shooting black men

GW:  The complicit media continues to forge the Obama administration’s fallacy to take advantage of yet another means to prompt civil unrest.  In the end, it always leads to more government.  Yippee!

If the media’s claim is right — if police do unjustly shoot blacks at vastly higher rates — it is a serious indictment of the police. But, fortunately, these allegations are false.  See the facts here…

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