Winchester Model 70 Ultimate Shadow Hunter SS

The new Model 70 Ultimate Shadow Hunter model features a lightweight synthetic stock in the new Mossy Oak® Break-up Country® camo pattern. The forged stainless steel receiver features the popular pre’64-style controlled round feeding with claw extractor and fixed ejector.

This new rifle also features:

  • Lightweight synthetic stock with Mossy Oak® Break-Up Country® camo helps you hide from wary game
  • Gray overmolded rubberized gripping surfaces offer enhanced control
  • Matte metal surfaces help reduce glare
  • Alloy one-piece bottom metal with steel floorplate adds rigidity for better accuracy
  • Forged stainless steel receiver with integral recoil lug is bedded front and rear to eliminate shifts in zero for exceptional long-range accuracy
  • Pre-’64 style controlled round feed with claw extractor fully controls cartridge from magazine, to chamber, to ejection
  • Three Position Safety shows safety status at a glance
  • Sporter weight free-floating stainless steel barrel for years of pinpoint accuracy
  • Recessed target crown enhances accuracy and protects the rifling
  • M.O.A. Trigger System with zero take-up, zero creep and zero overtravel gives you outstanding accuracy
  • Blade-Type Ejector for full ejection control
  • Win-Sorb™ Technology recoil pad for optimal protection against felt recoil

Available in most popular short action and long action calibers. Suggested Retail: $1,099.99 – $1,139.99. Read more

Firearms

Lipsey’s Exclusive Adds Two Big Calibers to Ruger Super Blackhawk Bisley

Baton Rouge, LA—Lipsey’s, nationally renowned firearms distributor, announces the addition of two new Ruger revolver exclusives. New to the lineup are the Super Blackhawk Bisley chambered in 480 Ruger and 454 Casull.

Lipsey’s is no stranger to Ruger revolver collaborations but this is the biggest in the truest sense. For years, the partnership has yielded some of the most sought-after revolvers on the market and this is no exception. With this particular venture, bigger is in fact better.

This pair of hard hitting single actions both feature 6.5″ barrels and stainless steel construction with five shot unfluted cylinders. The popular Bisley grip frame is used to help tame the recoil. Ruger has also incorporated two new features unique to these models; a locking base pin to prevent it from walking out while shooting and recessed chambers to ensure the loading gate is fully supported. Read more

Firearms

CENTURY ARMS Announces New TP9SA Crush the Competition Consumer Rebate Program

Consumer Summer Rebate Program will provide a $25.00 rebate to all consumers who purchase a TP9SA pistol from dealers from July 27 until September 15, 2015. This program encourages consumers to try the TP9SA Pistol and see for themselves why it provides the best value compared to any other 9mm pistol on today’s market.

“The TP9SA offers a pistol capable of delivering world class reliability with a price every patriot can afford,” said William Sucher, Century Arms Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “With our additional rebate offer, the TP9SA is more affordable than ever.”

The TP9SA is a 9mm single action, striker-fired pistol. A smooth single action trigger delivers top-notch accuracy and faster than ever follow-up shots. Interchangeable backstraps and aggressive serrations ensure that the sculpted grip meshes comfortably in your hand for even greater control. In addition, the TP9SA boasts a striker decocker that allows for convenient disassembly without the hassle of pulling the trigger to field strip the pistol. Also featured is a cold hammer forged barrel, an ambidextrous top-slide-mounted decocker, fixed 3-Dot steel sights, loaded chamber indicator, striker status indicator, reversible magazine catch and an MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rail. Read more

Firearms

Nikon Introduces Buckmasters II Riflescope

For more than a decade, Nikon’s Buckmasters line of riflescopes has been the trusted optic for avid American deer hunters. Now, the tradition continues with the announcement of the new Buckmasters II riflescopes – two well-equipped additions to the Buckmasters line-up that will be favorite among the next generation of deer hunters.

The Buckmasters II riflescope comes in either 3-9×40 or 4-12×40 with matte black finish.
Each model offers users the brightness and clarity of Nikon’s Fully Multicoated lenses. Sight-in is made easy with precise ¼-inch @ 100 yards reticle adjustments and thanks to Spring-Loaded Instant Zero-Reset turrets, the turrets can be returned to the zero-mark after sighting in to make in-the-field adjustments incredibly simple. The Buckmasters II also has a 100-yard parallax setting, generous eye relief and is waterproof, fogproof and shockproof. Read more

Optics

Walther Introduces a New Caliber PPQ

(FORT SMITH, Ark.) – New to the Walther line of legendary pistols is the PPQ .45 ACP. Designed for personal protection and recreational shooting, this .45 represents the pinnacle of German craftsmanship. The gun is equipped with the Carl Walther signature quick defense trigger, which improves accuracy and allows for precise follow up shots. The PPQ .45 is fashioned with the traditional front and rear slide serrations for superior handling during use, and features fully ambidextrous controls like all PPQ models.

The PPQ .45 is without equal in the striker fired polymer framed centerfire pistol market. Like all other PPQ models the trigger is a crisp 5.6 lbs. making it the best out of the box trigger in the industry. This new .45 houses three separate safeties helping make it a truly capable and safe handling firearm when being used on the range or when carried concealed. Accessories can easily be mounted on the mil-spec Picatinny rail. The overall length is 7.4 inches, and a magazine capacity of 12 rounds, and a polygonal rifled 4.25 inch barrel which is an upgrade from the traditional button rifling process.

Cyndi Flannigan, Walther Arms’ Vice President of Sales and Marketing says of the new pistol, “We are excited to bring a .45 Auto to the Walther line. This new caliber and product offering is a benchmark for Walther and the PPQ,” says Flannigan. “We have built it to the same exacting German standards that deliver the ultimate home defense and personal protection firearm.”

Adding the .45 caliber to the Walther handgun line expresses Walther’s dedication to continued innovation and expansion in the fast growing personal protection industry. The PPQ .45 ACP will hit the market and be available in retail stores on October 1st, 2015.

Walther has earned the trust of law enforcement professionals, recreational shooters, and athletes through its line of reliable pistols, competition guns and tactical rimfire replicas. Walther Arms manufactures and markets firearms of various calibers ranging from .22 to .45.

Firearms

New Upper Peninsula antlerless deer hunting regulations for archers

Changes involving antlerless deer hunting for archers will be in effect during the 2015-2016 hunting season in the Upper Peninsula, after a recent decision by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission.

Earlier this summer, the NRC decided to eliminate the option to harvest antlerless deer during the archery seasons for hunters using deer or deer combo licenses in the U.P.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has since received reports of some confusion over the regulations. The DNR has produced a Frequently Asked Questions page to help explain the changes. Read more

Hunting

Sportsmen’s Alliance to Defend Bobcats, Trappers in Calif.

On Wednesday morning, Aug. 5, the California Fish and Game Commission will decide whether to implement a statewide or partial ban on bobcat trapping. Regulations are being promulgated as a result of the signing of the Bobcat Protection Act of 2013, a bill composed of watered-down legislation originally proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Richard Bloom of Santa Monica.

When Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill back in 2013, he encouraged the legislature to work with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to secure funding to take inventory of the state’s bobcat population for future management decisions. Neither the legislature nor the Department has made an attempt to fulfill the request.

Both ban options are riddled with flawed logic – a clear indication of the commission’s lack of interest in conducting new studies, as suggested by Brown, that would help the state formulate a scientific management strategy that fits the current bobcat population’s needs.

“The consideration of a partial or outright ban on bobcat trapping is entirely inappropriate and unwarranted,” said Josh Brones, Coordinator of Government Affairs for western operations for the Sportsman’s Alliance. “Either option is inconsistent with the intent and mandate of the legislature, the intent of the governor, the availability of technology to ensure compliance with the law, and the value of science to inform the commission’s responsibility to conserve our natural resources and provide recreational opportunities for all Californians.” Read more

Wildlife

DNR confirms third deer positive for CWD; hunter participation is critical this fall

Today, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced that a third free-ranging deer in Meridian Township (Ingham County) has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The deer was a 5-year-old doe. All three CWD-positive deer detected thus far have been discovered within a mile of one another.

“As we stated with the second positive deer, this news is not surprising,” said Dr. Steve Schmitt, DNR wildlife veterinarian. “The good news is that all three deer came from the same small area.” Genetic analyses carried out by Michigan State University’s Molecular Ecology Laboratory indicate that all three positive animals were related as part of an extended family. Previous research has shown that CWD often is transmitted within family groups because of their close contact.

Hunters are critical to helping the DNR understand the prevalence and geographic distribution of the disease.

“We have focused our efforts thus far in the area around the first case,” Schmitt continued. ”We need individuals who have always hunted in Ingham County and surrounding counties to keep hunting. The DNR can’t fight this disease without their support. Hunters need to have their deer checked and tested so we can determine if this disease is established over a broad area or just persisting in a local pocket.”   Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

August brings new trawl survey to Lake Erie

The Department of Natural Resources will conduct a trawl survey in Lake Erie near Monroe, Michigan, beginning Monday, Aug. 10, and continuing through Friday, Aug. 14.

DNR employee throwing buoy during trawl survey“This survey is a new component of the DNR’s annual efforts to assess the fish community in Lake Erie,” said Todd Wills, Lake Huron-Lake Erie area research manager for the DNR. “The data from this survey will be used to describe the status of prey fish populations, assess the abundance of juvenile walleye and yellow perch in Michigan waters, and continue our monitoring efforts for invasive species.”

A trawl, which looks like a large, mesh sock, will be towed on the lake bottom behind the research vessel (R/V) Channel Cat, which has a home port at the Lake St. Clair Fisheries Research Station in Harrison Township, Michigan. A number of sites will be sampled in Michigan waters, from the mouth of the Detroit River to the Turtle Island area along the Michigan-Ohio border. The trawl is towed for five to 10 minutes at each site and then hauled on board the vessel. The catch is then sorted, identified and measured.  Read more

Fishing

New Michigan elk education program for 9th- through 12th-grade educators

The Department of Natural Resources invites educators looking for a fun way to integrate Michigan’s unique flora and fauna into their curriculum, while still meeting the required educational standards, to explore some of the DNR’s free educational opportunities.

New this year, for 9th- through 12th-grade educators, is the Elk University – Educating Tomorrow’s Wildlife Managers program. Elk University is a semester-style curriculum, developed to meet educational standards while touching on Michigan history, forest management, elk biology, wildlife disease and social considerations for wildlife management. Students will learn about how the DNR manages and maintains a healthy elk herd for current and future generations.

Beginning its second year, A Year in the Life of a Michigan Black Bear is available to 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade educators. Throughout the school year, students will learn about the life cycle of the Michigan black bear and general black bear biology and behavior, as well as how the DNR manages and maintains a healthy black bear population. Over the school year, students also will get to “follow” a bear through its seasonal movements by using actual data points from a radio-collared Michigan black bear.

The deadline to sign up for the black bear education program for the 2015/16 school year has been extended through Sept. 1 to coincide with the Elk University registration deadline.

To sign up and learn more about these and other DNR wildlife education and outreach opportunities, please visit www.michigan.gov/wildlife and click on the “Education” button.

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Wildlife
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