Bergara USA Shipping Timber Production Rifles

Kevin Beverly, Bergara USA Firearm Manager

The Bergara B-14 Performance Series Timber Rifle, for shooters and hunters alike,
now shipping to distributors and dealers.

Duluth, GA – Bergara USA, a division of Blackpowder Products, Inc. (BPI Outdoors), proudly announce that their first new line of production rifles, the Performance Series B-14 Timber rifles, are shipping through the Bergara USA sales channels.

The Bergara USA Performance Series production rifles, announced several months ago, combine the best of Bergara USA’s custom shop capabilities with the latest in production technologies to create a rifle that has the fit, finish, feel and accuracy of a high-priced custom rifle with the affordability of a production model. The B-14 Timber rifle features the Bergara PERFORMANCE action with a coned bolt nose and breech, ensuring consistently smooth feeding and a sliding plate extractor for proper alignment. Read more

Firearms

HSUS Pleads, Lies to Florida Gov. to Stop Bear Hunt

A surprise to nobody, the Humane Society of the United States is protesting the state of Florida’s consideration of managing their ever-increasing black bear population. In a June 10 press conference, HSUS mouthpiece Laura Bevan spread false information and called on the governor to interfere with biologist recommendations and to stop any future bear hunt. As is typical HSUS style, you can bet the press-conference circus was just the first step in perverting state and federal systems to advance their radical agenda.

With human-bear encounters, road kill and other issues increasing throughout many regions of Florida, the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has proposed a one-week hunting season in October for the bruins.

And, never missing an opportunity to stop hunting under any and all circumstances, HSUS used emotion and grandstanding to get the media’s attention in hopes of appearing relevant in any science-based discussion of hunting. The words they uttered, however, betray any semblance of knowledge on the subject. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting

NSSF Supports H.R. 2710 ‘Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act’

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, applauds the introduction yesterday of H.R. 2710, the Lawful Purpose and Self Defense Act of 2015, by Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT), chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

The bill would revise the Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended, to replace the “sporting purposes” and “sporting use” sections with modernizing language used to better define whether firearms and ammunition can be lawfully imported, possessed and transferred. NSSF considers the “sporting purpose” and “sporting use” provisions to be outdated and a hindrance to bringing lawful products to market. The 2008 Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller noted that the core purpose of the Second Amendment is self-defense, and the language of H.R. 2710 will more accurately reflect this core meaning of the right to bear arms.

H.R. 2710 would prevent narrow interpretations of federal law, such as reclassifying certain rifle ammunition as “armor piercing.” Lack of a clear definition of what “sporting purposes” and “sporting use” mean has allowed, for example, the Obama Administration to try to circumvent Congress and attempt to ban a popular type of ammunition for modern sporting rifles. Read more

Ammunition, Firearms, Gun Control

State confirms first cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in

Three goslings in Macomb County test positive

The Michigan departments of Natural Resources (DNR) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) today announced the state’s first confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N2 in the state. The disease was found in free-ranging Canada geese in Macomb County. Avian influenza is a virus that can infect both free-ranging and domestic poultry such as chickens, turkeys, quail and geese. Read more

Wildlife

Widespread spruce budworm defoliation expected in Upper Peninsula, northern Lower Peninsula

White spruce and balsam fir targeted; now is the time to protect landscape trees from damage

Over the past few years, white spruce and balsam fir have been defoliated by the spruce budworm, one of the most destructive native insects in the northern spruce and fir Spruce budworm caterpillarforests of the eastern United States and Canada.

“This year, budworm defoliation is widespread and expected to be heavy for the second or third years in many areas,” said Bob Heyd, forest health specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in Marquette. 

Periodic outbreaks of these insects are a part of the natural cycle of events associated with the maturing of balsam fir and white spruce. 

Spruce budworms overwinter as tiny caterpillars which disperse by dropping from treetops on webs. As new tree growth expands in the spring, the caterpillars grow and feed on new shoots. Budworms produce one generation each year. 

Repeated budworm defoliation can cause top-kill and tree mortality in older and stressed trees. Balsam fir older than 60 and spruce over 70 years old provide prime infestation opportunities.  Read more

General

NRC approves 2015 U.P. antlerless deer hunting restrictions

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission today decided to eliminate the harvest of antlerless deer during the archery season for hunters using deer or deer combo licenses in the Upper Peninsula.

The restriction, which does not affect the firearm deer season, will be in effect for the 2015-2016 season. The NRC made the decision at its monthly meeting in Monroe, Michigan, in an effort to aid the Upper Peninsula’s struggling deer population, which has declined to a level comparable to the early 1980s following three successive winters with severe conditions.  Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Tree Stand Insurance with Tree Stand Buddy®

Have you ever made the trek into your “secret stand spot” to only find that your stand is not in the tree you left it in? Nothing is more frustrating or expensive that to have stand poachers come onto your hunting land and relieve you of one or several stands. It happens every season!

One the best ways to be able to protect your and your fellow hunters is to use the Tree Stand Buddy®. This system allows you to place the Tree Stand Buddy® receiver on your preferred tree while the bracket that sits in the receiver is on your stand. This enables the hunter to not only identify his favorite stand tree each and every time he heads to his spot, it allows easy removal of the stand so that it is available for each and every hunt without the worry of stand theft. Read more

Hunting
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