Trijicon Announces Integrated RMR® Adapter and Night Sight Combo for 1911 Pistols

Wixom, MI – Trijicon, Inc., global provider of innovative aiming solutions for the hunting, shooting, military and law enforcement markets, now offers its legendary Bright & Tough™ Night Sights with an integrated RMR® mounting platform for Model 1911 pistols. The 1911 is immensely popular for defensive applications as well as competition shooting.  Trijicon now makes it easier to quickly mount the RMR sight on your favorite pistol. The new 1911 RMR Mounting Platform has an integrated Trijicon rear Night Sight, a front Night Sight, an RMR Mount Sealing Plate and all hardware necessary for professional gunsmiths to transform your standard 1911 into an RMR-ready combat or target pistol. Read more

Firearms, Self Defense

Anglers and bait dealers reminded of minnow use regulations

The Department of Natural Resources reminds anglers and retail minnow dealers of the baitfish regulations that need to be followed in Michigan. Although the requirement for state-licensed bait retailers to provide customers with receipts upon purchasing live minnows was recently removed, all other regulations with respect to minnow use continue to be enforced.

Baitfish regulations were enacted in 2006 to reduce the potential for baitfish to move fish diseases as the state saw multiple fish die-offs in lakes Erie and Huron from viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSv).

“While fish kills from VHSv have become less common, we do not want this fish pathogen to spread across Michigan,” said DNR fisheries biologist Tom Goniea. “Our regulations are designed to prevent this from occurring.” Read more

Fishing

New Elite Tactical 1-Mile Laser Range Finder Offers Faster And Increased Ranging Capability

Overland Park, Kan – Bushnell, an industry leader in high performance sports optics for 65 years, has introduced the new Bushnell Elite Tactical 1-Mile ARC laser range finder. With seven power magnification, ranging capabilities out to one mile and a host of valuable features, this unit is built for professional and long-range marksmen. Read more

Ammunition, Firearms, Hunting

Sapir, Veteran Outdoor Communicator to Retire from NSSF

GW:  Glenn gave his farewell speech to us at the POMA range day in March in Knoxville and all I can say is that the shooting sports industry will miss this fine leader of gun rights.  Best of everything, friend.

PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y.–Glenn Sapir, veteran outdoor communicator, has announced his retirement from his position of Director, Editorial Services, for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), effective Friday, April 25. Since 2003, Sapir had been coordinator of and/or contributor to several of the organization’s newsletters, edited The Range Report enewsletter for shooting facilities, coordinated the creation of NSSF’s award-winning Annual Review and contributed more than 50 articles per year to magazines and electronic publications that welcomed NSSF’s message. Read more

Ammunition, Firearms, Hunting

Hunters Can Save Tax Dollars and Reduce Vehicle Insurance Claims

By Glen Wunderlich

When residents of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York were losing their gardens and ornamental landscape specimens to a burgeoning deer herd, it was time to act.  As many as 120 deer inhabit the two-square miles of preferred habitat, and subsequently, over-population has posed a real threat to drivers, as well.

Few options exist to control over-population of deer in such small communities across the nation.  Deer could be netted and euthanized, captured and surgically sterilized, shot with a sterilizing dart, or hunted.

The village has opted for an experimental birth control program by partnering with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).   In 2014 and 2015, highly trained staff from HSUS will capture, ear-tag and administer a long-acting form of the porcine zona pellucida (PZP) vaccine to approximately 60 female deer living in the village. Treated deer will be monitored for fawns to determine vaccine effectiveness and longevity for two to three years after initial treatment.

Mayor Peter Swiderski of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson said, “Hastings is proud to be part of this effort, and more than 120 residents have volunteered to help in various aspects of this study, underscoring the broad support it enjoys in our community. We believe that, should this approach work in Hastings, we will be creating the only viable alternative to lethal methods currently examined and rejected by literally hundreds of communities nationwide that face a similar problem.”

At least, that was the plan.  Since then, HSUS agents Rick Naugle and Kayla Grams have pursued deer throughout the neighborhoods with little success.  They had tagged and treated just one animal within the first week. Their mission has proved problematic, because they can fire at deer no more than 20 yards away with their air-powered darts, and they are still learning where the animals are.

“It’s a slow process.   But next year, by the time we come back here, we’ll have everything figured out,” Naugle said.  In the meantime, more deer/vehicle collisions will occur.  Oh, and the cost of the experiment is reported to be approximately $30,000 funded by taxpayers and HSUS.

On another front, a similar challenge was being addressed by the town of Indian Hill, Ohio.  Police Chief Chuck Schlie of the Indian Hill Rangers Police Department reported a mere 8 deer/vehicle collisions in year 2013 – down from 44 in 1997.

Schlie said the village’s deer-hunting program, which is more than a decade old, is one reason for the decline.  “It has helped control the herd and has lowered accidents,” he said. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife
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