Bergara Introduces Its New “premium Action”

BERGARA will debut its new Bergara Premium Action at the SHOT Show. As an OEM barrel supplier to several top firearms makers in the USA and Europe, this action will be a natural for Bergara’s barrel customers who are also looking for high quality actions.

“The design is the culmination of several years of joint collaboration between Bergara’s engineers, technical managers and our custom rifle builders,” said Mark Hendricks, Bergara’s Vice President of Technical Development, who headed up the design team. “And while we have used and shot several other extremely well-built and reputable actions,” Hendricks explains, “no single one of them had every feature that we felt was needed to meet all of the requirements and desires of premium rifle shooters.”

The Bergara Premium Action is based on a Remington footprint and accepts all Remington compatible triggers. Constructed in the USA of 4140 CrMo Steel, it is available in both long and short actions and weighs in at 1.0 lbs. and 1.1 lbs. respectively.

Firearms

Bergara Expands Rifle Offering

Bergara, best known for the premium quality barrels it produces for several of the world’s top rifle brands, entered the rifle market two years ago with its own line of Bergara Custom Rifles and quickly established a strong reputation for quality and accuracy. At this year’s SHOT Show, Bergara will introduce two new product lines of production rifles, designed to take the brand into more affordable price points. Bergara has dubbed these new lines as “Premier” and “Performance” and, in combination with the existing Custom offering, will give the brand a “good – better – best” product segmentation.

“The Premier Rifles are very comparable to Bergara’s Custom Rifles, but we were able to get them into the middle price points by standardizing some features and dimensions, thereby allowing greater efficiencies in parts production and assembly,” stated Mark Hendricks, Bergara’s Vice President of Technical Development. These guns will still feature the new Bergara Premium Action, which Hendricks designed, coupled with the famous Bergara barrel, just like the Custom models. Both a tactical model (BPR 17) and a hunting model (BPR 16) will be included in the initial introduction. All Premier Rifles are built in the USA at the Bergara USA facility. Retail price points will likely range between $1,500 and $2,000, according to Hendricks.

Bergara’s Performance line is targeted more toward the mass market with retail price points under $1,000. The first introduction will be the B-14 model bolt-action hunting rifle. This rifle is built entirely at Bergara’s barrel factory in Spain and will be distributed in both Europe and the USA. The Bergara barrel is complemented by a super-smooth action which is based on the Remington 700 design. Stocks are available in both a classic style, oil-finished walnut and a light-weight synthetic.

Firearms

Air Ordnance/Tippman Armory Launches High-Powered 9mm Air Rifle

Ft. Wayne, IN – Fort Wayne, IN based Air Ordnance / Tippmann Armory launches new 9mm High Powered Air Rifle.

“MODOC” is a Rolling Block, High Powered, Large Caliber Air Rifle. This lightweight rugged air rifle features a 34.5″ aluminum barrel, walnut foregrip and a walnut stock and fires at 1000 FPS+. Featuring a 34.5″ barrel and a buckhorn site, this gun is extremely accurate and well balanced, allowing for comfortable shooting. Specifications:… Read more

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Deer Breeders, Privatizing Wildlife Draw Criticism from Boone and Crockett Club

MISSOULA, Mont. – Once a wild game animal, now a product of commercialism and chemistry.

Today‘s upward trend in deer (and elk) breeding and shooting operations is reaching critical mass, compromising traditional hunting and conservation, and fueling a strong new response from America’s first conservation and hunter advocacy organization, the Boone and Crockett Club.

The Club today published a new position statement outlining its concerns. Read more

Wildlife

Pa. Game Commission Proposal Attacks Mentored Hunting

A proposal before the Pennsylvania Game Commission would make the state the first in the nation to eliminate opportunities for young people to hunt. In 2006, Pennsylvania became the first state to adopt a mentored hunting season, which allows an experienced mentor to take a newcomer hunting under close supervision.

The program has since swept the nation, with 34 additional states joining and more than 1.2 million mentored hunting licenses sold. Now, due to concerns about a few law breakers, commissioners will hear a proposal at their meeting scheduled for Jan. 25-27 that would eliminate hunting for deer and turkey for mentored hunters under age 9.

In 2012, nearly 10,000 youths under age 9 experienced hunting for the first time under this program, the vast majority of which hunted deer and turkey. In total, more than 30,000 new hunters took part in the mentored hunting program in 2012. This proposal would eliminate one-third of those youth hunters.

There simply has not been a demonstrated need or evidence provided to make such draconian changes to the mentored youth hunting program. In fact, data shows that mentored hunters are significantly safer than the regularly licensed hunting public.

“This proposal treats mentored hunting with the same broad brush that anti-hunting groups view all hunting,” said Evan Heusinkveld, vice president of government affairs for the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, which champions mentored hunting across the country. “We don’t ban all hunting due to a few trespassers or poachers. Instead, law enforcement should be able to deal with problem individuals without dismantling part of the most successful hunting recruitment program in the United States.” Read more

Hunting

Nebraska Senator Back with Effort to Ban Mountain Lion Hunting

Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers is back with his anti-hunting crusade against scientific management of mountain lions. The senator led an identical charge in 2014 when the legislature passed a bill to ban mountain-lion hunting, which was ultimately vetoed by then-Gov. Dave Heineman.

Chambers reintroduced his legislation (LB 127) on Friday, Jan. 9, along with a new effort to ban the management of prairie dogs, including on private property (LB 128).

“The Sportsmen’s community in Nebraska did a great job last year in rallying opposition to this ideological attack on wildlife management, and we’ll need a similar response this year,” said Adam Wright, USSA’s associate director of state services. “Sportsmen across Nebraska, and really across the country, must speak up and let their state senators know how misguided this effort is.” Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

USSA Weighs Legal Options in Great Lakes Wolf Battle

On Dec. 20, a federal district court judge in Washington D.C. struck down the delisting of wolves in the western Great Lakes region, and returned them to federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. This move was not based upon the population of wolves—which have clearly recovered in the area—but instead, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that until wolves are re-established in their historical range (which would apparently include New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle, etc.) they cannot be considered recovered in Michigan, Minnesota or Wisconsin, no matter how large the wolf populations in those three states.

For nearly a decade, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation and our partners have led the attempt to delist recovered populations of wolves from the Endangered Species List and to return them to management of individual states.

Judge Howell’s ruling leaves two realistic options for sportsmen, conservationists and those interested in the sound management of fish and wildlife:  legal and congressional action. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

Papa John’s Pizza stands by employee who shot armed robber in self defense

A Papa John’s employee was making a delivery in Decatur, Ga.,  when a man approached her vehicle, forcing her onto the ground at gunpoint.  The woman, who had a gun in her pocket, was able to fire at the man while on the ground — striking the alleged assailant in the face.

An apparent accomplice stole the woman’s vehicle while all this was going on.  Bottom line:  Papa John’s won’t terminate the employee.  Details here…

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