Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
Johnny Stewart® Wildlife Calls has set the industry standard for nearly 50 years, building rugged dependable game callers that use the original high quality Johnny Stewart sounds. Now four new electronic callers are available that feature leading edge technology to help hunters, whether novice or expert, be more successful in the field.
Much like Obama gets around laws by asserting authority he does not have, the city of Tucson has found a way to skirt the laws of Arizona. Instead of passing a law, the city council just passes resolutions. Mandatory background checks are the result. A lame excuse defines what they have concluded we all need is here…
EAGLEVILLE, PA, February 1, 2013 – Streamlight® Inc., a leading provider of high-performance lighting and weapon light/laser sighting devices, added two new High Lumen (HL) models to its popular TLR® family of gun-mounted lights, the TLR-1® HL™ and TLR-2® HL™. The new models give tactical, outdoor and other users full situational awareness by delivering a blinding 630 lumens of brightness in a wide beam pattern, similar to that of a flood light. Read more
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is upgrading its Retail Sales System (RSS), the system it uses to sell hunting, fishing, snowmobile, off-road vehicle and a variety of other licenses. In order to complete the upgrade, the DNR will take its licensing system offline from Monday, Feb. 18, at 11: 30 p.m. through Thursday, Feb. 21, at 1 p.m. The upgrades will take place in time for the new license year that begins on March 1, 2013. Read more
A Laysan albatross known as “Wisdom” – believed to be at least 62 years old – has hatched a chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the sixth consecutive year. Early Sunday morning, February 3, 2013, the chick was observed pecking its way into the world by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Pete Leary, who said the chick appears healthy. Wisdom was first banded in 1956, when she was incubating an egg in the same area of the refuge. She was at least five years old at the time. Read more
Overland Park, Kan. – Bushnell Outdoor Products, an industry-leader in high performance sports optics for more than 60 years, has introduced a new electronic red dot sight for handguns, rifles and shotguns. The First Strike Reflex is a versatile electronic sight for hunters and shooters alike. Read more
An impassioned plea to those that won’t understand is here…
The International Committee of the Modern Day Muskellunge World Record Program (MDMWRP) is pleased to announce the acceptance of a recent muskellunge catch as its world record. The capture of a 58-pound “muskie” by Joe Seeberger of Portage, Michigan on the 13th of October, 2012 from Lake Bellaire, Michigan has set a new modern standard for the world’s muskie anglers. Read more
Montana’s top wildlife official has said that his agency will thoroughly review a federal rule expected to be published today (Monday) before responding to the forthcoming proposal to list the wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Read more
Police in Stephenville, Texas say Eddie Ray Routh, 25, of Lancaster, Texas has been arraigned on two counts of capital murder for Saturday’s shooting of former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle, 38, and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield, 35. The shooting happened at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range located approximately 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth near Glen Rose. Travis Cox, director of the nonprofit group FITCO Cares, a company that provides at-home fitness equipment equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans founded by Kyle, said the pair had taken the former Marine to the range to “give him a helping hand and he turned the gun on them, killing them both.” Routh, who oserved in the USMC from June 2006 to January 2010, is currently being held at the Erath County Jail on a combined $3 million bond. Photo courtesy sofrep.com