Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
An experiment started more than 20 years ago to reintroduce peregrine falcons to Indiana is paying off with impressive numbers this spring. Sixteen nesting attempts have been observed and seven of those sites so far have hatched chicks, including two from Indiana’s most prolific peregrine-Kinney. The 16 attempts are three more than in any previous year and an increase of four from last year. Read more
Overland Park, Kan. – Bushnell Outdoor Products, an industry-leader in high performance sports optics for more than 60 years, has announced a $25 mail-in rebate for its popular BackTrack D-TOUR personal GPS device. The BackTrack series of simple to operate navigation devices have revolutionized the handheld GPS market, giving users an easy way to mark waypoints and find their way from point A to point B without a lot of unnecessary, complicated features. Read more
Call Senator Debbie Stabenow today to help protect your right to hunt, fish, and shoot!
The most significant pro-sportsmen’s legislation of the past 15 years is now in the U.S. Senate. Michigan’s Senator Debbie Stabenow is one of a handful of Senators that can determine whether the bill makes it to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature.
H.R. 4089, the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012, addresses top priority issues of the sportsmen’s community. The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support on Tuesday, April 17th by a vote of 274-146. Read more on H.R. 4089 below.
Without Senator Stabenow’s support, the bill may not get a vote in the Senate! Michigan sportsmen should call Senator Stabenow today and ask her to support H.R. 4089.
Facing re-election, Senator Stabenow is in an influential position to push Senate leadership for a vote on the measure. Sportsmen need to call on the Senator to do just that.
Michigan sportsmen can help protect the future of hunting, fishing, and shooting by contacting Senator Stabenow and asking for her support. Contact Senator Stabenow at: Phone: (202) 224-4822 Online: Click here to contact Sen. Stabenow online.
The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012, H.R. 4089, would: Classify Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service lands as open to hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting unless closed or restricted based on scientific evidence; Confirm that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot ban lead in traditional ammunition or in sport fishing gear; Protect recreational shooting on BLM National Monument lands; and Allow the import of 41 legally hunted polar bear trophies tangled in federal red-tape. Read more
Officials are seeking information about elk poaching in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said that a bull elk was shot and killed in Otsego County during the week of April 19 and a pregnant cow elk was shot on or around March 14 in Montmorency County.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Gaylord Operations Center at (989) 732-3541 or the state’s poaching line at (800) 292-7800.
Republicans prepare comtempt of court charges in the wake of the Obama administration’s continued hiding of evidence in the Fast and Furious investigation. Remember how Obama promised to be the most open administration in history? Sure hope the door remains open so we can push him out this fall. More on evidence hiding here…
The letter from Darrell Issa, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is here…
A Faribanks hunter, Rodd Moretz, had killed a bear and then came too close to a bear den and was attacked from the den but was fortunate to escape. More here…
Rodd Moretz’ description of the encounter is here…
San Antonio, Texas – Blaser is pleased to introduce the new R8 Professional Success rifle with its new, revolutionary, state of the art stock design. Once again, Blaser has developed a rifle that will provide hunters with the crucial edge for continuous success in the field with the new R8 Professional Success. Read more
GW: Love this stuff! Sometimes I just have it on with sound, while doing something else. The audio is like an alarm when there’s some action. Like the eaglecam, too at http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles#utm_source=Ustreamsocials&u%E2%80%8Btm_media=Facebook&utm_campaign=%E2%80%8Bdecoraheagles
Ithaca, NY–In a first for technology and for bird watching, thousands of people watched live this weekend as a tiny Great Blue Heron emerged from an egg in between its father’s gigantic feet. Read more
Miami, FL – Taurus®, the world’s foremost manufacturer of firearms announces the acquisition of Heritage Manufacturing, Inc. of Opa Locka, Florida, an American company proudly producing an American legend, the Western Single Action Revolver. Terms of the transaction are undisclosed. Read more
Black Shadow pictured below
Ready for the turkey woods or flooded fields, the Winchester Repeating Arms Super X® Pump is now available in 12 gauge 3 ½ chambering.
The Super X® Pump will be offered in a Waterfowl Hunter, Turkey Hunter and Black Shadow models. All SXP models feature the fast and dependable speed from the inertia-assisted rotary bolt design that delivers three shots in a half-second. Invector-Plus choke system, hard chrome chamber and bore and drop-out trigger group are also featured on the new 3 ½” SXP® Pump. Read more