Hornady Reloading Digital Case and Parts Dryer

Hornady Reloading offers a quick, convenient, and efficient system for drying bass. Users can simultaneously dry hundreds of cartridge cases and small and large gun parts with the revolutionary Digital Cases & Parts Dryer.

Hornady Reloading Digital Case and Parts Dryer allows users to dry large quantities of cartridge cases and gun parts simultaneously by incorporating a five-tray, stackable system. The design of the dryer offers an exceedingly tall lid to accommodate larger parts. This, coupled with one tray that provides a removable mesh floor, allows users the flexibility to dry parts that are difficult to fit in other part dryers.

In addition to the increased capacity, the Digital Case and Parts Dryer allows users to customize drying times to their preferences. The digital dryer features an adjustable powerhead allowing the user to regulate time and temperature. The Digital Case and Parts Dryer offers drying times from fifteen minutes to two hours on seven different levels allowing users to choose from extremely quick, aggressive drying or a more gentle approach for delicate parts. Read more

Ammunition

TrueTimber Partners with Walmart to Launch Tekari Apparel Line

TrueTimber, the world’s best-selling camo brand, has announced a partnership with Walmart to launch an all-new apparel line, Tekari, featuring two new camo patterns. Walmart customers nationwide can now purchase Tekari apparel and gear both in store and online. The new lineup of apparel offers base layers, shirts, pants, hoodies and jackets, guaranteeing high-performance gear for every hunt.

“This is such an exciting partnership and opportunity not only for our brand, but the entire hunting community,” said TrueTimber CEO Rusty Sellars. “Walmart is the world’s largest retailer and this partnership will make our high-performance hunting apparel and camo patterns available to an entirely new set of hunters across the nation. We encourage everyone to stop by their local Walmart and check out the entire collection.”

The Tekari line features two all-new TrueTimber camo patterns, Atera and XRC. The introduction of these versatile patterns ensures hunters in every region can find the perfect pattern to help them blend seamlessly into whatever environment a hunt might take them. Read more

Fishing, Hunting

Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout—a Model for Fisheries Conservation

Rio grande cutthroat in net fly rod. Craig Springer photo

In this the 50th anniversary year of the Endangered Species Act, it is worth noting that Rio Grande cutthroat a decade ago were considered for listing—and potential restricted angling. Thanks to fishery management endeavors already underway, that didn’t happen. A conservation strategy backed with much data guides work today and into the future.

Anglers are the archetypal optimists and there is much to look forward to in Colorado and New Mexico if you like to catch Rio Grande cutthroat trout. That’s thanks to conservation endeavors by biologists with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, and their diligent work funded by federal excise taxes paid by tackle manufacturers. Sport Fish Restoration (Dingell-Johnson) dollars partly pay the way to conserve this gem with fins with a natural distribution that lies over the artificial state line in the upper Rio Grande and Canadian River drainages. Read more

Fishing

Living with Wildlife: Bats in Your House?

Bats are everywhere! It may feel that way to some of Vermont’s human residents. Summer is when some species of bats gather in colonies, to raise their young in human-made structures such as houses, barns, office buildings, and bat houses but fall is the safe time to get them out.

“Summer is the time of year when the greatest number of unwanted bat-human interactions are reported,” according to Vermont Fish and Wildlife’s Small Mammals Biologist Alyssa Bennett, who works on the conservation and recovery of Vermont’s threatened and endangered bat species.

“Bats can end up in your living space for many reasons, including young bats that are weak, disoriented or lost while coming and going from the roost, bats moving within a structure to find warmer or cooler roosting space as temperatures fluctuate, and bats being displaced from their roosts due to building repairs and renovations.” Read more

Wildlife

State-of-the-Art Wild Turkey Research Continues for Second Year

(A project field technician documents data gathered in the field as part of the study. Photo courtesy of Jackson McCommon)

EDGEFIELD, S.C. — As part of its 2023 investment in wild turkey research, the NWTF is helping fund, for the second year, a unique wild turkey research project conducted by Mississippi State University and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

The research project utilizes recent advances in genetic analysis to better understand wild turkey ecology and how certain factors — such as hunting seasons, land type and management practices — can affect population densities.

In its second year, the project is improving estimates of various population data, which will allow state wildlife agencies and turkey managers to make better-informed decisions regarding management actions and hunting season frameworks, ultimately leading to a stronger population.

However, accurately gauging the number of wild turkeys on a particular landscape is complicated. Population estimates are often made using rough approximations that rely on anecdotal accounts, volunteer surveys and catch-per-unit information.

The other, more labor-intensive way wild turkey researchers and managers can estimate wild turkey numbers is by trapping and marking birds. While this method has provided valuable and insightful information for decades, it is expensive, takes a lot of personnel, is time-consuming and involves risks. Read more

Wildlife

FN Announces Expansion of .22LR Pistol Offerings withNew MRD Model

Following the extremely successful launch of the optics-ready FN 502 Tactical, FN America, LLC is pleased to announce the expansion of its .22LR offerings with the all-new FN 502 MRD. The company released its first rimfire in 2021, the FN 502 Tactical, setting the bar high for future rimfire releases. However, none can best the fact that the FN 502 is the first purpose-built .22LR pistol designed for high round count training sessions while delivering maximum fun on the range.

“When we first started the development of the FN 502 platform, our goal was to up the ante for quality and versatility in a new rimfire pistol, applying our expertise in factory milled optics-ready slides, suppressor-ready barrels, and professional-quality triggers, some of the most sought after benefits in the FN 509 and FNX pistol product lines. We truly set a high bar for the industry,” said Chris Cole, Vice President of Sales for FN America, LLC. “The MRD model is the natural evolution of the FN 502 platform, allowing users to add a red dot, and make the most of the exceptional trigger. The MRD model offers another high-performance .22LR pistol for our customer base who value affordable quality in their rimfire pistols.” Read more

Firearms

Take 10 to check trees for invasive Asian longhorned beetle

Heading outdoors?  Check trees for invasive Asian longhorned beetle

Whether you spend time walking, hiking or exploring neighborhood parks, you can help protect Michigan’s trees by spending a little of your outdoors time checking for signs of the Asian longhorned beetle. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared August as “Tree Check Month.” Looking for the beetle and the damage it causes is one way you can protect trees and help the USDA’s efforts to eliminate this beetle from the United States.

The Michigan departments of Agriculture and Rural Development; Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy; and Natural Resources are joining the USDA in asking people to take just 10 minutes this month to check trees in yards, parks and forests for the beetle or any signs of damage.

The Asian longhorned beetle, or ALB for short, is a non-native wood-boring beetle considered invasive in North America because it attacks 12 types of hardwood trees, including maples, elms, horse chestnuts, birches and willows. There are no predators or diseases in North America to keep ALB populations in check. In its larval stage, the insect feeds inside tree trunks and branches during the colder months. The beetle creates tunnels as it feeds, and then it chews its way out as an adult in the warmer months.

Infested trees do not recover and eventually die. They also can become safety hazards since branches can drop and trees can fall, especially during storms.

You can help

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Wildlife

Boone & Crockett – John Plute’s World’s Record Elk

Colorado 1899

Few hunting stories last a generation. Even fewer last 120 years. Rest assured, when those stories involve cowboys, Colorado’s backcountry, and a World’s Record elk, the legend sticks around. So it is with John Plute’s giant elk.

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The few pictures of John Plute that still exist show a steely-eyed man, tan from the eyebrows down, with a thick cowboy mustache that all other mustaches aspire to be. Those who knew Plute described him as a strong man, a quiet loner who wanted to hunt in the mountains rather than dig in the mines. He was born in Austria around 1867 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1889.

At the turn of the 20th century in Crested Butte, Colorado, the gold fields had been played out. Coal was king, and the miners needed to eat. Plute lived in a boarding house above a bar. The owner traded boarding for meat, and Plute lived to hunt even though the game was scarce in the hills. One day, Plute saddled his horse, slid his .30-40 Krag into its scabbard and rode into Dark Canyon northwest of town.

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Plute, left, hunted meat, which he traded for his boarding in Crested Butte, Colorado.

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Hunting

Painted Bunting Backyard Research

The species’ remarkable combination of colors is evident in this Painted Bunting photo taken by David Hollie. Are you lucky enough to see male and female Painted Buntings at one of your seed feeders?

The oldest Painted Bunting on record was banded 14 years ago, and still returns to the same yard each spring (photo by Jim Konrad).

A program that enlisted the help of birders who attracted Painted Buntings to their feeding stations was initiated by a group of biologists centered in the Carolinas – the Painted Bunting Observation Team (PBOT) – a research program that banded and monitored buntings across the East Coast side of the species’ range. Feeder hosts let the group know when they were attracting Painted Buntings to their feeders, which would elicit a response by a team member to capture, band, and release the colorful songbirds to learn more about them.

Thereafter, the host birders recorded the activities of banded Painted Buntings at their feeders, sometimes over the course of years, which revealed information about their longevity, site fidelity, and other behaviors to the team, and to science. This all started 14 years ago, when Lex Glover, a retired wildlife biologist with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, and Jamie Rotenburg, a professor at the University of North Carolina, started the PBOT. During that first season, one special male Painted Bunting was banded that would make this story even more significant.

After the Painted Bunting was banded, its activities were monitored and documented by Ann Knolte and Hank Stallworth at their feeding station at their stunning farmhouse surrounded by flower gardens in South Carolina. In fact, even after the PBOT program ended, Ann Knolte continued taking detailed notes of bunting behavior in her yard that included information about the banded bunting that continued to visit the area for years. Read more

Wildlife

Boating Boneheads

— Frank Sargeant

It was a bad weekend for boaters.

An angler in a 12’ jon boat was found far at sea two days after he pushed off from a St. Augustine, Florida, boat ramp and headed out the inlet to fish at 4 a.m.

An explosion at a gas dock in California killed two women and injured several others.

And head of the N.Y. branch of the publishing group that owns the rights to Harry Potter died off Italy’s Amalfi coast when a motorboat her family had chartered crashed into a 100’ white sailboat in broad daylight.

All of these events could easily have been avoided—but hindsight is always more accurate than oversight, of course.

Charles Gregory of St. Augustine, FL, was found after two days adrift in a 12′ jon boat some 12 miles at sea. (Joe Perez, USCG)

The Florida Rescue

The search for the Florida boater came to a dramatic end when the U.S. Coast Guard found him drifting 12 miles off Jacksonville Beach — in a boat that was largely underwater, as shown in Coast Guard video.

Charles Gregory, 25, was rescued Saturday, nearly two days after he launched from the Lighthouse Park Boat Ramp late Thursday to go fishing for bull reds at the inlet—something he had done frequently in the past. Read more

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