Hatsan’s Customizable Competition PCP Rifle

Bentonville, AR (April 19th, 2022) – HatsanUSA® is proud to introduce a new competition PCP air rifle. The Hatsan Factor RC is an all-new platform designed with competition and customization in mind. Available in .177, .22, and .25 calibers, it can be fine-tuned and tailored to various competitions and shooting styles. Among its many features is the ability to accept commercially available pistol grips and buttstocks made for modern sporting rifles and a reversible cocking lever for ambidextrous operation.

You’ll find that the ergonomic pistol grip is covered in a soft, durable rubber and is textured to provide maximum grip and control. The 5-position telescoping buttstock also features an elevation adjustable cheek rest that can be moved in 5mm increments up to 40mm tall, or it can be removed for low-profile optics. Hatsan’s famous fully adjustable Quattro Trigger now includes a trigger pad that can be moved vertically and rotated left or right for maximum precision and comfort.

The Factor RC’s power output is also highly adjustable, featuring an externally adjustable pressure regulator with its own output pressure gauge. A power level knob controls the amount of air transferred into the barrel. On the opposite side, a hammer preload adjuster helps fine-tune power output and cocking effort and features a removable 580cc carbon fiber air tank. The Factor RC is also equipped with a Foster-style quick-disconnect fill inlet. In place of the normal fill nozzle, an extended QD is included. An integrated color-coded manometer allows the system pressure to be easily monitored at a glance. Read more

Firearms

Speer Ammunition Adds New 30 Super Carry to Its Gold Dot Product Line

LEWISTON, Idaho –– Speer Ammunition announces the addition of the new 30 Super Carry cartridge to its Gold Dot Personal Protection product family. Hailed as one of the biggest handgun cartridge introductions in decades, the new Gold Dot 30 Super Carry from Speer continues to bolster the ammunition options for this new platform. Check with your local ammo store for availability.

The Gold Dot 30 Super Carry has the power of a 9mm Luger with more magazine capacity. The combination of performance and smaller-diameter sized .313-inch diameter projectile allow the Federal Ammunition engineered cartridge to deliver 9mm Luger muzzle velocity, with terminal performance that far exceeds that of 380 Auto. Read more

Ammunition

Remington Opens Sporting Clays Course, Hosts Inaugural Spring League

Lonoke, Arkansas –– Remington Ammunition is excited to announce the opening of the Remington Gun Club to the public. Complete with a brand-new 13 station sporting clays course, the inaugural spring sporting clays league is now underway.

Only steps away from Remington’s historic ammunition factory in Lonoke, Arkansas, Big Green has recently expanded the Gun Club with a new 13-station sporting clays course and has begun construction on an additional 12-station north course as well.

Established in 1978, but closed by previous Remington company ownership, Big Green’s new owners have re-opened the gates of the club to again welcome both novice and competitive shooters from across the country. A longtime destination for trap and skeet shooters, the club has added the state’s only sporting clays course open to the public. The new addition was made possible with the support of the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and the MidwayUSA Foundation.

In addition to the re-opening of the Gun Club, Remington is hosting their first spring Sporting Clays League. With two divisions- 17 and younger and 18 and older- the league opened on April 6th and will continue through May 22nd. This six week, 300 target league has weekly ammo winners, and added cash prizes. Read more

Ammunition

Trulock Federal Heavyweight TSS #9 Choke with Federal Heavyweight TSS #9 Shotshell

GW: No doubt that this load and choke combine for an awesome pattern; however, Michigan (and, maybe other states) does not permit anything smaller than #6 shot.

Whigham, GA – For the absolute tightest patterns, use Trulock® Federal Heavyweight TSS # 9 choke combined with the Federal® Heavyweight TSS 9 shotshell. The Trulock® Federal® Heavyweight TSS # 9 choke is made from high strength, heat treated 17/4 stainless steel with a black oxide finish. This choke has been optimized using hundreds of rounds of Federal Heavyweight TSS # 9 shell to give nominally 400 pellets in a 10 inch circle at 40 yards.

Trulock® Federal Heavyweight TSS #9 Choke and Federal Heavyweight TSS #9 Shotshell 10 inch pattern at 40 yards

Trulock® strongly recommends turkey hunters pattern their gun to make sure they know how the point of impact and the point of aim compare. These patterns are so tight you can miss the bird unless you KNOW where the gun impacts on the target. There are many things that can go wrong in a turkey hunt, but the combination of Trulock® chokes with these loads means that down range shot performance won’t be one of those problems.

Trulock® Choke Tubes goal is to make high-quality, close tolerance turkey choke tubes at reasonable prices. All Trulock® Chokes are backed with a 60-day satisfaction guarantee and a lifetime warranty. Check out TrulockChokes.Com for choke recommendations with lead or steel shot, for a variety of game. Contact us at TrulockChokes.Com, or if you want to talk to a real live person and get the absolute best in customer service, then reach out at 800-293-9402. At Trulock® Chokes, customer service is not just a name; it is something the company is dedicated to giving. Read more

Ammunition, Hunting

New study of Saginaw Bay walleye movement and reproduction starts soon

A new study begins this month on Saginaw Bay, using acoustic transmitters that will be implanted in walleye to help researchers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Michigan State University and several partner agencies obtain data about where the fish spawn.

Fish in such telemetry projects have acoustic transmitters affixed to them. Each transmitter then beeps a fish-specific code every few minutes. Acoustic receivers deployed in Lake Huron decode the tag beeps and log when fish tags are detected. The network of acoustic receivers in Saginaw Bay includes receivers in the mouths of rivers to listen for tagged fish moving to spawning grounds and receivers in Saginaw Bay to determine where walleye may be spawning.

Having a better understanding of relative sources of natural reproduction for walleye will help fishery managers determine which rivers and reefs to protect and, when needed, where to invest in actions that enhance and improve fish habitat.

Volunteer charter boat operations are assisting in the study by collecting the walleye hook and line in May while the fish from all spawning sources are mixed post-spawn, but before any leave the bay. Then when the fish return for spawning next spring, their locations will be logged in the receivers. There are at least 15 rivers and five offshore reefs that are likely sources of walleye spawning. Read more

Fishing

Leupold’s Project Hunt: Apply to Have Your Hunt Filmed

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Leupold & Stevens, Inc., provider of the world’s most rugged, lightweight, and clear sport optics, is pleased to announce the return of the Project Hunt contest, which offers hunters across the United States the chance to have an upcoming hunt filmed and shared across Leupold’s digital media platforms.

It’s your tag, your hunt, and your story. Leupold’s Project Hunt, presented by GOHUNT, is offering contest entrants the chance to star in a Leupold digital series. You plan the hunt; you call the shots. Leupold will provide a videographer to capture the story. A short film or limited series about your hunt will be produced by Leupold and released digitally in 2023.

Hunts must take place before March 1, 2023, to be considered. In addition to the provided videographer, selected entrants will also receive a prize package of Leupold optics, and an annual GOHUNT Insider membership.

“Last year we launched our first-ever ‘Project Hunt’ contest and it was a huge success,” said Bruce Pettet, President and Chief Executive Office of Leupold & Stevens, Inc. “This year we’re back and looking for another incredible story to tell. No one is more relentless than the members of the Leupold Core, and we’re asking you to help us prove it. Whether you’re going on the hunt of a lifetime or hunting close to home with your family, it’s time to tell your story.”

In 2021, Leupold chose two winners for the Project Hunt contest. Jesse Shiner and Matt Hicks will each have their stories unfold in upcoming short films to be released in 2022.

“I’ve been putting in 23 years for a bighorn sheep tag in Arizona…Couldn’t believe when I got drawn for it,” Hicks said. “It was an amazing experience, just a real trip of a lifetime. Leupold sponsoring this, they really went above and beyond, what a great company. Provided me tons of gear, the scope I used, binoculars, spotting scope, tripod, everything they provided we used. Couldn’t thank those guys enough.”

The deadline to enter is June 18, 2022. Entries must be submitted at Leupold.com/ProjectHunt. A 2-minute video explaining why your submission should be selected is required to enter. Read more

Hunting

Johnny Morris Donates Yet Again to Conservation

— Frank Sargeant
Frankmako1@gmail.com

Johnny Morris is a classic American success story, starting out in his 20’s selling a little tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield. Missouri in 1972.

Johnny Morris has built an empire on fishing, hunting and boating equipment sales, and has been remarkably generous with his wealth in supporting conservation and other worthy causes. (Bass Pro Shops)

Today, the company he built, based mostly on the Bass Pro Shops logo, has a value of about $6.5 billion and employs over 40,000.

It owns not only 152 Bass Pro Shops superstores nationwide and in Canada but also 50 Cabela’s stores as well as White River Marine Group, parent company of Tracker, Ranger, Triton, Mako and other well-known boating brands sold at hundreds of dealerships around the nation.

And Morris has done an amazing amount of good with the money he and his team have earned. Just this month, as reported in yesterday’s TOW, he donated an added $1.5 million generated by the Bass Pro Shops World’s Fishing Fair and Concert in Springfield, Missouri

As with a number of other high-profile outdoors companies these days, the Bass Pro Shops empire has done its best to support the fish, wildlife and the outdoors fans that have made success possible. It all comes back to Johnny Morris, who has made a lifelong commitment to conservation.

The company has an ongoing effort to seek out and support worthwhile causes—see details here: https://about.basspro.com/community/support.

(In full disclosure, I worked for Outdoor World Television, a part of Bass Pro Shops, for eight years in the early 2000’s.)

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Fishing

Michigan: DNR Approves Land Gift Increasing Acreage at Craig Lake SP

Contact: Doug Rich, 906-353-6651

DNR approves land gift increasing acreage at Craig Lake State Park in Marquette County

The U.P. Land Conservancy has gifted nearly 1,300 acres of pristine highlands wilderness in Marquette County to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to protect the property from degradation and maintain public access.

“We are please to have this wonderful legacy donation to add to the very special Craig Lake State Park,” said Ron Olson, chief of the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division.

The property includes three parcels that made up the conservancy’s Peshekee Headwaters Nature Preserve, which lies along the eastern edge of Craig Lake State Park.

Among its attributes, the property contains nearly 90% of the watershed that fills Indian Lake, which is headwaters of the West Branch of the Peshekee River, along with 10 miles of hiking trails that connect to the adjacent state park. Read more

Wildlife

NRA Joins Appeal of District Court’s “Erroneous” NWR Decision

NRA Appeals District Court’s Erroneous National Wildlife Refuge Decision

Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association on April 15 joined with Safari Club International, Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to appeal an erroneous decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana denying the pro-hunting organizations’ efforts to intervene in and defend the expansion of hunting opportunities on federal lands.

In Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the plaintiff challenged a 2020 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulation, that expanded hunting and fishing opportunities on almost 100 National Wildlife Refuges around the country. The plaintiff wrongly asserts that this expanded hunting and fishing threatens Endangered Species Act-listed species and challenges the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on National Wildlife Refuges. The pro-hunting organizations seek to defend the 2020 regulation, which is consistent with the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act’s directive to prioritize hunting and fishing on refuges.

In the appeal, the hunting organizations will demonstrate that the district court erred in ruling that hunter advocacy organizations do not have a legal interest in maintaining a rule that expanded hunting access. NRA, along with the adjoining groups, are leading hunter advocacy organizations and submitted multiple declarations of members who want to take advantage of expanded hunting and fishing opportunities provided in the 2020 rule.

“The NRA has always fought to ensure America’s sportsmen and women have ample access to this country’s great outdoors, and the district court’s ruling deprives them of the opportunity to be heard in this case,” said Amy Hunter, NRA spokeswoman. “On behalf of our five million members, we urge the appellate court to reverse this ruling.” Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting

Punch Paper and Win Prizes with Airgun Depot 10X10 Challenge

Draper, UT — Airgun Depot is excited to announce the launch of its 10X10 Challenge to encourage customers to hit the range and earn a chance at incredible prizes.

No purchase is necessary to enter, and anyone can download 10X10 Challenge targets or order a free (plus shipping) set at airgundepot.com/10×10-challenge-target.

Participants can then take 10 shots at the 10-inch target from a set distance and upload a photo of the completed 10X10 Challenge target at airgundepot.com/challenge. The farther the distance, the bigger the prize level. Read more

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