Outdoor Edge “Field to Freezer to Fire Giveaway”

DENVER — Outdoor Edge, America’s leading manufacturer of knives and tools for all things outdoors, announced the launch of its 4th Annual Field to Freezer to Fire (F2F2F) Giveaway today. Outdoor Edge has teamed up with some of the top outdoor companies to put a package together that helps hunters create a true field to table experience. The giveaway includes Hi Mtn Seasonings jerky cures, seasonings, rubs and brines, Koola Buck anti-microbial game bags, a year subscription to Hunt to Eat magazine and apparel, a Weston Products meat grinder, a Bradley Smoker and of course an Outdoor Edge RazorBone and Game Pro processing set. All combined, this “Processor’s Dream Package” has a suggested retail value exceeding $1000.

“Our goal with this annual giveaway is to provide all the tools needed for a true field to table experience, something that is important to hunters of all skill levels,” said Will Morgan, marketing director. “This is especially important this year after we have experienced supply chain disruptions and empty shelves due to the pandemic.

“This complete prize package will be ready to ship immediately to the winner so they can take advantage of the products with no delays,” said Morgan.

Entering to win is simple. Simply go to the Outdoor Edge Facebook Page and click on the promotion or Click Here. When prompted, fill in your name and email address and you are entered. One entry per person. All entries must be completed by midnight on January 15, 2022. The lucky winner will be randomly drawn and notified via email.

You have until midnight on January 15, but why wait? Be sure to check out all the great products from Outdoor Edge. There is sure to be someone on your holiday shopping list that would appreciate one of their knives and/or kits. Read more

Cutlery

Boston Settles Gun Permit Lawsuit, City Pays SAF $10K

BELLEVUE, WA – The City of Boston has settled a federal lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and other plaintiffs over delays in accepting and processing licenses to carry a firearm, and has agreed to pay $10,000 to cover attorneys’ fees and costs.

SAF was joined by Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc., and several individuals. The lawsuit was known as Alves v. McNamara. Plaintiffs are represented by New York attorney David Jensen.

“The city had already been very slow processing applications for carry licenses, and when the COVIC-19 pandemic hit, things completely ground to a halt,” SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb recalled. “With things returning to normal, the city has agreed that all individuals who were on the list of applicants as of July 26 will be contacted so they may submit permit applications. The city also agreed to resume its pre-pandemic practice of accepting applications by Oct. 31, which has happened, and they are paying our legal expenses.

“This is one of the many COVID-related lawsuits to protect gun rights that we won,” he added, “and we had also warned several other jurisdictions around the country of probable legal action for similar shutdowns because of the pandemic.” Read more

Gun Control, Self Defense

Michigan Governor Vetoes Bipartisan Knife Rights Act

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed our bipartisan Michigan Knife Rights Act, HB 4066, that would have enacted Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state.

Strongly supported by both parties, enactment of the Michigan Knife Rights Act would have protected millions of Michiganders from harassment by police for carrying simple tools they use every day for work. Whitmer’s veto is evidence that she does not care about needless interactions between Michigan residents and law enforcement.

HB 4066 would have assured that cities and towns could not criminalize the simple possession of the tools millions of Michigan residents use every day. Factory workers, farmers, food service workers, hunters, fishermen and others will remain in danger of arrest simply for crossing a line on a map to enter a city or town whose law may differ from the law in their own town or the state’s knife laws.

Knife Rights Chairman Doug Ritter said, “we are disappointed by Governor Whitmer’s veto of this important criminal justice reform bill. The headlines we read daily just scream for exactly this type of rational, commonsense criminal justice reform, yet she is apparently tone-deaf to the pleas.”

Eight-year-old Michigan resident Remington Wilson, who testified in favor HB 4066, said, “I’m disappointed in Governor Whitmer for not understanding that responsible knife owners only want to follow the law. I wish she had helped make knife laws more simple and clear for everyone to understand. I will continue to work with Knife Rights to help our legislators understand the problems with the current laws.”

We sincerely appreciate the efforts of HB 4006 sponsor Representative Andrew Fink in getting this bill through the legislature. Rep Fink said, “I am disappointed that the governor has left law abiding citizens vulnerable to unnecessary interference from local ordinances, but I’ll keep advocating for freedom for all Michiganians as long as I’m in office.” Read more

Cutlery

Henry Raises Over $46,000 For 6th Grade Maryland Girl

RICE LAKE, WI – Henry Repeating Arms is pleased to announce that a donation of 65 custom “Support 4 Sami” rifles raised a total of $46,700, all of which will benefit the family of 11-year-old Sami Bernadzikowski of Elkridge, Md. The money provides relief for the medical expenses incurred throughout Sami’s treatments for multiple congenital heart defects, including five open-heart surgeries and over thirty catheterization procedures.

The “Support 4 Sami” Golden Boy Silver lever-action rifles are a continuation of Henry Repeating Arms’ Guns For Great Causes program, a charitable arm of the company that focuses on raising funds through firearms donations for individual sick children, children’s hospitals, active-duty military and veterans organizations, wildlife and habitat conservation efforts, and supporting other Henry partners. The program has raised over $250,000 for six families over the past two years.

Anthony Imperato, CEO and Founder of Henry Repeating Arms, says, “Time and time again, the Henry family steps up to the plate and knocks it out of the park with their unending generosity to help us with these Guns For Great Causes initiatives.” Imperato continues, “To those of you who purchased one of these rifles or offered your support in some other way, I thank you for giving Sami another reason to show off that big smile.”

The rifles, priced at $650 each, sold out in less than 24 hours after the initial announcement of their availability. The first and last serial numbers went to an online auction block, and the hammer fell at $2,725 and $3,025, respectively. Read more

General

Aim Small for Accuracy

By Glen Wunderlich

Charter Member Professional Outdoor Media Associaiton (POMA)

It’s sight-in time!  Many of us will be pinning up targets and punching paper like we always do this time of year.  But, more than ever, it behooves each of us to get our chosen deer gun dialed in efficiently.  It’s never really a good idea to shoot more than necessary to get the job done but unproductive sighting-in procedures can lead to frustrating and expensive results.

Sore shoulders can lead to flinching.  Hot barrels will often shoot differently than cold ones – as in hunting situations.  Inefficient, ammo-wasting sight-in sessions could leave a prospective hunter with little or no ammo for hunting and needing more.  Good luck with that!

What follows is a method of extreme efficiency.  If you haven’t heard of the two-shot sight-in system, it works like this:  With your favorite deer gun that was sighted in last season, take a shot at a 100-yard bull’s eye.  Next, center the crosshairs on the same bull’s eye and adjust the scope’s turrets to move the crosshairs back to the bullet hole.  Theoretically, the next shot will strike the bull’s eye and you are ready to go hunting.

Although the two-shot sight-in can be quite efficient, it must be understood that several prerequisites must be in place to make it work.  You have to have a good-shooting deer gun already.  You have to have the same ammunition from the past session – and, I mean the same box or those with the same run number stamped on the inside flap of the box.  However, the most important factor in this system – and often ignored – is the operator.

In the game of pool, shots are called in advance of given opportunities.  In shooting, an experienced shooter also calls shots, but with a twist:  It’s done after the trigger is pulled, but before the placement of the shot is known.

To accomplish this feat, the shooter himself must be accomplished.  The technique requires a level of expertise ignored by casual shooters and it centers on a person’s ability to concentrate on where the crosshairs are at all times.  Most importantly, however, is where those crosshairs were when the gun went boom.

To become a good marksman, experienced shooters focus on a small part of the target.  Understand that nobody holds completely still; rather, crosshairs are actually bouncing around to a certain degree – even if we do not realize it.  Take any decent scope with magnification beyond 20x and try to hold it still against the shoulder.  You will notice the crosshairs’ movement.

Heck, a person’s heartbeat is a genuine factor – especially when it’s trying to pound its way out of one’s chest thanks to an involuntary infusion of adrenaline at the moment of truth.  Unless the hunter doubles as an Olympic biathlon competitor, who is trained in the art of a trigger squeeze at the proper moment, his prospects of accuracy are dim.

Through it all, we must seek a state of mind characterized by a reliance on ourselves amid myriad circumstances.  The word is confidence and it is derived through experience in accordance with results at the shooting bench.

Hail-Mary shots at unknown distances won’t get a hunter there.  Flailing away at running deer on a drive is an exercise fit for fools.  On the other side of the coin is the perfect shot – the one a confident hunter has called – originating in perfect practice.

Next week we’ll visit with a youngster who’s learned this lesson well.

Firearms, Hunting

TrueTimber® Hosts Fall Bow Sweepstakes with PSE Archery®

INMAN, S.C. – November 5, 2021 – TrueTimber announces a fall archery sweepstake with partner PSE Archery to give away one STINGER MAX compound bow decorated in TrueTimber Strata camo and a $500 gift card to the TrueTimber online store. The giveaway begins today and will be hosted on the official TrueTimber Instagram and Facebook pages. One grand prize winner will be randomly selected following the promotion period which ends November 19, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

“I think our bow hunting fans are going to jump all over this awesome chance to win some great gear,” said TrueTimber CEO Rusty Sellars. “PSE has been a longtime partner of ours and we are thrilled they jumped in to sweeten the pot here with such an awesome bow. This STINGER MAX comes ready to hunt out of the box. Pair that with a full new lineup of TrueTimber gear and one lucky hunter is going to be set heading into the woods this fall.”

To enter, fans need to follow both TrueTimber and PSE Archery on Instagram or Facebook in addition to tagging by commenting at least one other person in any of the entry posts on TrueTimber’s Instagram or Facebook page. The entry post will go live on the TrueTimber Facebook and Instagram pages today at 6:00 p.m. EST. For an additional chance to win, fans can enter on both platforms. Read more

Archery

Montana: FWP Clarifies Changes to Wolf Hunting, Trapping Regulations

In August, the Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted several changes to the 2021/2022 wolf hunting and trapping regulations.

Changes include eliminating quotas, increasing the number of wolf trapping and hunting licenses allowed for individual hunters, extending wolf trapping seasons and the allowance of snares to harvest wolves.

The changes also specified that hunters are allowed to purchase and possess 10 wolf hunting licenses – a separate license for each wolf they harvest – and trappers are allowed a bag limit of 10 wolves. This means an individual who hunts and traps can take a total of 20 wolves in a license year.

The regulations initially said hunters and trappers could take 10 wolves total. The regulations will be corrected to align with the intent of the commission. Read more

Hunting

SPACE Trailers Expands Under New Ownership

Red Wing, MN. SPACE Trailers are lightweight, customizable sport trailers. Our SPACE Trailers combine the versatility of a utility trailer with the pack-up-and-go of a small cargo trailer. The tough but lightweight enclosed adventure trailer lets you bring everything you want, not just what you need. SPACE Trailers, made and manufactured in Red Wing, Minnesota, were developed through firsthand experience and research. Read more

General

Michigan: funding available for natural resource restoration in the Saginaw Bay watershed

The Tittabawassee River and the Saginaw River and Bay Natural Resource Trustee Councils are jointly announcing the availability of funding for restoration projects to be implemented in the Saginaw Bay watershed, including in and along the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers.

This funding is derived from two sources, a 2020 settlement with The Dow Chemical Company and a 1998 settlement with General Motors and others for natural resource damages. The two Trustee Councils will provide approximately $5.7 million to fund restoration projects, in addition to projects already specified in the two settlements.

The Trustees are asking people to submit pre-proposals that the Trustee Councils will then screen and evaluate for their merit relative to restoration project criteria. The criteria that the Trustees will use to evaluate restoration proposals are described within the respective restoration plans for the Tittabawassee River and the Saginaw River and Bay. Read more

Wildlife

Michigan: DNR Halts Proposed Plan for Genoa Township Seed Orchard

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will not move ahead with proposed projects to extract sand and gravel or establish a tree seed orchard on two parcels of land in Genoa Township, southeast Livingston County.

The DNR had proposed removing excess material and leveling the hilly land on the 50-acre and 77-acre parcels between Brighton Road and Cunningham Lake Road by leasing the rights to mine sand and gravel on the properties. The land now is expected to be sold at auction in the future.

“People in the area have told us that they do not want the DNR to complete this process, and we have listened to their concerns,” said Jeff Stampfly, chief of the DNR’s Forest Resources Division. “Public input has always been an important aspect of proposed forest management activities, whether here or in evaluating other decisions across the state.”

The Forest Resources Division took over management of the two parcels in 2019. The properties had previously been listed as surplus properties by the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division, which manages the nearby 4,947-acre Brighton Recreation Area.

Public input is part of the process

About 500 people attended an Oct. 12 informational meeting where DNR staff explained the proposed project. Public comment at the meeting was overwhelmingly negative, especially regarding the sand and gravel extraction phase. They also expressed concerns regarding a sodium and chloride groundwater plume on the 77-acre parcel, as well as an old township dump site on the site. The state’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy had determined that the plume was unlikely to be disturbed by the proposed gravel operation.

Stampfly said the location initially seemed like a good fit for needed expansion of the DNR’s Tree Improvement on Chilson Road, but that the department now will seek another site for expansion of seed orchards. Read more

Wildlife
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