Michigan: Women’s Winter Ringneck Challenge

Sunday, March 8
8:30 a.m. to noon (lunch and prizes to follow)
Meemo’s Farm and Preserve
12081 3 Mile Road, Evart

Pheasants Forever Montcalm County will sponsor this fun pheasant hunting event for beginners and experienced hunters. The day will include clay shooting and a guided hunt with teams of four women, with lunch and prizes following the hunt.

Cost is $35 per person, which includes lunch, guides and dogs. Individual hunters are welcome and will be placed on four-person teams.

There will be prizes for longest tail feather, heaviest bird and most birds taken by a team. Bring a friend who hasn’t bird hunted before, and you’ll be entered to win a prize.

Limited to the first 16 women who sign up. Read more

Hunting

Pheasants Forever Partners with USDA to Help Landowners with Conservation Goals at 2020 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic

Habitat Help Desk and Precision Ag Workshop available to farmers and ranchers

Minneapolis, Minn. – Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are inviting landowners, farmers and ranchers to review their enrollment options for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general signup during the upcoming National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic on February 14-16 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. In addition, staff will be available to discuss other voluntary conservation opportunities through the Farm Bill including but not limited to; EQIP, CSP, ACEP and CREP. Landowners are encouraged to bring a legal description (township, range and section) of their property to the event’s Habitat Help Desk where professional biologists will provide a free and comprehensive review/analysis of opportunities along with information for contacting their local USDA service center for enrollment. Read more

Wildlife

Land Donation Protects 3,450 Acres of Montana Wildlife Habitat

MISSOULA, Mont.—A conservation-minded landowner donated 3,450 acres of critical elk, mule deer and whitetail deer winter range in western Montana to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

“We are grateful to John Greytak for this extremely generous and substantial donation,” said Kyle Weaver, RMEF president and CEO. “We commend John for recognizing the crucial wildlife values of this land while making the decision to permanently protect them. He’s been a RMEF member since 1999 and recently elevated his commitment to conservation by becoming a RMEF life member and joining RMEF’s Legacy Lands Program.”

Located just north of Interstate 90 in the Bearmouth area of Granite County, the property is about 45 miles east of RMEF headquarters in Missoula. It lies within a vast landscape of various public and protected land ownership and provides important connectivity of wildlife habitat. Read more

Wildlife

Anarchy Outdoors Scope Throw Levers

North Logan, UT- Anarchy Outdoors, a leading industry innovator and supplier of precision rifle components and other high-performance firearms accessories, has introduced Throw Levers for scope magnification adjustment selectors. Their latest in a series of innovative products, the Throw Levers let shooters almost instantly change the scope magnification as the situation requires. Read more

Optics

Virginia House Passes Suppressor Ban

RICHMOND, VA — This afternoon the Virginia House of Delegates voted 51 – 48 in favor of passing House Bill 961, Delegate Mark Levine’s (D-45) “assault firearm” and suppressor ban. All 45 Republican Delegates voted against the bill. They were joined by Del. Lee Carter (D-50), Del. Steve Heretick (D-79), and Del. Rosalyn Tyler (D-75), with Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D-21) abstaining. Now that the bill has passed the House, it will move to the Senate for consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The suppressor provisions of House Bill 961 were amended in Committee on Friday, removing the confiscation provision that was previously included. Should the bill become law, anyone who possesses a federally registered suppressor in Virginia prior to July 1st would be able to legally maintain possession of their property. However, the acts of importing, selling, manufacturing, and purchasing suppressors would be prohibited for civilians after enactment. For this reason, among others, HB 961 remains a bill that the American Suppressor Association strongly opposes. Read more

Firearms, Gun Control

CCI Special Edition “Stangers”

LEWISTON, Idaho – – CCI Stinger isn’t just a great load for pinning down varmints. It’s also been one of the top choices of YouTube shooting sensation 22plinkster. That’s why we’ve introduced a special-edition “Stangers” load named for his signature drawl. Shipments of this new product have been delivered to dealers.

YouTube shooting sensation 22plinkster is a familiar face to fans around the world. His collection of more than 400 videos featuring rimfire trick shots and other entertaining shooting demonstrations has to date attracted more than 583,000 subscribers and garnered more than 94 million views. Read more

Ammunition

Michigan: No license or permit purchases this weekend

In just a few days, the DNR will begin the changeover to a new system for selling hunting and fishing licenses, hunting applications, and ORV and snowmobile permits online and at retail agent locations statewide. The changeover starts Saturday, Feb. 15, and the new system will go live at noon Tuesday, Feb. 18.

During the changeover, all licenses, permits and applications will be unavailable for sale – both online and in retail stores. If you’ve been planning to pick up a license or permit for the coming weekend, don’t wait. Please plan ahead, or plan to wait until after noon Feb. 18. (However, select dealers across the state will be selling preprinted ORV licenses and ORV and snowmobile trail permits while the system is down.) Read more

Fishing, Hunting

CCRKBA Supports New School Safety Initiative

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today threw its support behind a new effort by President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at improving school safety with the launch of a dedicated website to provide information to help local school districts shape their own strategies.

The SchoolSafety.gov website is described as a “one stop shop for resources, best practices, federal programs, and grants for school safety.” President Trump met with families of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who died in the tragic Feb. 14 shooting almost two years ago.

“We think this is a step in the right direction,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “because it focuses on actual school security without proposing restrictions on law-abiding firearms owners that would not improve school safety, nor would they have prevented the tragedy in Parkland. Read more

Gun Control, Self Defense

Record Low Yearling-Buck Harvest: QDMA’s 2020 Whitetail Report

ATHENS, GA – The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) today released its 12th annual Whitetail Report, a comprehensive update on the status of white-tailed deer including deer harvest trends through the 2018-19 season, the most recent hunting season with complete deer harvest data available from most whitetail states and Canadian provinces. That season, the national percentage of yearling bucks (1½ years old) in the total antlered buck harvest fell to 30%, the lowest ever recorded.

“The fact that less than one in three antlered bucks shot today is 1½ years old is amazing,” said Kip Adams, QDMA Director of Conservation. “The result is that deer populations are more socially balanced, and of course hunters are seeing and harvesting more adult bucks. The average percentage of the buck harvest that was 3½ years old or older was 37% in 2018, which is by far the highest percentage ever reported.” Read more

Hunting, Wildlife
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