New Shooting Rests for 2021 by Birchwood Casey

Irving, TX – Birchwood Casey, a leading name in professional gun care supplies and shooting equipment, introduces five new shooting rests: Alpha™, Bravo™, Echo™, Foxtrot, and Tango. Each rest is specifically designed for accuracy, comfort, and ease of use!

The Alpha™ Shooting Rest is a tubular steel frame design for maximum strength that features a non-slip rubber stock rest, an integrated weighted front (35 lbs. total), adjustable leveling feet with bullseye bubble level, and more! This new rest accommodates popular AR pistols with barrels as short as 7.5-inches as well as full-sized rifles. The low-profile design is ideal for prone shooting. The ambidextrous controls and oversized knobs make any adjustments quick and easy. The front of the Alpha™ Shooting rest maneuvers 2 inches for windage, 3.5 inches for elevation, and 4.25 inches to accommodate various rifle sizes.

Model: BC-ASR MSRP: $229.99 Read more

Firearms

Rock River Arms Introduces New Light Predator2L Rifle

Colona, IL – Rock River Arms, Inc.®, one of the industry’s most respected names in Modern Sporting Rifles and pistols, announces their newest predator rifle, the Fred Eichler Series Light Predator2L featuring lightweight, carbon fiber handguards.

The new Fred Eichler Series (FES) Light Predator2L rifle features a carbon fiber handguard that reduce overall weight and incorporate the popular unique coyote paw prints that are found on all Fred Eichler Series handguards. This deadly accurate rifle incorporates a .223 Wylde Chamber for both 5.56mm & .223 Cal ammunition and the 16-inch lightweight fluted stainless-steel barrel offers impressive accuracy at long ranges, has a 1:8 twist and has been cryogenically treated and bead blasted for a no glare, professional finish. Read more

Firearms

Introducing the RAW-10 in 6.5 Creedmoor

One of the most popular hunting and shooting round sizes of our day, the 6.5 Creedmoor is a wildly versatile caliber. Red Arrow Weapons is excited to include the 6.5 Creedmoor caliber in the lineup for their premium AR-15 style firearms. For those who’ve come to know and love the platform, the AR-style rifle system is a dream system on which to build high end, customizable rifles. What do you get when you mix that capable caliber with that popular of a shooting platform and throw in the high fun, high function of Red Arrow standards all together? The RAW-10 6.5 Creedmoor. Read more

Firearms

Firearm Industry Embraces Real Solutions Over President’s Gun Control Calls

NEWTOWN, Conn. – The anniversary of the tragic and senseless murders in Parkland, Fla., three years ago remind us why the firearm industry is committed to Real Solutions. Safer Communities®. The loss of innocent lives because of the unthinkable acts of a criminal defies explanation but deserves our efforts to try to prevent them from occurring again.

President Joe Biden’s call for his gun control agenda is not working to address the shared American goal of reducing criminal misuse of firearms. His demand that Congress ban the modern sporting rifle (MSR), which he knowingly mislabels an “assault rifle” and “weapon of war,” denies the reality that more murders are committed with knives, fists and clubs than all rifles combined. Over 20 million MSRs are in circulation today, used daily for lawful purposes.

President Biden’s call to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a law passed with wide bipartisan support, panders to the radical base of his party. Rolling it back would be akin to allowing activist lawyers to sue Ford for the wrongful deaths caused by drunk drivers.

The criminal responsible for the horrors thrust on Parkland, and the nation, must be held accountable for his crimes. Anything less is a whitewash of the failures of local, state and federal authorities to act on any of the 45 instances of warnings, tips and police responses prior to his final terrible crimes. Read more

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Butler Creek Expands Featherlight Sling Lineup

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New Camo and Single-Point Slings Add Featherlight Options for Shooters

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. –– Butler Creek®, maker of smart, field-proven hunting and shooting accessories, announced today that the company’s Featherlight Sling lineup has been expanded with two new models perfect for today’s hunters and shooters. Now, gun owners can select either a new camo option or a single-point sling option, which extend the Featherlight family of slings to six different models available for purchase.

Butler Creek’s Featherlight Slings have been lauded by sportsmen and women for their lightweight, breathable and comfortable design. Now, hunters and shooters alike can pick up the newly released Featherlight camo sling, as well as a Featherlight Single-Point Sling that’s perfect for AR platforms.

Butler Creek’s traditional Featherlight Sling is now available in Prym1 MP camouflage, Prym1’s most versatile hybrid camo pattern. This particular camo is designed for all-season use, from the whitetail woods to western big game hunts and everything in between. Read more

Firearms

Need a Shot of Spring? Try Some Bird Songs

Can you remember what the song of a male Scarlet Tanager sounds like? Review a variety of songbird vocalizations interactively with thoughts of spring (photo by Paul Konrad).

It’s not news that bird songs add to elevated psyches and happiness for many people during spring. After fall and winter months almost devoid of bird songs, here’s a little songbird excitement in the form of interactive songs of birds that migrate through the center of North America – Minnesota – although these are popular birds found in central and eastern states and provinces – during spring. A great new webpage provides opportunities to learn, or review, favorite spring bird songs.

Brush up on your Wood Thrushes, Yellow Warblers, Indigo Buntings, Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, Eastern Bluebirds, American Goldfinches, and other popular songsters on the new interactive webpage provided by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to learn and practice bird songs, or review and just appreciate how these birds add so much to our auditory landscape. See https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/bird_songs_interactive/index.html

General

It’s Time for Big Nest Boxes

A rufous morph Eastern Screech Owl peers from a big nest box (photo by Kurt Hasselman).
Installing a big nest box provides a safe nesting site, which is increasingly scarce in nature for cavity nesting owls, ducks, and kestrels.

It’s time to get started early to attract cavity nesting birds like owls, ducks, and kestrels to big nest boxes, to benefit these birds with the best and safest possible nesting sites. Whether you plan to build a big nest box, or a number of them; or if you plan to buy a big nest box, now’s the time to follow through on your plans. Maybe you already have a big nest box or two installed on your property or at another site, or maybe this article will provide some inspiration for you to add a big nest box to your property to try to attract a nesting pair of owls, kestrels, or ducks.

Installing a big nest box is among the highest levels of dedication for any birder to accomplish, for it provides a much-needed enhancement for the welfare of the 2021 nesting season – and for years to come. The larger cavity nesting birds – owls, ducks, and kestrels – primarily rely on large natural holes in tree trunks and large cavities in branches, but these are not always safe from predators like raccoons and tree squirrels. Good nesting cavities are few and far between, and are obvious limiting factors for birds interested in nesting in a given area – there’s a lot of competition for limited existing nesting cavities.

Therefore, birders can – and do – provide auxiliary nesting sites in the form of “big nest boxes,” oversized bird houses that are better and safer than most available natural cavities. Plus, big nest boxes provide off-season roosting sites for owls, which makes any big nest box doubly valuable – and a super addition to your yard or property. And much of the fun is that you never know how the interesting birds that a big nest box attracts will enhance your birding experiences. Gosh, who wouldn’t enjoy monitoring screech owls, a nesting Wood Duck, or the activities of a pair of American Kestrels raising a brood of mini-falcons in a big nest box that you provide. Read more

Wildlife

Saving the NRA and More on Gun Talk Radio

Mandeville, LA – It’s time to ask the hard questions about the NRA. Plus, important gun rights lawsuits, training with Tiger, and more, this week on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk® Radio, the original nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns and the shooting sports.

This week, Tom lays out the facts of the NRA’s misuse of funds, issues with the bankruptcy, and the valid points in the NY lawsuit. Can it be saved, what are NRA Board Members doing, and why won’t they fire LaPierre? Read Tom’s take at https://www.guntalk.com/post/can-the-nra-be-save-and-should-we-care. Plus, the California Pistol and Rifle Association continues to blaze trails in the courtrooms – Michel and Associates’ Sean Brady updates listeners about two very important cases: Ammo restrictions and warrantless gun seizures. And Shootrite Firearms Academy’s Tiger McKee checks in with training tips and Chopper updates.

As always, call 866-TALK-GUN with your comments, questions, and range reports. Read more

General

NDA Applauds Interior Order to Strengthen Land & Water Conservation Fund

The National Deer Association (NDA) applauds the recent announcement of Secretarial Order 3396 (SO 3396) by U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), which revokes an order signed last November that imposed new restrictions to inhibit the availability of Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) funding for federal land and water acquisitions.

“SO 3396 is a necessary action to strengthen the LWCF and ensure efficient and effective implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act,” said Torin Miller, NDA’s Director of Policy. “The availability of conservation funding at both the state and federal levels, including funds for the acquisition of lands and waters for the public benefit, is something all hunters should celebrate.” Read more

Wildlife

Boone and Crockett Club’s 6th Edition of Records of North American Whitetail Deer Features 21st Century Conservation Successes

MISSOULA, Mont. – The Boone and Crockett Club’s recently released sixth edition of “Records of North American Whitetail Deer” is a true celebration of successful conservation measures that have supported healthy deer populations across the continent. The 674-page book compiles state and provincial data of trophy whitetail deer featuring more than 17,000 trophy listings for whitetail deer dating back to the late 1800s and up through December 31, 2019. The book also showcases stories and color photos of the 37 record whitetails taken in the 21st Century, including the 17 new state and provincial records accepted since the last edition. “Records of North American Whitetail Deer” is available for sale on the Boone and Crockett Club’s website. Read more

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