Hatsan USA Multi-CaliberPCP Rifle: The Hydra

Bentonville, AZ – Yet another innovation from the Hatsan factory is the Hydra QE. It features their patented Versi-Cal Technology interchangeable caliber system that allows one to trade calibers with a single thumbscrew. The VCT system couples a caliber-specific receiver and barrel into a single interchangeable module that enables the scope to remain mounted and zeroed in with each caliber used. A knurled screw located at the rear of the receiver locks the upper module onto the lower receiver, allowing caliber changes in just a few seconds. The Hydra QE utilizes Hatsan’s S/Roto-Index magazine system – a caliber specific self-indexing rotary magazine made from a lightweight-yet-durable synthetic polymer. Each module features Hatsan’s QuietEnergy shrouded barrel that reduces downrange noise by up to 50%. Read more

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Hobie Compass Gets MirageDrive 180 Upgrade and More

Ever-popular cross-over kayak now more versatile than ever for fishing, touring, exploring and fun.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. – Kayak fans who want to add more versatility and fun to their outings are sure to love the latest round of upgrades to the ever-popular Hobie Mirage Compass kayak series. Hobie, the leading manufacturer of premium kayaks and watersport products, upgraded the series late last year to incorporate enhanced versions of its signature MirageDrive, the original, patented, kayak pedal propulsion system.

The entire Mirage Compass line, one of the most versatile hulls in the Hobie lineup, now features the MirageDrive 180 propulsion system, allowing the kayak to move both forward and backwards with full power. The upgrade provides better access to tight pocket waters holding big fish plus improved, instantaneous boat control and positioning for a quieter approach. It also allows for more efficient lure presentation and gives anglers an added edge when hauling hawgs from sticky places. Read more

Fishing

Bergara Premier Competition Rifle

Lawrenceville, Georgia – BPI Outdoors / Bergara Rifles is pleased to announce their Premier Competition Rifle. This gun is the most accurate and highest-performing production class PRS style Bergara rifle that exists. Paired with your optic of choice, the Bergara Competition Rifle is competition-ready right out of the box.

By starting with a 26”- #7 profile stainless steel competition Bergara barrel it makes the barrel stiffer, more stable, and doesn’t walk as fast after it gets heated up, plus it takes longer to heat up. Paired with a Bergara Premier action and built in the most popular competition calibers such as, 6mm Creedmoor (1:7.5 twist) and 6.5 Creedmoor. (1:8 twist) This gun has all of the features a shooter needs to end up on the podium.

Damon Bungard, BPI Outdoors Senior Marketing Manager stated, “As a brand known for our precision barrels, it’s natural for our customers to want to compete with our guns. We’ve been hearing their requests for a purpose-built platform that addresses the specific needs of competitive shooters, and we wanted to build the best offering we could for Production class PRS style shooters. We’ve teamed up with the best in the business to make the Premier Competition Rifle that win-win reality.”

Additional features include the Acra-Swiss rail for easy and fast adjustments. The 3-in-1 rail has a screw hole for your common camera tripod adaptor. The Acra-Swiss rail also allows you to easily slide your gun back and forth, and if you have a Picatinny bipod, mounting and adjusting are seamless.

Bergara’s Trigger Tech® partnership makes use of the patented Frictionless Release Technology™ to increase performance and accuracy for the end-user by eliminating creep and heavy trigger pulls. This Bergara Premier Competition Rifle is ready to compete right out of the box. Read more

Firearms

SIG SAUER Academy to Host Speed Shooting Classes with Team SIG Captain Max Michel

NEWINGTON, N.H. – SIG SAUER Academy, the leading provider of the highest quality firearms instruction and tactical training in the world, is pleased to announce the addition of Speed Shooting with Max Michel to the 2021 course schedule.

“Ever wonder what a day of training is like for Team SIG Captain Max Michel? Now is your chance to find out,” said Tom Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President, Commercial Sales, SIG SAUER, Inc. “This summer, we are excited to announce that Max is coming to SIG SAUER Academy for an exclusive speed shooting course and will cover everything from recoil management to the dynamic drills that Max utilizes in his own training routines. Come prepared to train with one of the world’s best competitive shooters.”

Speed Shooting with Max Michel is a two-day training that covers: recoil management, power stance, grip, sight picture, draw, reloads, transitions, movements, and more.

Two session dates are now available for Speed Shooting with Max Michel at the SIG SAUER Academy in Epping, New Hampshire. They are as follows:

Session 1: June 9-10

Session 2: June 14-15 Read more

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Johnny Morris Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund Awards $300K Grant to The National Wild Turkey Federation

Landmark grant to provide support for priority NWTF local and national projects, including the Western Shared Stewardship Initiative

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Johnny Morris Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund is proud to announce it has awarded a $300,000 grant to the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) to benefit priority local and national conservation projects including the Western Shared Stewardship Initiative, a unique partnership set to address urgent wildlife habitat needs, wildfire challenges and watershed improvements in the western United States. The landmark grant, enabled by noted conservationist and Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris and generous Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s customers who round up purchases in stores and online to the Outdoor Fund, is a gamechanger for the NWTF’s critical conservation needs in 2021.

“I want to give Johnny and his entire team, as well as Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s customers who support the Outdoor Fund, a resounding thank you for their continual support the advancement of our outdoors lifestyle,” NWTF CEO Becky Humphries said. “Our partnership with Bass Pro and Cabela’s is the result of two organizations dedicated to conserving our nation’s natural resources and preserving our hunting heritage. Contributions from the Outdoor Fund will continue to drive the NWTF mission to unprecedented heights and expand our past successes even further.”

Like the NWTF, the Johnny Morris Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Outdoor Fund encourages more than 200 million Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s customers to round up purchases to support conservation partners and projects that connect new audiences to the outdoors, protect and conserve wildlife habitat across America and advocate for sportsmen’s rights and the outdoors, a mission that closely aligns with the NWTF’s. Read more

Hunting

USDA Expands and Improves CRP

Higher payment rates, new incentives to help spur future program enrollment

St. Paul, Minn. – April 21, 2021 – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the open enrollment of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with higher payment rates, new incentives, and a more targeted focus on the program’s role in climate resiliency. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are acknowledging the exceptional work of USDA Secretary Vilsack and agency officials to fast-track these critical improvements for the nation’s premier private lands conservation program.

“Today’s CRP announcement by Secretary Vilsack delivered upon every requested improvement we’ve made since he returned to USDA leadership. At the top of that list was the need for adjusted soil rental rates to make CRP an attractive option for farmers and ranchers once again. That had to be the starting point, and it’s clear our voice was heard. We’re also encouraged to see the grassland habitat created by CRP acknowledged as a massive component of the recipe for climate resiliency,” reported Jim Inglis, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s director of governmental affairs. Read more

Wildlife

Boone and Crockett Club Calls for $45 Billion Infrastructure Investment in Forest Management and Restoration

MISSOULA, MT– Today, the Boone and Crockett Club released a new fact sheet outlining the need for $45 billion in federal infrastructure investments in forest management and restoration on federal lands over the next decade. The document notes that the U.S. Forest Service has over 80 million acres of land at moderate to high risk from catastrophic fire and that there are millions of acres in need of reforestation when high-intensity fires reduce the potential for natural regeneration. The Club notes that President Biden’s American Jobs Plan outlined a goal to, “Maximize the resilience of land and water resources to protect communities and the environment,” and that forest management must be a significant part of this investment. Yesterday, Colorado’s Senator Michael Bennet introduced the Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act that would address these forest management funding needs; his state was one of several that witnessed unprecedented damage during the devastating 2020 fire season.

“Restoration and management of America’s national forests is an investment in our natural infrastructure that protects our communities, municipal water supplies, and fish and wildlife habitat – and provides natural climate solutions. These projects also deliver jobs to American workers in communities across the country,” commented Club President Jim Arnold. “The Boone and Crockett Club calls on Congress to make an investment of $40 billion in federal forest management and $5 billion in reforestation over the next 10 years to make our forests more resilient and reduce our risk of catastrophic wildfires.” Read more

Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife

Winchester Ammunition Awarded U.S. Army Contract

EAST ALTON, Ill. — Winchester has been selected by the U.S. Army as the second source provider for small caliber rifle ammunition. This most recent contract is for 5.56mm, 7.62mm and 50 caliber ammunition with an initial order of $37 million and is the third consecutive second source contract Olin Winchester has received.

“Winning this contract, combined with being selected as the operating contractor at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, solidifies Winchester’s position supplying small caliber ammunition to the U.S. military,” said Brett Flaugher, president of Winchester.

“Winchester has proven time and again that we can meet and exceed the exacting standards required by our military customers,” said Kevin Noonan, director of military programs and strategy. “The reason you see Winchester continue to win these contracts is because we are delivering quality, cost-effective products on time.”

Winchester is the world leader in the development, production and supply of advanced, high-performance small caliber ammunition. Since World War I, Winchester has been the U.S. Army’s largest commercial supplier of small caliber ammunition and has met the needs of law enforcement and U.S armed forces with decades of support at the highest levels.

Ammunition

Faxon Rimfire Barrels for Ruger 10/22

(CINCINNATI, OH) – Faxon Firearms, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based manufacturer of quality rifle and pistol components, and complete firearms, is excited to announce the release of their Faxon Rimfire series of barrels for 10/22.

One of the pillars of Faxon Firearms is their belief in the Fellowship of Firearms. They believe that firearms bring people together and create generational memories. Since the 19th century, the .22 LR has been a perennial favorite for beginning and seasoned shooters alike, an optimal choice to embrace the “fellowship” pillar of the Faxon ethos.

Faxon is bringing everything you love about their AR and pistol barrels to the beloved “22.”

As with all Faxon Barrels, the “Faxon Rimfire” line is made in-house at their Cincinnati facility from raw bar stock and undergo the same rigorous testing and quality control measures that have made their AR and pistol barrels a market favorite.

These barrels are made from 416-R stainless steel, given 6 Groove Rifling at a 1:16 twist, and a Recessed Target Crown. Barrels are Magnetic Particle Inspected and are finished in either Salt Bath Nitride or PVD. Faxon Rimfire barrels for 10/22 are chambered in .22 LR Sporting.

To give these barrels a Faxon signature touch, they have adapted 3 of their most popular barrel profiles from the AR platform to rimfire: Pencil, Straight Fluted, and Faxon’s patented Flame Fluted profile. Read more

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Pulsar Thermion XG50 Wins NRA 2021 Optic of the Year

(MANSFIELD, TEXAS) – Pulsar’s elite Thermion XG50 has been voted as NRA’s American Rifleman’s 2021 Optic of the Year! The ‘Golden Bullseye’ awards are given annually, and, according to their website,

“To qualify for a NRA Golden Bullseye Award, products must be reliable, innovative in design and function, and perceived as a value to the purchaser. Winners of a Golden Bullseye Award are selected by a seven-member committee of NRA Publications staff members with more than a century of collective experience in the shooting and hunting industry.”

Referring to the XG50, American Rifleman said the scope “expands the range at which hunters can detect game and provides increased resolution, giving users more information about what they’re seeing downrange”, adding “it’s easy to understand why we named the Pulsar Thermion XG50 Optic of the Year.” Read more

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