SCI Adds Airgun Category to World’s Largest Record Book and World Hunting Awards

WASHINGTON, D.C. – SCI is excited to announce the addition of an airgun category to the SCI Record Book, the largest compilation of big game animals in the world. Additionally, hunters submitting records in the airgun category will be eligible for SCI World Hunting Awards.

Previously, hunters could only submit airgun entries under the rifle category. SCI recognizes the popularity of these weapons among sportsmen and women as well as their capability to ethically harvest large game. With the legalization of airguns for hunting in many U.S. states, their predominant use in Europe, and the interest expressed by SCI members and non-members alike, the SCI Record Book Committee unanimously voted to approve the creation of a separate category for these weapons. Read more

Firearms, Hunting

Stealth Cam Reactor Wireless Trail Camera

Irving, TX– Stealth Cam® is excited to be expanding their wireless trail camera line in 2021 with the all new Reactor! This new camera is easy to setup, requires less batteries, captures premium quality images and videos with class-leading performance and program customization anywhere/anytime.

The Reactor wireless trail camera features the latest in wireless data transmission technology to provide fast image and video transfer from remote camera locations to anywhere you have a network connection. With this technology, users can employ the free Stealth Cam App to download photos and videos on demand, set transmission schedules, delete data from the memory card, and control all camera functions and image management features without having to be on-site.

Boasting 26-megapixel photo and 1080P video recording, the Reactor delivers superior imaging day or night! It is compatible for AT&T users in the US, Canada, and Mexico and available as a 4G Verizon network compatibility model, also in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Both camera models are 100% verified through the wireless service providers! Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Rocky Boots Oak Creek Camo Slip-On Shoe in Realtree Timber Camo

Rocky Boots Oak Creek Camo Slip-On Shoes in Realtree Timber Camo are all about rugged, casual comfort. They’re perfect for hunt camp or home. These 3-inch Realtree Timber shoes are constructed with full-grain leather, waxide canvas and a cork-infused rubber outsole making them perfect for hanging out in the yard or around the campfire.

The slip-ons provide all-day comfort with a cushioned footed and a fiberglass shank for added stability.

  • Full-grain leather
  • 900 denier CORDURA®
  • Fiberglass shank
  • 3 Inches in height
  • Cushion footbed
  • Cork-infused rubber outsole
  • Sidewall stitch construction

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New study shows abundant high-quality wolf habitat in Mexico

Analysis reinforces the importance of Mexico for recovery of endangered Mexican wolves

PHOENIX – A peer-reviewed scientific paper published last week in the conservation journal Diversity and Distributions demonstrates that the Mexican wolf’s historical range in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico contains ample high-quality habitat to focus recovery efforts within that range.

The research, a multi-year collaboration between Mexican and U.S. scientists, is significant because it supports the 2017 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan and contradicts the contention of some advocacy groups that Mexico does not include enough adequate habitat to support recovery efforts there. Read more

Wildlife

Delta Waterfowl Already Prepping Hen Houses for Return of Nesting Mallards

BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA — Mallards hatched last spring in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada and the northern United States continue to drop in on hunters during these final days of the 2020-21 season as far south as Louisiana, Texas and California. Meanwhile, a thousand miles north, Delta Waterfowl Hen House Specialist Travis Quirk is already working to boost next season’s migration of North America’s favorite duck.

Quirk, of the Colonsay region of southern Saskatchewan, Canada, is an agri-business execuctive and waterfowling outfitter. He is also a former Delta Waterfowl research student. Importantly, as a seasonal contractor for The Duck Hunters Organization, Quirk is responsible for the upkeep of 300 Delta Hen House nest structures. He installed the structures for Delta, and maintains them each winter to ensure they’re ready to greet mallard hens when they return to the prairie wetlands to nest in April and May.

The Delta team of Hen House specialists in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota maintains nearly 10,000 mallard nest structures across the PPR, where up to 70 percent of the ducks migrating down all four North American flyways are hatched. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

What Birds Eat

What Birds Eat

This comprehensive and interesting source book explains bird physiology and natural diets, including extensive feeding profiles that describe what a variety of birds eat naturally, and how we can support those diets in our yards and feeding stations. Author Kim Long and publisher Mountaineers Books provide a robust selection of photos and illustrations, and help birders to understand birds in more meaningful ways in the field and in our yards in the new book: What Birds Eat. Read more

Wildlife

Where Do Our Backyard Orioles Winter?

Article and photos by Paul Konrad

Baltimore Orioles are among our most identifiable and more popular songbirds, but where do they spend the winter months?
A single-week winter range map for Baltimore Orioles. The eBird Science maps are animated to show the annual movements and abundance of each species, which can be paused at week to week increments.
Western birders will appreciate learning about the movements and annual abundance of Bullock’s Orioles – and comparing that information to the other neotropical oriole ranges.
Where do fledgling Orchard Orioles spend the winter after they leave American feeding stations?

Orioles are some of the most popular songbirds that regularly visit feeders stocked with grape jelly and sugar-water nectar from late April through mid-September. Along with most warblers, tanagers, thrushes, and other neotropical migrants, orioles “disappear” from northern latitudes, leaving during late summer and early fall. But where do they go? Now, we have some remarkable new animated maps that provide a wealth of information about birds like our Baltimore Orioles, Bullock’s Orioles, and Orchard Orioles to show their respective nesting ranges, coupled with their migration routes to wintering areas – where they spend most of the year. Read more

Wildlife

What to do with Millions of New Gun Owners

— Jim Curcuruto

Curcuruto is a noted Hunting and firearm industry consultant. He also happens to be a senior member of The Hunting Wire’s Voice of Leadership Panel.

With a record setting year for the firearm industry behind us, many industry professionals are starting to ask; “Now what?” Before answering that question, let’s take a look at some statistics that made 2020 a record year.

The boom in gun sales emptied racks in gun shops across the country. What can we do to turn the new owners into enthusiastic shooters?

Using adjusted FBI NICS data as a proxy for firearm sales, 2020 recorded a massive 60 percent increase over 2019. The record 21+ million adjusted background checks in 2020 bested the previous record high of 15.7 million set in 2016 by 34 percent. Recent survey data shows that approximately 40 percent of firearm purchasers in 2020 were buying their first gun, which equates to more than 8 million first-time gun owners.

Record growth was also realized in hunting license sales as double-digit gains have been reported during the first three quarters of 2020 over 2019. To put that in perspective, data from the most recent USFWS National Survey showed a 16 percent decline in hunting participation from 2011 to 2016. Should the 2020 increases hold through the 4th quarter, it will equate to more than one million additional hunters that went afield in 2020 over 2019. All these additional hunters will need plenty of gear, which means plenty of new sales. The lifetime retail sales value for a million new hunters, on just their primary hunting related equipment purchases, is more than $20 billion.

So “Now what?”.

With the lingering pandemic and the new political administration there is no shortage of uncertainties for 2021. One thing that is for certain, is the fact that if the firearm industry does not engage with, and recruit the millions of people that purchased their first gun in 2020, a major opportunity will be lost. Read more

Firearms

Michigan: recent real estate transactions improve western UP trail access

Michigan Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Eichinger recently approved two real estate transactions that have secured permanent trail easements, which will help ensure trail connectivity in the western Upper Peninsula.

These permanent trail easements, totaling 52 miles at a purchase price of $985,969, contribute to DNR and division goals and strategies by providing additional public recreation opportunities and securing trails for future generations.

“This certainly is good news,” said Ron Yesney, U.P. trails coordinator with the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division. “Having permanent trail easements is an important advance for our western Upper Peninsula trail network.”

In the first of the two transactions, the DNR purchased 56 miles of 30-foot trail access in portions of Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron and Ontonagon counties. Read more

General, Wildlife

Rambo Bikes announces Three new 2021 Models

Rambo Bikes, a Minnesota based hunting electric bike company has three new exciting bikes launching for 2021. The Venom, Megatron, and Prowler have new technology giving them an edge over the competition while you’re out in the field.

Nathan Stieren, CEO of AOG:

“The Rambo team and I are super excited to show the world the 2021 lineup. The team worked hard on raising the bar in the Rambo lineup and providing bulletproof bikes that take the tough conditions our customer’s ride. I’ve personally been testing the Megatron all fall and putting it hard through the brutal testing process – simply put, it’s an amazing machine. It makes me smile knowing the capabilities that our loyal customers will soon be able to add to their arsenal.”

The Venom is the best of the best! Delivering it all in one solid bike featuring a new Rohloff internal 14 gear speed rear hub, 48v 17AH battery and a 1000w Ultra Drive motor – no terrain is going to stop you! Paired with Maxxis Minion 26×4.8” tires and 4 Piston Hydraulic brakes, you have the recipe of a perfect hunting bike. From the mountains to the flat prairie, The Venom is you’re all-in-one ebike! Read more

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