Leupold Expands BX-5 Santiam HD Binocular Line

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Building upon the success of the existing 15×56 model, Leupold & Stevens, Inc. has added 8×42 and 10×42 variants to the BX®-5 Santiam™ HD binocular line for 2018.

“The BX-5 Santiam HD line is purpose-built for the relentless, diehard hunter that may need to glass for hours on end,” said Tim Lesser, vice president of product development for Leupold & Stevens, Inc. “Whether you’re picking out a sheep on a distant ridgeline or hunting to the very last minute to get a look at that once-in-a-lifetime trophy bull elk, this is the binocular you’ll want at your side.”

The entire BX-5 Santiam HD line features Leupold’s venerable Twilight Max® HD light management system – the same one associated with the award-winning VX®-5HD and VX®-6HD riflescopes – to allow users to glass longer during the early predawn hours to well past dusk. Twilight Max HD combines exceptional light transmission and glare management to provide vivid images and top-of-the-line optical performance in low-light conditions.

A durable, lightweight housing is shrouded in a rubber armor coating that helps protect the binocular and ensure it’s easy to grasp. A large, tactile focus dial is easy to use and find, even with gloved hands. A diopter focus paddle is included to allow consumers to precisely focus the binoculars, compensating for differences between their eyes. Read more

Optics

Court Grants 2A Foundation Injunction In Challenge of Deerfield, IL Gun Ban

A circuit court judge in Lake County, Illinois has granted an injunction against the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, blocking the village from enforcing a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” and handing a victory to the Second Amendment Foundation.

SAF was joined in the lawsuit by the Illinois State Rifle Association and Deerfield resident Daniel Easterday, who is a lawful firearms owner. SAF and ISRA had challenged the ban on the grounds that it violates the state’s preemption law that was adopted in 2013. That change amended state statute that declared “the regulation of the possession or ownership of assault weapons are exclusive powers and functions of this State. Any ordinance or regulation, or portion of that ordinance or regulation, that purports to regulate the possession or ownership of assault weapons in a manner that is inconsistent with this Act, shall be invalid…” Read more

Gun Control

Gun Free Doesn’t Work

By Steven W. Dulan
In addition to my law practice, I am an adjunct law professor at Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. One of the courses I teach there is called “Gun Control Seminar.” My students write and present research papers on the topic each term. I’m also a member of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners and serve as its press contact too.
The good news is that schools are generally safe. The bad news is that this is only because school shootings are rare. In research cited by The Washington Post just last month, it was revealed that, on any given day since 1999, the odds of an individual public school student being shot to death at school was approximately one in 614,000,000.
The bad news is that the security situation at most schools is abysmal. It has become clear that simply declaring schools, or any other area, to be “gun free” doesn’t work, even when there are emphatic signs posted and strict policies adopted. Individuals focused on committing multiple-victim public killings don’t obey the law. However, there is some evidence, reported during Michigan Senate committee testimony by researcher Dr. John R. Lott, that several mass shooters selected their “gun-free” locations because there would be no one there to shoot back.
The Michigan-specific data (publicly available on the Michigan State Police website), shows that individuals with Concealed Pistol Licenses are extremely law abiding. In fact, for 2016, the most recent year for which full data is available, the general public has a crime rate 25 times higher than the rate for CPL holders.
According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, there are 18 states where teachers and staff may carry concealed pistols. While it is difficult to ascertain exact numbers, there are many individuals who have carried guns in those schools over a period of several years. The media is quick to report any negative incidents. There have only been a few.
Recently, it was revealed that the Centers for Disease Control failed to report their findings that armed citizens use guns in self-defense approximately 2.5 million times each year, confirming the findings of researcher Dr. Gary Kleck. This figure is approximately eight times the number of criminal gun uses each year.
The choice is clear -either continue to do nothing and rely on blind luck to protect our school children, spend large amounts of money on airport-like security measures, or allow teachers, staff and parents who are members of a group (CPL holders) that has demonstrated responsibility and public utility, to carry their pistols on school premises.
Steven W. Dulan, J.D., is the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners’ Second Vice Chair, MCRGO Legal Foundation Chair, Media Contact and Director South-Central Lower Peninsula, as well as serving as an attorney and real estate broker in the Lansing area. He can be reached at dulans@cooley.edu or 517.333.7132.
Gun Control

NSSF Reminds Shooters to Take Precautions Against Starting Wildfires

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Wildfires have many causes, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation® is urging shooters and hunters to not be one of them.

NSSF’s “Help Prevent Wildfires” infographic contains sobering facts about the scale and costs of wildfires, noting that 90 percent of all wildfires are human-caused — accounting for more than 60,000 per year. Wildfires threaten animal and human life and burn millions of acres land. Fighting wildfires is dangerous work, and the costs of suppressing wildfires is staggering — more than $2 billion in 2017. We often think of the largest, most destructive wildfires taking place in the arid landscapes of the West, but as the infographic points out, the southern and eastern parts of the United States have a large number of wildfires as well. Read more

Firearms, General

IQ DEFINE Laser Finding Bowsight

GW:  On stand-by for such a unit designed for crossbows…
Taking the guess work out of shooting up to 99-yards

 Superior, WI —Built on the foundation of quality construction and world’s most accurate archery sighting system, IQ Bowsights introduces the new DEFINE bow-mounted laser rangefinder sight.   Known for quality and innovation, IQ has once again raised the bar by integrating a laser rangefinder system directly into a premium-quality 5-pin archery sight.

Purpose built to be durable, precise and accurate, each component of the DEFINE is optimized for ultimate performance in the field. By incorporating a laser rangefinder and pin sight into a single unit, users can realize the benefit of less movement during critical moments leading up to the shot and precision ranging while at full draw.

Driven by high-performance circuitry, the backbone of the DEFINE’s laser-rangefinding system provides exceptional resolution with accuracy to +/- 1-yard, instantly displayed on a vivid blue OLED conveniently placed within the user’s line-of-sight.   One-touch trigger-activated scan mode and full angle compensation take the guess work out of moving or stationary targets for up to 2-minutes and eliminate additional movement associated with reaching for a handheld rangefinder.  Simply touch the bow-mounted external trigger, view the inline yardage display, select the proper pin and execute the shot!  Powered by a single CR2 battery, the rangefinding unit is both compact and lightweight with minimal impact to the pin sight’s overall measurements and weight. Read more

Archery

Introducing the Rage X-Treme 4-Blade

Superior, WI — When Rage® introduced the Rage X-Treme in 2013 as the most lethal broadhead to ever hit the market, the company turned the broadhead world on its ear.  With a deep-penetrating sweeping blade angle, HUGE 2.3-inch cutting diameter, and field point accurate shooting, it’s difficult to think how such a devastating and reliable design could be taken any further.  2018 welcomes the next generation of the X-Treme broadhead; the Rage X-Treme 4-blade – Rage’s first expandable broadhead to feature a 7/8” leading edge cut-on-contact tip. Read more

Archery

Garmin® introduces Panoptix LiveScope, the first and only live scanning sonar for recreational fishing

OLATHE, Kan. – Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), today announced Panoptix LiveScope™ – a live scanning sonar that gives anglers higher resolution and easier-to-interpret images of structure, bait and fish swimming below and around the boat than ever before. Garmin’s revolutionary Panoptix™ all-seeing sonar technology was the first to deliver live sonar images in real-time – forwards, backwards, sideways and below the boat – even while stationary. Now, thanks to the active scanning capabilities of Panoptix LiveScope, anglers can see images and movement so clear and precise that it’s even possible to distinguish between species of fish. See LiveScope in action here.

“We took scanning sonar and made it Panoptix,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of global consumer sales. “By combining two game-changing innovations – scanning sonar and live sonar – Panoptix LiveScope delivers the best of both technologies and there’s nothing out there even close to it. Once you’ve seen fish in this level of detail in a live, real-time image on your chartplotter, all other sonar is history – literally.” Read more

Fishing

Amazing Battery Life With Holosun Technologies’ Optics

Walnut, CA – When you purchase a battery-powered optic from Holosun Technologies Inc., there’s a good chance the first battery you install will be the only battery you will ever need. Sound far-fetched? Well, consider that Holosun’s dot only reticles run on one CR2032 battery–for up to an amazing 50,000 hours of use!

In fact, many of Holosun’s Micro and Open Reflex and Tube Reflex Sights are rated at up to 50,000 hours of use from a single battery. That’s 50,000 hours or 2,083 days from one small battery, in both Holosun’s Classic and Elite lines of optics. The HS507C pistol sized Open Reflex Sight can work for up to 100,000 hours (4,166 days for those wondering!) before you need to change out the battery. Read more

Optics

Finding answers about Lake Michigan’s juvenile lake whitefish

Visitors to various sites off Lake Michigan between Charlevoix and Frankfort now through June 29 may see DNR crews conducting a survey to look for juvenile lake whitefish.

Lake whitefish is the most important commercial fish species found in the Great Lakes, but populations have declined in recent years due to fewer numbers of juvenile fish surviving to adulthood. This survey will target whitefish younger than a year old to evaluate how many were produced each year.

The survey work is done from shore, often on public beaches. The public is welcome to observe this Great Lakes field work – a rarity, since most survey work is done offshore on boats or large vessels. Several agencies are partnering with the DNR on the survey to better understand and, hopefully, reverse the declines in this species.

“This survey will give us critical information about the variability in lake whitefish reproduction across the Great Lakes and help us with predictions about the future commercial fishery,” said Dave Caroffino, a DNR fisheries biologist based out of Charlevoix. Read more

Fishing
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