Senate Votes to Confirm Sunstein from The Outdoor Wire The U.S. Senate voted to end debate on the nomination of one of the most outspoken animal rights, anti-hunting, and anti-Second Amendment individuals to a high government position. By a
63-35 vote, cloture was invoked and debate stopped on the nomination of Cass Sunstein to serve as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Of the 63 senators that voted in favor of Sunstein, an anti-hunter, 22 were members of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, or 42 percent.More
Sunstein Poses a Serious Risk to Future of Hunting from West Virginia MetroNews Perhaps Obama
isn't making any speeches about disrupting the lifestyle of rural America these days, but the number one candidate for that kind of hit work on sportsmen in the United States is Cass Sunstein. Sunstein is a professor from Harvard University, who formerly worked with Obama at the University of Chicago. He's now tapped to become head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.More
"Canned Hunting" Goes On Trial in South Africa from The Guardian The fate of thousands of lions will be decided on Monday as judges
in the South African high court consider an appeal by an influential breeders' lobby. An end to the controversial practice of "canned hunting" would be hugely welcome to animal welfare groups. But it would also raise the prospect of the mass slaughter of the 5,000 big cats, which could not be released into the wild.More
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An AR in Africa? from American Hunter The popularity of AR-15 rifles has exploded through the growth of shooting competitions and as our military troops return from the sandbox wanting rifles similar to the ones they know. This popularity has helped proponents of the AR platform make tremendous progress advancing the cause of the
black rifle as a multi-purpose firearm. But using the AR platform in international hunts has proved difficult. More
High-Tech Sights from Petersen's Hunting It used to be that there were only two types of sights that anyone would think to use on a hunting rifle, shotgun, or handgun: either conventional open
sights with a front blade and a rear notch, or a conventional scope sight. Today's advances in miniaturized electronic and microprocessors have given rise to a wide variety of new non-conventional, small format, non-magnifying or low-magnification optical sights which combine many of the benefits of both open sights and traditional scopes into a single unit, and have also added remarkable functionality to conventional format scope sights as well.More
Licensing
Price Increase Led Thousands to TPWD Office from The Houston Chronicle When he started getting phone calls from pregnant women wanting to know if they could buy lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for their unborn children,
Tom Newton realized he and the rest of the
staff in the licensing branch of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department were in the middle of a frenzy unlike anything he had seen. That, and the river of people overflowing TPWD's license office at the agency's Austin headquarters this past month.More
American Shindig from ESPN Outdoors The September dove season opener: It's a shindig to beat all shindigs -- a raucous, fun, once-a-year, call-all-your-friends and be-sure-you-don't-miss-it party to celebrate the end of the summer hunting drought. In the world of hunting, nothing compares.More
Recreational Fishing Alliance Begins Deploying Jack Cowan Reef Near Freeport from TexasHuntFish The Jack Cowan Reef began deployment off of Freeport Texas recently. Named for famed Texas outdoor artist John P. (Jack) Cowan, the reef is located
about 8 miles
offshore in Texas state waters on a bearing of 213 degrees from the Freeport jetties. The construction of artificial reefs in Texas coastal waters has been promoted as a means of creating more habitat and breeding areas for marine shellfish and finfish and as an aid to sport fishing and the economies of Texas' coastal communities.More
