Feed Editor 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT The Dallas Safari Club Weekly Update provides industry-specific news and information to leading enthusiasts in the hunting and sporting marketplace. Delivered weekly, the publication keeps hunting enthusiasts informed of topics that impact the sporting industry. http://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/dsc/dscupdate.xml en Abundant fall and winter rains promise to carpet Texas in a Sunday-best cloak of spring wildflowers. Moisture also is good news for wild turkeys that have suffered back-to-back dry nesting seasons. Spring turkey season begins soon, and Jason Hardin, Texas Parks and Wildlife turkey program leader, said many hunters will find a lack of young gobblers in the field. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9bdfa3d28 1 Seth Claybaker is hunting quail, but not with bird dogs and a shotgun. He's using radio collars and an antenna. A faint beep keeps a slow and steady pace as Claybaker drives the ranch roads in search of a stronger signal. At the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch near Roby, Texas, tracking the native game birds with radio collars is just one of many parts of the work done for the preservation of quail. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9c12ca619 2 Photographs are important because they are the best way known to capture the moment. Everything from the gun you used to the size of your belly to whom you hunted with is frozen in time with the push of a button. Much of it may not seem so important at the time, over the years it's the pictures that didn't seem so important, which put the biggest smile on people's faces. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9d0e13d84 3 It was a fabulous day for duck hunting, quiet and peaceful except for the occasional bang of a shotgun in a marsh near the Mexican town of Los Mochis. Then Mexico's drug war intruded. A police helicopter roared in over the mangroves, scattering the ducks and hovering over the American hunters trying not to be seen in their blinds. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9bad82cf2 4 Way back in 19 and 58, Winchester introduced a new cartridge called the .284 designed to bring .270-style ballistics to its hideously inaccurate Model 100 autoloader and its handsome, but nearly as inaccurate, Model 88 lever action. The round was a commercial failure, but it was a remarkable design, and while the public yawned at the .284, wildcatters went mad with joy and necked the thing up, down, and sideways. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9ccf2a138 5 Winchester Repeating Arms has announced the return of the Model 1894 lever action rifle — also known as the Model 94 — to its line of firearms for 2010. This reintroduction of the most popular hunting rifle in history will be offered in two Limited Edition models that will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Oliver F. Winchester's birth in New England in 1810. A Model 1894 Custom Grade and Model 1894 High Grade will be offered in 30-30 Winchester caliber. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9b80657d5 6 Carl Tregre's workplace on Savanne Road in Houma, La., looks like a typical office in some ways, with its large desk, tidy upkeep and displayed awards. Standard, except for the motionless wildlife menagerie that fills the business. Horned, hoofed, clawed and spotted creatures from the Yukon Territory, Africa, South America, Alaska and other remote places stare from their poses around the room. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9c4ab6582 7 Something in the mountain scenery wasn't there before. At least, something looked unusual out there as Réal Langlois, the Rack Man, approached the shore of Earn Lake one late-September evening. He had covered this area hundreds of times before and he knew that those two marks, 150 yards away, were not part of the landscape. The Rack Man's curiosity has always paid off and he knew that he had to get a closer look at what appeared to be a world-class Yukon moose. Langlois' life was about to change forever. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9da913f0b 8 Wilbur D. May shot big game in Africa. He flew the globe during the infancy of aviation. He drove an ambulance in World War I, composed music and raised race horses on his Nevada ranch. He was a skier, yachtsman, philanthropist and art collector. Son of David May, founder of the May Co. department-store chain, Wilbur lived much of his life in Reno, where his vast collection of art and artifacts, firearms and taxidermy animals from around the world is on display in an unusual museum. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9e39a16ee 9 Tucked away south of Coolidge, Ariz., and surrounded by nearly 1,000 acres is an oasis for bird hunters. Desert Pheasant Recreation, has operated as a shooting preserve since 1986, when owner/operator Bob Henson started his club. 16 Mar 2010 10:33:13 CDT http://multibriefs.com/ViewLink.php?i=4b9e9c957151c 10