Check out this link for all the details, This sling is being offered by Marauder Outdoors and you can sign up until 11:59 PM Sunday, April 11th. Good luck to you all!
Thanks,
Marc Reindell
The video clips are approximately 30 minute spots showcasing hunting and fishing opportunities, as well as a variety of projects and some of the programs the state of Arizona offers. Residents and non-residents alike benefit from the AZG&FD programs to improve the experience for the outdoor enthusiast. We hope you will take some time to watch the videos available.
We know this isn’t one of our usual posts, but every now and then it’s good to branch out and share what the state has to offer and feature other outdoor experiences. (more…)
Wildlife management action taken to assist struggling bighorn sheep population
YUMA, Ariz. – The Arizona Game and Fish Department on Tuesday afternoon lethally removed a mountain lion known to be preying heavily on bighorn sheep in the Kofa Mountains Complex Predation Management Area in southwestern Arizona.
The lion was taken in the Eagletail Mountains located about 90 miles northeast of Yuma.
The action was taken in a continuing effort to help restore the struggling Kofa bighorn sheep population, whose numbers declined more than 50 percent from an estimated 815 in 2000 to a low of 391 in 2006. The most recent survey in 2008 indicated an estimated population of 436.
The mountain lion was killed in accordance with the department’s May 2007 “Kofa Mountains Complex Predation Management Plan,” which is in place to monitor and limit predation during recovery efforts of this historic and critically important bighorn sheep population. The plan stipulates that an offending mountain lion—defined as one that kills more than one bighorn sheep within a six-month period—may be lethally removed when bighorn sheep population levels are below a certain threshold.
The lion, a male fitted with a telemetry collar, was known to have killed 15 bighorn sheep, 11 within the predation management area, since being collared in late February.
John Van Ness,
Baltimore Hunting and Fishing Examinar 08/25/2009
On October the sixth the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the United States vs. Stevens case. The outcome of this case has the potential to affect every form of hunting video sold or broadcasted in the United States. Depending on how the court rules, hunting television shows, DVD’s and even personal pictures of hunting trips on the Internet could fall under a federal statute that was intended to prevent the trafficking of media depicting animal cruelty. A portion of the video content in this case involves catch dogs trained to hold a wild boar while hunting. The court will have to decide if this is a form of animal cruelty and if this law is constitutional. What is disturbing is how the language of the original law could create a precedent that includes hunting as a form of animal cruelty and therefore interstate commerce of media depicting hunting would be illegal. Further than that, the long term implications of a Supreme Court ruling that hunting falls into this category could open a floodgate of state and local lawsuits from animal rights groups attempting to ban hunting. Though it is far outside the realm of this case and the original law, it is a safe bet that the groups dedicated to ending hunting and all animal use are salivating at the thought of using a Supreme Court ruling to file injunctions against hunting seasons. (more…)
An early season predator calling trip south of Phoenix ends with an eerie find – perhaps a crime scene?
On Saturday August 15th, my calling partner, Josh, and I went out predator hunting to compete against two buddies (Scott & Andrew) on a little coyote calling competition. Unfortunately we lost the competition, but I did come across a very rare find on one stand.
We were calling an area that I go to quite often just south of Phoenix that borders an Indian reservation. Around 9:00 when we were getting out of our truck to head to our sixth calling stand, when we were stopped by a Border Patrol Agent. He told us he had recently made a large drug bust this past week right down the road, and said to watch out because a lot of illegal aliens are carrying firearms while smuggling drugs. On the way in to our stand I made a comment to Josh along the lines of, “makes you think twice about heading in there” (the thick brush). It was kind of ironic, especially after stumbling upon this rare find. (more…)
