Thursday, April 10, 2008
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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Editor's Note The California Fish and Game Wardens Association has released a lengthy statement and supporting documents placing a significant portion of the blame for the collapse of that state's $120 million salmon industry on poaching due to an insufficient number of game wardens being available to police the state. The group says California Game Warden staffing levels are "undeniably worst in North America" , resulting in a compromise in public safety, salmon and natural resource protections. More » Birding With the arrival of spring in the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is offering tips on how residents can take advantage of the many wildlife-viewing opportunities that will soon be literally flying into their backyards in April and May. More » Events Anyone interested in wildlife or itching to get out and enjoy a spring day should make plans to attend the ninth annual Herricks Cove Wildlife Festival in Rockingham, Vermont on Sunday, May 4. More » Fishing Numbers of adult largemouth bass have nearly doubled since 1980 in northern Indiana natural lakes and there are more big bass now, most likely due to the minimum size limits and widespread acceptance of catch-and-release fishing by area bass anglers. More » Funding The NRA Foundation has announced the award of $12,000 in college scholarships to winners of this year's Youth Education Summit (YES) Grand Scholarship contest. More » Grants The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) helps strengthen Indiana’s historical and cultural heritage through annual federal grants it administers to local communities and not-for-profit groups that these organizations put toward preservation projects. This year, the DNR Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology has awarded 23 federal grants for historic preservation to 25 Indiana communities. More » Hunting The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will hold a new drawing for 2008 multiple-season hunting permits after invalidating a drawing conducted last week due to a technical error. The new drawing for 1,500 multiple-season deer permits and 500 multiple-season elk permits will be completed by Friday, April 11. Approximately 8,500 people purchased applications for the drawing. More » Legislation The Idaho Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus took action on sportsmen’s related bills in the state legislature’s 2008 session with the passage of two bills that protect shooting ranges and another that discourages unlicensed outfitters and their ‘clients’. More » Licensing An agreement between Florida and Georgia that allows senior citizens from either state to hunt and fish in fresh water without licenses in both states is about to end. The agreement, which dates back to 1981, will end on June 30 due to what Georgia officials call "economic realities" rendering the reciprocal agreement no longer feasible. More » Miscellaneous The Indiana Dunes State Park Nature Center and the Friends of Indiana Dunes are hosting a special elegant and easy wire wrapping field course, Saturday, April 26, 2008. The field course will be held in the state park Nature Center. Participants will make a pendant they can attach to a chain and wear as a necklace. All necessary tools, wire and polished stone will be provided. More » A pair of Wisconsin men have launched a website that is, in essence, an online record book for road kill. More » Hi-Mountain announces their new email newsletter, sending tips, recipes, special discounts and product announcements to consumers on the first and fifteenth of each month. More » New Products The WaveSpin reel line has been expanded with two larger models now in the lineup, the DH 4000 and DH 5000 models, bringing saltwater certified performance with heartier drag systems to give big game capabilities. More » Leupold® expands its product lines with the introduction of a modular flashlight – the MX™ series. The complete modular aspect of the MX allows users to create a flashlight by selecting from four interchangeable bezels, two maintubes and a tail switch, with new parts flowing into the mix throughout 2008. More » People The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) opened its two-day meeting in Tallahassee Wednesday by recognizing supporters and employees. More » Sponsorships Bass Pro Shops has committed to be title sponsor of Media Day at the Range for the next three years. The fourth annual Media Day at the Range, held the day before SHOT Show, will be on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The event will be held at the Orange County Sheriff’s Range in Orlando, Florida. As in the past, this event will give the entire outdoor journalist community the opportunity to handle and shoot new products from many of the industry’s leading manufacturers, non-profit and conservation groups. More » Technology During a three-day span last month, two separate outdoors enthusiasts ran into life-threatening situations in the wilderness and used Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) in order to survive. Since the first of this year, 18 people in eleven incidents have used PLBs to signal for help in the United States. More » Tourism Maryland’s tourism industry emulated the University of Kansas late Tuesday night – both won white-knuckle come-from-behind victories at the buzzer…Kansas with the NCAA Men’s National Basketball Championship and Maryland’s $11 billion tourism industry with legislative passage of the Tourism Promotion Act of 2008. More » Wildlife The National WIld Turkey Federation will offer a Wildlife Habitat Management Workshop on Friday, May 9, 2008 at the Brushy Lake Recreation Area in Double Springs, Alabama. More » A five hundred-seventy acre site inside the Lochloosa Conservation Easement near Orange Lake in Alachua County, has been designated for the relocation of gopher tortoises displaced by development. More » On Wednesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved the Gopher Tortoise Permitting Guidelines, the first major step in launching the gopher tortoise management plan approved by the Commission last September. The FWC reclassified the gopher tortoise to a threatened species last year, and the management plan serves as a blueprint to conserve the species. More » Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission Chairman Rodney Barreto is applauding the finalization of a bald eagle management plan on Wednesday that removed the bald eagle from the imperiled species list. Barreto says the decision by the USFWS last August to remove the bald eagle is a success story. More » Youth Programs Spring in Marion County means it’s time for the annual Lake Eaton Kids’ Fishing Derby on Saturday, April 19, at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Ocala Conservation Center and Youth Camp in the Ocala National Forest. The derby is free for kids ages 5-12 and runs from 8:30 a.m. until noon. More »
RUGER Issues Safety Recall on New SR-9 Pistols
CITING TRIGGER CONCERNS, RUGER RECALLS SR9 PISTOL Sturm Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) has issued a recall notice for their SR9 pistols manufactured between October 2007 and April 2008. The recall notice was issued yesterday, citing concerns that the SR9 can, under certain conditions, fire if dropped with their manual safeties in the ‘off’ or ‘fire’ position and a round in the chamber. The pistols will not fire if the manual safety is in the ‘on’ or ‘safe’ position.” Ruger says it is finalizing the design of a new trigger group which addresses the problem and prevents firing when dropped. The company also says the new part must be installed at their factory in Prescott, Arizona. There, workers will remove the old part, and perform the retrofit no charge all Ruger SR9 pistols with serial number prefix “330” (330-XXXXX). If you are an SR9 owner, you can obtain information or register for the recall in several ways: visiting the Ruger website (www.ruger.com/SR9Recall) E-mail: SR9recall@ruger.com Fax: (928) 541-8873 Calling the Ruger SR9 Recall Hotline (800) 784-3801 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. EDT
Shipping to and from Ruger will be done at no charge to consumers, and the company promises the retrofit work will be completed “promptly”. As an incentive for cooperating with the recall, all SR9 owners returning their pistol for the retrofit will receive a free SR9 magazine with their repaired SR9 as a “thank you” for their patience and cooperation. In the meantime, all owners of SR9 pistols are urged not to use their pistol until such time as it has been retrofitted with the new trigger groups. If you must use your SR9, Ruger says you should always keep the manual safety in the “on” or “safe” position except when actually firing. Shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. rose 8 cents to $7.95 in after-hours trading after falling 45 cents, or 5.4 percent, to close at $7.86 on Wednesday. The stock has traded in a 52-week range of $7.22 to $22.58. 
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