Lolo, MT—The IHEA-USA is excited to announce that Savage Arms is increasing its financial support, offering the IHEA-USA additional funding for its dramatically growing programs.

The IHEA-USA is in high-growth mode with its Firearm Fundamentals Courses launched in 2022 and now LearnHunting.org, a robust mentorship and instructor training platform gaining rapid momentum among the state fish & wildlife agencies. Also new for this year, the IHEA-USA will be launching a student publication, Hunters Experience, which, when combined with the continuing education video platforms Hunters Connect and LearnHunting.org, will offer new hunters a variety of ways in which they can successfully gain the necessary confidence to move from the Hunter Education classroom to the field.

Executive Director of the IHEA-USA, Alex Baer, stated, “Savage’s commitment to the future of safe hunting is much appreciated and well established in our community. We are pleased to provide them value by offering a conduit to our dedicated volunteer instructors and hunter education students. We welcome them back for another year with gratitude. The growth of this partnership allows the IHEA-USA to continue development of technical platforms necessary to meet the expectations of the modern student.”

“The initial and continued education of new hunters and shooters is a large undertaking and an undertaking that, as an industry, we should all be a part of,” stated Beth Shimanski, Director of Marketing for Savage Arms. “The relationship we’ve experienced with the IHEA-USA in the last year has benefitted our brand. We are strongly committed to firearms and hunter safety, and the future of the shooting sports IHEA-USA training brings.”

The IHEA-USA will use a portion of the Savage funding to create content around Choosing the Proper Shotgun for Hunting and defining R3 and what it means to the Hunter Education community. IHEA-USA Instructors will also offer topics to help Savage Arms with their blog content.

For more information on this release or sponsorship of the IHEA-USA, reach out to sponsorship@ihea-usa.org.

About the IHEA-USA: The International Hunter Education Association – USA (IHEA-USA) is the professional hunter education association affiliated with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service hunter education programs. These programs employ 55,000 instructors, many of whom are volunteers, teaching hunting and shooting safety and responsibilities throughout the United States.