Worth Noting

Zanders Sporting Goods is now a completely woman-owned business.  Long-time Zanders co-owner, Dennis Zanders, made  the decision to pass ownership of the company to his daughters after 50 years in the family business. The Zanders ownership group now consists of Glenda Zanders, Kathy Zanders-Stellhorn, Stefanie Zanders, Jill Zanders-Henslee & Christine Zanders-Cox.  

September is the month that most hunters start heading back to the woods to cut trails and hang stands in preparation for upcoming hunting season making it an opportune time to raise awareness about stand safety. It is also designated as Tree Stand Safety Awareness Month.

On July 25, 1992 Spanish Paralympian, Antonio Rebello, launched a flaming arrow to light the cauldron of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. This one iconic archery shot, witnessed by an estimated two billion people on television around the world, is still today the benchmark for Olympic flame lightings.

The 31st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference will be held this weekend in Tampa, Florida but Second Amendment activists who can't be there will be able to watch the whole thing, thanks to live streaming via YouTube. Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcp-2Fh5t6M&feature=youtu.be

Last week, Idaho Fish and Game released a long-lost film entitled "Fur for the Future" a film documenting a project to repopulate backcountry wilderness areas of Idaho with beaver---pretty routine work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Since it was posted, 471,000 viewers have checked out the film on the Fish and Game YouTube Channel and stories have run in the media from Brazil to India to Australia to the United Kingdom.

Calling producer Tim Cremin's one-hour documentary examining the evidence and opinions, both for and against, Gun Free Zones, "an extraordinary hour of documentary reporting" deserving a prime time presentation, ShootingUSA's Jim Scoutten has given his one-hour block of prime time up tonight (9 p.m. Eastern/ 8 p.m. Central Wednesday, May 13) to allow viewers to see the broadcast for themselves.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Bullet Points reports that last Friday through Sunday, eleven ranges around the Atlanta, Georgia metro area teamed up with the NSSF to hold 77 First Shots Seminars. More than 600 people took their First Shots there.

Citing "business reasons" NBC Sports has confirmed to Variety magazine that after several years of supporting the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades Show (SHOT), it will not be a sponsor in 2014. An NBC Sports representative told Variety "...this January we will not be sponsoring the show because it does not make business sense for us at this time." NBC Sports execs will, however, be attending SHOT to "meet with clients." Those "clients" will not include the NRA's "Under Wild Skies" - Variety also reported the network had pulled the plug on that show after host Tony Makris shot an elephant in a September 22 episode and then compared critics of the shooting to Hitler.

Citing concerns that the government's collection of phone-tracking information is enabling it to create a de-factor gun owners registry, the National Rifle Association has field an amicus brief in support of the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit challenging those collection programs. In the brief, the NRA argues that the NSA's phone records collection program could "allow identification of NRA members, supporters, potential members, and other persons with whom the NRA communicates, potentially chilling their willingness to communicate with the NRA." The ACLU suit asks the court to halt the datamining effort and purge phone records collected under the program, claiming in violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/05/nra-joins-aclu-spying-lawsuit-over-gun-registry-fears/#ixzz2e26HXpcH

UK retailer WH Smith has backed off its earlier decision to bar the sale of shooting sports magazines to customers under the age of 14. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation says the company has quietly removed the "till prompts" that required a cashier to check a purchaser's age before selling shooting sports magazines. The BASC ran an effective campaign to help spur the reversal, sending WH Smith petitions with more than 12,000 signatures. UK's Countryside Alliance, another shooting sports group, called the decision "a victory for common sense." Smith's initial decision to ban sales came after UK animal rights group Animal Aid ran a campaign that compared magazines covering the shooting sports to pornography.

An alligator crossing the road in Sanford, Florida Monday night got a surprise when a man decided to catch it and grabbed it by its tail. But the alligator's surprise was nothing compared to the man's when the reptile whipped around and bit him on the leg and then ran into some bushes. As if getting bitten once wasn't enough, the man, who officials said appeared to be intoxicated, reached into the bushes to grab the gator again, and it obliged him by biting him, again. Eventually, the man caught the alligator and took it to his house. A neighbor called the Seminole County Sheriff's office and the man was eventually ticketed for possessing an alligator. The well-traveled gator was released into nearby Lake Jessup. The man faces sixty days in jail and a $500 fine.

A Wolf Impact Rally is set for Saturday, March 20, 2010, at the town square in Jackson, Wyoming.

Who would have thought that on an island with two of New York City's largest airports, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia, hunters also can find a thriving population of Eastern wild turkeys?