Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) has again received the highest possible rating from Charity Navigator (CN), the independent charity evaluation service, for the third consecutive year.
We held our 9th annual teal hunt this year in El Campo, Tx, and had 11 disabled hunters come in for the weekend. 2 guys were new injuries and it was their first time back in the field. We had 8 different landowners and several volunteers who gave up their time to help guide our hunters.
After a roast duck dinner on Friday at the Texana Seed Co. in Garwood, hunters were paired with their guides and friendships were rekindled. Also, we worked with some of the hunters who needed some "on-the-spot" adaptive equipment to test out on the teal hunts.
In 2 days, the group downed about 85 ducks in all and everyone had good action. Some even got to see that some things are still possible even after traumatic injuries.
As I browse the paddle fishing forums all over the world, I stumbled across an interesting thread on one of the Texas sites concerning "Heroes On The Water", and one of their recent outings. After reading about the activities leading up to the event, the event itself, and the smiles that resulted, I knew that I wanted to get involved, somehow.
Summary: Luke Clayton hosts a weekly Texas hunting and fishing radio show called Outdoor Talk with Luke Clayton. In this segment, Luke talks with Jim Dolan about Heroes On The Water . Based in San Antonio, Texas, Heroes on the Water serves all military personnel who have been wounded, injured or disab...
NRA Disabled Shooting Services has compiled a listing of all rules and regulations for disabled sportsmen across the country. Visit their website at http://www.nrahq.org/compete/disabled.asp and click on the State Websites for Hunting and Disabilities link. There you will find information about fees, licensing, facilities, and more.
The following email was sent to me by Wendy White to give everyone another perspective of the HB 968.
It passed the Senate yesterday with a 31-1 vote. We spoke before the senate committee the week before and it passed with a 4-1 vote and the 1 was someone that came in at the last and replaced another committee member. LSBA lobbied those senators hard too.
Only 3 persons showed on the opposition and one chose not to speak. The two who did speak were the current president of the LSBA, and the past president.
Their testimony was based off of non facts or truths so they weren't taken seriously. Comment pertained to crossbows shooting game at 100 yards, which is not the truth. Then the other part of the testimony pertained to the PSE Tac-15 which isn't even on the market. It's a bastard weapon which consists of an AR-15 lower end, and so far, in the Crossbow community here in the USA, there isn't any interest in it. There is some interest in Italy, but would have to get a permit since it has the AR-15 lower end.
The LSBA put out a call to arms at 9AM Friday morning before the Monday 3PM hearing. There were over 2,000 views to the thread, but alot of the membership didn't disagree with allowing crossbows into archery season, so no masses of protestors showed up at the Capitol. It was Butch and myself, two reps from Barnett Crossbows and one rep from the American Crossbow Federation, then Speaker of the House Gibb showed up to testify FOR.
Also, my good friend Keith Warren and daughter Mattie testified FOR and she did a great job following in brother Colton's footsteps offering testimony describing what it would mean to her and her hunting girl friends to be able and hunt during Archery season......
