Great news for hunting and archery.

[jsweka]

This is all good news.

skilonbw - That's a really good article and goes to show that hunting crosses political boundaries and we do have much in common with the "liberal tree huggin' hippies".

[kennyb]

Bowwild-that is good news! Thanks.

Also, I wonder how much of this is due to the more wide spread use of crossbows? There seems to be a lot of hunters who had quit hunting and the crossbow brought them back in the woods. What do you guys think?

Kenny    

[Steve Kendrot]

If we want to be sure all those excise taxes go to the conservation programs they go to. Read on... From The Wildlife Society action alert website.

TWS Action Alert: Ask Congress to Protect the Fish and Wildlife Trust Funds


In August 2011, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 aimed at cutting the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years by mandating automatic caps on federal government spending. That bill requires that 7.6% of the nation's Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs and Boating Safety Trust Fund—collectively called the Trust Funds—be "sequestered" or withheld from distribution to the states. Sequestration would equate to a loss of $74 million to states in FY2013!

The Trust Funds are the collection of excise taxes paid by industry to the federal government from the purchase of bows and arrows; guns and ammunition; fishing tackle and equipment; and motorboat fuel. They are the lifeblood of state fish and wildlife agencies' day-to-day operating budgets. State agencies use their Trust Fund apportionments exclusively to restore and manage fisheries and wildlife and their habitats, open and maintain recreational access, and deliver hunter and boating safety education.

Ask Congress to 'Keep the Trust' and exempt the Trust Funds from Sequestration!

https://votervoice.net/mobile/TWS/Campaigns/29964/Respond

[Roadkill]

I have just started helping  4H.  In our local shop, we have put lots of Samicks on tge street.
Guys, kids are fickle.  If you can teach them properly, and then generate fun targets, they can be hooked.  If they hit nothing andl only shoot at butts, they bore.  Use plastic bottles so there is noise, tennis balls on strings so there is mkvement.  Bullseyes excite us, but kids need more to keep intetest up
Great news