Halloween Pumpkin - King’s Style
One of our sales reps, Todd Munford, did some carving with his kids for Halloween and here is the result. Very cool. Have a safe Halloween.
2 comments October 31st, 2007
Archive for October, 2007
2007 Sportsman Tag - 42″ Mule Deer
Last week the Utah Sportsman Mule Deer tag holder ended up bagging a buck of a lifetime. Some friends were down horseback riding and kicked this buck out of the open flats. They stayed on it with their horses and the buck went into a box canyon. One of the guys rode three hours to get cell service and called their buddy, Rand Newby, that they had a huge buck spotted. Rand made the trip and they were able to locate the buck again and knocked it down.
This buck has tremendous width. It is 42-inches wide with 13 points on each side. Rough green scores have put this deer around the 234 gross non-typical mark.
Rand drew the lucky tag and also works for Christensen Arms. Rand was wearing our King’s ShadowCamo and was shooting a custom Christensen Arms Carbon Wrapped Barrel and the stock was dipped in our King’s Mountain ShadowCamo.
More pics and a story on this buck is posted on the Christensen Arms web site - Click Here
17 comments October 31st, 2007
Video: 197 Public Land Buck
Video of a 197 2/8 gross public land mule deer from Central Utah. Spencer Dyches bagged this giant mule deer and stopped by to give us a look.
6 comments October 24th, 2007
Savage Sports Buys Out Bowtech Archery
What do you get when you combine the largest bow company in the world (Bowtech Archery) and the largest rifle manufacturer in the country (Savage Sports Corporation)? One big company that is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the hunting/shooting/archery/outdoor industry.
Read below for the full press release:
SAVAGE SPORTS CORPORATION ACQUIRES BOWTECH ARCHERY
Savage Sports Corporation, with corporate offices in Westfield Massachusetts and BowTech, located in Eugene, Oregon are pleased to announce the completion of a landmark agreement whereby Savage acquired BowTech so that the combined resources and strength of the two well-established industry leaders can be concentrated to become a major force for growth within the shooting/hunting/outdoor industry. BowTech’s family of brands will continue to be promoted and marketed independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of Savage Sports Corp.
“We are impressed with BowTech’s vision and astonishing success in the archery industry and are thrilled to have them as part of the Savage family. We are looking forward to having the employees from BowTech and its sister divisions join us,” stated Ron Coburn, Chairman and CEO of Savage Sports. “Their growth record and solid values are a great fit with our existing business and management culture.”
Eugene, Oregon will remain BowTech’s headquarters and the existing management team will continue to guide the business as it has since inception. “We recognize that BowTech has a very successful business plan in place and we intend on keeping the winning formula intact” added Coburn.
Announcing the agreement, President, CEO and Founder of BowTech, John Strasheim stated, “This is an exciting time for BowTech; our incredible growth, the launch of our new 2008 lineup, coupled with the many opportunities created by this strong partnership with Savage, who knows where BowTech will venture next - the possibilities are endless.” In addition to his other duties, Strasheim will serve on the Savage board.
Savage Sports Corporation is a privately held company and consisted of 3 (Savage) divisions:
Savage Arms is a leading manufacturer of center-fire rifles, located in Westfield, MA.
Savage (Canada) manufactures rim-fire rifles in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada.
Savage Range Systems/PortaTarget, also based in Westfield MA, manufactures indoor and outdoor shooting ranges, target systems and shoot houses.Other corporate brand names include:
Stevens. Manufacturer of center-fire and rim-fire rifles and shotguns for the budget-conscious consumer.
Fox. A high quality brand of American-made shotguns.
Snail. Environmentally friendly and patent protected indoor shooting range technology.Savage is the largest rifle manufacturer in the US.
BowTech, the largest bow company in the world, manufactures and distributes the industry’s finest compound bows and archery equipment. Founded in 1999, BowTech’s corporate offices and manufacturing facilities are located on the outskirts of Eugene, Oregon. BowTech divisions include BowTech and Diamond Archery, Stryker Crossbows and WaterDog Surface Technologies with a worldwide dealer and distributor network.
The combination of Savage and BowTech will give the corporation superior products in all of the hunting/competition/recreational and police markets, which includes compound/crossbow archery and accessories, black powder/smokeless muzzleloaders, rim-fire rifles, center-fire rifles, shotguns, indoor/outdoor ranges and accessories, fixed and moving target systems and tactical shoot houses.
For more information on the full line of Savage firearms, go to: savagearms.com
For information on BowTech products, go to: BowTechArchery.com or Diamondarchery.com
10 comments October 15th, 2007
Hunting Illustrated Preview Oct-Nov 07
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Hunting Illustrated HI32 Oct/Nov 2007
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Have we got an awesomely packed issue of amazing stuff in our new issue of Hunting Illustrated. This issue is out now on newsstands until mid November so pick up your copy now. They are already going fast.
What do we have in store for you in this issue. First of all, let’s go through our sweet cover and give a rundown of what you see. The main elk photo is actually one of our new King’s Re-creations from our 2008 King’s Bull Elk Calendar. This is the Bill Clark elk taken in New Mexico in 2006. Bill arrowed this amazing bull with his recurve. This could quite possibly be the biggest typical elk taken with traditional archery equipment. Bill’s bull was self guided and taken on public land and scores 416 SCI. Get the rest of the story in the mag.
Of course up on the top of the cover is Landon Wittwer holding what is now the largest mule deer sheds ever found. Get the full story first in this issue of HI on how Landon’s luck followed him to Grandma’s house as he came across these sheds just a few feet apart. Also see our King’s Re-creation of Landon’s record sheds that are also featured in the new 2008 King’s Mule Deer Calendar.
Down at the bottom of the cover you see the state record bighorn sheep from Utah taken in 2006. Get the story on this exciting hunt as they down this massive ram.
That is just scratching the surface of great content in this issue. What else will you find:
Editorial
Sound Off - Reader comments
Fresh Sign - Latest news and insight
Ask Mr. Mule Deer - Get the answers from the Expert
Dueling Duo - The cost of hunting (Scott Grange & Ron Spomer)
Mule Deer - Deer drives part 1 (Dennis Wintch)
Elk - Hunting the elk of the northwest (Rockie Jacobsen)
Shooting - Picking the right rifle for your hunt (Carl Hermansen)
North of the Border - Barren Ground Caribou hunt (W.P. Williamson)
Mule Deer Watch - Where there’s a Well there’s a Way (Michael Burrell)
Nuge Factor - State of the Union Address (Ted Nugent)
Corporate Interview - Whisper Creek Archery
Behind the Re-creations
Bill Clark Elk - 416 SCI bull from New Mexico
Landon Wittwer Sheds - 307 mule deer sheds from Arizona
Rob Engster Buck - 207 Alberta whitetail deer
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Featured Stories
World record SCI typical muzzleloader desert mule deer - Steve Alderman
216 Kansas muzzleloader mule deer - David Krien
411 San Carlos bull elk - Gabriel Jackson
196 State record bighorn sheep - Greg Bird
ShadowCamo Featured Story
215 archery buck from Alberta - Chris Gilbert
Gear Guide
New products and gear for 2007
ATV Test
Polaris Sportsman 800 X2
2008 ATV Buyers Guide
Braggin’ Board
Success photos from our readers
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Latest hunting DVDs
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Add comment October 13th, 2007
Ted Nugent to New Jersey Blood Brothers
Just passing along a little message I recently received from the Nuge:
To my American BloodBrothers of the Great State of New Jersey and beyond
Happy hunting season 2007 my friends. Honest people everywhere know for certain that hunting, fishing and trapping are the last perfect, natural hands-on conservation practices available to mankind to maintain a balanced and healthy environment and thriving wildlife bio-diversity. Venison in all its forms is the last pure, free range, natural, renewable, perfect healthfood nutrition available to mankind.
These self evident truths are being celebrated by tens of millions of American families right now across this great country during God’s natural season of harvest as we prepare for yet another successful Thanksgiving. In every instance around the world, when this clear and evident reality is compromised, over-regulated or God forbid banned, bureaucrats scramble maniacally at great tax payer and environmental expense to remedy the disasters of dishonest “feel good” politically correct anti-hunting and anti-trapping fiascoes by hiring paid killers to hunt and trap as desperate damage control in place of responsible, honest quality control.
Hunting and trapping are never banned, just delayed. Don’t let these mindless mistakes happen again. Keep wildlife in the asset column where God intended it to be and intelligent, caring people know it must be. The inescapable alternative is for these precious wildlife resources to be forced into the liability column with a massive, wasteful cleanup bill that is unconscionable and totally predictable. Hunting, fishing and trapping is good for healthy balanced wildlife. Do not let anti-hunting fools ruin it.
Good hunting, good fishing and good trapping to you all. Godbless and Godspeed.
Your Spirit BloodBrother, Ted Nugent & Family
3 comments October 12th, 2007
Does It Really Work?
If you are looking for the most affective camouflage on the market…made with performance and quality…our King’s ShadowCamo is second to none. Nothing can touch our amazing pattern designs from our industry-changing King’s Desert Shadow to the Mountain Shadow and Snow Shadow, we have your covered. Furthermore, we will be releasing in the future two more ShadowCamo patterns that will continue to have you covered no matter where you hunt. Field Shadow and Woodland Shadow are coming…look for more about these two new patterns in 2008.
Click here to learn more about our King’s ShadowCamo patterns, clothing and gear.
Here is one of our latest testimonials, this one from Don Koon with his Gold Medal Stag scoring 454 and wearing our King’s Desert Shadow Camo:
I’ve been guiding professionally at BearCat Outfiters, Craig Colorado since 1983. Seth Peters, the owner and myself used your camo gear this year for the first time. I was completely satisfied and it is the best looking, the toughest and most durable of any I’ve ever used. Please forward me a complete catalog for my next order and by the way, your gear went with me on my trip of a lifetime to New Zealand. Hope you can use this picture. I am proud of the stag and the outfit I had on.
Thanks again for a great product.
Your new customer,
Don Koon
BearCat Outfitters
3 comments October 10th, 2007
Another Utah State Record Elk?!
There have been some crazy rumors going around lately of a possible 450 or even 460 bull elk from Utah taken recently. I haven’t been able to dig up anything yet to verify that any of this is true. Sure we have the monster archery elk taken by Jimmy Ryan that I posted on early that unofficially goes 443 gross and 427 net non-typical P&Y .
However, I may have found the bull that might be mistaken as the claimed 460, 450 or even 441 gross bull that I have seen in emails going around. The reason I say this is photos of this bull have been included with the emails claiming these numbers.
This monster bull elk from Utah was taken with a rifle and could easily take over the state record non-typical spot for rifle (currently at 412 net).
This huge bull was taken by Darrell Snedeger. The nice thing about it, Darrell was just hunting with some family when he came across this massive elk and shot it at just 14 yards!
So how big is this bull you say? Darrell has been fairly quiet about his bull so far until he has been able to verify a solid “green” score. So far he has had three different people look at it and score it. One of them being an official Boone & Crockett scorer. Of course we have to wait until mid November before the 60 day drying period is up, but the green score stands at 434 gross and 424 net non-typical.
This bull is a 7×7 point. It has a small point on the right side on the back beam. The left side carries a third brow tine. Total there are about 19 inches of abnormal points. What’s beautiful is this elk also scores 404 net typical as well even after all the deductions.
This bull isn’t too far off the net score of the Jimmy Ryan/Mossback archery bull - a 424 net compared to a 427 net…and these are both green, unofficial scores. And the similarity continues as they both have big typical frames with a third brow tine on one side. Of course nothing is going to come close to the Ryan/Mossback bull in terms of archery record for the state, and the way things look (but you never know what is still out there or what could still get knocked down) the Darrell Snedeger bull could be the state record non-typical for the rifle category…
…but with only a few inches difference, it will be interesting to see come November how the official scores come in and who claims the biggest non-typical for the state of Utah regardless of weapon.
Yeah…yeah…where are some pics you say? Everyone complains about the photos…where are the photos. Nobody believes anybody until there are photos to prove it.
Darrell Snedeger’s potential record bull will be seen first in a future issue of Hunting Illustrated Magazine, where you will see some great photos of this elk.
Here is a teaser pic…
8 comments October 5th, 2007
Grizzly Killed in Bitterroots, Came From Selkirks
I reported earlier about a grizzly bear that was killed by a hunter in the Bitterroot wilderness. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has now determined where this bear came from. Here is some information about their DNA findings:
Grizzly Killed in Bitterroots, Came From Selkirks
Genetic test results on the grizzly bear killed in the Kelly Creek area of the Bitterroot ecosystem last month show it was from the Selkirks in north Idaho.
A hunter from Tennessee on an outfitted bear hunt in Idaho’s North Fork Clearwater River drainage killed a grizzly bear on Labor Day, September 3. It is the first grizzly bear verified since 1946 on the Idaho side of the 5,700-square-mile Selway-Bitteroot ecosystem in central Idaho and western Montana.
The 4- to 6-year-old male, about 400 pounds, with a silvery back and in good physical condition, was killed three miles from the Montana border.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that DNA from the bear, when compared to samples from bears in 15 other areas, matched DNA from bears in the Selkirks.
The genetics of the Selkirk population is the most distinct of all the populations compared. Because the Selkirk population is distinct and because this bear DNA sample is right in the middle of the Selkirk samples, this is a very positive origin signature.
The distance from the southernmost area of the Selkirks, such as the town of Priest River, to the spot where this bear was killed is 141 air miles. Obviously, this bear didn’t move in a straight line.
The origin of this bear highlights the importance of movement areas on the western edge of the Bitterroot ecosystem, including the area along the Montana-Idaho border between Highway 200 and Lookout Pass; the section of Interstate 90 between Lookout Pass and St. Regis; and the St. Joe River drainage, north of the Clearwater drainage where he was shot.
Wildlife managers don’t know how the bear got to Kelly Creek, but the journey probably involved the areas listed above, which form the most direct route between the southern Selkirks and the northern end of the Bitterroot. That journey underscores the importance of migration corridors in grizzly bear recovery and for all wildlife movement.
Though grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem have been removed from the endangered species list, they still are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in the Selway-Bitteroot and Selkirk areas in Idaho.
3 comments October 1st, 2007
