Outdoor Writer
A number of relatively inexpensive gifts for the outdoor enthusiast on your list are available from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife this time of year, including:
Every big game hunter has fantasized about hunting virgin, relatively untouched country, where a world record rack is a realistic possibility.
Now, if your pockets are deep enough, that dream could become reality.
For the first time ever, non-tribal members will be allowed to hunt the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, over 5.1 million acres bordering Glacier National Park in northwest Montana. The leading outdoor Internet portal, Xoutdoors.com, has secured exclusive commercial hunting rights on the reservation, one of the most beautiful regions in the country and one which has produced the Montana state record elk and a potential world record free-ranging buffalo. The elk scored an impressive 407 B&C points, and the buffalo went 2,200 pounds.
Currently, the following licenses are available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis: one bull moose tag, five bull elk tags, four buck whitetail tags, five black bear tags, two antelope tags, three buffalo tags, and one bighorn sheep tag.
For more information call Eric or Jim Payne toll-free at 1-877-366-3668.
The Wildlife Legislative Fund of America says People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals have erected an anti-rodeo billboard in Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo, which are being held Dec. 1-10. The billboard, according to WLFA spokeswoman Beth Howenstine, features an attractive blonde woman, saying “Nobody likes an eight-second ride. Buck the rodeo.
Howenstine said this anti-rodeo message follows PETA’s failed attempts to remove the bucking bronco from the Wyoming license plate, and to erect the same billboard in Tucson, Arizona.
The Fund is a national organization representing over 1.5 million sportsmen through its member clubs and individual constituents. It provides legislative, legal defense, and public education services to advance sportsmen’s rights in Washington, D.C. and all 50 states. Dial up their Web site at www.wlfa.org.
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