Events

Next Chapter Meeting will be September 18, 2018

Our next chapter meeting will be held on September 18, 2018 at the Marriott Hotel on Highway 280 in Birmingham. If you plan to attend, click rbushsci@att.net to send an RSVP email at least 3 days in advance. Please include the number in your party.

Board Meeting
5:00 – 6:00

Cocktails
5:30 – 6:30

Dinner & Programs (Meals are now $25 per person)
6:30 – 9:00

The Birmingham Marriott is located at 3590 Grandview Parkway on HWY 280 across the highway from the Cahaba Center at Grandview.

News

SCI Alabama Chapter Logo Clothing

We now have Alabama Chapter logo clothing. Select the links below to preview items currently available. Contact Jonathan Lehr at jl4outdoors@gmail.com for purchase information.

Fleece Vests

Hats

Polo Shirts

Wicking Polo Shirts

Effective Immediately…

Under new regulations, hunters who harvest white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose in CWD-affected states are not allowed to bring the whole deer carcass back to Alabama. Any deer body part that contains spinal or brain tissue is specifically banned from Alabama.

“Alabama’s late to the dance, but we’re at least there now,” said Chuck Sykes, Director of the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. “We have now joined 36 other states with similar regulations. It’s been prohibited to bring live deer into the state for some time now. The intent of that regulation was to help prevent the potential to spread diseases. A dead deer can transmit diseases just like a live one. So this was just logical. We finally did something that should have been done a long time ago.”

Sykes said to be in compliance with the new regulation, hunters who harvest a deer in a CWD-affected state must debone the meat, cape the deer and cut off the skull plate with the antlers attached. That skull plate must be thoroughly cleaned of all brain material before it is imported into Alabama.

Read the entire article at www.outdooralabama.com

SCI Online Record Book Now Free to Members

Simply browse to www.scirecordbook.org to quickly and easily access the entire SCI record book. This great tool not only provides the information that you are looking for; it also offers multiple search options that you will find very interesting and helpful. In addition to a reference, you can submit your own report. If you haven’t already done so, have your membership number handy, go to www.scirecordbook.org, and select REGISTER to sign up for the free Standard SCI Member Subscription.

Make Your Plans Now!

Posted in Feature on July 18, 2018 at 3:51 pm

Our 2019 annual banquet will be held on February 23rd at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame located at the Talladega International Speedway. You will want to arrive early to visit the museum and take a ride on the track before the silent auction begins. Watch the website for more details.

Young Hunters

Posted in Feature on December 3, 2017 at 8:56 am

We would like to share this article with our readers. Our young hunters are the future of the sport and they are why we volunteer our time and our talents to the organization.

Young Hunters: When and How to Get Children Started

Sportsmen Against Hunger

Posted in Feature on December 18, 2016 at 10:07 am

Our Sportsmen Against Hunger venison drive is well underway. To date, our program after the first two years has donated over 2,500 pounds of ground wild game meat to food banks across the state. This constitutes approximately 8,000 meals. The chapter had voted to allocate up to $3,000 for meat processing for this year. Last season we paid approximately $2,700 for processing. If you have already donated a deer in Alabama or any other state, please e-mail the estimated live weight for our records. To make a donation, simply deliver a deer to your processor of choice and pay his processing fee for 100% burger. If your processor is already affiliated with a food bank, your e-mail to me with processor’s name is all you need do. If no food bank affiliation at your processor, send me the location and our committee will arrange to pick up the meat and deliver to an approved shelter or food kitchen. Thank you again for contributing to this very worthwhile project.

Bruce Canoles
canoles@netzero.net

About SCI

Safari Club International - First For Hunters is the leader in protecting the freedom to hunt and in promoting wildlife conservation worldwide. SCI's approximately 200 Chapters represent all 50 of the United States as well as 106 other countries. SCI's proactive leadership in a host of cooperative wildlife conservation, outdoor education and humanitarian programs, with the SCI Foundation and other conservation groups, research institutions and government agencies, empowers sportsmen to be contributing community members and participants in sound wildlife management and conservation.