Events

March Meeting

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at the Marriott Hotel on Highway 280. This meeting will be a board meeting only due to no availability of a meeting room large enough to accomodate our regular bi-monthly chapter meeting.

Board Meeting 5:00 – 7:00

News

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.

Tiger Cub Safari Day

The Central Alabama Council of the Boy Scouts held its annual Tiger Cub Safari Day at the Birmingham Zoo on October 7, 2013, and the Alabama Chapter of SCI was on hand with a sensory safari display.
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Another Success Story!

Posted in Feature on February 23, 2014 at 9:12 pm

We had another successful event. Thanks to all who attended our 32nd annual Alabama SCI Chapter Banquet in support of SCI. A very special thanks to our exhibitors and our sponsors. We look forward to an even bigger and better event next year.

National Rifle Association President to speak at September 2013 meeting

Posted in Feature on August 13, 2013 at 4:34 am

We are very excited to announce that Mr. Jim Porter, President of the National Rifle Association, will be the guest speaker at our chapter meeting to be held on September 17 at the Marriott Hotel on Highway 280 in Birmingham.  While SCI is leading the fight to preserve your hunting rights, the NRA is working just as hard to defend your right to own firearms. Our two organizations should be working hand-in-hand and supporting each other in our efforts, and this is a great opportunity to hear Mr. Porter speak and show support for his organization’s efforts on your behalf.

Because we are expecting a larger crowd than usual, we are requesting that you pre-purchase your dinner tickets as soon as possible. By buying in advance, chapter members will be able to attend the meeting at the normal rate of $25 and guarantee that you will have a place at the table as there will be a limited number of tickets available at the door. Tickets at the door will be $35.

To purchase tickets for this extraordinary evening, contact Jay Arnold or Randall Bush by phone or email:

Jay Arnold
256–520-2564
jarnold.bigcove@gmail.com

Randall Bush
205-910-6492
rbushsci@att.net

We are hoping that a large number of NRA members will be in attendance so let’s turn out in force to let them know what SCI is all about!

Featured Photo:
Anne Spurlock

Posted in Feature on October 31, 2012 at 3:00 pm

Anne Spurlock

 

Anne Spurlock and her atypical kudu in Namibia.

For more great photos like this one, visit our photo gallery.

Dreams Do Come True

Posted in Article, Feature on September 17, 2012 at 12:33 am

By Jason E. Capstraw

“He’s good!!!” “I don’t have a shot!” “Stand Up!” “I still don’t have a shot!” “Stand on the roof of the truck!” I put one foot on the roll bar and the other on the seat; standing on the safari truck and shooting offhand, I pressed the trigger. My rifle boomed! This was the exchange between Professional Hunter Leon Small and myself as Leon ate his Hawaiian pizza and I took my first shot at a trophy kudu bull. I was hunting in the Mapungubwe area of Limpopo Province, South Africa with Thaba Mahaka Safaris.

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Back to the Basics

Posted in Article, Feature on September 17, 2012 at 12:23 am

by Bowen Slade

Open any hunting magazine or turn on any hunting television show now days and you are bombarded by product endorsements and antler score references that seem to be masking the true reason that a lot of hunters trek afield each season pursuing the whitetail deer.

I have all but given up rifle hunting over the past five or six seasons, finding a purer reward in chasing game with stick and string. There’s just something about the challenge of getting inside a deer’s comfort zone that has mesmerized me since my first bow hunt over a decade ago. But an experience that I had this season really hammered home what it means to be a bow hunter and brought me back to the basics.

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