Events

Next Chapter Meeting will be January 15, 2019

Our next chapter meeting will be held on January 15, 2019 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 October 31, 2018 at 1:00 am

Our 2019 annual banquet will be held on February 23rd at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame located at the Talladega International Speedway. This year your ticket will not only include entry to the banquet but will include admission to the museum and a track tour with a ride around the track. This is an added value of $16. Individual tickets are $100 or a table of 8 for $680, a savings of $120. Also available will be a VIP Package which includes the table for 8 persons, ads in the auction program and the chapter Newsletter, a sponsorship, preferential seating at the evening events, and a chance on the raffle drawing for a shotgun exclusive to the VIP Package holders.
This year we are offering three full page ads in the auction program on a first come, first served basis. These ads will be the back cover, inside of the front cover and inside of the back cover. VIP Package holders can purchase these ads for $150 each or for others $500.

SCI’s American Wilderness Leadership School

Posted in Feature on October 3, 2018 at 7:47 pm

Nestled in the beautiful Bridger-Teton National Forest near Jackson, Wyoming, the American Wilderness Leadership School (“AWLS”) provides the perfect atmosphere for educational programs. Established in 1976 with the vision of providing educators with a useful hands-on experience that they can bring home to their classrooms, AWLS has provided an accredited wildlife management program for 5,473 primary and secondary teachers. The school offers six dates each summer for these fun and exciting eight-day sessions. Some of the topics covered include wildlife conservation and management, endangered species and outdoor ethics, ecosystems, economic contribution of sportsman in conservation, outdoor survival and the shooting sports – firearm safety, shotgun, rifle, and archery. Participants also enjoy a whitewater rafting trip on the Snake River.
This year the Alabama Chapter of SCI has again provided this unique opportunity for two young ladies, Chloe Medlin and McKenna Franklin, both of whom are pursuing college degrees in the wildlife related fields. The chapter provided the tuition and airfare for these students to attend the AWLS. Below is their account of the experience.

Dear Mr. Bush and the Safari Club,
Thank you so much for making this life-changing experience possible for us. We are going to write this together because we started this trip only knowing each other’s name, and we ended this trip knowing we would be lifelong friends! It is amazing how we learned so much about so many things in just a week. We made some great friends from around the country and still talk and text with them every couple of days. We hope to be able to do something in the future to help keep the American Wilderness Leadership School going.

McKENNA: Before I left for this trip, I knew that I wanted to be a veterinarian and I had chosen Wildlife Pre-Vet as my major. This trip definitely transformed my path in life. Now that I am back at Auburn University, I have changed my major to Wildlife Ecology and Management. I want to keep learning more about wildlife conservation and how the whole world is affected by this. I truly admire the passion that these instructors had for what they were teaching us, and I hope that I will be able to do that one day. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this trip possible for me!

CHLOE: I have always been a hunter with my dad and grandfather, and it has been something that I love. This trip made me realize the value of hunting and how it is disappearing among this generation. I will always want to hunt and fish, and now I understand how important it is to teach others the importance of hunting in our ecosystem. My major at Auburn University will be Wildlife Enterprise Management where I will be able to be surrounded by the consumptive use of wildlife and the value of wildlife conservation in order to continue that. Thank you so much for sending me to Jackson Hole!

Thank you for everything!
McKenna Franklin Chloe Medlin

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