Happy election day! Two fun facts: 1. If all the sportsmen and women voted in the 2012 presidential election, we would have made up 30% of the total votes cast. 2. 80% of sportsmen and women are “likely voters,” which is far above the national average of about 60% of US citizens who vote during presidential elections and 40% during midterm elections.
So get out there and exercise your voting privilege!
*Graphic courtesy of the Congressional Sportsmen Foundation
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Kassondra Hendricks
If you would’ve told my nine-year old self that I would be toting around a pink camo shotgun in the future I wouldn’t have believed you. Pink has always been a ghastly color in my mind. And I wasn’t the girl that played with Barbie dolls. I was the girl that tramped barefoot around the horse barn chasing chickens, stalking deer in fields with mud smeared on my face, climbing trees, showing off burns on my legs from riding dirt bikes, smiling with satisfaction at the roughness of my calloused hands. I was the girl who to her mother’s dismay didn’t let anyone brush her hair until the fifth grade. I rocked the coclebur tangles, stained t-shirt, ripped jeans look...
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Meet Shyanne Roberts.
She’s a 10-year-old competitive shooter with a custom painted purple and black gun.
Today, she’s competing against 200 of the top women shooters at the Brownell’s Lady 3-Gun Pro-Am Challenge in Covington, Georgia.
She said she wants “”to be an inspiration to other kids and be a leader.” As the youngest competitive shooter at today’s event, we think she is.
Good luck, Shyanne!
Read the article about her on CNN.com.
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Recently National Geographic featured a video about how hunters and anglers have made a difference in North Dakota, South Carolina, Washington state and the western U.S. Although this video is awesome it only showcases a small part of what sportsmen and women have done for wildlife habitat. Through license fees paid by hunters and anglers, like the Federal Duck Stamp above, we have conserved wildlife habitat for generations to come while protecting our hunting and fishing heritage. Being a sportsman or sportswoman is all about connecting people to nature so here at Camo is the New Black, we want to thank you for all you have done and what you will do in the future. But as the saying goes “to whom much is given, much will be required...
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The morning sunlight seeps across Wyoming’s sky and into a corn stubble field near the river. Friends and family are tucked to either side of me in layout blinds. My feet are reaching that freezing point that would soon drive me from my hiding place, but a dark cloud lifts off the river as a few hundred Canada geese leave their night’s resting place.
As their ruckus reaches us, our adrenaline-levels spike and my numb feet are eitherwarmed or forgotten. Our decoy spread forms an open-ended triangle and we are stationed in the V’s crook. Four geese break from the flock and head for the open ground we left in the spread directly before our blinds.
When the birds come in range, someone calls out, “Take ‘em!” and we pop up from our prone positions, shotguns singing...
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