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Designed to suit a wide variety of environs, Millennium Treestands has introduced the ground-based GB100 Buck Blind. A luxury option, the GB100 boasts a heavy-duty powder-coated steel frame built with SteelTough construction and SilentHunt design to keep it quiet. It also feautres a water-resistant exterior shell, and a seven-foot interior height for total mobility.
A cut above pop-up blinds in terms of durability, the GB100 certainly has no chance of blowing away. Weighing in at 83 pounds, with a 7.3'X4' footprint, the blind can even be staked-in using the included ground stakes, or secured to a platform. For visibility, each of the windows can be configured for hunting with a rifle, crossbow or vertical bow, and each window has an adjustable shooting rest. Even the door doubles as a window, so hunters can see what’s happening behind them. Black windows and an all-black interior provide hunter concealment.
The GB100 has loops on the outside of the heavy-duty water-resistant soft-shell fabric for brushing it in to help break up its outline. For more information, please visit millenniumstands.com. MSRP: $427.99
When the grizzly bear in the Lower 48 was given Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection as a threatened species in 1975, it was supposed to be a temporary protection that would be lifted once populations met or exceeded specific goals. Now more than a half century later and with grizzly populations that have spread and met or far surpassed the goals set in 1975.
Leupold & Stevens, Inc. has launched its LCO Pro F2 red-dot sight, combining optical clarity, reliability and purpose-built features in a full-sized red dot.
I am heartened by this year’s entries. In addition to fabulous photographs, almost all of you delivered exceptional narratives of your hunts. We used your very words wherever possible because it’s an honor to see you all rise to such an occasion as sharing a special moment with your fellow hunters. You now know a little bit about what drives an outdoor writer. —J. Scott Olmsted, Editor in Chief
On July 17 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published a proposed rulemaking change on the Federal Register that, if approved, would allow western states to better manage their grizzly bear population. Despite their burgeoning population the big bruins remain on the “endangered” list under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a fact that has paralyzed regional conservation efforts, impacted other wildlife populations and dramatically increased human/bear conflicts.