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Josh Zigman Hunting in Namibia San Diego Chapter Price $5.00 Safari Club International Vol. XXXV, No. 3, November 2014 “CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE AND PRESERVATION OF THE HUNTER” Josh Zigman Hunting In Namibia Josh Zigman took this great Giraffe while hunting with Ozanjahdi Safaris in Nambia. We look forward to publishing Josh’s hunting adventures in future publications. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR BEST PHOTOGRAPH TO THE EDITOR FOR FRONT PAGE CONSIDERATION. 2014 - 2015 Calendar of Events SAN DIEGO CHAPTER SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL November 14 Membership Drive P.O. BOX 600155 Happy hour, beer tasting & SAN DIEGO, CA 92160 snacks. Double Tree Hotel E-MAIL: [email protected] located next to the WEBSITE: www.sandiegosci.org Hilton Hotel in San Diego. OFFICERS & DIRECTORS 2014-2015 5:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m. PRESIDENT $40.00 per person. JIM CONRAD December 6 Christmas Party Jim and Kathy Hill’s VICE PRESIDENT 12900 Camino Del Valle JOSH ZIGMAN Poway CA 92064 $40 per person VICE PRESIDENT / SPECIAL PROJECTS March 21, 2015 Auction 2015 ROBERT SMITH Lowes in Coronado SECRETARY For updates see www.sandiegosci.org SUSAN BOWERS TREASURER In This Issue… KAREN HERMSEN President’s Message ................................................ 3 New Twist on Texas Exotics...............................4 - 6 EDUCATION / PRIDE BILL HANSEN New Zealand Adventure ....................................7 - 9 Hunter Safety .........................................................10 LEGISLATIVE KEN JOHNSON It’s Deer Hunting Season in San Diego ............... 11 Sonoran Pronghorn Project Update .................... 12 MEMBERSHIP JACK HAWLEY Auction ’15 is Approaching Donations are Needed! .......................................... 13 NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mark Your Calendar for Auction ’15 ...................14 BEARD HOBBS Our Fine Sponsors ......................................... 15 - 22 PUBLIC RELATIONS MIKE ROGERS JR. Bulletin Board ....................................................... 23 Membership Application Form ........................... 24 PAST PRESIDENT / NOMINATING MIKE ROGERS JR SABLES REP BARBARA DEGRAW LEGAL ADVISORS JIM MARINOS BEARD HOBBS PAST PRESIDENTS Roger Ballard Jack Mitchel John Belus Ron Wade Al Logan Mike Rogers, Jr. Ingrid Poole Mike O’Haver John Jennings, III Mike O’Haver John Ehlers Jim Dodd SAFARI C LUB I NTERNATIONAL Bill Poole Ron Wade Pete Traphagen WORLD H EADQUARTERS 4800 WEST GATES PASS ROAD Mike Rogers, Sr. Charles Cook Ingrid Poole TUCSON, AZ 85745 Dick Ellerton Ron Provience Gerry Faust PHONE: 520-620-1220 FAX: 520-622-1205 Wilt Williams Chip Goodwin Barbara DeGraw WEBSITE: WWW.SAFARICLUB.ORG Ken Lehtola Mike Rogers, Jr. President’s Message By Jim Conrad, San Diego Chapter President We didn’t have our usual July dinner meeting to introduce our new Board of Directors so I didn’t get the opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to all of you who voted to give me the opportunity to lead the Chapter, so I’ll say it now… Thank You! Instead of a July dinner meeting, we did something new this year with an ‘Opening Day at Del Mar’ event, where we all had a terrific time betting on our favorites and enjoying the fantastic hats and costumes that are part of the opening day traditional festivities. I just recently returned from the August National Board meeting of SCI in Tucson where I got the chance to meet some of the outstanding staff that are leading SCI’s efforts to defend your ability to pursue your passion of hunting. Their efforts include: • Filing a lawsuit in federal court on August 6, 2014 challenging a California law that bans the importation, transportation, and possession action is required and that your elected officials need of mountain lions hunted outside of California to hear your opinion on an issue, please don’t assume (SCI is claiming that the ban violates the U.S. that someone else will do it for you. SCI can and will Constitution’s Commerce and Equal Protection lead the charge but it’s up to each and every one of us Clauses); to follow through with phone calls, faxes and e-mails • Pursuing litigation against the federal government, to make sure that our voices are heard. challenging the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s decision to ban the importation of sport-hunted An issue in our own backyard concerns the recently elephants from Zimbabwe and Tanzania (District released Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan Court denied SCI’s motion for a preliminary / Environmental Assessment (DCCP) for the San injunction so SCI appealed that ruling to the Court Diego National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and of Appeals and has been granted an expedited Wildlife Service has developed four management review and the case is also continuing in District alternatives and has selected Alternative D as their Court); preferred alternative. Unfortunately, their preferred • Defense of E PA’s denial of second petition by the Alternative D would only allow hunting (which is Center for Biological Diversity seeking to ban lead one of six identified priority uses for a refuge) on 160 in ammunition (EPA and SCI/NRA filed motions acres of the over 11,500 acres of the Refuge. As your to dismiss the case, District Court dismissed President, I have submitted a comment letter on behalf after oral argument, CBD appealed, oral argument of the Chapter that identifies several flaws in their is scheduled for October 25, 2014); stated reasons for minimizing hunting opportunities • Defense against the Center for Biological on the Refuge and that urges them to reconsider Diversity’s attempt to ban lead ammunition use their decision and to allow hunting on all portions of in the Kaibab Nation Forest (District Court the Refuge that do not have an identifiable safety or granted a motion to dismiss, CBD appealed other justifiable reason for exclusion, in a shared-use decision to Ninth Circuit, SCI is participating as environment that is the norm for other government- an amicus in the appeal). managed lands such as the Cleveland National Forest and Hollenbeck Canyon Wildlife Area. As you well know, California is ground-zero in so many of these battles because our detractors know that they have a sympathetic legislative environment and once enacted in California they can use that as leverage to spread their anti-hunting agenda elsewhere. So when you get an e-mail notification that urgent 3 New Twist on Texas Exotics A Concierge Hunting Service By Joseph Vorro There’s a great deal of truth to professional humorist exotics (about 51% of the statewide total). and prize winning American author Dave Barry‘s Given the myriad options available for a hunt, all it quote, “ … never be afraid to try something new, took was one phone conversation with David to tell me remember that a lone amateur built the Ark, a large he was the outfitter/guide I was looking for. group of professionals built the Titanic.” It’s that spirit I told David that I didn’t need a special lodge, a large of trying “something new” that spurred me to find a group of hunters, or a ranch where blackbucks had fresh twist to a Texas exotic animal hunt - specifically, recently been stocked. Instead, I desired a ranch with to find the best blackbuck antelope to hunt. modest accommodations. I also wanted an outfitter The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) who understood that I chose to shoot a particular indicates the earliest release of exotics there were blackbuck, not one in a small pasture or behind a nilgai antelope. The King Ranch purchased nilgai barn. David understood my requirements and agreed between 1930 and 1941 from the San Diego Zoo to to connect me with the best blackbuck possible. stock on the ranch’s south Texas rangelands. About If you’ve hunted in South Africa with a professional that same time, blackbuck, axis, sika, and sambar outfitter/PH, you’ve likely experienced a hunting deer also were released. Later, in the 1940s and 50s, concierge. It’s a simple concept: in this case, David mouflon sheep, eland antelope, red deer, barasingha delivers pre-scouted hunts for the species and quality and other species also were released. of species that you desire, and it’s all done in Texas. In Since then, Texas ranchers and conservationists have doing so, he matches the best ranches, ranch locations imported exotics from all over the planet. Numbers and hunting details with the ethical and aesthetic of these many species now in Texas actually surpass considerations of your choice. populations found in their native lands. Much of this Over the course of the next few months, David scouted can be attributed to Texas climate, habitat, animal numerous Texas ranches to locate animals that fit my husbandry expertise, and available space. However, description, and related to me the results of his search, it also is clear that the presence of successful exotics including photographs of appropriate blackbucks, in Texas is directly related to their economic impact costs and ranch details. on the hunting industry, in addition to income from The ranch we decided on is spectacular - just over nature-based tourism. 2,000 acres of fenced, rolling terrain with diverse When researching my blackbuck hunt, I used a variety topography. The vegetation consists of mesquite, of resources, including back issues of SCI’s “Safari cedar, oak, cultivated land, and the remainder of Magazine”, the WWW, “The Hunting Report,” and the ranch had healthy native brush, pastures and many hunting magazine tear-outs that I’ve collected lakes. The ranch is a weekend home for its owners, for years. These resources were helpful, but they didn’t but also functions as a prominent whitetail deer reveal anything new or different until I discovered breeding facility. The facility, pens and barns are well Estate Trophy Hunts, David Blankman’s concierge conceived, and their deer program concentrates on hunting service. breeding, raising and hunting exceptional whitetail Estimates and surveys indicate that Texas has more deer. The careful attention to wildlife preservation by than 250,000 exotic animals of over 125 different the owners makes the ranch a sanctuary.
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