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New Jersey Proposed Game Code Amendments Approved

New Jersey Fish and Game

Trenton, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- The NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife is informing the public that the NJ Fish and Game Council has approved all proposed amendments to the 2011 – 2012 Game Code.

The Game Code governs the activities relating to the taking of wildlife classified as game animals, game birds, or furbearers.

The approved amendments included, but were not limited to, the following:

• The addition of five days to the rabbit and hare hunting season
• A statewide closure of the bobwhite quail season, with the exception of the Greenwood and Peaslee WMAs and existing semi-wild and commercial shooting preserves
• The elimination of separate black bear hunting seminars as bear hunting will now be included in the regular hunter education classes
• The creation of special black bear farmer permits
• The addition of a second Saturday to the fall turkey hunting season
• Expansion of the early bow and arrow-only coyote and fox season, and regular coyote and fox season dates
• Removal of the requirement for youth hunters to take an antlerless deer before an antlered deer during the early fall bow deer season
• Inclusion of five additional deer management zones (DMZ) into the Antler Point Restriction program
• Creation of a new deer regulation set, 3a
• Boundary changes to DMZs 19, 23, 25 and 65

The Game Code amendments will be incorporated into this year’s hunting season regulations which are published in the Hunting Issue of the NJ Fish and Wildlife DIGEST. The 2011 Hunting Digest will be available at license agents the first week of September and on this website at the end of August.

For more information on the Game Code amendments, including a link to the full proposal document, visit http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2011/gamecode11-12_approved.htm on the division’s website.

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Big Rack Classic, LLC. Offers $125k in Cash and Prizes at Missouri’s First Big Rack Challenge

Big Rack Classic

Marthasville, Missouri –-(Ammoland.com)- Big Rack Classic, LLC introduces the Big Rack Challenge 2011, a big buck challenge to showcase Missouri’s whitetails.

Top honors in both the archery and firearms divisions will take home more than $15,000 in cash and prizes with the top 10 places in each category getting a cut of the $125,000 being awarded.

To be eligible for the Big Rack Challenge 2011, hunters must become members of the BRC, LLC prior to November 1, 2011. Any Missouri whitetail buck legally taken from September 15, 2011 –January 15, 2012 and scored by an official Boone & Crockett or Pope & Young scorer is eligible for entry. All bucks must be taken after membership fee is received and confirmed.

“For a first year event we are getting a lot of positive feedback; not only from members but our sponsors as well,” said Steve Molitor, co-founder of Big Rack Classic, LLC. “A membership into the BRC, LLC not only allows you to enter the Big Rack Challenge 2011, but many of our sponsors are offering discounts to members.”

In conjunction with the Big Rack Challenge 2011, BRC, LLC is hosting the Big Rack Jr. Challenge open to Missouri youth hunters, 15 years old and under. No membership is required. The top 10 bucks in the Jr. Challenge will win prizes.

“We also are donating to the youth hunting and conservation programs in Missouri like the NWTF’s JAKES program,” said Molitor.

All prizes will be awarded at a banquet to be held in Columbia, Missouri on April 14, 2012

For rules, eligibility and how to sign up for the Big Rack Challenge 2011 go to the website www.bigrackclassic.com/big-rack-challenge

For more information on Big Rack Classic, LLC go to www.bigrackclassic.com. Be sure to follow Big Rack Classic, LLC on Facebook, Facebook.com/Big-Rack-Classic-LLC and Twitter, Twitter.com/BIgRackClassic.

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