New Cabela’s Store To Open In Tulalip, WA

© By Othmar Vohringer

Cabela’s, The Worlds Foremost Outfitter® for hunting, fishing and other outdoor activity gear has announced the opening of a new store in Tulalip, WA. The opening is scheduled for Thursday, April 19 at 11 am. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is set at 10:45. Outdoor celebrities and other special guests will be present for the opening ceremony and the following weekend-long celebration.

The new store, the second Cabela’s in Washington State, is located within the Quil Ceda Village near Interstate 5 at, take exit 200 on to Quil Ceda Way east.

Cabela's has been my favourite hunting gear outfitter for many years. No matter where I am in North America there is always one of the currently 34 stores across the United States and Canada near by .

Spring is the air

© By Othmar Vohringer
(Originally published in the Merritt News: "Othmar Vohringer - The Outdoorsman")

March and April are for several reasons great times for me. The first is knowing that the winter soon will be over. Although having grown up in cold, snowy Switzerland I never liked it and I still don’t. As a hunter it also means that the spring hunting season is soon upon us.

March and April are also the two months where I do quite a bit of travelling to various hunting sports events with my seminars. The “seminar tour” kicks off with the BC Boat & Sportsmen’s show in Abbotsford, which is BC’s largest hunting and fishing sport show. It is at such events where I meet fellow outdoor enthusiasts from all walks of life and regardless of social backgrounds they’re like one big family sharing a common bond between each other that is not encumbered by state borders, language, race, age or gender.

PETA Unleashes Misguided Media Assault on D.Trump Sons African Hunt

© By Othmar Vohringer

Once again PeTA and other notorious animal rights groups use the celebrity status of hunters to launch their usual misguided media frenzies against hunters and hunting.

The following news has been supplied to me by US Sportsmen.org

Donald Jr.  and Eric Trump

Have you noted the growing trend in America? Citizens who go legally hunting and find success are finding themselves in the crosshairs of the animal rights lobby including groups such as PETA, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), or other “public opinion police” groups. You have to ask yourself “when did someone put PETA or HSUS in charge of what you do on vacation?” Read on.

When TV personality Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump, went hunting in Africa, they found success. Included among their memory makers were photos of them with a killed elephant and crocodile. They also reportedly killed a kudu and a waterbuck. It’s important to note that none of these species are endangered, and when taken by hunters the local residents obtain an instant source of food and a major economic boost. Hunting actually ensures that villagers value animals such as elephants which often do terrible damage to crops. Donald Trump, Jr. stated that the animals provided needed food in many Africa villages.

The gun registry is dead but gun control may get worse

(Originally published in the Merritt News)

© By Othmar Vohringer

When the bill to end the long-gun registry passed in the House of Commons there was a big cheer in the ranks of the Conservative party and from law-abiding firearm owners around the nation. Finally, the two billion dollar feel-good-legislation that did absolutely nothing to prevent firearm related crimes but, as Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said, “turned a whole way of life (hunting and sport shooting) into some kind of criminal conduct.”

I sat tensely on the edge of my chair as the news was read out on TV. The bill passed by a margin of 150 to 130 and now has to go to the Senate for final approval, where a Conservative majority will make sure of that. As expected, the Liberal MPs voted against the legislation and so did all but two MPs of the NDP. I’ve no doubt that these two brave NDPers will get a stern talking to from their party whips. As much as I wanted to celebrate the outcome of that positive result I couldn’t. The long-gun-registry may be dead and soon to be buried by the senate, but gun control will not be gone. In fact, there are a few loud and persistent voices that now demand that firearm licensing should be made much tougher to obtain. The gun registry is dead but gun control may get worse. At least that is if Dan Albas, the conservative MP of Okanagan-Coquihalla, the Liberals and the NDP have a say in the matter. Of course the new measures of gun control being put forward will do as little to keep guns out of criminals hand’s as the firearm registry did.