Episode 39 — Getting started in handloading
After catching up on some current events, NY Outdoor News
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New York gun show promoter, Sandy Ackerman, retires (sort-of)
When the Syracuse Gun Show takes place in April, there will be a new person calling the shots. But for those familiar with the New York State Arms Collectors Association Inc., it won’t be an unfamiliar face.
After more that 40 years with the NYSACA, and nearly two decades of promoting large-scale gun shows in Albany and Syracuse, Sandy Ackerman is retiring as show promoter and board member of the organization. She, and the group’s board members, have also decided to fold the organization. The show, or shows, however will go on.
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Dan Ladd: Let’s get back to the NRA we used to know
I’ve been an NRA member for most of my adult life. A winter home project (spanning a few winters now) of organizing my book and magazine library has resulted in the rediscovery of some older NRA publications like American Hunter and American Rifleman.
A quick glance through some of these from the 1980s and 1990s (and even older) reflects a much different NRA than the organization that has found itself, fairly or not, in AG James’ crosshairs.
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Episode 38 — From Lake George to Alaska (and back) with Capt. JJ
In the spring of 2022, Lake George charter boat Capt.
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New York’s holiday-week hunt provides dedicated young hunter with his first deer
Paul Trackey’s interest in hunting has had more significance on a bunch of long-in-the-tooth deer hunters than one might imagine. That would be our crew – the Iron Sight Gang – which surely has a generation gap.
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Dan Ladd: Is coyote contest ban just the start for anti-hunters in New York?
Reading Gov. Kathy Hochul’s press release announcing her signing legislation that bans coyote hunting contests, among others, it’s included supporters/commenters reads like a “who’s who” list of anti-hunters.
Of course, no one from the hunting community was included, or likely even consulted on this decision, even though Gary Muthig, of the Federation of Sportsmen Clubs of Sullivan County, told me he’d been trying for months to get Hochul’s attention before the bill even came to her desk.
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Episode 37 — Tim Andrus of Rush Outdoors
With the sport show season approaching, host Dan Ladd welcomes
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Dan Ladd: Who won in recent court decisions on New York gun laws? Depends on who you ask
Depending on where you get your news from, New York’s gun owners are either big losers or big winners following the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel decisions on New York’s gun laws. These all have to do with individual challenges through lawsuits against certain provisions in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2022 Concealed Carry Improvement Act.
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Episode 36 — Leo Maloney and the New York State Outdoor Writers Association
This episode starts with a quick update from host Dan Ladd on New York’s latest legislative issues, including the recently passed coyote contest ban and injunctions on parts of the Concealed Carry Improvement Act. Then comes highlights from a recent NYS Outdoor Writers Association virtual meeting with long-time member Leo Maloney, of Central New York,
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