2013 ANNUAL SASI RAFFLE

The 2013 Annual SASI Raffle is under way.  The Tickets are $5 each, or 5 tickets for $20.  The Drawing for the prizes will take place at the National Hunting and Fishing Day Expo in Ridge on Saturday, September 28, 2013.

For raffle tickets and information click on the link below.

 

2013sasiraffle.pdf (595.81 kb)

YOUTH HUNTING PROGRAMS IN SUFFOLK COUNTY

Youth Pheasant Hunting

Any youth hunter (ages 12-15)  who posesses a NYS small game license, and accompanied by a licensed adult hunter may participate in this year's youth pheasant hunt on October 27 & 28..  Only the youth hunter is eligible to carry a firearm.  Contact the DEC at the Stonybrook office for more information. 444-0350

Youth Waterfowl Hunting

Likewise, Any youth hunter (ages 12-15) may participate in Youth Waterfowl hunting on November 10-11 when accompanied by a licensed adult.  Again, Only the youth hunter can carry a firearm. 

 

The Special YOUTH TURKEY HUNT Occurs in the Spring 

Requirements to take part in the Suffolk County youth turkey hunt include:

  • Hunters must be 12-15 years of age, must have completed a Hunter Education course, and must have both a junior hunting license and a turkey permit.
  • Youth 12-13 years of age must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or adult over 21 years of age, with written permission from their parent or legal guardian. Youth 14-15 years of age must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or adult over 18 years of age, with written permission from their parent or legal guardian.
  • The accompanying adult must have a current hunting license and turkey permit. The adult may assist the youth hunter (including calling), but may not carry a firearm or bow, or kill or attempt to kill a wild turkey during the youth hunt.
  • Shooting hours are from one-half hour before sunrise to noon each day.
  • The bag limit for the youth weekend is one bearded bird. This bird becomes part of the youth's regular season (upstate) bag limit of 2 bearded birds. A second bird may be taken beginning May 1 in upstate New York.
  • All other wild turkey hunting regulations are in effect.

 

Public hunting opportunities for youth turkey hunt in Suffolk County include the following DEC Managed Lands:

  • Otis Pike Preserve
  • Rocky Point Natural Resources Management Area
  • Westhampton Management Area
  • West Tiana
  • Barcelona Neck
  • Sarnoff Pine Barrens Preserve

 

A seasonal access permit will be required to hunt on the Sarnoff Pine Barrens Preserve, Barcelona Neck state lands, Westhampton Management Area, West Tiana, Otis Pike Preserve and the Rocky Point Natural Resources Management Area during the spring youth turkey hunt on Long Island.   The East Hampton Cooperative Area is not open for the spring youth turkey hunt.  

  • You DO NOT need to report to the Check Station on the morning that you wish to hunt Parking areas will be filled on a first-come first-served basis.  Permittees must park at numbered parking areas only if the site quota is not filled.  Site quotas can be found on the area maps and are posted at each parking site. 
  • All vehicles must be parked in appropriate designated parking areas with vehicle pass visible through the windshield.
  • Permittees shall have access only to lands situated on the same side of the road as the permittee's parking site. 
  • Parking is prohibited from 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour before sunrise at all hunter parking areas

 

 

 

 

Seasonal access permits may be obtained in person at the Sporting License Office in Stony Brook, or call the office at 631-444-0273 to have an application mailed to you.  In addition, applications for access permits are available from NYSDEC’s website at http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/40414.html.  Seasonal access permits are free and valid for three years.

 

 

For more information on hunting seasons and regulations, please visit the DEC website at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/hunting.html. For tips and further details on regulations on turkey hunting, contact DEC regional wildlife office at (631) 444-0310 or visit: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/32162.html.

 

 

Maps for DEC-Managed Lands may be found at http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/40399.html

National Hunting and Fishing Day

SASI's Annual National Hunting and Fishing Day Expo was held at the Hunter Check Station in Ridge on Saturday, September 22, 2012.  Highlights of the day included the second Annual Children's Fishing Derby, (with prizes and free pumpkins for the children), and free archery target shooting (with instruction as needed). Our ECO friends from the DEC were running the fishing derby, and the archery venue was once again provided by our friends from Smith Point Archery. Among the other Demonstrations and events which occurred during the show were pointer and retriever dog handling exhibitions, black powder demonstrations, Cavalry Horsemanship, duck decoys and carving demos, taxidermy displays , trapping displays, and fly-fishing and casting techniques. To all our exhibitors and participants, a hearty thanks from SASI for helping to make this year's National Hunting and Fishing Day a memorable one for the hundreds of young and old alike who were there to enjoy and celebrate the outdoors.      

NRA BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS, SUBMITTED BY GARY, but posted

Folks:
Those of you, who have been SASI or NCFGA members, for a while, know that, annually, we provide our members with recommendations, concerning those who, in our opinion, are the best choices, for the NRA board.
       For those reading this list, for the first time and who may not be familiar with SASI or NCFGA, they are, respectively, the county sportsmen's/women's federations, in and for Suffolk and Nassau Counties, in NY.
       Please feel free to distribute this list, as far and wide as you deem appropriate. The more people who understand what this election is about, the better chance we have of improving NRA's BoD, now and in the future.
This year, as in the last several years, we have the great pleasure of advising you that the recommendation list was jointly compiled, by both organizations, as well as the fact that both organizations concur, on all recommendations. Our criteria is stringent, because we believe you should have only the best qualified, on the NRA board.
Our choices are made from among those candidates, whom we feel best represent the interests of the membership of NRA, not necessarily those who are picked by the NRA's Nominating Committee or those who the NRA's officers might like to see on NRA's board.
NRA is a major corporation, growing and becoming more complex, every year. Dues income, alone, produces more than $185,000,000, each year. Add to that, the income of the NRA Foundation, the NRA Endowment, NRA-ILA, product sales, investment income and NRA's broadcasting network, plus other, "miscellaneous" items and you have a corporation, the annual budget and assets of which are at or approaching a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000), per year. That's bigger than many of the "name brand" corporations and larger than most firearms manufacturers.
The purpose of a Board of Directors is to set policy, for the corporation, which is, implemented, by the officers of that corporation. Directors must be able to evaluate, influence and understand the short-term and long-term, national and international ramifications of the multimillion dollar decisions they make. Those directors must, therefore, possess appropriate academic and experience qualifications. Being a "nice person" or a "qualified and dedicated shooter" do not, of themselves, make one qualified, to manage a major business operation.
In NRA's case, all directors are unpaid (except for expenses) and all officers and other employees are paid. NRA senior officers are, typically, paid six figure salaries, per year. They are paid, to be officers, full time. To allow any of them to also become directors would involved considerable conflict of interest. Consequently, for that reason and that reason only, we have never endorsed a sitting NRA officer or other NRA employee, for the board.
NRA's needs, this year, as in many years past, are for qualified, executive talent. Consequently, only candidates with academic and/or practical experience, in business management, finance, law, influence gathering and/or with significant, national recognition or political prestige, should be considered. Those candidates, with professional or educational criteria, such as MBAs, LLBs/JDs, CPAs, ChFCs, etc. and/or qualifying experience, i.e.: managing substantial business entities, at the executive levels, are what NRA needs most, for the business management side of the operations. Next, are those with national political recognition and national respect, who know how to get things completed, in the political arena.
It's a tough set of criteria, for making choices and, sometimes, it requires that folks, who we may like, personally, don't get our recommendation, solely for lack of the best educational or experience credentials.
NRA is, no longer, just a competitive shooting organization, with nothing to manage, except match schedules and match rules. Today, almost every program NRA implements involves millions of dollars. We need people who properly understand the best ways of doing that. The NRA's board has, because of smart voting, gained a little, most years. That pattern needs to continue and to be encouraged.
You are not required to vote for the maximum of 25 candidates and, in those years when we cannot recommend 25, we strongly suggest that you not vote for all you can. By voting for others, just to round out your 25, you are diluting the votes, for the strongest candidates and, at the same time, sending a message that you will consider and accept less than the best candidates. This is one of the few years, in which we can recommend a full 25 qualified candidates, for whom to vote.
SASI's and NCFGA's joint recommendations, in alphabetical order, are:
William H. Allen
Thomas P. Arvas
Clel Baudler
David E. Bennett
J. Kenneth Blackwell
Dan Boren
J. William Carter
Ted W. Carter
Anthony J. Chimblo, III
Patricia Clark
Allan D. Cors
Charles L. Cotton
David G. Coy
Erik Estrada
Joel Friedman
James Gilmore, III
Roy Innis
Curtis S. Jenkins
Eddie Newman
Timothy W. Pawol
Peter Printz
Steven C. Schreiner
Tom Selleck
Leroy Sisco
and
Linda Walker.