HUNTSVILLE, AL -

If you or someone you know uses a tree stand when hunting, before you head into the woods, make sure your tree stand has not been recalled.  The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Gander Mountain announced a voluntary recall of about 13,000 hang-on fixed position tree stands.

BRIDGEPORT, Ala. -

Fancy promotions and advertising hype don't mean squat if the product doesn't produce.  Tuesday at the Yamaha super-secret test lab here in this riverside community, the boating journalists got to see what all the fuss was about.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -

Most boating parents tell their kids they have to wear their life jacket because it's the law. However, getting young boaters to embrace life jackets just got a little easier with the 2010 BoatUS Foundation Life Jacket Loaner Program Wall Calendar

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -

USA Shooting is pleased to announce that pistol shooter Keith Sanderson (San Antonio, Texas) and shotgun shooter Kim Rhode (El Monte, Calif.) have been selected as the 2009 USAS Athletes of the Year.

Austin -

For Texans in search of convenient fishing, it doesn’t get much better than winter trout season in Texas.  From December through mid-March, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will stock more than 270,000 hatchery-reared rainbow trout at 120 sites across the state.

Lake Conroe -

The Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC), the professional bass fishing world championship, will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports this Saturday, November 21.

Athens -

The latest Toyota ShareLunker had a short ride to its new quarters at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center: It was caught from a private lake in Henderson County only a few miles away.

Austin -

For Texans in search of convenient fishing, it doesn’t get much better than winter trout season in Texas.  From December through mid-March, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will stock more than 270,000 hatchery-reared rainbow trout at 120 sites across the state.

Austin -

Chris Davis of Austin has received the prestigious Shikar-Safari Club International’s Wildlife Officer of the Year Award, awarded annually by the worldwide conservation organization to one wildlife law enforcement officer in each state.

USA -

Here's a quick rundown of the new engines, based on the presentation Monday evening, which are in production or will be by the end of the 2010 first quarter: