New trap shooting league starts a week from Tuesday. Open to the public. You do not need to be a member of Bull Creek to shoot!
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Thursday, May 7, 2020
‘WILDLIFE ON WIFI’ BRINGS OUTDOORS HOME
HARRISBURG, PA - While school buildings won’t reopen before the academic year ends, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is bringing wildlife education straight to students’ homes through a remote-learning campaign known as Wildlife on WiFi.
The campaign launched during National Environmental Education Week in late April and will continue through the end of the school year.
Wildlife on WiFi (WoW) provides parents, educators and students with wildlife-focused educational resources during these challenging times. It is comprised of three remote-learning resources:
- The Wildlife on WiFi remote learning hub offers dozens of home-based wildlife lessons and activities, nature-themed storybook readings, conservation-science videos, and livestream wildlife webcams. Through the end of Pennsylvania’s academic school year, the hub is updated each week with new activities.
- Regular social media-based activities and learning opportunities on the Game Commission’s Facebook page. These include regular “Wildlife Challenges” to engage the online community with fun, educational content.
- Live virtual events and guest lessons from Game Commission educators for Pennsylvania school groups.
The Wildlife on WiFi remote learning hub presents lessons, activities, videos, and live wildlife webcams in three themes:
- Wildlife Science: You see wildlife on state game lands, in parks, and even your backyard. But have you ever wondered how biologists ensure our state’s wildlife populations thrive? Find out with this collection of lessons and videos.
- Discover Backyard Wildlife: You do not have to visit one of Pennsylvania’s state game lands or parks to view wildlife. It can be discovered at your doorstep! Check out this group of lessons for ways to explore wildlife right in your backyard.
- Celebrate Pennsylvania Birds: They flock, roost, fly, wade, and waddle! They also are some of our favorite members of the Pennsylvania wildlife family. Celebrate Pennsylvania birds with this collection of lessons and activities.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Saturday, November 9, 2019
National Wild Turkey Federation Hunting Heritage Banquet
Register now for the annual National Wild Turkey Federation Hunting Heritage Banquet on January 24th, 2020. The banquet will be at the Springdale Veterans Association at 1151 Pittsburgh St., Springdale, PA 15144. Save the date! A great time is had by all!! For more information or to RSVP call Mike Zourellas at
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
RIP, Club Member Chester Hibbs
To All,
With sadness and with a heavy heart, we report that our dear friend and dedicated member Chester Hibbs has passed after his long and gallant fight with cancer.
His loving family was at his side through his last hours.
I ask that you all keep Chester along with his wife Judy, his children and grandchildren in your thoughts and prayers. And May Our Heavenly Father, grant Chester Eternal Peace.
REST IN PEACE CHESTER
We will pass along any arrangements when I receive them.
Sunday, July 7, 2019
July 27th 2019 PA Hunter Safety Course At Bull Creek Now Registering!
Our Next course will be Offered on Saturday July 27th from 8AM to 4:00 PM. You may register for the class by clicking here. |
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All Hunter Education classes MUST be registered for online. Click Here To Register for July 27th 2019 basic class
These Classes are FREE, but you must pre-register. Space is limited! Please register early!
Lunch and refreshments will be supplied by Bull Creek!!
Bull Creek Rod and Gun Club's Hunter-Trapper Education classes are held twice a year, in early spring and mid summer. Our last class was held in March, 2018. Classes are taught by 4 or 5 certified instructors who are both Bull Creek club members and trained by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Plus, volunteers from the club and community assist the instructors with presentations offered in:
- History of Hunter-Trapper Education in Pa.
- Knowledge of sporting arms, ammunition, and traps.
- Safe handling of sporting arms and trapping equipment
- Wildlife Conservation and Management
- Wildlife Identification
- Hunting and trapping laws
- Hunter-Trapper/Landowner relations and ethics
- Safe Clothing
- Outdoor Safety (Emergency first aid and survival)
- Field care of game
- Game Law presentation by Game Commission Officers
- Range Instruction
- Walk through shoot/don't shoot course
- Archery Demonstration
- Tree Stand Demonstration
Eligibility: Student must be 11 years of age or higher to register and receive a training certificate. You MUST have completed this mandatory training and have reached at least 12 years of age to hunt in Pennsylvania.
Call 1-800-243-8519 to reach the Southwest Region Office in Ligonier, PA, for other
class schedules near you.
THESE COURSES ARE FREE!
Read a testimonial:
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Pennsylvania: Sunday Hunting Legislation Passes Senate, Moves to House
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On June 26th, the Pennsylvania state Senate voted 36-14 to pass Senate Bill 147. Your NRA would like to thank all of the Senators who voted in favor of this important pro-hunting reform bill. It will now go to the House of Representatives for further consideration. Please contact your state Representative and strongly urge them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 147.
Senate Bill 147, sponsored by Senator Dan Laughlin, would expand hunting opportunities for Pennsylvania hunters by providing for three additional days of hunting on Sundays. This legislation would allow hunters more time to take part in one of America’s oldest traditions. Further, hunters are responsible for millions of habitat restoration and conservation dollars through Pittman-Robertson taxes paid on firearms and other hunting equipment. Hunters should have access to hunting lands made possible by these funds.
Many hunters are prevented from introducing their children or friends to hunting because it is difficult to find the time and opportunities to hunt outside of the work or school week. Countless hunters stop hunting because of this lack of opportunity. Senate Bill 147 seeks to increase Pennsylvania hunters’ ability to enjoy our hunting heritage and will improve hunter recruitment and retention efforts.
Again, please contact your state Representative and urge them to SUPPORT Senate Bill 147.
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Saturday, June 15, 2019
PA Hunting Licenses Go On Sale This Monday June 17th
BEAR HUNTERS
Modifications for the 2019 seasons include expanding the mid-October muzzleloader and special firearms deer seasons to include bears statewide; increasing to two weeks the length of the statewide archery bear season and shifting it to the two weeks following the muzzleloader and special firearms bear seasons; and expanding 4-day extended bear seasons to seven days in most wildlife management units (WMUs) where they are held.
Regular Firearms (Statewide) Nov. 23 & Nov. 25-27, 2019
Archery (Statewide) Oct. 28- Nov. 9, 2019
WMUs 2B, 5C & 5D Sept. 21-Nov. 29, 2019
WMU 5B Oct. 5-Nov. 16, 2019
Muzzleloader (Statewide) Oct. 19-26, 2019
Special Firearms (Statewide) Oct. 24-26, 2019
Extended Season
WMUs 2B, 5B, 5C & 5D Nov.30-Dec.14, 2019
WMUs 1B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E & 5A Nov. 30-Dec. 7, 2019
Saturday, April 6, 2019
2019 Valley Trap League Schedule
2019 Valley Trap League Schedule
The public is welcome!
Valley League: The Valley League consists of 6 clubs roughly located along the Allegheny River valley north and east of Pittsburgh, PA. It's a 20 week league that starts April 9th, 2019 and ends with a presentation shoot September 7th, 2019. You do not have to be a member of a club to shoot in the league for that club.
The clubs involved are Bull Creek Rod and Gun, West View Sportsmen, South Buffalo Sportsmen, Tarentum Sportsmen, Ford City Sportsmen and Frazier Sportsmen. The shoots are every Tuesday evening, with sign-ups from 4:30pm to 8:00pm.
Costs: program - $10.00, Junior (under 18) - $5.00, Practice: - $8.00
Program shoots 50 targets from 16 Yards.
You do not need to be a member of Bull Creek to shoot for Bull Creek!
2019 VALLEY TRAP LEAGUE SCHEDULE
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Sunday, February 17, 2019
PA Orange rules changes get preliminary approval | Bob Frye
Fall turkey hunters might soon no longer have to wear or post orange in Pennsylvania.
Photo: Howard Communications
Photo: Howard Communications
This is proving the exception so far.
In January, Pennsylvania Game Commissioners preliminarily changed the opening day of the statewide firearms deer season, expanded bear hunting seasons, shortened fall turkey seasons and more.
All generated talk, some of it loud.
But not this.
Commissioners at their last meeting also preliminarily reduced how much fluorescent orange hunters have to wear, and when.
And the response from hunters?
“Crickets,” said commissioner Brian Hoover of Chester County of the silence.
Commissioners have talked about changing the rules for more than a year. Word was out that they were going to do something last month.
Still, they said they received no hunter feedback. Agency staff likewise heard nothing from sportsmen.
Under the proposal adopted — which must get final approval at the board’s April 8-9 meeting to go into effect on July 1 – there are two real changes.
First, archers, whether chasing deer or bear, would not have to wear orange at all, even when moving in or out of the woods. They would not need to post orange around their stand either.
Second, fall turkey hunters wouldn’t have to wear fluorescent orange material either, while moving or when set up.
Commissioner Scott Foradora of Clearfield County said the commission would “highly recommend” that both archers and turkey hunters wear orange while moving, especially at those times when their seasons overlap with others involving firearms.
But the board doesn’t want to require it.
Or, at least, most of the board doesn’t.
The rules changes didn’t pass unanimously. The vote was 7-1, with commissioner Jim Daley of Butler County registering an emphatic “no.”
A long-time hunter education instructor, Daley objected most vociferously to the elimination of orange requirements for fall turkey hunting.
Up until now, fall turkey hunters wore 250 square inches of orange while moving, and placed an orange band around a nearby tree when stationary.
Daley wanted at least some, if not all, of those requirements to remain.
“Why is turkey hunting different? Well, turkey’s different because I sit there and I make turkey sounds with a turkey call. So in many ways I’m imitating the game animal that I’m trying to pursue. The other thing is, while I’m imitating that game animal I may be working a box call so now I’ve added movement to that,” he said.
“That’s what adds danger. That’s why turkey is different.”
He shared the story of 24-year-old widow he met. Her husband was shot in the eye at 24 feet by a 60-year-old hunter. The younger hunter died, and his wife, the cousin he was hunting with, the older hunter who shot him and a 13-year-old accompanying him are all dealing with the consequences,
“Had (the victim) had an orange hat on, that would not have happened,” Daley said.
The majority of the board, though, disagreed.
In explaining their vote, they cited the fact there are fewer hunters in the woods chasing turkeys, and they’re usually using shotguns as opposed to rifles. It’s hard to hunt turkeys while wearing orange, they added, as the birds see color.
Their prime motivation, though, was simplification.
By the commission’s own admission, its rules regarding the wearing of orange are among the most complex anywhere. Even with the changes, the state would still be “one of the most restrictive” in the nation.”
Eleven states require no orange. Ten require it only when hunting big game, and 20 more only when hunting big game with a firearm.
The other nine, including Pennsylvania, “have a mixture of instances in which it is required.”
The commission wants to make things easier for everyone to understand, said commissioner Charlie Fox of Bradford County, who started the whole effort to address the orange rules.
This puts more of an onus on the hunter, he said.
“It’s personal responsibility,” Fox said.
The new rules wouldn’t totally eliminate the need to wear orange.
Hunters in deer, bear, elk firearms seasons, small game season, and those hunting coyotes during daylight hours within open deer, bear or elk firearms seasons, would still need 250 square inches of orange material on the head, chest and back combined, visible from 360 degrees, at all times. Woodchuck hunters would still need an orange hat.
Hunters pursuing deer, bear or elk from an enclosed blind would still be required to post a minimum amount of orange nearby, too.
All of those rules exist now.
Bob Frye is the everybodyadventures.com editor. Reach him at 412-838-5148 or bfrye@535mediallc.com. See other stories, blogs, videos and more at everybodyadventures.com.
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