Safari Club International and Havalon Knives Announce Corporate Partnership
Safari Club International 01.02.14
This December, Safari Club International and Havalon Knives entered into a new corporate partnership. According to SCI President Craig Kauffman, “We are both honored and privileged to have a company like Havalon Knives support Safari Club International and our mission of furthering hunters’ rights and conservation around the globe.”
Havalon Knives is the home of the Piranta and Baracuta knives with the quick-change “crazy-sharp” blades, the sharpest knives for hunting, field dressing, skinning and filleting. Hunters, trappers, professional guides and wildlife officers have raved about these lightweight field dressing and skinning knives with the easily replaceable, surgically-sharp blades–the same blades that taxidermists have been buying from Havalon Knives for more than 25 years.
“Havalon Knives is proud to become a corporate partner with Safari Club International,” said John Barrett, Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “For more than 40 years, SCI has been a leader in the hunting industry. Their focus on protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation is unmatched in the industry and that is why this partnership was so important to the Havalon team. At Havalon, we are focused on creating the highest quality knives in order to help outdoorsmen and women have safe memorable hunts. The common goal of growing a safe sustainable environment for hunters around the world is a bond that should prove to make this partnership strong for many years ahead.”
For more information on Havalon knives, visit www.havalon.com. For more information on all Safari Club International programs, contact the headquarters office, 520-620-1220, or visit www.safariclub.org.
Protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation, SCI’s two areas of focus, historically has been the interest of hundreds of individuals long before SCI was established. But how did SCI as an organization begin?
Forty years ago, there were many safari clubs across the country made up of local, unaffiliated groups of hunters. One such was Safari Club of Los Angeles, which was formed in April 1971 by forty-seven individuals. In early 1972, an out-of-towner from a similar club in Chicago attended one of the monthly Wednesday night meetings, and it was decided that the L.A. club should attempt to combine with the one in Chicago to make it an affiliated chapter. The founder of Safari Club of Los Angeles, C.J. McElroy, went to the Windy City and instituted the new chapter.
Eleven months after the formation of Safari Club of Los Angeles, on March 9, 1972, the name was changed officially to Safari Club International. SCI continued to reach out to other independent safari clubs throughout the United States in an effort to combine them into a single overall organization.
Today, interest in SCI’s two primary missions has grown a worldwide network. Subsequent involvement and promotion of these missions is rooted in each of our 55,000 members, supported through each of our 190 membership chapters found across the globe, and put into action by government representatives and personnel both nationally and internationally.
In this way, we can encourage an appreciation for nature and wildlife so that conservation efforts remain strong, while also fighting to protect our rich hunting heritage. Big changes can be achieved through the endeavors of many who are united in a mission – the mission of Safari Club International.
