SCI Welcomes SportEAR
Safari Club International 08.11.14
Safari Club International is pleased to announce that SportEAR has signed on as a corporate sponsor.
“We are proud to renew our commitment to the Safari Club International organization and support their mission to protect our freedom to hunt and enjoy the outdoors fully, and as we see fit.” Said Weston Harris, Founder and President of SportEAR. “Supporting SCI and its members has always been a number one priority to SportEAR. We have developed so many great friendships through this organization and look forward to many more! SportEAR will always be a strong supporter of the SCI cause.”
SportEAR has been manufacturing the world’s most advanced hearing enhancement and protection instruments for over 12 years. SportEAR based its innovative designs on the needs of hunters and shooters in the field. Being lifelong hunters, the SportEAR team knows what it takes to stand up to the rugged environments and demanding situations outdoorsmen and women endure and have created a unique line of products that enhance and protect hearing at the same time.
“Safari Club International is fortunate to have corporate partners such as SportEAR,” said Phil DeLone, CEO of SCI. “Their dedication to our hunting heritage and their commitment to furthering the mission of SCI world wide makes them a perfect complement to the Safari Club philosophy.”
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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.
