I just got this and as I didn't see it posted anywhere in the 7 pages of SCI comments I thought I would here.



SCI Suspends Booking Agency Launch

Yesterday, The Hunting Report reported that Safari Club International had created its own hunting and adventure travel booking agency to be launched this coming October. As that news bulletin was distributed, SCI’s Executive Committee was reviewing whether to continue with those plans, and late yesterday distributed a press release announcing that SCI Outdoors had been suspended pending further review. Here is what the press release says:


Safari Club International created SCI Outdoors in the spring of 2014. SCI Outdoors’ goal is to recruit new hunters to the organization from non-traditional, non-endemic markets in the United States and elsewhere. The SCI Executive Committee feels that this new business venture holds strong promise to stimulate new membership in an increasingly difficult market. As a grassroots organization dedicated to hunter advocacy and wildlife conservation, SCI’s strength is founded on members, and by increasing membership we increase our effectiveness to represent all hunters.


Over the past few weeks, many SCI members, outfitters, guides, and agents have expressed their interest, vision, frustrations, and excitement for SCI Outdoors. To address all of the input from SCI’s members on SCI Outdoors, it has been decided that the program will be suspended indefinitely so that future evaluation and consultation with the members, outfitters, guides, and agents can proceed in a constructive manner over time. We want to ensure that all member’s comments and concerns are considered before proceeding further with the program.

I saw that too and hope it is their way of trying to save face and just dump this idea.

"SCI Outdoors had been suspended pending further review"

Hopefully as someone already pointed out...hopefully this doesn't mean the rollout will be delayed till after the Convention.

We need an amputation, not this bandaid on this terrible and ill conceived idea. Until it is in writing that this deal is dead, never to be revived, my support through donations is withdrawn.

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Over the past few weeks, many SCI members, outfitters, guides, and agents have expressed their interest, vision, frustrations, and excitement for SCI Outdoors.

More spin than CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC combined!!!!!

Guys as I stated in the other thread this one is dead on arrival. Most of the EC is not interested in further pursuit of the venture.

Brett

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Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
Guys as I stated in the other thread this one is dead on arrival. Most of the EC is not interested if further pursuit of the venture.

Brett

Brett,

I am sure glad they came to their senses at last.

But, why did they UNANIMOUSLY vote for it in the first place??

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
Guys as I stated in the other thread this one is dead on arrival. Most of the EC is not interested if further pursuit of the venture.

Brett

Brett,

I am sure glad they came to their senses at last.

But, why did they UNANIMOUSLY vote for it in the first place??

I thought it was mentioned earlier that the SCI Outdoors idea was buried in a 100 page document and slipped the attention of 147 members.

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I thought it was mentioned earlier that the SCI Outdoors idea was buried in a 100 page document and slipped the attention of 147 members.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
Guys as I stated in the other thread this one is dead on arrival. Most of the EC is not interested if further pursuit of the venture.

Brett

Brett,

I am sure glad they came to their senses at last.

But, why did they UNANIMOUSLY vote for it in the first place??

Honestly.....I think more than a few people's butts got burned with "rubber stamp-itis". Lame excuse, but honestly I think that's the truth for most of the EC and likely all of the board. When it was presented they assumed the proposition was thoroughly vetted and OBVIOUSLY it was not! I think this was a bit of a wake up call for a few EC and board members of the perils of rubber stamping agenda items in a meeting.

Brett

I go back to 147 people. That's almost as crazy as the US House of Representatives and sh$t being buried in legislation. It makes me sick.

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Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
I think this was a bit of a wake up call for a few EC and board members of the perils of rubber stamping agenda items in a meeting.

Brett

I hope, but I doubt it will be the last instance of crap like this from these dim-wits!

...............................Stand by! Fire in the hole! ...........

In my mind, it will only be DEAD, when SCI says so in writing. Suspended means suspended. Kind of like being in a coma, you could come to life again at any time. I need to get this in writing, or our donation plan stays firm. Any group who could give birth to such a poor idea, could get pregnant again in the future. In writing!

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could get pregnant again

Hahahaha!

SCI has been getting pregnant with illegitimate children for a loooong time

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
In my mind, it will only be DEAD, when SCI says so in writing. Suspended means suspended. Kind of like being in a coma, you could come to life again at any time. I need to get this in writing, or our donation plan stays firm. Any group who could give birth to such a poor idea, could get pregnant again in the future. In writing!

They're meeting soon, so we may see something more definitive in writing soon.

Brett

SCI Big Wigs coming up with anything positive ranks right up there with WE ARE FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT AND WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU!