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John Barsness Awarded 2013 Bushnell Bill McRae Lifetime Achievement Award, January 16, 2013(Press release and images available at www.howardcommunications.com) Overland Park, KS. - Bushnell Outdoor Products established the Bushnell Bill McRae Lifetime Achievement Award to recognize the vast contributions the legendary writer and photojournalist made to the optics and outdoor industry during his 50-year career. Introduced in 2011, the annual award was established to both honor McRae and recognize current and future journalists who have made a profound impact in the industry. The 2013 Bushnell Bill McRae Lifetime Achievement Award recipient certainly fits that bill. During his 20-year career as a journalist and outdoor writer, John Barsness has been published in the majority of the hunting and shooting magazines on the market as well as in titles such as Sports Illustrated and National Geographic. As the first optics columnist for Petersen's Hunting, Barsness educated thousands of readers on the subject. In addition to the hundreds of published articles, John has authored 10 books on the outdoor experience, with a focus on hunting, shooting, fly fishing and optics, and has an 11th title on hunting optics scheduled to be released this fall. "It is a pleasure to join Bushnell in recognizing a fellow outdoorsman who has not only contributed individually, but who has helped many others throughout his career. John has dedicated his career to covering the outdoor experience while educating countless readers along the way," said Bill McRae. As a Montana native, John was introduced to hunting at an early age. He has hunted across North America as well as the Arctic and all the way to southern Africa. He resides in his home state of Montana with his wife and fellow author Eileen Clarke. Together, they publish their own books as well as the online hunting and shooting magazine Rifle Loony News. John is a staff writer for several hunting and shooting magazines, although he spends less time traveling now and more days afield in his home state hunting with family and friends. In addition to the industry award, Bushnell endowed a scholarship at the University of California, Davis for students pursuing a degree in optical science and engineering. The $7,500 annual scholarship at UC Davis, a nationally renowned optics institution, was the College of Engineering's first corporate-sponsored scholarship named for an individual. *** 'grats, JB. Steve.
"I was a deerhunter long before I was a man." ~Gene Wensel's Come November (2000)
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." ~Theodore Roosevelt
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CONGRATULATIONS!
We are lucky to have him as a member here.
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Cool Beans- and I know Bill is a freind of John's to boot!
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A well-deserved honor.
Congratulations John.
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4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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A well-deserved honor.
Congratulations John. + a bunch!
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
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Appreciate all that you have contributed.
Congratulations !
Jim
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what a great honor, and for such a good guy too.
Sam......
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NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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Congrats! Nice to see a good guy recognized.
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Amen - and well deserved, too.
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
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Congrats John!! Couldn't have been given to a better person....
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Way to go John! Congrads to Ya!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Turdlike, by default.
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Have Dog
Will Travel
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Well deserved.
I learned a lot from that guy and enjoyed every word of it.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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Let me add my congratulations to a nice guy! One of the few (very few) gun writers that I'll even read. A well deserved honor.
Last edited by MColeman; 01/16/13.
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 Sure influenced my reloading, and understanding of rifles, and optics. Anybody that can cut through that amount of dumb deserves several awards.
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congratulations and way to go John!
and, i think studying all of that art has really paid off, leading to "artistically executed firearms writing"...
all learning is like a funnel:
however, contrary to popular thought, one begins with the the narrow end.
the more you progress, the more it expands into greater discovery--and the less of an audience you will have...
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Congratulations, John! You "done good".
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them."
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