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Which is better? Safari Club International Convention vs. Dallas Safari Club Convention

• Thread starter tigris115
• Start date Jan 7, 2021

Safari Club International Convention or Dallas Safari Club Convention?

Sci convention, dsc convention.

• Total voters 11

• Jan 7, 2021

So if I were only able to attend one big game hunting convention, which one would it be based on panels, floors, people there, atmosphere, etc.? I'd ideally like to hear from people who've been to both a few times.  

• PHOENIX PHIL

Both are great shows and I’d say you’d enjoy either. But there’s a difference in the atmosphere that is somewhat difficult to pin down exactly. DSC: Blue jeans, cold beer, maybe a pinch or two of Copenhagen and the well earned Texas reputation for great hospitality. SCI: City boy like at times, more stuffy. Red wine and fine dining comes to mind. At the same time in sleazy Las Vegas or sleazier Reno (this will change in the future). More expensive to attend. Again both are great shows, but if forced to pick one over the other, I’ll take Dallas.  

Tbh, I also found Vegas quite boring the one time I've been there. I was 13 so that could have played a part in it but even as a 25 year old now, I'd rather hang out in Dallas then Vegas/Reno.  

The show in Dallas is a lot smaller and it is also much less expensive. In addition to much higher daily fees you also have to buy a membership for SCI if not already a member. Dallas is very nice. However, for a visitor, you have access to many restaurants, shows, shops, gambling (if you are into it) etc. at Las Vegas within walking distance . Accommodations are also better in quality and quantity at Vegas.  

Tanks said: The show in Dallas is a lot smaller and it is also much less expensive. In addition to much higher daily fees you also have to buy a membership for SCI if not already a member. Dallas is very nice. However, for a visitor, you have access to many restaurants, shows, shops, gambling (if you are into it) etc. at Las Vegas within walking distance . Accommodations are also better in quality and quantity at Vegas. Click to expand...

That is true most likely. I went to DSC last year, but not SCI at Reno (the place is a sh*thole) I went to SCI every year it was in Vegas and was planning on both this year before cancellations.  

I've only been to DSC, but it was worth every dime! A great show in my opinion.  

How come SCI moved from Vegas to Reno? Also in terms of Vegas's attractions, I don't like gambling and I'm one of the 4 or 6 teetotalers here.  

• Feb 19, 2021

The 2022 SCI will be in Las Vegas the same week as the SHOT Show. I usually do the SHOT Show as media so I’m hoping to catch part of the SCI convention.  

Same week as SHOT show? Wow, better make hotel reservations now.  

Jason Miller

Ive gone to both for many years, 2018 was my last year to attend SCI, too expensive and I much prefer the atmosphere of DSC.  

• Feb 20, 2021

Have been to DSC many times over the past 25 years. Never been to SCI and have no interest in Las Vegas. (Don't gamble and drink only a little). Love Dallas and have made lots of friends there over the years. I was truly disappointed that DSC was cancelled this year. Hope that never happens again.  

• Happy Myles

They are both excellent conventions. I prefer the Dallas Show. Among the reasons, it is the first such convention of the year so the exhibitors are not jaded or booked up early in their convention season. I have made so many friends internationally over the decades it is good to get together early and enjoy our company before they are worn out. This is hard work for them booking their annual income stream.  

Hunting Hitman

Well I have been to both shows multiple times(I only attend SCI show when in Las Vegas) and they are both good shows. The Las Vegas SCI show is far superior to the Dallas show in both size and scope. The hotel and dining accommodations are second to none and the significant others in your life have plenty to do and enjoy themselves much more than in Dallas.  

We prefer Dallas.  

I like both organizations. Dallas seems to be more open to everyone. Their convention, last I heard, is open to everyone if there a member or not. While SCI’s convention is only open to members. Also it depends on where you live. for me I live closer to SCI and where they do their conventions. If I lived closer to Dallas I would probably be a member with them. For me I like both organizations. They both fight to protect our hunting heritage and Africa.  

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After all of the cancellations in 2021, I know I am not alone in welcoming the show back in 2022. We are very pleased to announce Westley Richards & Co. will be back attending the Dallas Safari Club Hunter’s Convention and Expo this week helping the club celebrate its 40th.

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As usual, Dallas Safari Club will be the first hunting convention of the new year, held this week Thursday January 6 th through Sunday the 9 th at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. While this convention has historically been smaller in size than Safari Club International’s hunting convention, the DSC’s show has grown exponentially in the last decade, now contending with the SCI show in number of vendors and attendees. Along with routinely being the first show of the year, Dallas makes an excellent venue and city for such an event, adding to the success of this show and making it a favorite among vendors and patrons alike.

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Despite the last several weeks bringing increased concern surrounding the Omicron variant of COVID-19, DSC has assured us, the show will not be cancelled. With even more good news coming on Christmas Eve, the Biden administration is lifting travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month, including Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, an Zimbabwe, all of which are, important safari destinations. The travel ban will be lifted December 31st , just in time for safari operators from these countries to attend. In a segment of the industry that has dealt with mounting pressure from all sides, and hit especially hard during last year’s travel closures, this is a welcome development indeed.

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Protesters are taking aim at hunting permit auctions in post-Cecil world.

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Billed as the "Ultimate Hunters' Market," the annual Safari Club International auction offers chances to hunt at least 600 animals in 32 countries in Africa, Europe, Oceana, and the Americas—77 of the hunts are in the U.S. The ongoing, five-day auction and convention event is expected to draw 20,000 bidders to Las Vegas, as well as many more potential buyers online. It will also likely raise millions of dollars. Last year, the club brought in $2.7 million from the auction of 317 hunts.

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SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL V. DEBRA HAALAND, No. 21-35030 (9th Cir. 2022)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the “Service”) published the Kenai Rule, codifying its ban on baiting Kenai Refuge brown bears and its closing of the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area (“Skilak WRA”) to certain animals. The court held that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (“ANILCA”) preserved the federal government’s plenary power over public lands in Alaska. The court rejected Plaintiffs’ arguments that the Service exceeded its statutory authority in enacting the Kenai Rule. The court held that while the Alaska Statehood Act transferred the administration of wildlife from Congress to the State, the transfer did not include lands withdrawn or set apart as refuges or reservations for the protection of wildlife, like the Kenai Refuge. Next, the court held that Plaintiff’s assertion that the Service could preempt the State’s hunting regulations on federal lands in Alaska was unsupported by the law. Further, the court rejected Safari Club’s contention that the Skilak WRA aspect of the Kenai Rule violated the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 (“Improvement Act”). The court held that The Improvement Act did not require the Service to allow all State-sanctioned hunting throughout the Kenai Refuge. Moreover, the court rejected Plaintiffs’ arguments that the Service violated the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) by acting arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing the Kenai Rule. Finally, the court rejected Plaintiffs’ two-part National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) argument. The panel concluded that there was no basis for reversal.

Court Description: Environmental Law. The panel affirmed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the “Service”) in cases brought by the State of Alaska and Safari Club International (“plaintiffs”) alleging that the Service violated federal environmental laws by enacting the Kenai Rule, which limits certain hunting practices approved by the State in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near Anchorage, Alaska. * The Honorable Jennifer G. Zipps, United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation. 6 SAFARI CLUB INT’L V. HAALAND In May 2016, the Service published a final rule – the Kenai Rule – codifying its ban on baiting of Kenai Refuge brown bears, and its closing of the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area (“Skilak WRA”) to coyote, wolf, and lynx hunts. The panel held that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (“ANILCA”) preserved the federal government’s plenary power over public lands in Alaska. The panel rejected plaintiffs’ two arguments that the Service exceeded its statutory authority in enacting the Kenai Rule. First, they asserted that the Alaska Statehood Act and ANILCA stripped the Service of the power to restrict the means, methods, or scope of State-approved hunting on federal lands in Alaska. The panel held that while it was true that the Alaska Statehood Act transferred administration of wildlife from Congress to the State, this transfer did not include lands withdrawn or otherwise set apart as refuges or reservations for the protection of wildlife – like the Kenai Refuge, which remains under federal control. Hunting within the Kenai Refuge is subject to federal law, including any regulations imposed by the Secretary of the Interior under its delegated statutory authority to manage federal lands. This specific mandate prevailed over ANILCA’s general recognition of the State’s concurrent authority to manage wildlife on public lands. If Alaska state law conflicts with federal hunting regulations, the federal regulations prevail under standard principles of conflict preemption. Second, plaintiffs contended that even if the Service could preempt the State’s hunting regulations on federal lands in Alaska, the Kenai Rule violated a 2017 congressional joint resolution revoking the Refuges Rule, which expanded the ban on brown bear baiting to all Alaskan wildlife refuges and restricted other hunting. The panel held that this claim was unsupported by the law. The 2017 joint SAFARI CLUB INT’L V. HAALAND 7 resolution only pertained to the Refuges Rule – not the Kenai Rule. Accordingly, the 2017 joint resolution that disapproved of the Refuges Rule did not void the Kenai Rule. The panel rejected Safari Club’s contention that the Skilak WRA aspect of the Kenai Rule violated the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 (“Improvement Act”) by disfavoring the compatible priority use of hunting relative to the other compatible priority uses and compatible non-priority uses of the Skilak WRA. Designation of the Skilak WRA as a special area to be managed for non-competitive uses was a permissible exercise of the Service’s authority under ANILCA. The Improvement Act did not require the Service to allow all State-sanctioned hunting throughout the Kenai Refuge. The panel rejected plaintiffs’ numerous arguments that the Service violated the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) by acting arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing the Kenai Rule. Specifically, plaintiffs claimed that the Service acted arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing the brown bear baiting aspect of the Kenai Rule because: (1) it conflicted with a different regulation; (2) the Service improperly considered a predator control factor not contemplated by Congress; (3) its conservation basis was improper; and (4) its public safety justification was not grounded in evidence in the record and constituted an unexplained change in position by the Service. The panel concluded that these points were inapt. Apart from its APA claims as to brown bear hunting, Safari Club argued that the Skilak WRA hunting part of the Kenai Rule was arbitrary and capricious because: (1) the Service did not articulate any sufficient basis for banning coyote, lynx, and wolf hunting in the Skilak WRA; (2) the record undercut the Service’s finding 8 SAFARI CLUB INT’L V. HAALAND that hunting in the Skilak WRA would bother recreation; (3) the Service did not explain the basis for its changed position on coyote, lynx, and wolf hunting within the Skilak WRA; and (4) the district court applied the incorrect legal standard in disposing of the APA claims concerning the Skilak WRA. The panel disagreed with all of these arguments. Finally, Safari Club claimed that enactment of the Kenai Rule was procedurally improper because the Service did not make necessary predicate findings that the baiting of brown bears and the hunting of coyotes, lynx, and wolves in the Skilak WRA were incompatible with refuge purposes. This assertion relied on a 2007 compatibility determination (“CD”) where the Service classified hunting of brown bears as a compatible use of the Kenai Refuge. The panel held that ANILCA did not require the Service to follow any formal procedures or issue any findings before regulating uses of the Kenai Refuge. The Service exercised its power based on various factors, and addressed all of these factors in the Kenai Rule. The Service complied with the requisite procedures, and reversal on procedural grounds was unwarranted. The panel rejected Safari Club’s request to disturb the district court’s summary judgment on grounds relating to the 2007 CD. The panel rejected plaintiffs’ two-part National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) argument. They asserted that the Kenai Rule changed the environmental status quo in Kenai Refuge such that NEPA review was required; and that the Service improperly fulfilled its NEPA obligations for the Kenai Rule through categorical exclusions (CE). Assuming NEPA procedures applied to the Kenai Rule, an agency satisfies NEPA if it applied its CEs and determined that neither an environmental assessment (EA) nor an environmental impact statement (EIS) was required, so long as applications of the exclusions were not SAFARI CLUB INT’L V. HAALAND 9 arbitrary and capricious. The panel held that the Service sensibly decided that the Kenai Rule fit a CE for “issuance of special regulations for public-use of [Service]-managed land, which maintain essentially the permitted level of use and do not continue a level of use that resulted in adverse environmental impacts.” 81 Fed. Reg. 27033. The panel concluded that there was no basis for reversal. The panel also rejected plaintiffs’ contention that “extraordinary circumstances” required an EIS or EA for the Kenai Rule. The panel rejected plaintiffs request for remand of the Kenai Rule to the Service for further NEPA analysis. To the extent there were any errors, such errors were harmless.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the “Service”) in cases brought by the State of Alaska and Safari Club International (“Plaintiffs”) alleging that the Service violated federal environmental laws by enacting the Kenai Rule.

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Clue: City S of Moscow

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• Russian city
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