Delta Waterfowl Partners

Delta Waterfowl is grateful to our Partners and their resolve in helping to advance Delta's mission. Through these partners our capacity to provide tangible results to waterfowlers is significantly enhanced. We encourage our members to support all of these fine businesses.

For information about corporate opportunities with Delta Waterfowl please contact:

Stacy Hegel - Membership & Marketing Manager
1-888-987-3695 (toll free)
shegel@deltawaterfowl.org

SportingDog Adventures is truly a show for the dogs! Now in its third season, every show takes viewers on an outdoor journey featuring the skills of talented K-9 athletes. Reaching 129.5 million households in two countries, on four networks, SportingDog Adventures is proud to differentiate itself from other hunting shows, in that we offer so much more, to a much broader audience.

SportingDog Adventures showcases some of the finest opportunities available stateside in upland, waterfowl, and big game hunting. But our appeal goes so much further than those who enjoy the fast-action hunts. We remain committed to providing family-oriented entertainment, and that means segments for men and women, adults and kids, and even non-hunters. Our shows include youth segments, designed to inspire adults to pass on their love of the outdoors. Special “featurettes” include segments dealing with canine health, training tips for a variety of breeds, and cooking segments demonstrating wild game recipes. Few outdoors shows can truly fit the bill of “something for everyone,” but we honestly feel that we do.

For more information: www.sportingdogadventures.com

BANDED was formed by a group of avid outdoorsmen, innovators, and product designers that joined forces after years of working in the outdoor industry. After countless hours of brainstorming and discussing product designs, we decided to make a run at it. Our quest to produce better products led us around the globe in search of the finest materials and engineering processes. Through new-aged technology, extensive materials testing, and precise manufacturing, BANDED was born. Ideas that were once drawn on the tailgate of a pick-up eventually evolved into finished products. Design themes of traditional military bags, tools, and clothing were incorporated into inventive stylish designs. And, we put great emphasis on eliminating, where possible, plastic hardware. You'll quickly notice our common use of metal buckles, grommets, rivets, and other components.

BANDED currently offers over a thousand items representing nineteen diverse product categories. Some of the product categories you can expect to see include: outerwear, waders, boots, hunting accessories, blinds, and calls. We can assure you that we'll do our best to provide new, innovative, and functional gear for the outdoors. Our gear is tough. Our gear is "sharp". And, our gear works.

Are you BANDED?

Visit the BANDED website at: www.banded.com

A paradigm shift...to engineer gear that is an extension of the outdoor experience and not simply a barrier between the user and the environment. By utilizing only the most advanced fabrics and durable construction technologies, Sitka will always design gear that is engineered to work together as complete systems, excelling in performance, function, and protection. Our customers will be able to hunt comfortably in the most diverse and challenging range of hunting conditions.

Visit Sikta's web site at: www.sitkagear.com/

Benelli USA, an acknowledged leader in the firearms industry, is a proud partner of Delta Waterfowl. Headquartered in Accokeek, MD, Benelli USA offers the largest selection of semi-automatic shotguns in the world, as well as a variety of fine products from Franchi, Stoeger, A. Uberti, and Stoeger Airguns. Benelli USA has built a solid reputation for producing high quality, durable products with a commitment to reliable function, efficient styling and mechanical precision.

All shotguns from the Benelli USA family of brands guarantee fine choices for target or defense shotguns, slug guns, pump shotguns or other semi-auto shotgun models. Benelli USA also provides a wide selection of left-handed models. Whether you're looking for a 12-gauge shotgun, a 20-gauge shotgun, a pump shotgun, or a specialty model, Benelli USA offers more than 120 different models to choose from. No matter your sport, Benelli USA has got your gun.

Visit the Benelli USA web site at: www.benelliusa.com

Remington Arms Company, LLC, ("Remington") headquartered in Madison, N.C., designs, produces and sells sporting goods products for the hunting and shooting sports markets, as well as solutions to the military, government and law enforcement markets. Founded in 1816 in upstate New York, the Company is one of the nation's oldest continuously operating manufacturers. Remington is the only U.S. manufacturer of both firearms and ammunition products and one of the largest domestic producers of shotguns and rifles. The Company distributes its products throughout the U.S. and in over 55 foreign countries.

More information about the Company can be found at www.remington.com.

Drake Waterfowl Systems is dedicated to creating innovative products for waterfowl hunters. Like dad and granddad before us, we live for duck season. It's in our blood. It's also the foundation of Drake Waterfowl Systems, perhaps the most instinctively designed gear to ever grace the marsh. What started as a handful of clothing and accessory styles has grown to a nearly complete line of everything a waterfowl needs to be successful in the field, including Early Season, Mid-Season, and Late Season clothing, waders, and boots, technical gear bags, blinds, sporting dog products, and Waterfowler 365™ - functional casual wear for obsessed waterfowl hunters just like us.

See everything Drake Waterfowl has to offer at www.DrakeWaterfowl.com

Federal Premium Ammunition began building shotshells in 1922, an era generally agreed was a low point in wildlife conservation. Much of America was being plowed up, and waterfowl habitat was being destroyed at record rates. Company leaders from the very beginning realized that if Federal Ammunition was to be successful, America had to have healthy wildlife populations or our customer base would go away. In the 1930’s Federal started Conservation Camps with 4H, supported passage of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Conservation Act, and advertised with cartoons preaching a conservation ethic.

That commitment to wildlife conservation is still core to Federal’s business philosophy as is our commitment to innovation to provide the most effective product hunters and target shooters can buy. BLACKCLOUD ® shotshells are an example of that innovation, featuring game changing technology in the FLITECONTROL ® wad, and FLITESTOPPER ® pellets that increase lethality, and reduce wounding loss. After all, clean kills makes for good conservation. Look for the Delta Waterfowl logo proudly displayed on our Speed-Shok ® waterfowl loads. We display that logo because we believe that Delta has the vision and the courage to sustain waterfowl and waterfowl hunters, and we think all our customers should be members.

Visit the Federal Premium Ammunition web site at: www.federalpremium.com

U.S. Bank is the official affinity credit card provider of Delta Waterfowl. Not only does this partnership improve Delta Waterfowl’s ability to offer members high-quality affinity credit products, but U.S. Bank has also stepped forward in a big financial way as a key corporate partner for the long haul. U.S. Bank will make a donation to Delta Waterfowl each time a new card is activated and again each and every time the card is used.

The Delta Waterfowl Visa card also helps Delta to provide knowledge, future leaders, solutions and its passion for waterfowl to scientists, resource managers, waterfowlers, conservationists and the public to enhance waterfowl populations while securing the future of waterfowling. With every purchase on your Delta Waterfowl Visa card, a portion of your purchase helps Delta Waterfowl achieve its mission of enhancing waterfowl populations while securing the future of waterfowling.

If your card does not look like one of the three shown here, it is not supporting Delta Waterfowl. Get yours today - apply now!

Delta Waterfowl would like to thank longtime corporate sponsor Budweiser for its continued support of waterfowl conservation and ethical hunting.

Budweiser sponsors Delta's "Look for the Drakes" Campaign, which uses posters and other communications materials to spread the drakes-only message to waterfowl hunters.

"Budweiser continues to be our anchor sponsor of voluntary restraint and its message of promoting ethical waterfowl hunting, and we couldn't be happier about it," said Delta Senior Vice President John Devney.

In addition, Budweiser is also helping fund conservation through its Help Budweiser Conserve the Outdoors program, which has raised nearly $9 million in more than a decade.

As part of the program, participating Anheuser-Busch wholesalers will donate a portion of each Budweiser sale (cans or bottles) made in September and October to the company's corporate conservation partners, including Delta Waterfowl.

The grant money will be used to fund important wildlife habitat projects.

www.budweiser.com

SportDOG

SportDOG has awarded Delta Waterfowl $5,000 to assist with mallard research in northeastern North Dakota. The project will examine the birds’ post-breeding movements, habitat usage and mortality.

All totaled, the company, which specializes in e-collars, awarded $19,300 to four conservation groups as part of its annual SportDOG Conservation Fund grant program.

“Once again we received a huge variety of applications, and as always it was tough to narrow down the finalists,” said Gary Williams, SportDOG Brand’s Conservation Fund coordinator. “We're excited about being able to contribute to these types of projects that benefit wildlife for generations to come.”

Recognizing the need to support grassroots organizations that work with government and private wildlife agencies to conserve wild game populations and critical habitat, the company created the SportDOG Conservation Fund as a way to support conservation organizations and projects its customers care about.

For more information: www.sportdog.com

Cabela's, the World's Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, was born somewhat inadvertently in 1961 when Dick Cabela came up with a plan to sell fishing flies he purchased while at a furniture show in Chicago. Upon returning home to Chappell, Nebraska, Dick ran a classified ad in the Casper, Wyoming, newspaper reading: "12 hand-tied flies for $1." It generated one response. Undaunted, Dick formulated a new plan, rewriting the ad to read "FREE Introductory offer! 5 hand tied Flies….25c Postage….Handling" and placing it in national outdoor magazines. It didn't take long for the orders to begin arriving from sportsmen and women around the country. In the interim Cabelas growth has been legendary and they have been a proud supporter of many conservation organizations. Delta Waterfowl is happy to welcome Cabela’s as a Conservation Partner.

“Cabela's is proud to sponsor Delta Waterfowl and their invaluable efforts to enhance duck production, advocate hunting and continue their world renowned research programs. Cabela's is making contributions towards these Delta projects. It's part of our commitment to preserving our hunting traditions and to the millions of fellow hunters we serve.”

For more information: www.cabelas.com/

Mossy Oak

Delta Waterfowl is happy to announce that longtime partner Mossy Oak is supporting Delta's waterfowl research and hunter recruitment efforts.

"We really appreciate Mossy Oak's generous contributions in our effort to produce more ducks for duck hunters, as well as introduce kids and adults to our heritage," said Delta Senior Vice President John Devney.

"Delta Waterfowl's research is critical to the future of waterfowl and waterfowl hunting," said Bill Sugg, President of Mossy Oak. "From predator management to producing more ducks to focusing on waterfowl hunters, Mossy Oak is proud to support important waterfowl conservation issues that are so important to waterfowl hunters and the future of our sport. The research and field work Delta does is extremely valuable and we're thrilled to be associated with such an upstanding organization."

For more information: www.mossyoak.com