SCI

Just got my membership card, thanking me for being a member since 1999. 'Haven't sent them any dues in about 7 years, maybe more.

They moved their big show to Nashville for 2023. Should be a good time

SCI turned into an awards club for bluebloods and lardass lawyer types. IIRC over half of the money raised yearly goes to organizational overhead. No thanks.

Everybody wants you!

I opened this because "SCI" has a totally different meaning in the Fed world. Secure Compartmentalized Information. It was my specialty in ICE. I keep forgetting I'm retired!

Last charity rating I saw for SCI showed the three year average for expenses were:

Administrative Expenses: 14.2%
Fundraising Expenses: 19.0%
Programs Expenses: 66.8%

They might do some good, but I think DSC does better.

SCI, years ago, charged 100.00 for a MEMBER to walk their show floor. It's a dam tradeshow! That right there shows how full of themselves they are. I also heard more than one exhibitor complain about their strong-arm tactics to get exhibitors to donate things for their pecker-measuring banquets.

They do a ton of hunting litigation work. Probably more then any other hunting org.

I’m a fan of SCI and a card carrying member, but I can see the point JGraider is making. There is Some of that but for hunting as a whole, not just in the US, I believe they do a lot of good.

I would much rather have a white collar CEO type from SCI represented as the face of hunting than Ted Nugent or Buck Commander

Who is this SCI that you speak of?

Perception isnt always reality. They spend a lot funds states side representing hunter rights.

I think they could do a much better job marketing that fact though

I too was a happy member for several years. I dropped my membership when retirement got in the way of a second trip to Africa. I always felt that SCI was pretty transparent about their support for hunting as conservation which was a near match to how I viewed hunting.

I've met more than one "hunter", some around a Zimbabwe campfire, that the SCI book, awards, etc. is their absolute religion. Completely obsessed. Sad, older men, still trying to prove themselves. Too dang weird for me.

Safari Club International.

Ah, thank you.

I was thinking Southern Careers Institute, lol.

Im always interested to see how these organizations are spending funds. thanks.

Billy, Billy f-ing Squier, is that you?!

Awesome. Now that freaking song is going to run through my head all day.