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Sports shops busy with impending deer season
Published 12:00 p.m., November 3, 2009
By Tom Hintgen
Daily Journal
Tom Adamczyk, owner of Gene’s Sport Shop in Perham, is among sporting goods suppliers who are urging deer hunters not to wait until Friday to purchase ammunition. On Thursday, Oct. 29, he pointed to his limited supply.
“When this is gone, it’s gone,” said Adamczyk about his supplies of ammunition.
On a statewide basis, some sport shooters purchased more ammunition than they need, worried that gun laws might soon change. Another factor is a shortage coming about due to military demand. Oftentimes, for every 10 boxes a store sells, they can only get seven boxes to restock their shelves.
Sports shop owners say that when a company has a big contract — for the government or the military — it slows production for the consumer world.
Aside from the ammunition shortage, things are well in hand for Adamczyk and his two sons, Nick and Ed, who operate Gene’s Sport Shop in Perham.
Tom Adamczyk took over operations from his father, Gene, in 1986. Gene operated the business starting in 1975 when he purchased the establishment from Tom’s uncle, Frank. The business dates back to 1955 when Frank started the sporting goods store.
Today, the Adamczyks have a good supply of hunting clothes available. They have both high visibility and camouflage hunting clothes. Wants and needs of hunters vary, for items such as visibility vests, hunting jackets, hunting pants, camouflage gloves or other hunting gloves.
Gene’s Sport Shop in Perham promotes itself as selling durable and yet comfortable hunting clothes and lots of hunting and fishing supplies. They have the clothes a person needs — from head to feet.
Hunting safety
Safety is number one for deer hunters, and all other hunters, says Tom Adamczyk.
He said that because hunting involves firearms, knives, and arrows and is often conducted in cold and wet weather, hunters should take particular care to prepare before heading out for a day in the woods or wetlands.
In the DNR hunter education seminars, instructors spend one entire evening on helping people learn navigation and survival skills, and how to properly plan their hunts. Many hunters have experienced what it's like to be disoriented in the woods or to just miss taking a serious fall, and it's something they want to learn to avoid.
Here are four suggestions for a safe and successful hunting experience:
1. Get a detailed map of the area you are hunting, review it before you leave, and carry it with you in the field.
2. Carry a compass and know how to use it. Decide ahead of time the direction to head for if you get lost or disoriented.
3. Weather can change quickly in Minnesota, so hunters should carry a simple survival kit and be prepared for an unexpected overnight stay in the field. The survival kit should contain a rope, a knife, water, waterproof matches, an emergency shelter, and first aid supplies.
4. Know your hunting partners' physical and emotional limitations, as well as your own, and don’t push your partners or yourself beyond those limits.
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