Time for the Greatest Hunting Convention Ever
By John McLaurin, SCI President
If you haven’t already registered and signed up for one of the SCI block rooms in hotels, they are the best rates in town if you want to be next door to the Convention Center. You need to start looking now, picking out your rooms and getting the best registration packages!
I’m looking forward to meeting everyone who can join us at the SCI Convention Jan. 22-25, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee. You’ll be glad you decided to go and will enjoy a great experience! There are lots of changes, new happenings and the greatest vendors, events and dinners ever!
This issue of SAFARI Magazine is the “Convention Issue,” which, at more than 200 pages, is by far the biggest of the year. It includes the Convention Auction Preview Guide, which contains hundreds of exciting items that will be available in the many auctions that will be conducted.
The Convention is SCI’s biggest fundraiser each year, and the auctions account for a significant amount of that revenue — money that we use to realize our mission to protect the freedom to hunt and promote sustainable use wildlife conservation worldwide. Thanks to your generous participation, SCI is the WORLD LEADER!
What this means is that when you buy hunts, gear and services at the Convention auctions, you are directly supporting SCI and our mission. Auctions are critically important! So bid high and often! It’s for the Freedom to Hunt and Sustainable Use Wildlife Conservation!
But the Convention is all about SCI and YOU, too! We do raise critically needed funds, but we also have a great experience at the biggest, the best, the most entertaining Hunting Convention you’d ever want to go see! So, take advantage of everything that makes the SCI Convention unequaled in opportunity, value and just pure enjoyment!
Old friends, new friends — opportunities to talk about hunts taken and to be taken! It’s in Nashville! In short, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better place to have a big hunter/conservationist party! Come celebrate the Hunting Convention unlike anything else on earth and celebrate the most effective pro-hunting/pro-wildlife organization on the planet!
Historically, SCI took the lead when our Convention became known as the only venue in the world where safaris for any huntable species in the world could be arranged and where any of the guns, gear and other equipment needed to hunt could be obtained right there in one place at one time. The best way to benefit most from the Convention is to attend all four days and evenings.
There is so much to do, so much fun to have and so much to learn. But come for one, two days or four: I’m betting you’ll be back again and again! It is that good! So much to see and do: Beretta Gala on Tuesday night; the Weatherby Gala and the SCI Broadway Bash Wednesday night; The “Night of the Hunter” followed by the Opry Experience at the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday night; the Freedom to Hunt event with the legendary rock and roll band Kansas on Friday night; and the Grand Finale Gala on Saturday night will be highlighted by the Diana, Hall of Fame and GSCO Pantheon Awards.
During the Convention daytime hours, don’t miss the Sables Luncheon, the Hunters Advocacy luncheon and the Veterans’ Breakfast!
The evening events alone are worth attending! The auctions alone are worth participating in! The Convention Show Floor, with over 900 exhibitors offering the best products and services available in the hunting world alone, is worth seeing! In other words, the SCI Convention is the best deal in the world! This year, join thousands of us attending the Convention and invite your friends to join you there. They will appreciate your introducing them to everything SCI has to offer.
To register and attend the Convention, go to convention.safariclub.org.
See you in Nashville!
