Outdoors notebook: Oklahoma City Gun Club schedules sight-in days

Quality Deer Management group forming

The Quality Deer Management Association (www.QDMA.com) is hosting a meeting to discuss the formation of a wildlife management cooperative in the greater Butler and Hammon areas on Sept. 25 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Butler Community Building.

The QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization that specializes in education and outreach to landowners, hunters, wildlife resource professionals and the public. For more information on the meeting, contact Kip Adams at Kadams@QDMA.com or (570) 439-5696.

Paul Newsom banquet on Sept. 21

The Tri-City Chapters of Ducks Unlimited will hold a fundraising banquet in honor of the late Paul Newsom on Sept. 21 in Oklahoma City.

The banquet will be at the Eve Centre, 8601 SW 86. Doors open at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. with a live auction to follow.

For more information, contact Tim Miller at 593-2657 or email him at okladucks@gmail.com.

Newsom, who died of cancer in 2009, was host of the outdoors television shows Paul Newsom's Great Outdoors and Hunting the Country.

Delta Waterfowl chapter forms in Oklahoma

An Oklahoma Delta Waterfowl Chapter has organized in Oklahoma City and will hold its first banquet Oct. 6 at the Express Event Center, 8512 NW Expressway.

Delta Waterfowl is a conservation organization that started in 1911 and is the oldest waterfowl conservation organization in the country.

The main focus of the group is duck production and predator management, said Patrick Lambakis, Oklahoma Delta Waterfowl Chapter chairman.

For more information on Delta Waterfowl or tickets to the banquet, visit www.deltawaterfowl.org or call Lambakis at 213-3539.