31 October 2007
What Is North American Hunting Club (NAHC)?
Posted by Darrell under: Rantings Of An Outdoorsman .
I received this letter in my mail. It was stuffed full of what might be referred to as useless junk, such as address labels, a plastic card wallet, and a North American Hunting Club Offical Member decal. According to the letter I had been nominated to become a member of NAHC. Lucky me!
The letter began “Dear fellow hunter”, yeap that’s me alright. Why would I want them to use my name, when they know I’m a hunter? Then the magic words “Would you mind very much if I sent you a free rifle or bow to try the next time you hunt?”. Would I mind? Heck no I won’t mind. Send me that stuff!
The letter states later that “The privilege of testing hunting products on your hunting grounds — and keeping them free — is just one of the many benefits of joining the North American Hunting Club.” The letter also states “you’re exactly the kind of person our Club is always looking for”, which started me to thinking. What “exactly” are the qualities that the club is looking for? The only 3 that I could come up with are 1) alive (I’m breathing) and 2) creditworthy (I have a credit card) and 3) gullible (maybe they heard that I’ll believe any tale told to me).
Anyway, before rushing my nomination acknowledgement back to the Club I decided to find out a little more about them, so I googled them. I will readily admit that the Club must have some good SEO people because almost all of the results on the first page were from the club’s own websites. I did, however, stumble onto a couple forum post where the club is talked about. I won’t repeat what was written on the forums because I don’t know if it is true or not.
However, I will say that after reading people’s comments that I can honestly say that I won’t be rushing my nomination back anytime soon. I’m sure this is better for them and me, since if if someone sent me an unsolicited book in the mail and then demanded that I either pay for the book or pay to send it back to them, I’d raise bloody hell. I don’t know for certain if this Club actually does this (as some in the forums stated), however I do know that I won’t be finding out first hand.
As much as I want a free rifle or bow to try out and write my opinions on, I’m going to have to pass this time.
Here are the links to the forums that I found:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=22626
http://forums.basspro.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=003554
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071018120450AA4XPBN
If anyone has any personal experience with the Club, please feel free to let me know - either good or bad. Thanks.
11 Comments so far...
Kristine Shreve Says:
31 October 2007 at 8:47 am.
We did use the club to do a field test for the Gunslinger. We got a lot of good information from the test. So I do know that they do have members test product.
Arthur Says:
31 October 2007 at 9:31 am.
Hmmm..I honestly have never heard of them before, but I would have been just as skeptical as you. If it sounds to good to be true it normally is.
Looks like Kristine had some positive results though. Maybe worth checking into again!
Darrell Says:
31 October 2007 at 10:41 am.
Kristine, thanks for sharing your positive experience. I’d love to have anyone else with experience with the Club to weigh in. Maybe I should ‘accept my nomination’ and start paying my dues afterall? I do love free stuff!
Anyone ever been a member? Have a story to tell?
Matt Says:
1 November 2007 at 5:51 pm.
Thanks for posting this Darrell. I’ve been “nominated” for membership a few times and have often wondered wht the club is all about. Like you, I didn’t respond, but I did keep the really cool truck decal they sent me (hint hint Kristine.)
deerPhD Says:
2 November 2007 at 3:11 am.
I’m with Matt and you…been nominated but always too skeptical to join.
Thanks for your sharing your positive experience, Kristine.
Kristine Shreve Says:
2 November 2007 at 11:59 am.
I know, Matt, I know. Truck decals are definitely on the list for when we start offering stuff with our logo. They’re going to have to wait until the rename the product contest is over though, and we select a winner. So it will probably be the end of November or early December before they are available.
Kenton Says:
30 November 2007 at 1:24 pm.
I have been in the NAHC for a while now. If you are joining just for the field test, then I wouldn’t join because not everyone gets the greatest thing to test. One time I got this knife that was so dull I couldn’t even cut with it. I joined because the magazine has some great articles and it is 8 issues for 12.00 a year and if they give me a good item to field test, then that is great too.
micheal Says:
19 July 2008 at 5:13 pm.
this club isnt so great just as kenton said the items my not always be good condition whats there to test out of a item that sent to you in bad condition is that it remains as a bad item the truth is to they dont send that much stuff i joined to recive rifles for testing the truth these items are used iam pretty shure that its a used rifles the knives are used there even a little rust on the products i recived i bet yoou that all of are bucks one dollar month going to them is benefiting them more than us so i defenitly dont recomend joining for free testing of products because they are really not for testing there just a come on so that they could keep getting there bucks i canceled my memebereship at just an year and half i could see that they are not serious about performance of any thing on any product but getting how many dollars they can get from us give them the boot iam sure know any ways that there no more worth than the bottom of my boots and the truth is there magazine is lacking the real up to date in hungting sports theres a lot better magazines out there good day .
Greg Brownlee Says:
5 August 2008 at 10:05 am.
Yep - I got a letter from the NAHC…I had seen their magazine “North American Hunter” before so I joined, since it included a magazine subscription. After they got my money, I started receiving their mags, and also started getting “books”. Those books were like condensed articles about different game animals. I bought the first one they sent, then they started sending more. I figured out that they were just mainly hauking this stuff, and I wasn’t going to get any cool items to field test. So I told them to stop sending me their stuff. You made the right choice to ignore their mailings…
TAC Says:
15 August 2008 at 6:13 pm.
I wanted to know how long it will take them to start sending me magizines and my free trial stuff that i paid for, including a hunting knife set and a cook book. I got a letter of nomination and sent them 36 dollars for a 3 year membership and so far I have recieved not a damn thing. Not even a magizine to read. I recieved a nasty little letter about sending my dues for the memebership and I am thinking that they just wanted some damn money.Its been about 3 months since I’ve sent my dues and still I’ve heard nothing. To North American Hunting Club ———> KISS MY ASS and send me the shit I payed for Please!
Doug Bass Says:
18 August 2008 at 2:31 pm.
I hope most of you guys that are bitching about this club and debating on wheather or not to join are already members of the N.R.A. It is a club worth joining. You get your choice of three different magizines and the gift you get is maybe the right to own a gun to hunt with. Sixty million people own guns and only three million support the National rifle Asscoation. Without the N.R.A. we would be hunting with rocks and spears again.
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