Join us for breakfast, hosted by the Wild Sheep Foundation.

Welcome by CSF (9:00-9:05am)
CSF staff will welcome attendees to the conference and recognize this year's Host Committee for their contributions to the event.

Welcome to Graceland (9:05-9:25am)
Leaders from the Mississippi and Tennessee Legislative Sportsmen's Caucuses will welcome conference attendees to Graceland and kickoff the 22nd Annual National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses Sportsman-Legislator Summit.

Welcome from Presenting Sponsor, Ducks Unlimited (9:25-9:40am)
Ducks Unlimited, a Memphis staple and the presenting sponsor of this year's conference, will provide opening remarks.

Keynote Address - The Role of Hunters in Society (9:40 - 10:00am)

It is no secret that hunters represent a relatively small percentage of the population and that the future of hunting will be determined by a large voting population that doesn’t hunt. As hunters, we must maintain a position of social and political relevance beyond just our time in the field to maintain our ability to hunt. This has, and likely always will, require proactive leadership from our community. We must ensure that our community continues to give more than we take and care for the resource more than anyone else. This work underpins our social license to hunt, fish, trap, and shoot, regardless of the legal protections afforded by current law. As we discuss other proposals over the next several days of NASC, we challenge you to think about how you can carry on the important task of maintaining a strong position for hunters, anglers, trappers, and shooters in each of our states.
Presented by: Boone & Crockett Club


State of the States (10:00 - 10:15am)

CSF will present details on the national policy landscape for sportsmen’s issues in 2025, and will highlight the incredible year that NASC caucuses had in protecting and advancing hunting, angling, recreational shooting, and trapping policies. The talk will also include a detailed look at the pro-sportsmen, proactive policy platform CSF executed with the caucuses this year, and will set the stage for a renewed and expanded effort in the 2026 legislative sessions.
Presented by: Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation


Hunter Education & Firearm Safety in Schools (10:15-10:45am)
With fewer hunters afield, there are necessarily fewer adult figures to pass on our time-honored outdoor traditions to a new generation. Offering middle and high school students the opportunity to learn about the values of hunting, conservation, firearm safety, and the safe pursuit of game species while earning credit towards graduation serves to expose those that do not have an outdoor mentor to hunting.

At best, hunter education courses in schools can create lifelong hunters, and at worst, they can teach students how to safely handle a firearm and the tenets that hunters live by.
Presented by: Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation and the Arkansas, Georgia, and Michigan Legislative Sportsmen's Caucuses

Join us for a refreshment break in the exhibitor area and stop by exhibitor booths to enter a raffle.

No-Net-Loss

“No-Net-Loss” creates a baseline of public land acreage that is available for access by hunters, anglers, and trappers without infringing on private property rights or the rights of local governments to manage their own lands. Guaranteeing hunting and fishing access is imperative for the success of our nation’s boots-on-the-ground conservationists, who primarily fund the work of state fish and wildlife agencies.
Presented by: Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation

The Pressing Need for Investment in Our Public Lands

Through budget cuts, increasing costs, lack of prioritization and agency culture change, state owned wildlife management areas across the United States have accumulated more than $600 million in deferred maintenance costs on their priority waterfowl Wildlife Management Areas. This impacts state wildlife managers’ ability to intensively manage for migrating and wintering waterfowl, and ultimately sportsmen and women feel these impacts each year during hunting seasons and the fall migrations.

This session will look at the extent of the deficiencies on our state owned public lands and offer some potential policy solutions for state legislators to help fix them including reigniting conversations about dedicated state-based conservation funding, redirecting portions of existing state funding to maintenance costs, new examples of public/private partnerships, possible new WMA access fees, reprioritizing waterfowl management and waterfowl hunting within agency culture and more.
Presented by: Delta Waterfowl

Join us for a lunch hosted by the National Wild Turkey Federation, which will present on new landscape level initiatives to support wild turkey habitat, access for sportsmen and women, and hunter heritage.

Presented by: NWTF

The NASC Executive Council Nominations Committee Chair will moderate this session which will provide candidates for the Executive Council an opportunity to provide brief remarks on their work with the respective caucuses and why they wish to be considered for the Executive Council.

Engaging legislators in meaningful policy conversations can improve stakeholder-legislator relationships and deliver better legislative outcomes. Formalized Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Advisory Councils provide a structured opportunity for sporting-conservation stakeholders to have those conversations. This panel will discuss the successes of such Advisory Councils and the path forward for adopting bylaws in your state.

Buses will begin loading at 2:15 pm and promptly depart at 2:30 pm. Please meet in the hotel lobby.

Join us for a slate of sporting activities at Range USA.

Buses will return to the hotel for the evening reception, dinner, and auction.

Join us for a pre-dinner reception and take part in the auction and raffle.

This year’s auction and raffle, which will be held during the reception and dinner, will feature a wide array of hunting, fishing, and shooting items and excursions. Attendees will have the opportunity to take advantage of some great deals to wrap up their holiday shopping, or perhaps to begin planning for trips afield next year, all while supporting the work of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation in strengthening the NASC network.

Join us for a dinner hosted by Safari Club International.

“Steel to Sanctuary: The Rigs to Reef Story” explores the transformation of decommissioned oil platforms in the Gulf of America into thriving marine sanctuaries through the Rigs to Reef program.
Presented by: Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation & Arena Offshore

"The Real Yellowstone" delves into the lives of ranching families who find themselves at the heart of a complex struggle. As stewards of both livestock and wildlife, these ranchers, whose families have worked the land for generations, face a web of rising real estate prices, predator attacks, and a powerful conservation movement that seeks to reshape the landscape they call home.
Presented by: Shepards of Wildlife Society