About Us

Second Amendment Sports grew from a personal passion with the shooting sports. We started with six cases of ammunition, re-invested it, and never looked back. We now continue to surround you with the things we love. If you hunt, fish, or camp, we have the right gear and expertise to help you have a better experience.

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Second Amendment Sports has a talented, knowledgable and diverse team. The one thing in common is the love for the outdoors. Read more about individual staff members.

As outdoor enthuses, enhancing wildlife and wildlife habitat is one of the most important missions we have. Protecting our rights as sportsmen and women is another. We participate in 14 fund raising banquets each year and sit on the committee for 12 of those. Our partners include:

• Ducks Unlimited
• National Wild Turkey Federation
• Women in the Outdoors
• JAKES
• Safari Club International
• Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
• California Waterfowl Association
• California Deer Association
• Friends of the NRA
• Tulare Basin Wetlands Association

Please contact us about upcoming events or about how you can support these great organizations.

As an outdoor sports store, we try to escape to the outdoors as much as we can. Living the outdoor life style ourselves helps us support our specialty clients with personal knowledge that only experience can give.

We will continually update this page with our latest adventures.

Second Amendment Sports would like to thank our customers –established and new, for continuing to make our business a success!

The Bakersfield 8th Anniversary Extravaganza was huge. Every year, this sale is our opportunity to get spiffy, have all hands on deck, throw up a tent, call out the reps, and offer our clients great deals and free goods. This year was no exception. The sale was made possible, because of our loyal customers… THANK YOU! We hope to continue offering you
excellent service and great deals.

ur Grand Opening Extravaganza in Tucson was a great event for all involved. A handful of Bakersfield employees got the opportunity to travel to Tucson to help out for the sale. For us, it was a great time of reuniting with our coworkers, and introducing ourselves to the newest members of the Tucson crew: Anne Marie Dibbern, Chris Manka, Thomas Eulberg, and gunsmith James Harlow. We were very happy to meet such a friendly and capable crew! In addition to the Second Amendment Sports sales staff, factory reps joined us. The Tucson clients were friendly people. They had the opportunity to quiz our reps and staff, check out good prices, experience good customer service, and participate in our raffles. In fact, one of my favorite moments in conversation would come up in the context of state firearms laws, in which several customers would half-seriously ask, “So, are you going to move to Tucson, now?” I now see why people call Arizona a “free” state. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting our clients and getting a feel for the Tucson atmosphere.

In addition to visiting Second Amendment Sports staff and reps, Bob Jensen, the original owner of the site, attended the sale. Being an avid tournament shooter and national champion, his passion for the shooting sports inspired him to build a business for lovers of the sport. Mr. Jensen and his family started Jensen’s Sporting Goods in the 60’s, and the business thrived to international recognition, under his guidance. Between waves of long time customers and friends, Mr. Jensen would talk to the employees to share inspiring stories about making customer service our number one priority, and about being a business that catered to the needs of the clients. With shining eyes, he mentioned more than once how Matt reminded him of himself –twenty years younger. He has great hopes for Second Amendment Sports to restore the location to the success that it was, when he was running his business. With this special bond between Matt and Mr. Jensen, Matt and Dana dedicated the Tucson store to Mr. Jensen as the Bob Jensen Commemorative Building, for what Jensen’s Sporting Goods contributed to the firearms industry.

In summary, this year’s Grand Opening and Anniversary Extravaganza events were successful and enjoyable, all because of you. Thank you!

-Jennifer Mckenna

Check out a couple of photos of my Tejon black bear. I just got it back from the taxidermist and these were taken before I took him in the house.

So far, this bear remains as the "king of the hill" for Tejon bears.

He measured 21 5/16 and scores #12 in SCI.

I picked up Matt in El Paso, TX. and we headed east. We had to take a quick stop in order to receive a speeding ticket from a Texas Trooper in the middle of nowhere. He talked to us about huntin’ for 20 minutes then handed me my citation that he rounded up 2 miles per hour, adding $50. to the fine. “Thank you Sir, glad hunters are out here to help raise much needed funds for your county.” We met with the ranch owner that the Fish and Game assigned us to, Mr. Bill Lee. He made me a cup of coffee then filled us in on the past 73 years of his life. After words he drew us a less than stellar map, but since we were both boy scouts it got the point across. We found 2 good bucks and marked the locations for the next morning. Approximately 10 minutes into this exhausting hunt we found one of the buck’s silhouetted in the sunrise about 100 yards away. Matt was up first and decided to take this gnarly speed goat. One shot from his 300 Ultra mag did the job on the 110 lbs. animal. After pictures and a quick field dressing we headed out again looking for the other good buck, a nice, heavy and tall pronghorn. A few hours later we found the buck, on the back of a jeep being driven by some hunters that were assigned to the ranch adjacent to ours. We had spotted them on our ranch all morning and new what had happened. These guys were from Texas also, not my favorite state all of a sudden. Hours of combing the ranch followed spotting many bucks but only one of decent size. I decided in the afternoon that I wanted to take that goat and get headed home. Multiple stocks ensued and some rushed shots, in the wind, at unknown distances were taken. I currently don’t have stock in Federal Ammunition, but I should. Eventually Matt’s guess of 350 Meters and a 10 foot lead to counter the wind worked and the buck was hit. The buck didn’t drop and was heading toward a fence so I launched another round, knowing the formula, and he dumped. The following day we drove 18 ½ hours home and started to prepare for the next adventure. X9A Rifle Deer.

Matt’s NM Pronghorn is 15 ¼ inches tall with lots of trash.

Brendan’s NM Pronghorn is 12 ½ inches tall and clean.

Second year for this hunt and I knew to expect poor weather coupled with a low success rate. I was teamed up with my guide Luke, and we packed in about 7 miles to our camp. I was awakened the first morning with rain pounding my tent and I thought to myself “Here we go again.” The rain did let up however, and up until the last day we only received mild showers. We chased 8 different bulls, but they just wouldn’t cooperate. This boggled Luke and me because we consider ourselves pretty nice guys! The elk seemed call shy and would shut up then disappear at the last minute. We packed out to the base camp on the last day and discovered that of the other 8 hunters only one had a shot, but missed. The bulls treated the other hunters and guides with the same level of disrespect and certainly were not hospitable hosts. This seems to be the way it goes’ with a bow, had a rifle been the tool in hand, all would have bagged bulls over 300. As the “Gila Boot” picture shows, our success rate wasn’t for a lack of trying. I would never discount the adventure though. Spending time tromping in the same country that once was also experienced by Billy the Kid and Geronimo is a blessing.

- Brendan’s Nevada Rifle Pronghorn Hunt Unit 041 (North/East of Reno)

August 27-28 2006

First pronghorn tag received, so I didn’t get too picky. Hunted 2 days, spotted 50+ animals 10 of which were bucks. Matt and I made a 400 meter stock, advancing as my buck chased a smaller buck away from his herd of 8 does. We ran out of cover at 300 meters from the buck, which was standing broadside, looking at his does run away from Matt and I. Matt called the range; I adjusted for bullet drop and touched off. The pronghorn dropped do to a neck shot, breaking his spine. Good Night!

Brendan’s NV Pronghorn is 13 ½ Inches tall and rough scored at 73 B&C Gross