Should I be Shooting Lead Bullets?
My Lead Bullet Awakening My wife stopped to take a picture of the beautiful hawk on the falconer’s wrist, while I waited patiently. As she did, I listened to the Cliff Claven-type factoids from...
Category: Hunting Gear
7mm Remington Magnum – Plenty of Power
Good Ol’ Days When I was a boy, I only knew the 7mm Remington Magnum as a man’s rifle. Conversation around the 7mm magnum always seemed to turn to bloody eyebrows or pain from...
Swarovski 15×56 SLCs In the Field
A Need My existing hunting glass consists of Swarovski 20-60x80HD and Vortex Razor 11-33×50 spotting scopes, 10×42 Vortex Viper binoculars, and three tripods. My wife has a wicked pair of Cabelas/Meopta 10x42HD binoculars. That...
My “Secret” Lightweight Glass for Hunting
Old School Glass When I was a kid, our family only owned one pair of binoculars. We used them infrequently, sometimes to field-judge a mule deer, occasionally to locate one. This was the 70s...
Choosing a Hunting Rifle Scope
The Problem I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a post asking about hunting scope selection. This must be one of the oldest subjects known to hunting internet forums. Sounds funny, since those...
My New Long Range Rifle!
The Setup For about ten (long) years, I’ve longed for a true long range rifle. Hunting shows provided me with deeds of derring-do. Mule deer are taken at 750 yards. Coyotes are slain at...
Cut Gloves – Save a Finger at Home or in the Field
Sutures Anyone? Through most of my adult life, I’ve suffered through cut hands during hunting season. Seems like I’m the only one around who knows how to gut, skin, and dress an animal. That...
Bonded Bullets – Goldilocks or Just Hype?
The Setup I squeezed off a shot at the cow elk running downhill and straight at me. At 140 yards, I knew it was going to be a solid shot, and wasn’t surprised when...
The Evolution of my Camp Bed
In the Beginning When I was a kid, nobody in my family had any concept of a camp sleeping pad being placed under a sleeping bag. I thought that small rocks, hardened cow manure,...
Know Your Shot! – Maximum Point Blank Range
The Problem The modern hunting rifle chambered in a flat-shooting cartridge is a highly effective tool for hunting big game. We can launch hunting bullets from most big-game cartridges at about 3,000 feet per...
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