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July 29th, 2010
Bourjaily: Hunting Trophies by Walden & Bork
July 29th, 2010
How-To Thursdays: Tie a Better D-Loop
Here’s one from the archives, written by Greg Staggs. For what it’s worth, ever since Greg wrote this piece for me a couple years ago, I have tied my own D-loops exactly as he describes…
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Hurteau: Announcing The Winner of The Moose-Shed Scoring Contest
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Petzal: The Wonderful World of Eric Holder
At no time did the Obama administration’s disconnect from reality shine more brightly than last November, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four…
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July 27th, 2010
Bourjaily On “Modern Sporting Rifles”
Maybe the rifle shown here is the answer to the AR 15’s “black rifle” image problem. Who couldn’t love a rifle like this? I think it’s cute. My son took one look and…
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July 27th, 2010
Hurteau: Test a New Broadhead for Free
Who says you can’t get something for nothing? Okay, a lot of people say that and are pretty much always right. But other than shipping and handling, you can get a brand new Carbon Express F-15…
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Petzal: The Gilt-Edged .308
A friend of mine once told me that he had a pre-64 Model 70 in .308 that would not shoot accurately, and asked what he should do with it.
“Drop it in a deep lake,” I said….
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July 26th, 2010
Bestul: One Fine Story Book
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Bourjaily: Close Your Eyes & Use The Force
Like Luke Skywalker in this clip, you, too, can use the Force to hit targets with your eyes closed. I stole this trick from Gil and Vicki Ash of the OSP School, and I used it to blow the minds of a…
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July 22nd, 2010
Hurteau: You Vs. PA on Poaching Fines
Last week I asked you what the penalty should be for certain poaching offenses. On average—more or less—you answered as follows:
[1] Jacklighting deer: $1,000 to $5,000 fine; 1- to…
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Petzal: Thompson/Center Icon Warlord Review, Part II
In case you missed it, here is part one of the Warlord review.
My rifle had seen some use when I got it—I’d guess a couple of hundred rounds, and I didn’t bother shooting it with…
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July 21st, 2010
Hurteau: Write a Caption, Win Some Deer Calls
So I’ve been thinking about how I can get you guys to do more of my work. Deeter and Romano at FlyTalk have you writing captions a couple times a month. Wild Chef Colin Kearns has you forking…
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Bourjaily: Failing to Become a Shooting Legend
Recently Dave wrote a fine post about how to become a shooting legend. To review, what you do is:
1. Make a great shot in front of at least one witness
2. Say, “Ho-hum” as if you…
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July 19th, 2010
Petzal Reviews the Thompson/Center Icon Warlord
You might recall a recent post regarding putting five shots in one hole. Here is a little more on the gun that did so.
The Thompson/Center Warlord is based on the premise that any shooting you do…
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July 19th, 2010
Shoot Me Down: You Should Kill and Tell (the Landowner, That Is)
I have a buddy who might have lost a great hunting spot. He thinks he made a big mistake last fall when he showed a big buck he arrowed to the landowner. The farmer took a photo and started waving it…
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Hurteau: Buck-Scoring Contest, Round II (Plus a Bonus Prize)
This week Boone and Crockett Big-Game Records Assistant Director Justin Spring (who is mysteriously still friendly to Scott and I despite our constantly badgering him to do unpaid research for…
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Bourjaily: Bed Sheets and Proper Gun Fit
The picture here was snapped the other day on the Gun Nut TV Midwestern Outdoor Soundstage* and shows me examining the sheet I have just shot half a dozen times. Shooting a bedsheet is a quick and…
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July 14th, 2010
Petzal: Due to Events Beyond Our Control…
A colleague of mine has taken flak recently for a mountain goat hunt on which the billy he shot tumbled into a canyon where he and his guide could not retrieve it without getting themselves killed….
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July 13th, 2010
Bourjaily: The Good and Bad of Deer Hunting
The comeback of the whitetail deer is both the best and the worst thing to happen to hunting in my lifetime. First, the good: I grew up in a time when if you saw a deer, you told people about it. …
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July 12th, 2010
Hurteau: What Should The Penalty Be for Jacking Deer?
A common complaint among hunters (myself included) in the wake of many deer poaching convictions is that the punishment isn’t tough enough. So I’ve got a simple question for you: What…
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Petzal: Tales of Traveling to Canada with Guns
The other night I was regaling some non-hunting friends with tales of traveling with guns, and they asked me which countries were the worst and the best as far as being a pain in the ass to the armed…
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July 9th, 2010
Bourjaily: A Self Defense Poll
I was at the local sporting goods store buying powder the other day when I overheard two guys looking at the pistol ammo.
“$40 bucks!” exclaimed one, reading the price tag on a box….
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July 9th, 2010
Bestul: Injuction Forces Scent-Lok to Change Advertising Claims
Unless you’re new to this space, you probably know about the summary judgement against ALS Enterprises, makers of Scent-Lok clothing. We were among the first to report on U.S. District Court…
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Petzal: How to Become a Shooting Legend
One of the things we learned at the Drill Sergeant Academy was that everyone wants the respect of his peers. (Why the hell we were taught that, or why I remember it 40-odd years later is beyond me….
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July 7th, 2010
Bourjaily: My Skills with Wingbone Calls
In the turkey quiz we published earlier this year, I did an extra credit question about how to make a trumpet call from a ballpoint pen, a shotgun shell and electrician’s tape. You can see the…
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July 6th, 2010
Hurteau: Whitetail Headlines, Doggy Edition
For reasons too mysterious to ponder, dogs are all over the Whitetail Headlines this week, and so we have our first and probably last all-canine deer-news round up, including commentary, beginning…
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Petzal: Five in One (Hole*, That Is)
For the past several weeks, in connection with the upcoming Outdoor Channel show “The Gun Nuts,”** I’ve been shooting a new tactical rifle from Thompson/Center called the Icon…
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July 1st, 2010
How-To Thursdays: Put In A Pond To Steer Bucks Past Your Stand
Some of you are no doubt already out hanging stands and working on habitat improvements for the fall. With that in mind, here’s a story from our recent archives by by F&S Whitetails…
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Bourjaily On Trebuchets
The trebuchet was the ultimate weapon of the medieval world. It could heave very large rocks into castle walls, and sometimes it was used to throw corpses and dead cattle and the like over the walls…
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June 28th, 2010
Petzal: Supremely Fortunate
In 2008, in District of Coumbia vs Heller, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms extended to all “federal enclaves,” but left the question open as to whether…
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