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Bourjaily: Hunting Trophies by Walden & Bork

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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