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Develop an off-season plan now for your rimfire and centerfire target practice

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Off-season for hunting doesn’t mean off-season for shooting. Great riflemen and women get, and stay, that way by shooting regularly.
Ah, but ammo is expensive. Yeah, but so is coffee and beer. Fortunately, in shooting, unlike coffee and beer drinking, there are some great substitutes. The first is dry firing, which sounds lame, but actually works. I saw it work just yesterday when my son-in-law was missing a milk jug at 10 yards with a handgun.  I asked him to dry fire and watch where his sights were when the trigger broke.

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Southern states and feral pigs offer a winter opportunity for hunters

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Elk, moose, and sheep have long driven the dreams of the adventuring hunter, but wild pigs are fast overtaking the old guard. Partly because they’re accessible.
Let’s face it, hunting much of our Western big game is expensive – if you can even get a tag. But feral pigs? Not only are licenses and tags inexpensive, in many places they’re free. And after you’ve shot one pig, you might not need to stop. No limits.

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Why hunt with an AR? There’s a cartridge for every centerfire situation

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The easy answer to the perennial question “why would you hunt with an AR rifle?” is the same as the answer to “why would you hunt with a lever action rifle?”
“Because I want to!”
If it’s legal in the jurisdiction where you hunt and for the game you hunt, go ahead. Handicap yourself with an AR-style rifle. Wait. What? Handicap? Yes. An AR makes hunting more difficult than it has to be. In my opinion.

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Need a new scope for your .22? Here’s what to consider to obtain better accuracy

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Don’t break the bank when buying a .22 rimfire scope, but don’t make the mistake of going “cheap” either. Traditionally .22 scopes have been seen as inexpensive sights. Many caused more shooting problems than they solved. One of the biggest was poor accuracy.
How can a magnified sight picture lead to poorer accuracy? Poor image quality, excessive flare, and parallax.

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Brush-busting deer guns: Still useful, increasingly popular

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Grandpa and great grandpa loved their brush busting, lever-action .30-30s, .35 Remingtons, and .32 Winchester Specials, but should you?
Yes. But not for the brush busting.
Because the bullets aren’t all that good at busting brush. But the rifles are. So-called brush rifles and the cartridges they shoot evolved alongside the metallic cartridge and repeating rifle.

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Laser rangefinders — the trusty tool helping hunters make better shots for 25 years

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Hey all you hunting and shooting grandpas (even you grandpas-to-be) take it from this grandpa – laser rangefinders aren’t new fangled, high-tech, or unethical. The first successful consumer model came out in 1999.
You don’t have to use a rangefinder to set up for ridiculously long shots you have no business taking. Used correctly, one of these “cheaters” could prevent you from crippling and losing a deer. Wouldn’t you rather know you can hit it than hope you might hit it?

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The .270 Winchester is a hunting rifle worth owning

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The .270 Winchester is an icon, an All-American icon, and a touchstone to our 20th century sport hunting tradition. It connects us to our fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, and one of the most influential arms and ammunition manufacturers in U.S. history – Winchester. The .270 Winchester is one of the most underrated of the once overrated deer and elk hunting cartridges of all time.

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Buying a 9mm? Here’s what to consider with America’s most popular handgun cartridge

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Searching for the top options in 9mm handguns is like seeking the best cold cereal breakfast food – too many options!
But, because 9mm Luger is the most popular handgun chambering in the United States, if not the world, let’s see if we can break things down to narrow the field. First, 9mm pistols come in two major “flavors” – striker-fired and hammer-fired.

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Top black bear hunting cartridges for 2024

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Black bear hunters are endlessly trying to figure out which rifle/cartridge/bullet is best, and we have the simple answer: most all of them.
I’m being facetious here, but to make a point: black bears are not tanks. Most whitetail cartridges suffice for terminating black bears. The bullets, however, sometimes leave much to be desired, specifically having adequate expansion, coupled with penetration.

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