The 6.5mm cartridges are the hot ticket, right now. With all the hyperbole about the 6.5 Creedmoor, and others, it’s high time the 6.5 family’s great scion got some attention. I refer to none other than the wonderful, 6.5x55mm Swedish.…
Raise your yelp score. No, not the on-line gripe site, turkey yelps. Yelps are subtle turkey vocalizations which you must master if you want drop wild poultry with any consistency. Here’s an informative, well produced video which will teach you…
What’s the most popular, yet least glamorous, hunting rifle cartridge? The .308 Winchester. Developed for the U.S. military to replace the time-tested .30-06, this wonderful, flexible round traces its DNA back to the .300 Savage. Based on lessons learned from…
Look Ma, no batteries! Yes, yes, laser range finders are, for the most part, affordable and available just about anywhere. Ask yourself a question, though. You’re on an important hunt, perhaps a bucket list, once in a lifetime opportunity, or…
In 2017, the FBI stunned the defensive shooting world. They abandoned the .40 Smith & Wesson, a cartridge to which the Bureau had given birth in the 1990s, and announced their agents would now carry 9mm pistols. Cue the never…
Deer hunting. Everybody, and we mean everybody, has advice on how to hunt deer. Some are spot on, others qualify as deer UFO conspiracy theories. There are many ways to hunt deer, but you have to cover the basics, first. …
We all know how to hunt turkeys, right? Find a good spot, hunker down in your camo, make some calls, and wait. I mean, how hard can it be? Here’s a fella–a turkey hunting expert fella–named Steve Hickoff, who has…
Most sporter rifles these days are made without iron sights since just about every hunter uses a scope. Time was, iron sights were the norm and scopes unusual. When this changed, gun companies saw an excuse to reduce costs and…
