Get more bang for your buck by reloading this up-and-coming round. Popularity of the 300 AAC Blackout continues to track upward as Remington’s capacity to produce factory fodder caught up with demand for this reborn cartridge. Since the 300 Blackout’s production is still a fraction of 5.56 NATO ammunition, though, its price is relatively high […]
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A few years ago I was inspired by a post by now deceased fellow turkey hunting magazine writer, Lovett Williams, on the Turkey & Turkey Hunting Magazine web forum. He dug into the topic of how many shots does it take, on average, to bag a wild turkey. Over the last 20 years more repeating
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Laser rangefinders remove the guess work. Although shotgunning for wild turkeys is a short-range sport, relatively speaking, precisely determining the distance between the muzzle and the bird at extended ranges leaves little margin for error. Under estimating range can lead to misses, or worse, crippled birds, and holding fire when a bird is well within
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The author and his West Virginia hunting guide Eric Cormac admire the old gobbler that ranged the mountains above the New River Gorge. It took a “keyhole” shot to bring the gobbler down. Turkey guns shoot tight patterns. It’s a given. Practically all of the conversation about tight patterning shotguns surrounds the idea that a
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After a day and a half trying to double-team a particular Arkansas tom we nicknamed “Old Long-gobble,” Roger Hook and I advanced up the spine of a ridge to get closer to the bird’s strut zone. Listening to the distinctively voiced bird advance and retreat along the ridgetop gave me audible clues as to what
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