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Recently, I took advantage of a couple of rainy afternoons to catch up on some reloading jobs and much-needed reorganization of work benches. These qu...

Shooters, hunters, and especially reloaders, have more choices today than ever when they shop for bullets. Rifle and handgun projectiles are available...

Archery season is underway, and there are a number of hunting opportunities to be added to the mix this coming weekend. On Saturday, Oct. 17, the regu...

Over the years, I’ve had lots of encounters with bears. I’ve written about a few of them before. Of all these little adventures, it seems most occur w...

I well remember my grandfather telling me how time speeds up when you’re older. Well, like most youth I wasn’t particularly interested, but did rememb...

I’ve spent a lot of time on shooting ranges over the years. Outdoors, indoors, strictly regulated or informal, some with dozens of firing points or ju...

After leafing through my last batch of monthly gun-related magazines, I noticed something seemed to be missing. There were the usual evaluations of th...

The gift that keeps on giving. Christmas, more years ago than I can remember, is when it came to me. It was a toolbox crafted as a school industrial a...

I freely admit to my addiction to most things related to firearms. One of my special weaknesses involves admiring “classic” rifles and shotguns. I mig...

When I was fifteen, I had a really miserable deer season. I shot up a whole box of 30.06 ammo without nicking a hair on a doe’s butt. When I couldn’t ...

As a young hunter, I listened with great interest to any advice offered by old-timers and the (probably unfounded) opinions of my young chums. Subject...

The ability to quickly raise your firearm and shoot accurately is critical and dependent on your firearm fitting properly. But, what factors determine...

The special flintlock deer season provides the catalyst that rekindles ancestral fires within the modern day hunter. This year, while hunting the snow...

Although I’ve done most of my hunting in Pennsylvania, I’ve done quite a bit of it, especially for deer, in New York State, as well. This all started ...

As a somewhat old-fashioned guy, I’m usually all about tradition. And for most of my life, the chief tradition around which my whole year revolved was...

The icy December dawn, 2011, crawled infinitesimally into existence, the inky gloom ever so slowly resolving itself into barely discernible tree trunk...

There was a time when hand loading your own ammunition was frowned upon and downright discouraged. Major manufacturers limited distribution of compone...

At the time I’m writing this, I suppose most hunters have marked their calendars with the starting dates for our hunting seasons to begin another year...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, time is just flying by! Good grief, it’s a little scary how quickly 2019 is melting away. In another week i...

As a youngster the majority of kids in our neighborhood had a BB gun. Under the watchful eye of a caring parent, an eager child began the process of f...