Hunting

Thanks to the good folks at Leupold & Stevens an American icon is back where it belongs. Founded in 1909, Redfield has been making riflescopes for a very long time. In fact, at least in the hunting world, Redfield is as much an icon as Remington or Red Head. Personally, I like to buy...
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Here in California the state has decided that for most of the best hunting areas in the southern part of the state it’s necessary to use bullets with no lead content. They did this to protect the endangered California Condor. I certainly understand the reasoning behind this, but I have a problem with it...
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I received an email alert from the NRA-ILA today detailing the latest efforts of The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to take control of the land here in California. It seems their unleaded bullet fiasco was not enough, and although they failed to expand that from just big game to all species, they’re obviously...
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Picking the right ammo for what you want to do can be tricky. There are a lot of variables to consider, and then there’s personal choice. For me it’s a process that involves looking at a set of criteria based on what I want to do with the rifle in question given a specific...
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The definition of accuracy depends on the community you’re operating in. To someone who either is, has been or plans to be a member of one of the various shooting related communities out there accuracy, and even precision, are concepts that in many ways have no overlap at all, and where they do it’s...
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In a previous post I talked about the hunting rifle I’d like to build, or have built as the case may be. I fully intend to go through with that at some point, but the truth is my next hunting rifle will probably be limited to the available budget, which is likely to be...
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As I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, there are more reticle designs out there than could possibly be necessary. I’m going to try to make sense of all this, but to tell the truth I’m not really sure that I, or anyone else for that matter, can make real sense out of...
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One of the things that has kept me going during these bad times is the idea of going hunting. I had hoped to go deer hunting this year, but circumstances just wouldn’t allow it. There’s always next year, besides, it’s always hog season here in California and we’ve got plenty of coyotes that need...
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Though I’ve come close a few times, I’ve never actually had the opportunity to go hunting. It was always a case of either plenty of money but no time, or plenty of time and no money. I’m determined to change that. This fall I will be going hunting come hell or high water. Of...
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I’m not going to get into a long discussion about this at this time, I was just looking at some info on deer hunting info for my local area and saw something ironic. The California deer hunting Zone D15 PDF from the CFW says this: The deer population in Zone D-15 is considered stable to...
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