From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Good Teacher Is Fastest Way To Learn, Improve Wing Shooting

March 10, 2010

You want to learn to ski, what do you do? You take ski lessons. You’re hoping to shave strokes from your golf game? You seek help from a good pro. You want to advance through the belts in the martial arts? You join a dojo and learn from a Master.
So why is it hunters and [...]

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Picking Up Hitchhikers

March 8, 2010

Some of you probably can’t even remember the days when picking up hitchhikers was acceptable. People routinely hit the road with nothing more than extra clothes in a duffel and their thumb in the air. You didn’t have to worry (at least not as much) about serial killers, rapists and simply “weird folks.”
I worked with [...]

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Coyote Problems at the Retirement Community

March 5, 2010

My parents sent me this photo the other day. It seems as if my coyote hunting skills are needed at the Sunland Springs retirement community in Mesa, Ariz. Just when the cats thought it was safe to evade marauding coyotes by climbing the coyotes themselves learned to climb, and balance like a tightrope walker at [...]

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“Where, Oh Where Can I Shoot?”

March 5, 2010

These early days of March are the low point in the hunter’s year. On these gray days there’s very little in North America to hunt for! Quail and rabbit were the last “regular” game seasons to go out. We’re a few weeks away from spring snow geese and even the earliest turkey seasons. It’s even [...]

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Shamu Reminder

March 3, 2010

The tragic death of the female trainer at SeaWorld last week was horrifying to say the least. But was it unexpected? Not really. This particular killer whale already had an established history of injuring trainers. In fact, I watched one interview with an employee whose job it was to watch the animals at SeaWorld and [...]

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You and Your Ammo: Same Place, Same Time

March 3, 2010

When you travel out-of-state or out-of-country especially by air one of the most nagging worries is whether you and your ammunition will end up at the same place and at the same time. Here are some tips to help you “relax and enjoy the flight” as they say.
1) Don’t fly with ammo if you don’t [...]

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Starbucks and Firearms

March 1, 2010

Keeping with my current theme of firearm rights I had to comment on the current spike in publicity on businesses that are inviting firearm owners to legally carry inside their premises. Or, the fact other businesses are posting their premises as off limits for firearms even when legal. In states where it is legal to [...]

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