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Around the Campfire with Bill Miller

Federal Prairie Storm & Black Cloud Snow Goose — SHOT Show’s Best New Products (Part 7)

February 17, 2010

Just a few seasons back, the Federal Flitecontrol Wad revolutionized turkey hunting. The patterns it produces are so tight you danged well better have sights or a scope on your shotgun so you can aim it as precisely as a rifle when that longbeard steps inside of 20 yards. Loaded into the “traditionally-too-small-for-turkeys” 20 gauge, [...]

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ThermaCELL Heated Insoles — SHOT Show’s Best New Products (Part 6)

February 12, 2010

It’s w-a-a-a-a-y t-o-o-o-o soon to be telling you about this new product introduced at the 2010 Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show. There are lots of good reasons not to tell you now like because it won’t be available until fall; because it doesn’t even have an official name yet; and because we should all [...]

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Polar King Monster Game Locker — SHOT Show’s Best New Products (Part 5)

February 10, 2010

Every year I attend SHOT Show (26th straight this year!) I’m always on the look out for a product pick that’s distinctive because it’s – well – BIG. At the 2010 Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas a few weeks back, I think I set a personal best for finding an interesting, [...]

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Burris Eliminator Laserscope — SHOT Show’s Best New Products (Part 4)

February 5, 2010

When it comes to rifle scopes I have some very defined tastes as to how a scope looks. I usually demand that it look like a traditional scope – 1-inch center tube, bells at both ends. And I don’t like a general purpose hunting scope to be too big – as far as I’m concerned objective [...]

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Pro Tool Books — SHOT Show’s Best New Products (Part 3)

February 3, 2010

When it comes to hunting, guiding, outfitting, wildlife biology and management, survival, camp craft and even military special operations J.Wayne Fears is the poster boy for “Been there. Done that. Bought the T-shirt.” And I’m fortunate to count as one of my life’s greatest blessings that J. Wayne is my friend and mentor.
Usually Wayne and I [...]

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Hot Shot Gun-SHOT Show's Best New Products Part 2

January 29, 2010

Among the top new product introductions made at the NSSF’s Shooting Hunting & Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas last week has to be the Thompson/Center Hot Shot .22 rimfire . Yes, T/C is a long, long time sponsor of North American Hunter TV on Versus, but the Hot Shot kids’ rifle would crown my list even if they [...]

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A Safe Bet-SHOT Show’s Best New Products Part 1

January 27, 2010

Each year the National Shooting Sports Foundation puts on the Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show. The 2010 show took place last week in Las Vegas. It’s only open to verified industry attendees and the media. SHOT is where the latest and greatest new products are unveiled. So for the next several “Around the [...]

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Bullets DO NOT RISE

January 22, 2010

Every shooter who is serious about achieving maximum accuracy from rifles or pistols as looked at ballistics charts and graphics depicting point-blank sighting. However, unless you know what you’re looking at these pictures can be deceptive.
If you don’t look at them carefully, they seem to show a rising flight path for a bullet traveling down [...]

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Don't Ruin a Great Day

January 20, 2010

Years back came a coveted invitation to hunt a high-end plantation in Mississippi. The place had a beautiful lodge and a long heritage of classic Southern-style quail hunting. As I wandered through the lodge after lunch one day, I came across a blaze orange “Gilligan” hat on display in a glass case. About a third of the hat [...]

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Another Great First for the .45-70 … What?

January 16, 2010

At 47 years old chances are I won’t be going into outer space. I’m not a spelunker or a submariner. I’m not a test pilot or a race car driver (though I did some laps at the Richard Petty Driving Experience and it was pretty danged cool). I’m not a nano-scientist or a medical researcher. [...]

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How To Hit Decoying Ducks (…And Other Dropping Targets)

January 13, 2010

It’s time to envy those waterfowl hunters Down South. Sure they’ve been hit with record cold temps in the last few weeks like everybody else, but for the most part that means good duck hunting! The final days of the season look really promising. Then, of course there are those lucky guys with trips to [...]

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Way More Than Just Making Venison Jerky

January 8, 2010

The end of the last days of deer season are sweeping the country from north to south. Even Texas doesn’t have much more than a month to go with extended management seasons and doe harvests. As much as it pains to think it, another deer season is nearly in the history books.
So what’s next for [...]

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This Simple Tool Will Get You Home

January 6, 2010

When I’m upland bird hunting, particularly for ruffed grouse, I like to explore. Traditional coverts are wonderful things to have and hold close. They are the places that come to mind when you look at a masterpiece sporting painting replete with bird dogs, side-by-sides and flushing ruffs captured in flight. But the cover changes over [...]

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New Years Resolution: Less Taxidermy … maybe, maybe not?

January 1, 2010

When it comes to making New Years resolutions, hunters are like anyone else. We make ‘em and we generally break ‘em pretty fast.
Last year, I have to brag, I outdid myself. I vowed to get back to the gym starting on February 1, and I did. For 16 weeks I didn’t miss a day – [...]

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Looking for the Best Shot in America

December 30, 2009

Are you the best marksman in the country? Well here’s your chance to prove it and win $100,000 in the process. The History Channel is searching for someone with “mind-blowing” shooting skills to star in it’s first-ever competition show.
Whoever survives the casting process and earns a spot on the new show will get to shoot [...]

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