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Around the Campfire with Bill Miller

“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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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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How Did We Ever Live Without…?

February 26, 2010

You don’t even have to be as old as me to utter the phrase, “How did we ever live without (fill-in-the-blank)?”  Some of the blank fillers in my lifetime are microwave ovens, fax machines, anti-lock brakes (on cars where the brakes actually work), cell phones, DVDs, MP3s, Iphones, Blackberries, and on and on and on.
Sometimes in [...]

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Confessions of a Not-So-Reformed Gun Auction Lurker

February 24, 2010

“Lurker.” Sounds sinister, doesn’t it? This is the type of guy who hangs around back alleys and shadowy doorways. He’s always there, but you can never see his face. Yes, until last week, I was a “lurker” on GunBroker.com one of my all-time favorite websites.
Fantasy Island for a gun nut would be a place with [...]

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BOGgear TAC, XSR & Switcheroo — SHOT Show’s Best New Products (Part 8)

February 19, 2010

I spent the last few days enjoying an event that’s one of the highlights of my year – taping the season’s “You Call the Shots” segments for North American Hunter TV at the Clubhouse on the grounds of ATK Federal. It’s fun because it’s a break from the dreariness of midwinter in Minnesota and brings [...]

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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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