Rifle Cartridge Power - How Much is Enough? (Written in 2000)
I wonder when the laser-guided bazookas will show up?โโโย anonymous The subject is hunting rifle โpowerโ. We seem insatiable for more and more of it. Remingtonโs new 300 Ultramag sales are brisk. Lazzeroni cartridges are getting a lot of press. Weatherby...
Using Your Pack As A Shooting Aid (Written in 2000)
Your pack is the best shooting aid you have. And make no mistake about it-a solid rest is the absolute best contributor to accurate shooting. Given half a chance, Iโll always shoot off my pack, even at sub-100 yard distances....
Hand-loading For All-purpose Use of Big Game Rifles (Written in 2000)
HANDLOADING Discussion: the usual condition of starting well below the following Big Game and Dangerous Game loads should be observed; some of them are a mite hot. My approach is to make my rifles into tools that feed me and...
Before we look at my journey in developing heated shelters for man carry let's pause for a discussion on hunting in winter.ย I've practiced the skill and art of living off the land in the backcountry my entire career, filling...
Snow caves are neither fast nor easy to build. They are by no means the preferred snow-based shelter solution for daily travel, or even for stranded, emergency shelter. The builder must have a shovel-โpreferably a large one-โand be equipped with...
Shelter. We humans need it. Not blessed with fur, fat or any of the other animal protective designs we are on our own; it's up to that big brain of ours to figure out how to deal with the elements....
It was twenty below inside my new Stephenson tent. I had been using the cutting edge Model 2R since summer. This, instead of my long practice of lean-to shelters with a fire out front. Military shelter half, tarp, that sort...
Greetings and Happy New Year to my colleagues and readers here on the Blogย My freezers are packed with moose and deer and elkโthe results of a long and plentiful autumn of hunting and wandering my beloved backcountry in my...
I'm finally getting around to revising my twenty year old essay on what constitutes a rambling manโs Possibles Pouch,,,,what it is, and what goes into it,ย The concept is to store close at hand everything needed to operate efficiently, and...