How are you preparing for the upcoming hunting season? Are you watching hunting television, complaining about how stupid it is? Are you shooting at least once per week from actual field positions? While wearing a Corona mask? No, my guess is that you might have not even checked the zero on your rifle and are just lounging around drinking beer imagining how …
Sometime back a friend of mine and fellow hillbilly, Chris Ellis, asked me to write the Introduction to his first book. I considered it an honor; one I did not take lightly. A first book is very important to the author and it deserves an Introduction worthy of the content and the friendship. I’m not sure I succeeded, but apparently it was …
In his book, To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth, Cooper stated, “All scouts up to now have been in caliber .308, and the chronograph insists that the proper loading can start a 150-grain bullet from a 19 inch barrel at a couple clicks over 2700 f/s. These ballistics served Theodore Roosevelt and Steward Edward White very well in Africa, and they still can.”
