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Daily Blog: 12/30/20 (The Last Post)
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Daily Blog: 12/30/20 (The Last Post)

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December 30, 2020
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This is the, Last Post, for 2020, and it has four purposes. The first is to announce that I’m now accepting pre-orders for my latest book, Under Orion Volume 2, More Hunting Stories from Appalachia to Africa. 100 numbered and…

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Daily Blog: 12/29/20 (Thoughts on the General Purpose Rifle)
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Daily Blog: 12/29/20 (Thoughts on the General Purpose Rifle)

gunwriter
December 29, 2020
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In the 1980s, Jeff Cooper, a former Marine and founder of what is now known as Gunsite Academy, conceived the Scout Rifle concept. Cooper theorized the best general-purpose rifle – a rifle well adapted to just about any task –…

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Daily Blog: 12/24/20 (Throwback Thursday)
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Daily Blog: 12/24/20 (Throwback Thursday)

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December 24, 2020
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The recent muzzleloading hunt in Kentucky with my son got me to thinking about my past experiences with muzzleloaders. By virtue of my best friend’s addiction to muzzleloaders, I spent a lot of time in the woods and on the…

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Daily Blog: 12/21/20 (Rifle Identity)
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Daily Blog: 12/21/20 (Rifle Identity)

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December 21, 2020
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How often have you heard someone refer to their rifle as a certain type of rifle? Maybe a deer-rifle, varmint-rifle, dangerous-game rifle, assault-rifle, prepper-rifle, or whatever other hyphenated-rifle you can imagine. Different folks have different ideas about all these rifle types,…

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Daily Blog: 12/20/20 (Scout Rifles)
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Daily Blog: 12/20/20 (Scout Rifles)

gunwriter
December 20, 2020
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The interest in Scout Rifles continues to elevate and I believe that is a good thing. Given the world we are living in, having one rifle that is capable of handling any task a rifle is suited for is a…

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Daily Blog: 12/19/20 (It’s Over)
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Daily Blog: 12/19/20 (It’s Over)

gunwriter
December 19, 2020
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The 2020 deer hunting season is over for me and I have no complaints. My oldest daughter got to have an exciting encounter with a buck but it did not work out. My son and I took bucks at our…

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Daily Blog: 12/18/20 (The Broken Deer)
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Daily Blog: 12/18/20 (The Broken Deer)

gunwriter
December 18, 2020
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So I was not able to post since the 13th because we were hunting in western Kentucky. We had Internet service but the mornings came early and the evenings late. We hunted on the evening of the 14th but only…

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Daily Blog: 12/13/20 (Range Day)
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Daily Blog: 12/13/20 (Range Day)

gunwriter
December 13, 2020
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Early this morning I worked more on getting my book ready to go to the printer. What I had almost forgotten is that writing the book is the easy part; the hard part is getting the book ready to go…

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Daily Blog: 12/11/20 (307 Winchester)
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Daily Blog: 12/11/20 (307 Winchester)

gunwriter
December 11, 2020
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In 1983 I purchased the first Winchester 94AE in 307 Winchester that I laid eyes on. It was a fantastic little rifle that fired a very powerful – by lever-action standards – cartridge. I hunted with that rifle for several…

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Daily Blog: 12/10/20 (Bloody Bullets)
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Daily Blog: 12/10/20 (Bloody Bullets)

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December 10, 2020
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This morning I worked some more on a reloading article, did some Christmas shopping on the Internet, and then reviewed the text for my new book. While doing that I got to thinking about a hunt from the book and…

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About Empty Cases

Empty Cases is the on-line portal to the works of Richard Mann.

Born and raised in West Virginia, Richard has hunted from the Montana mountains to the green hills of Africa. He has a military, law enforcement, firearms instructing, and competitive shooting background, and is the author of Rifle Bullets for the Hunter, Handgun Training for Personal Protection, Shooter’s Guide to the AR, 13th Edition of Cartridges of the World, Under Orion, and The Scout Rifle Study.

Richard is a Field Editor for Field & Stream magazine, and currently contributes to a variety of other gun and hunting periodicals. In 2019 Richard worked as the Executive Producer and host of the Amazon Prime reality hunting drama, WILDCraft: South Africa.

A hillbilly at heart, Richard lives on Shadowland – his shooting range in West Virginia – with the most understanding wife in the world, their three kids, and a very protective Rhodesian Ridgeback.

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