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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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Long Rifles and Round Balls
If you’re a student of the rifle or a muzzleloading enthusiast this is a time machine you must ride. The journey spans over 200 years covering five generations, but unlike histories that examine most rifles, those you’ll discover here are,…
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Daily Blog: 12/11/20 (307 Winchester)
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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