The first Advanced Scout Rifle course at Gunsite Academy was a wonderful success. Over three days eight students worked scout rifles from up close and personal in the indoor simulators to beyond 250 yards in the outdoor simulators. We also shot moving targets and explored the “scout rifle” concept through discussion and by comparing rifles. I’ve suggested that next year the …
I take a lot of crap because I don’t like shotguns. I’m OK with that. The thing is there are essentially two types of shooters in this world, rifle shooters and shotgun shooters. Rifle shooters can shoot or at least understand how, shotguns shooters can’t or just don’t want to try very hard. That statement probably ruffled a few feathers and shotgun …
Call it an urban legend or a an old wives’ tale but there exists this notion that you need 1000 foot pounds of energy to cleanly take a deer or similar sized big game animal. No one is really sure where this myth originated. Bryce Towsley queried Facebook and the general conduces was the it was from Townsend Whelen. That may be …
