If you were raised like me, after you shot a rifle or even took it hunting, you cleaned it. Initially this made sense to me but it wasn’t until after I’d entered the military that I learned that this, clean every time you shoot, mindset was nothing but a carryover from training. You see, the military makes you clean your rifle or …
This past weekend Bat and I traveled the 250 mile trip to our family hunting camp in eastern West Virginia. The route we took is one I have been driving for my entire life. It winds through the hills and hollows of West Virginia on a two lane road. There is a faster and easier way to get there but none as …
I’ve said many times before that when it comes to hunting, “It’s all about the shot.” In fact, that is the title of my upcoming book about mastering the hunting rifle. Friends and associates like to argue with me offering that the hunt is about much more; the pursuit, friends, experiencing the outdoors and so on. Last year I had this discussion …
