{"id":8516,"date":"2014-03-07T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramworks.net\/blog\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:08:38","slug":"field-test-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/field-test-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Test Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhunter.org\/blog_list.php?cat_id=11593\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8517 alignleft\" alt=\"11593H\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11593H.jpg?resize=390%2C75\" width=\"390\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hunters might want to check out a new BLOG called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhunter.org\/blog_list.php?cat_id=11593\" target=\"_blank\">Field Test<\/a>. Its part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhunter.org\" target=\"_blank\">NRA&#8217;s American Hunter magazine<\/a> and is being put together by Adam Heggenstaller. Adam used to be my editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingillustrated.com\" target=\"_blank\">NRA&#8217;s Shooting Illustrated magazine<\/a> but now he is plying his craft at American Hunter. (This means he is mostly traveling all over the world to hunt and play with cool and interesting gear.) Adam is also a straight up guy and you&#8217;ll only get the straight dope from him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhunter.org\/blogs\/ft-trijicon-accupoint\" target=\"_blank\">His post on the Trijicon Accupoint scope is a perfect example.<\/a> For hunters, I think it is one of the best scopes you can buy. Had I not had one in Africa last spring, while hunting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortrichmond.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Richmond Safaris<\/a>, I would have never shot my last day, last hour, <a href=\"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/enough-gun-or-something-like-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">last minute kudu<\/a>. It was one of my best hunts ever and I&#8217;ve got Trijicon to thank for it.<a href=\"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/enough-gun-or-something-like-it\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7934\" alt=\"30 AR Kudu\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/30-AR-Kudu-300x212.jpg?resize=300%2C212\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunters might want to check out a new BLOG called Field Test. Its part of NRA&#8217;s American Hunter magazine and is being put together by Adam Heggenstaller. Adam used to be my editor at NRA&#8217;s Shooting Illustrated magazine but now he is plying his craft at American Hunter. (This means he is mostly traveling all over the world to hunt and play &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[510,511,151,512],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-heggenstaller","tag-american-hunter","tag-nra","tag-trijicon-accupoint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-2dm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8568,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/the-late-great-88\/","url_meta":{"origin":8516,"position":0},"title":"The Late Great 88","author":"gunwriter","date":"March 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Why 88? 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