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Are You Using Too Much Scope?
Winter was setting in along the Utah-Colorado border. It was two days before Thanksgiving, and I was slogging slowly through a foot of snow blanketing the Dolores Triangle. I’d drawn a late-season permit for the area. Hunting had been spotty here during Utah’s 10-day October deer season, when only “so-so” bucks were in residence. I was after one of the mossyhorns that descended from Colorado’s high plateaus to winter in the Triangle when the weather turned foul. It was snowing lightly when I left the tent that morning. Less than an hour later, I was bucking a real blizzard. Hoping the snow would let up before long, I sat with my back against a large sagebrush that blocked the wind, and settled in to wait. The blizzard eventually petered out, and only a few scattered flakes still drifted from the sky. Before getting to my feet to shake the snow from my coat and pants, I carefully looked around. A flicker of movement caught my eye, so I raised my binocular for a closer look. Like me, four mule deer had bedded down to wait out the storm — and one was a huge 8-pointer! I’d spotted the buck as he rose from his snowy bed. Now he stood stiff-legged, looking in my directi...

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The Truth About Long-Range Shooting
Ever since humans first threw a stone to kill a bird, we’ve been searching for tools that can extend that range: slingshots, muzzleloaders, centerfires, rangefinders. To facilitate extreme-range sniping, today’s hunter can use VLD bullets, multi-reticle s...
 

A Different Kind of Boresighter
Wheeler Engineering, which is part of the Battenfeld Technologies family of companies, has come up with a boresighter that works on a totally different principle. The purpose of all such devices is to enable one to adjust a newly mounted scope to where the ...
 

Gun Barrels: The Long & Short of It
There are times when a long barrel on a rifle can be a real plus. At other times, it can be anything from a minor inconvenience to a genuine liability. As for short barrels, they exact a toll in terms of velocity, steadiness of hold and tracking, but those ...
 

The Do-It-All .22-250
The .22-250 Remington is the most versatile .22 centerfire cartridge, used for everything from casual plinking to long-range varmint shooting and occasionally even big game hunting. It's been around in one form or another since the 1930s, when experimenter...
 

How Low Can You Go?
Recoil (ri koyl) — To move back suddenly and violently, for example, after impact. Any way you look at it, recoil means something’s coming back at you. And as it relates to firearms, how fast and hard that is depends on a lot of factors. But no matter whic...
 
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Larry Teague / GunHunter Editor

Larry Teague

Larry Teague has been an outdoors writer and magazine editor for 35 years. He landed his first writing job, penning hunting and fishing reports for the Houston Post newspaper, in 1977. From 1980-1985, he was editor of Gulf Tide magazine, published by the Gulf Coast Conservation Association. For 12 years, Teague was editor of Southern Outdoors magazine, published by B.A.S.S. Inc. He also edited Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World magazine and numerous firearms books before becoming the founding editor of Buckmasters GunHunter Magazine in 2003.

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