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The article presents a guide to hunting and adventure in the woods. It describes how to bring a bear, an apex predator, into range by pretending he/she is prey. It is said that grassy flats and oak groves are a few of the fall food sources preferred by canyon-country bears. Blowing a rabbit distress call can pull bears from up to a mile away.

The article instructs how to make the perfect shot without the use of any ballistic charts and technical support in actual hunting conditions. It says that one must practice regularly and show the willingness to kill. If one has a bolt-action centerfire, one can practice by dry-firing but be discreet. The hunter should have faith in his rifle and practise good trigger control. Anything that forces one to do complex calculations when the time comes to shoot is not going to help. INSETS: SHOOTING POSITION #1 OFFHAND;SHOOTING POSITION #2 PRONE;SHOOTING POSITION #3 SITTING;PETZAL'S RANGE RIFLES/SHOOTING POSITION #3 SITTING

The article focuses on accuracy of factory rifles that are used for hunting. It specifically refers to three things-- stiff, concentric, and stress-free--that are required for accurate rifle. Finally, the article refers to several ways to better accuracy. It is suggested that one should not shoot kneeling if one can shoot sitting.

The article presents information related to the hunting knives. As reported, the essential functions of a hunting knife include gutting skinning, caping, and performing an emergency lobotomy. It is reported that Webster Marble introduced the Ideal Hunting Knife in 1899, and it was arguably the first knife designed for the sport hunter. One of the traditional knives of the Saami people of Europe, the leuku, is a wide-bladed tool designed to serve as a hatchet, a machete, and a butcher knife. INSETS: One Famously Bad Knife;How to Get a Good Blade.

The article focuses on the artwork depicting hunting. Roughly 25,000 years ago, in a series of deep caves in Spain and France, a number of forever nameless Cro-Magnon geniuses gave us our first works of art. Periodical "Field & Stream's" mortal peril covers differed from the lurid men's pulp magazine covers of the 1920's to the 1950's in that the stories on which they were based were probably true, or at least partly so. Professional writers wrote some of them, but most came from people who had been to the edge, returned alive, and put it down on paper. You see their names once, and they do not appear again.

The article presents hunting advice. Pick out your target object, shut both eyes, and mount the shotgun. Now open your right eye. If you see just the bead sight or perhaps an inch of the end of the barrel, you are properly down on the gun. If you see half the barrel, or all of it, your head position is too high and the gun will shoot high. You can avoid endless trouble by degreasing the base screws on your scope mounts and screwing them in hard. Hard is when you're turning the screw-driver for all you're worth and the next thing you know you're lying on the floor and the dog is pawing at you and whining.

This article presents information on the premium type of bullets that are used for hunting and some examples related to it. It is the implement that does the killing, and there are big differences among bullets. The mass-produced variety are accurate and give both adequate penetration and expansion nearly all the time. In one of the examples the author describes about a man who shot some of the early X-Bullets and was not a fan. He says that he got erratic pressures in his handloads, and he saw one X-Bullet whose little petals had broken away, and another whose hollow point had imploded inward. But he rarely held a grudge for more than 15 years, and when he got the triple-shock X-Bullet he welcomed it very eagerly.

This article presents information related to hunting. Set up on the field across from the hollows before sunrise and watch. If there are deer here in the afternoon, it should be even better in the morning. Take a stand in early afternoon at the edge of the field between the two hollows where the deer filter in. Forget the field, hollows, and bench; you'll spook deer here no matter how you hunt. Put on a drive in the rough, overgrown clear-cut as soon as it's legal shooting light. Hang a stand on the downwind side of the bench several hundred yards above the field. Sneak into it early in the afternoon. Hunt till dark.

There are several ways you can hunt elk. If you are truly hardcore, you can pack your own camp on your back and stay in the forests until your food and your legs give out, but unless you are skillful and can spend a lot of time in the woods each season, you will not get an elk hunting on foot because you can't cover enough ground. Elk hunting means riding either uphill or downhill. Uphill is not so bad, but riding downhill, you must support your weight either on your rump or with your knees. The correct way to ride a western saddle is with the stirrups adjusted to let your legs hang nearly straight.

The article offers tips for making the 10 toughest shots on deer. Many hunters often blunder into a buck so close, yet shots are missed. This is because hunters panic and point their guns in the general direction of the animal and shoot instead of actually aiming and then shooting. They need to select an attractive spot on the beast and shoot.

The article offers information about hunting camps in the U.S. Courageous Lake Caribou Camps in Northwest Territories has a guiding area of 6,000 square miles. The facilities provided at the camp include boats, tents and food. A guided hunt for five days cost $4,500. Cowden Plantation is a hunting camp teeming with wildlife located near Jackson, South Carolina.

Profanity is an important part of hunting and fishing. Through its long and glorious history, the periodical "Field & Stream" had a strict antiprofanity policy. Certain questions have been raised by readers regarding profanity. The author, hereby, addresses these issues. Outdoor profanity had been a growing industry now-a-days.

In this article the author focuses on the first impression of using a hunting gun. He states that he has witnessed cases where new shooters hurt themselves while using a gun, which discouraged them to use a gun again. He mentions that impression of a gun can also be formed based on the information on internet. He highlights that his first impression of the .270 gun was that it was not good, which was wrong as he has used the gun for 40 years.

The article offers information on how hunters can determine whether they have missed or hit an animal in the wild. It notes that the best indicator to tell whether a hunter hit or missed the shot is by noting where the crosshairs were when one pulled the trigger. It mentions that hunters must note the direction in which the animal went if the animal runs off.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to previously published articles including "White-tail, U.S.A," in the October 2011 issue, "A Great Week at Deer Camp," and "Breast Fast."

The article features the journal's shooting editor Jim Carmichel in the U.S. It highlights the two basic requirements for the job of shooting editor. It is stated that Carmichel is a primarily a rifleman and describes him as sweet-tempered, tolerant and forbearing. His contributions to the journal are further discoursed.

The article offers suggestions for pronghorn antelope hunting. It recommends taking advantage of the topography to get to less than 200 yards of the animal. It states that the .25/06 is the best gun for antelope hunting and to use quick-expanding bullets. It advises that since goats have excellent vision, the spotting scope with 8X-10X top magnification and a 10X binocular may be used.

The article presents information on certain newly developed bullets that can be used for hunting. Barnes' original X-Bullets were based on a very simple idea--that if one makes a solid-copper bullet, he gets rid of all the problems involved in sticking a lead core into a hunk of copper. But all-copper construction created a new problem. Since copper is much lighter than lead, X-Bullets had to be much longer than conventional slugs. Winchester Supreme Elite XP3 is a premium all-around big-game bullet that provides fine accuracy, good penetration and expansion at all ranges, and a high ballistic coefficient.

You will actually use your rifle for only a few seconds of any hunt, but if you have a brain in your head, you'll spend hours and hours glassing with your binoculars. Until very recently, hunters had two options when it came time to buy glassware. They could either get el cheapo horrors or bankrupt themselves for glasses of optical and mechanical splendor assembled by folks named Lothar and Hans. Hunters can now opt for glasses that cost $500 or less and are as good as anything you could get at any price a few years ago. INSET: THE TEST.

The article presents questions and answers about guns, shooting, hunting and life including should one use a silicone-impregnated cloth to wipe down the rifle, what are the benefits of fixed-power scopes over variables and the most interesting hunting ritual.

The article reports that guns writer Jeff Cooper will be remembered for changing American handgunning and defense shooting. He founded the first practical-shooting academy (Gunsite), and also created the Scout rifle, which is his idea of what an all-around rifle should be. The article also offers some shooting tips.

The article reports on the use of a red-dot sight made by Aimpoint AB in rifles. The U.S. Army adopted a red-dot sight made by Aimpoint for use on its M16 rifle and M4 carbine in 1997 after 18 months of testing. Red-dot sights offer several advantages over scopes or iron sights. The Distance Question Red dots have long been accepted by handgun shooters, slug gunners, and turkey killers.

The article presents information on the process of selection of hunting and fishing equipment for the Best of the Best Awards of the journal "Field & Stream." The journal invited manufacturers to submit equipment they deemed worthy of Best of the Best consideration. After rigorous testing, 43 products were selected to represent the very best in hunting, fishing, and outdoor travel.

The article evaluates the Black Canyon hunting boots from Meindl and offers information on its lightweight and usefulness.

The article presents questions and answers related to hunting. One person asks if there is a web site that would help to understand the caliber designations applied to American rifle and handgun cartridges. Another questions if forcing-cone operation lower the gas pressure needed for proper cycling.

The article presents information on the moral and ethical aspects of shooting. The respondents in a survey showed themselves to be a conscientious bunch. At a time when the gun industry uses the ability to shoot at long range as a major selling point, the overwhelming majority surveyed do not shoot at over 200 yards. Almost half said they do not shoot at running deer. A majority felt that in-line muzzleloaders violate the spirit of the law. Most people replied in negative when they were asked whether they would get a range-calculating riflescope that would guarantee hits on game, if they could buy one.

The article focuses on Schmidt & Bender, a firm that manufactures scopes that are used in hunting. At first, the company made scopes for other firms, but in the early 1970's they started selling under their own name, and in January 1993, Schmidt & Bender was formed to boost sales in the United States. Schmidt & Bender custom-coats each batch of lenses according to the light-transmitting qualities of the specific glass from which they are ground. There is no set formula because a set formula doesn't turn out the best optical results.

Presents comments of the author on hunting. Comments of the author on his friend who killed his 28th species of North American big game; Information on hunters Grancel Fitz, Warren Page, and C.J. McElroy; Faith on the objects which hunters are repeatedly successful with. INSET: Round at the Waist.

The article informs about Zeiss Victory T Fl binoculars used in hunting. It has Zeiss' top-of-the-line glass. It comes in 8X and 10X and utilizes about every optical refinement known to man.

The article focuses on bad shooters. Researchers have found that when a buck appears, a hunter's heartbeat can go from 72 beats per minute to 180-plus, which is heart-attack range for some people. In 1973 the author shot in the North American Clay Target Championship at Vandalia, Ohio, along with a thousand other shooters, and the day before the event he was practicing on the same squad with a young man who was absolutely pounding the targets. Good shooters are immune to the shakes, and they have three things in common: they are self-confident to the point of arrogance; they literally cannot imagine themselves missing a shot; they have achieved this self-confidence through an immense amount of practice; they have the ability to block out mental pressure for however long it takes to do what they have to do.

This article presents question and answer advisory related to hunting. The leading cause of missed shots at big game is nerve. Typical symptoms are a pounding heart, loss of coordination, and a blanked-out brain. The most valuable modern gun in the world is the Invincible, an incredibly ornate side-by-side made by Parker. The best place to shoot a moose is near a front-end loader. The hunting handgun that's more powerful than the .44 magnum is .480 Ruger and the Smith & Wesson Model 500 is not bad to shoot, despite its awesome power.

This article presents information on the book "Horn of the Hunter," by Robert C. Ruark. The book was the result of the safari trip of Ruark and his wife, Virginia, to British East Africa in 1951 with professional hunter Harry Selby. The book is a chronicle of that safari and, very arguably, the best book on African hunting ever written. Ruark, who loved Africa with a passion that never faded, was a mesmerizing writer, funny and self-deprecating and moving, with a marvelous eye for detail. Ruark died in 1966, and the Africa he knew would soon vanish forever.

This article presents various questions and answers related to hunting. Beanbags are fine if one wants to knock down a man. They will not do a lot to discourage a black bear, particularly a big one. One should stick to pepper spray or rifled slugs. From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Weatherby stocked its godless and rock-shivering 0.460 magnum rifles with mesquite. It's extremely heavy and tough, which made it ideal for that use, but it's also very hard to find a mesquite blank that isn't full of knots.

This article focuses on hunting equipments. Alaska Brown Bear Skinner/Cleaver is a unique tool, depending on how you use it, a knife, an u/u which is a skinning knife, a hatchet, arid a cleaver. It's made of D-2 steel, which is both tough and stain-resistant. Harsey Tacticai Ranger Folder is a huge lockblade that was designed for military personnel but will do double duty as a hunting and survival knife. Ontario Knife Rat-7 Rat stands for Randall's Adventure and Training, a school that specializes in jungle survival and also designed this knife.

The author narrates anecdotes about hunting experiences. My favorite all time sighting in screw up occurred in Africa in 1978. A member of the safari I was on whined perpetually about trackers, the game and his rifle's alleged inability to hold its zero. The professional hunter did not appreciate the nonstop bitching and advised the tracker to rest it on a little hill and shoot at the mopane tree, the hill the hunter had pointed to turned out to be a safari ant complex. If one shoots with a magnum rifle or a rifle of any caliber with a lightweight barrel, one is sure to have problems with overheating. One should not fire more than three shots at a time must and let the barrel cool to where it is no hotter than tepid before one can continue. INSET: Field Checkups.

The article presents a set of questions and answers related to hunting. Questions are posed by readers and hunter David Petzal responds to them. One reader wanted to know how to call moose, as he was about to go for a hunting trip to Alaska, to which Petzal replied that all calls he had seen are homemade, but one can find a variety of commercial moose seducers at the Web site address given in the article. Another reader wanted to know how to keep scope based screws in place while hunting. Petzal replied that it could be done by decreasing the screw holes and threads with lighter fluid will usually do the trick.

This article focuses on Ontario knives TAK-1. Through it's heavy and ugly, a nuclear blast probably wouldn't damage this knife. The TAK-1 is made for military and survival use but doubles in spades as an ultratough hunting knife. Its 4¼-inch blade comes in either bead-blasted steel or phosphated 1095 carbon tool steel. The handles are linen or canvas Micarta, held in place by stainless-steel screws.

This article focuses on actual case studies regarding the role of bullets in animal deaths. Animals drop because of damage to the brain or the spinal column, which stops signals to the legs, and die when the oxygen in their brains runs out. The bullet's impact is not the direct cause. Thick hides, heavy bones, and massive muscles are too much for a small bullet to get through to where it has to do its work. A big bullet will penetrate, but it doesn't knock anything to the ground. Similarly, high velocity is useful only because it makes hitting at long range much easier than low velocity. INSET: Deaf Is Deaf.