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Big-game hunting is the great leveler among men. Hunting and fishing are, at their core, sports of solitude, and they will end when enough shitheads decide that nothing is worth Being Out of Touch. What is the most difficult dangerous- game animal to hunt? Tracking lions in wilderness areas like the Zambezi Valley requires exceptional trackers and luck, but taking a big lion on foot after hours of amazing tracking is the ultimate hunt. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles the firearms restoration workshop operated by artist Doug Turnbull in upstate New York.

In this article, the author shares his life experiences of collecting various knives including the Kiddle Ka-Bar, the Yankee Gut Hook from knive maker George Herron and the Norm's Knife from outdoorsman Norm Strung.

The article evaluates various outdoor gear items including the Buck Model 110 Folding Knife from Buck, the Sportsman's Axe from Estwing and the Canadian Boots from Danner.

The article presents the author's insights about the Cape buffalo in Zimbabwe. Topics discussed include his experience visiting various safaris and animal hunting in Africa, tracking buffaloes, and the sound made by dying buffalo. Also mentioned a Dugga Boy or an old buffalo bull that has been move out of the herd by young bulls.

The article offers the authors experiences of testing 20 new rifles for 2017 centerfire shooting, along with suggestion for rifles including Remington Custom Shop M7 Scout by Remington Arms, American Legends Rifle by Montana Rifle, and Vanguard Camilla Weatherby.

The article offers brief information on several hunting rifles including the Savage Model 12 LRPV Left Port from Nightforce Optics, Winchester Model 70 Extreme Weather SS from Winchester Guns, and the Weatherby Vanguard Wilderness from Weatherby.

The article offers suggestions for tactical rifles that are used for hunting including Bergara B-14 HMR by Bergara Barrels; Mossberg Patriot Predator by Mossberg; and Remington Model 700 American Wilderness by Remington Arms.

The article offers the author's insights on his experience of several forms of toughness. Topics mentioned include the physical toughness of Canadian guide James Minnery in carrying the heavy moose in a hunting event in Alaska, the toughness of Montagnis Indian Maurice Boisvin and brother Henri who carried a loaded pack with caribou meat in a hunting activity in Canada, and the toughness of young man named Percy in a hunting activity in Montana where his toughness did not help him in hunting.

The article presents a comparison of various rifles including Weatherby rifles, Henry .30/30, and Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle.

The article discusses the design of various riflescopes. Topics include riflescopes are drawn from aircraft-grade aluminum, which is strong and lighter than steel tubes, the scopes have adjustments for windage and focus for the individual eye of the shooter, and telescopic sights, spotting scopes and binoculars manufacturer Leupold has developed the Duplex crosshair reticle. Also mentioned that the riflescope has about eight lenses.

Photographs by CHRISTINA HOLMES ACCORDING TO MARK TWAIN, "THE humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it." Personalities aside, hunting and fishing lend themselves to humor better than any other sports I can think of. - D.E.P. PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR). [Extracted from the article]

For one, I could still smell Lily's baby sweetness in the corners of the house, still feel her small heft in the hollow of my shoulder. Jane and I had planted the memorial pink crepe myrtle and the yellow lilies, chosen for having the audacity to bloom in the heat of the summer, the very time Lily died. I hoped that Lily's soul was safe. [Extracted from the article]

TED TRUEBLOOD AND PETER BARRETT, our great executive editor, were as close as brothers. After Ted died in 1982, I asked Peter why he had never written about their friendship. This was the custom of the time; writers were only eyes and ears, and what they felt and thought as individuals didn't matter. [Extracted from the article]

Photographs by CHRISTINA HOLMES HOW IMPORTANT IS CONSERVATION to FIELD & STREAM? In the 1920s, when waterfowlers believed it was their God-given right to shoot every duck and goose they saw, editor Ray Holland had the gall to suggest that we'd better impose some kind of limit on ourselves. Conservation editor George Reiger was hated by everyone from commercial fishermen to oil companies to James G. Watt, Ronald Reagan's secretary of the interior, but it didn't stop Reiger from writing, or the magazine from publishing what he wrote. [Extracted from the article]

Photographs by CHRISTINA HOLMES SOME YEARS AGO, THE NATIONAL Shooting Sports Foundation commissioned a study to find the reasons people stopped hunting. A hunting or fishing buddy is a mirror of your experience and a guarantee that it not be forgotten. You remember when… - D.E.P. PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR). [Extracted from the article]

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THE very marrow in the bones of FIELD & STREAM is how-to. I saw a classic example of this in Africa when I shot a Cape buffalo cow and our four trackers had the job of getting the 1,200-pound carcass onto our truck. Rather than lift the animal 4 feet up to the tailgate, they dug two narrow trenches deep enough to accommodate the rear tires up over the hubcaps, and backed the truck into them. [Extracted from the article]

In 1953, FIELD & STREAM hired Robert Ruark to write a monthly column called "The Old Man and the Boy." Harry Selby's trackers said that Bwana Ruark had "bad legs and much fear." Toward the end of my first safari [with PH Harry Selby] I was crawling more miles after Mbogo than I was walking after anything else - still scared stiff, but unable to quit. [Extracted from the article]

The adventure story is one of the great cultural staples of mankind. Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, which dates to the 8th century BCE, is one of the first adventure stories, and it is still very much with us. Adventure stories are based on the sad reality that most of us don't get to go on adventures. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews several rifles including Howa Hogue M1500 from Legacy Sports Inc., Marlin X7 from Marlin Firearms Co. and Ruger American Rifle from Ruger.

The article offers the author's regarding the basic concept and rules of German hunting. He notes that German hunt is very organized which begins with a briefing from hunter who uses actual horns and antlers to demonstrate and shows what hunters may and may not shoot. He indicates that the federal government issues a German hunting licence which can be acquired by hunter after a year of intensive study in the fields of game biology, ballistics, marksmanship and everything related to the sport.

The article presents author's experience of hunting a moose in Alaska. It mentions that moose is the largest deer that are found in forests of North America, Europe, and Russia. It offers information on combination of several sounds that helps in chasing a moose which includes, crashing brush, bull's grunt and the call of cow.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of participating in moose hunting in Alaska.

The article offers information regarding firearms in the U.S. It lists several rifles including Savage Model 111 FNS.30/06. Nosler Model 48 Trophy Grade .300 and Model 48 Custom Sporter. It highlights the gun nut code which declares that a gun nut measures one's past life through the hunting season one has been, a gun nut misses the departed dog than the departed loved ones and that children are safer with guns. INSETS: THREE MEAN GUN WRITERS;THE SINGLE BEST GUN GAME EVER;THE SINGLE WORST GUN GAME EVER;THREE FAMOUS FEMALE SHOTS

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience in hunting in New Zealand.

The article evaluates several rifles including Barrett Model 98B, E.R. Shaw Mark VII, and Connecticut Shotgun Model 21 from Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Co.

The article evaluates the Sig-Sauer 716 DMR Assault Rifle (AR) from arms manufacturer SIG Sauer GmbH.

The article evaluates several binoculars including the Minox APO-HG 10X43 BR ASPH from Minox GmbH, the Leica 10X32 Ultravid HD from Leica Geosystems Ltd. and the Nikon EDG 10X42 from Nikon Corp. INSETS: Are Your $200 Binocs Good Enough?;The Path of Light.

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 evaluates several deer rifles including the Winchester Model 94 Lever Action, the Marlin Model 336 Lever Action, and the Remington Model 7600 and 760 Slide Actions.

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 evaluates several hunting rifles including the .375 Ruger rifle, the Nosler Custom Model 48 Bolt Action rifle from Nosler Inc. and the Rossi Trifecta rifle from Rossi USA Corp.

The article presents information on a cartridge guide containing information on various cartridges used for rifles and pistols in the U.S. Some of the cartridges mentioned in this guide are .223 Remington, .220 Swift, 6mm Remington and .257 Roberts. The .223 Remington cartridge is known to the military as the 5.56mm. This cartridge shoots a 50-grain bullet at 3300 fps muzzle velocity. It is a low recoil cartridge. It also heats up barrels far less than larger .22 centerfires.

The article discusses long range hunting with the use of .50 BMG, a heavy machine gun cartridge more than 5 inches long. The use of the cartridge had made possible to hit a target with accuracy which remains 500 yard away. The rifles for shooting the cartridge is made by more than twenty firms. There is the human element added to the long range shooting, wind and exact distance are crucial factors. The important rules in maintaining the accuracy in long-range shooting are also mentioned.

The article presents information on the collection of hunting guns owned by the author. According to the author, a really good rifle can shoot just about any ammo accurately. That being the case, Ultra Light Arms .270 is not a good rifle, because it will shoot only one bullet with any precision, and that bullet isn't even made anymore. Browning Pigeon Grade Superposed 12-gauge shotgun was gifted to the author from his uncle. It was made in 1933 and belonged to a bird hunting friend of his.

The article presents information on gunsmiths and lists top gunsmiths of the U.S., giving their details. According to Gary Schlomer, educational supervisor of the Colorado School of Trades, a gunsmith is just a mechanic. The people who have graduated and done really well all have tremendous mechanical aptitude, terrific work ethics, and a willingness to take pains. Good gunsmiths are a vanishing breed. These days, machinists program computers, and the computers tell highly complex, incredibly expensive multistage machines what steps to take. Human hands have nothing to do with it. Gunsmithing is time-intensive. Nor does it pay particularly well. There is a lot of satisfaction in it, though, which is why they do it.

The article evaluates several bullets and cartridges including AccuBond bullet from Nosler Inc.; 6.5 PRC, rifle cartridge; and 28 Nosler, cartridge.

In this article, the author focuses on impact on shooters and shooting skills from the evolution in shooting technology like hunting rifle.

This article presents information on shooting sports. The shooting sports are basically in fine shape. So the author lists out things that irritate him. If one is seeking conclusive proof that humanity has no hope left, the author gives them the demented label. It used to be that scope sights came in 4X and had standard crosshair reticles, and that was it. They worked just fine, and people shot lots of animals. Now scopes are big and heavy and variable powered, have controls that belong on the instrument panel of an F-16 fighter, and come outfitted with reticles that only optical engineers can comprehend.

This article reports that not all babies are beautiful, not all dogs are smart, and not all used rifles are good. But some of them are terrific bargains because shooters and hunters are as nuts as any other hobbyists and constantly trade firearms. If one is looking to buy used guns, the first thing one needs to know is that they fit into one of six categories, depending on their condition. This article also includes photographs of several guns. The gun is very good if the gun should have more than 90 percent of its original finish, be in perfect working order, have no replacement parts, and need only very small repairs, if any.

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.

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.

The article focuses on remarkable artists. The cover art on these pages is by Richard Amundsen, Al Aquino, Walter J. Biggs, J.A. Brandon, Paul Bransom, Edward V. Brewer, Raphael Cavalière, Sdwyn Chambers, Clare Conley, Joseph Csatari, Charles DeFeo. Walter Dower, Victor Clyde Forsythe, Arthur Davenport Fuller, Charles Gardiner, Ted Giavis, Glenn Grohe, Lealand R. Gustavson, Howard L. Hastings, Luis M. Henderson, Colcord Heurlin, Arnold C. Holeywell, Lynn Bogue Hunt, J. Karl, O.L. Kemp, Hibbard V. Kline. W. Goadby Lawrence, F.A. Osborne Mayer, Ron McKee et al.

This article presents information on various guns. Winchester Model 70 was an improvement of Winchester's Model 54. which in turn was based on the Mauser Model 98. Winchester advertised it as the rifleman's rifle, and the slogan stuck. This was the big-game rifle by which all others were measured, and it is still the best factory bolt action ever made. Mauser Model 98 was the culmination of five preceding models and is the most successful bolt-action design ever produced. Remington Model 1100, the autoloading shotguns had been around for a long time by 1963, but the new Model 1100 was different. INSET: ... AND THE WORST.

This article presents information about various hunting rifles. After 20 years of building rifles on other makers' holt actions, Kenny Jarrett is now making his own the Tri-Lock-and producing his own barrels and stocks as well. Signature rifles are available with either synthetic or wood stocks. The synthetic-stocked T3 is a near perfect rifle-accurate, affordable, handy. The Vanguard rifle has been around for years. but this is a new version, improved and with a better price. It comes in bluedsteel, stainless, and camo-stocked versions. INSET: ACCURACY.