Thank you to my 60,000 + World Wide Viewers !!
We have exceeded our goal of 60,000 Views this year. The largest viewership goes to the USA with Canada as second largest but we have seen viewers from Africa, Australia/ New Zealand, Britain, Europe, Japan and South America.
On Cartridges we wrote about the 6.5 Creedmoor this year and sang its praises as a fine hunting cartridge and the bullets fabulous Sectional Density and compared it favorably with the .270 Winchester.
We tested the Weatherby Vanguard Weatherguard in 6.5 Creedmoor and harvested deer with it using Nosler 129 grain LRAB’s at 100 yards. When hit in the vitals the deer dropped in just a few feet with complete pass thru’s.
I wrote extensively about the Leupold VX-6 Scope and highly recommend it for long range shooting. It is larger and more powerful than necessary for hunting New England but for a well traveled hunter it is perfect. Just be careful to not zoom so close, at say 100 yards, that you lose field of view and becomes subject to unsteady crosshairs, especially when you don’t have a solid rest at high power above 10x, I learned that lesson!
We talked about Scent Control and the new Ozone producing products. Love them!
We worked with Sig Sauer Academy and tested the P320 and took one of their courses. I like the P320 very much. Their Intermediate Handgun skills course was excellent!!
I also tested the SIG Echo 1 Thermal Reflex sight and found that it worked well if you have lots of pigs/wild boar and night-hunting.
I joined QDMA this year and very pleased so far. They spent lots of effort on CWD education this year. Use their education to age whitetail bucks and harvested a mature 4.5 year old 11 point 144 3/8 Boone and Crockett buck in Texas at Wildlife Systems Rocky Creek Ranch with my TC Encore 50 Cal. Muzzleloader. And spent time with my friend Larry Weishuhn there.
We tested and purchased Lab Radar for Doppler bullet Chronographs. Expensive but life long use justified the price.
We are testing the PSE Thrive 400 Crossbow ( see the December article) at this time and should have more on it soon.
In total we wrote nearly 100 articles in 2018 and looking for more fun and Product Testing n 2019.
And more on the ATV ARGO for remote hunting big game in Canada….
Good Hunting and Shooting!
Ed Hale – Editor-In-Chief
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