Moving slowly ahead without making sounds to alarm game and taking time to absorb every aspect in front of you before taking the next step. I was trained to look for deer parts, ears, eyes, tail and brown that looks different growing out of the side of a tree! Yes movement is big, but a buck can stand motionless seemingly forever.
Smelling the air coming toward you too, during the rut a buck’s tarsal gland can be smelled. What often separates successful ground (still-hunters) hunters from those who are not, is woods knowledge. Knowledge of wind direction, finding tracks, bedding areas, scat and rubs and aging them, finding food sources to key on in different parts of the season. Finding patterns that suggest that an animal uses a particular trail is essential. If you see a buck rub on a tree on the downhill side of a tree on a hillside, was the deer likely going up before sun-up or going down. If you said up, then you are correct.
Questions:
If you practice with your bow and gun and shoot well, is that enough? I have an acquaintance that is an excellent shot but he has never harvested a deer, ever. He is not alone.
What about the behavior of the game you are hunting?
What about foods they like and where to find them? Example: What is the difference between hunting over a white oak tree giving acorns and a nearby red oak tree giving acorns?
Which would you choose?
The deer will always choose white oak acorns because they are less acidic and deliciously edible right away. It is like finding an apple tree with apples in forest of fir. What is the keenest sense that both deer and bear possess? Is it their sense of hearing, sense of smell, sense of sight. What?
Do you use your own nose to smell breakfast cooking from your bunk or bedroom? Do you have to see it or hear bacon sizzle to know that bacon is cooking? No!
It is your sense of smell!
If I had to bet money on a deer’s senses, smell will always win.
Wind thermals will rise through the morning and settle in the afternoon. Taking advantage of wind is essential in still-hunting for deer. Bucks will often bed high enough to catch the wind rising in the morning. Get there before! And bucks will follow the wind down at dusk and let the does go first. They are alarm bells!
All of us are guilty of trying to shortcut the wind using the same trail to get in and out of a blind or deer stand. That is a key downfall and it has gotten me busted.
I know another very successful friend who is always in his tree stand at least an hour before shooting light and pays attention to smell with a passion. Details Details… Yes they count! His scent is above the deer!
Trail cameras are great but they are worthless if your smell betrays your presence to a nearby bedded deer.
Perhaps reading this brief article, you found yourself thinking about a past seasons hunt and the good and not so good choices. If that is so, then it has served its purpose and mine too. Learning to not make the same mistakes. You get a do-over next season!
Good Hunting! Thanks to the above websites we learn!
The gemsbok aka “The Desert Warrior” is a formidable and feisty elk size African antelope. It is formally known as Oryx Gazella.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemsbok
It has been imported successfully to Texas. In Africa, it has been known to skewer lions, and hunters alike. My African Safari Professional Hunter nearly died from being skewered by a Gemsbok he thought was dead. Remembering this, evoked the words of my PH, “It is the dead ones that will kill you!”
The low recoiling 6.5 Creedmoor is an excellent choice to harvest gemsbok as it is similar in size to elk size game and I believe the 6.5 is top rated in penetration with a 140 grain class bullet due to it stellar ballistic coefficient and amazing long distance accuracy. With a very high ballistic coefficient it holds its energy at long distances extremely well and flatter shooting as compared to non-magnum 30 calibers.
The minimum striking energy often associated with elk size game is 1500 ft-lbs. The 6.5 CM is capable of this energy with a 2700 fps 143 grain bullet at 350 yards and a Max Point Blank Range (MPBR 6 inch) to 274 yards. At 150 yards this bullet is still traveling over 2400 fps and delivering 1900 ft-lbs.
That said, a gemsbok is can be successfully hunted with most whitetail deer and elk calibers such as the 308 Winchester, 30-06 and .270 Winchester and 6mm calibers provided you do your job in bullet placement with a well constructed bullet.
Here is a Safari from Outdoor Life I found that used the 6.5 Creedmoor to kill all the way up to Eland weighing over 1800 pounds.
On my own Safari it was a well placed arrow that did the trick some years back.
My African Safari with Rifle and Bow e-book can be found on Amazon. The e- book has a wealth of knowledge. Just remember that you may encounter dangerous game in some Safari’s where lion and cape buffalo roam so be sure to USE ENOUGH GUN! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TBEOWQ?tag=sa-b2c-new-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1
Wow! What an odd combination! I awoke today November 30th to read a reminder article in a publication called Imprimus from Hillsdale College. The focus of the article written by Roger W. Robinson. Read it here: “How and Why the U.S. Should Stop Financing China’s Bad Actors.”
I awoke see my folly in purchasing Christmas gifts for my hunting and outdoor family and friends manufactured in China and sold here for a fraction of the price of other similar goods.
Yes, you got a deal on that China made item! But in the long game, was it really?
It hurts our future and that of our children and grandchildren. There are plenty of products not made in China today so look at the tag where it is manufactured.
Look for American Made Gifts and labels my patriotic hunting friends or for sure, “Not made in China.”
With your financial support, and mine too, the Chinese have launched a massive campaign in 2015. “Made In China 2025” otherwise known as MIC 2025, to become the worlds leading super power… and its predatory trade practices are evident.
You and I have never heard of it because the Chinese don’t publicize it. In fact, with the current trade dispute under President Trump the Chinese have rid the name MIC 2025 but in essence the goals have not changed.
The goal is WORLD DOMINATION.
Further that your retirement portfolio likely include investments which aid China. As Mr. Robinson writes;
“Do any of us have the financing of concentration camps in mind when we transfer money into our retirement investment accounts? This sounds difficulty to believe, but it is an empirical fact: the majority of American Investors are unwittingly funding Chinese concentration camps, weapons systems for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and more.”
So when you are talking with your Financial Advisers or shopping for Gifts please read the label.
Please purchase your hunting and outdoor gear that is American Made or Not made In China.
Good Hunting, Merry Christmas! God Bless America!!
Game Cameras are fun and here to stay! It is fun to take photos or video’s of wildlife using Trail Camera’s; just not live action cameras here in New Hampshire. See Below.
I own a regular game camera but the flash or light emitted appears to spook game. Increasingly, The use of Low or No Glow Cameras apparently, is the way to go.
There are lots of brands and models to choose from. Choose a locking device too, to prevent theft.
Most folks pull their reader cards or chips to see what is on them at home but there are viewers that can read your chip in the field as part of the camera or less costly devices that can be read by your I phone.
Have Fun Out There!
Just be aware per New Hampshire Fish and Game: “It is illegal in New Hampshire to use live-action game cameras while attempting to locate, surveil, aid, or assist in taking or take any game animal or furbearing animal during the same calendar day while the season is open (cameras that send an electronic message or picture to a handheld device or computer when sensors are triggered by wildlife).”
The Adventure begins… it was just a few weeks ago… October 2019.
Our Drive from Southern New Hampshire to Newfoundland with my hunt partner,Oliver Ford and his new Chevy Pick-up, went without a hitch. We rotated driving often.
The road trip was very straight forward until we hit the Canadian Border with, Passports in hand, created Gun Ownership Card at US Border, Rifle Import Registry with Canadian Customs forms we had already filled out, and Canada Criminal DB Check by customs officials.
Note; Oliver just turned 80 and I just turned 70 years young. For our age we were in good health for the most part but taking our med’s. Our wives reminded us. Some might say.. “An Old Man’s Moose Hunt”.
We were excited as all-get-out for this hunt with visions of massive antlered moose dancing in our head as if it were Christmas Morning.
In Moncton, New Brunswick, just prior to crossing into Nova Scotia, we stopped at the Bass Pro Shop. Oliver and I made a few hunting purchases. We were looking for moose antlers like posted in the image below.
We waited with dozens of other moose hunters below to take the overnight (7 hour) ferry with Marine Atlantic over to Newfoundland, affectionately called “The Rock”. Moose hunters either had coolers or real freezers and gas powered generators with them. The came from all parts of US as far as Indiana and Ohio, eager for a moose hunt. Like Us!
We drove the truck onto the ship Highlander and down a ramp to the bottom of the cargo area 1st Floor (seemed like a football field size room) where most cars were stored for the crossing. We had a small cozy cabin with a bathroom and small shower up on the 8th floor. Nice! We slept…
We ate a delicious eggs and bacon/sausage and bologna breakfast in the ships restaurant an hour before the ship docked. Seems Newfoundlander’s love their fried bologna.
We Landed at Port Au Basques, Newfoundland
Another three hours to drive to Peter Strides lake along RT 480 The Caribou Highway. Note: We saw no Caribou on the highway but later we saw many at our camp. Good Bulls! Just need $11,000 for that hunt!
Morning images as we drove just outside of Port Au Basques.
We arrived at the Helicopter Pad and the Main Lodge of Rock Pond Outfitters three hours later.
The stove was our only heat source. We learned fast to keep it stoked as the wind was blowing 20 to 30 knots outside and hovering around 30 to 40 degrees F.
Spiral Stairs to bunk room above. Nice Caribou Rack!
We arrived on a Sunday. Weather prevented the Helicopter from taking us to the remote camp. And we lost a half day Monday to bad weather and the Helicopter.
We met two other hunters in camp Chris and Jaye from Ohio (both into heavy equipment ownership) , going to an outpost camp even more remote than ours. Both were great to know and have some fun talking about hunts and rifles and growing up. Jaye, I recall, said his Daddy, a very big and solid man, who Jaye loved, had a size 17 ring finger. Jaye said, “When he pointed his big finger into his chest, which was rare, “I knew I better listen up”.
I asked Jaye about his rifle and caliber. He loved his Browning Mountain Rifle in stainless (5 lbs bare) in 300 WSM. The bolt glided like silk. Ill bet it packs a nice kick at that weight but really easy to carry. A great all weather rifle for long range goat hunting at 8000 ft or moose at 1000 ft above sea level like us.
My Rifle, a Ruger M77 African in .375 Ruger with Nosler 300 grain AccuBonds exiting the barrel at 2515 fps and 4200 ft-lbs at the Muzzle with Leupold VX-6 3-18x44mm on top. It weighed in at 10 pounds with the scope.
Oliver is shooting a 7mm Rem Mag with 160 grain X-Barnes bullets. Shoots sub MOA all day long.
Ok time to cut the jabber.
Finally we headed to the Chopper to load and head to the remote camp where our guides and Theresa (the owners wife) and Cassie a cousin did all the cooking.
THE HUNT
Date: October 2, 2019 9:30 AM Area 11 Southwest Newfoundland
Owners: Rock Pond Outfitters run by Trevor Keough and Family. Six days at $5900 each. Paid $1000 to book in December, $1900 by March, and $3000 on arrival.
Hop in the Helicopter with me! Lets Go. It took a few minutes to warm up the Helicopter. It was a longer ride than shown.
This is Rock Pond Camp – Our home base for the hunt. It is in the middle of a million unnamed lakes and ponds and glacial regolith…boulders and rocks.
Kitchen and Dining area below. This cabin is open only for 6 weeks a year, during the Moose and Caribou Hunt season.
In a 50 Square Mile uninhabited valley and 20 miles from the nearest outfitter, we began our Moose hunt ( two guides, two hunters, one 8 track ARGO Avenger).
Low Bush Blueberries were everywhere.
Oliver taking a nap.
Day one – afternoon we saw caribou but no bull moose. We saw a huge female cow on the side of a far off hill. She looked like a walking barn door.
Sunrise at Camp.
Day Two – Tuesday at 6:30 AM we had breakfast of eggs and bacon and toast and tea and coffee and headed out to a site that had promise but saw no moose but lots of Caribou.
I set up my rifle on BOG’s new “Death Grip®” tripod. I promised to test it and I was very pleased with it. It was on the heavy side to lug around, but in the ARGO, it was easy and nearby. I had that whole valley covered to 250 yards MPBR with the Death Grip which is more like a “Bench Rest” on a Swivel. What a great tripod!! See below.
Day Three – We woke to Snow and Wind!
It was 30º F snowing sideways at times on day three, and windy ( wind-chill at 20 mph wind is 17 degrees F) as we approached our first Moose stand in the Argo Avenger 8 track. The wind cuts like a knife as Oliver tries to stay warm.
My camo face mask worked great!!
Age? It’s just a number!
The ARGO was essential to our success and essential in beating the tar out of us at every venture sitting in the back and sideways to the direction of travel. Next time, if there is one, I will take the front seat!
We found out that this area according to guides Germain and Chris is known for smaller horned bulls but that was not in the outfitter literature when we booked. Yes some big racks show in the literature along with smaller racks.
I prefer to believe that these are younger bulls, but at at age 5 to 6 would have much larger racks just like a mature whitetail buck would.
But I am not willing to let the moose pass given the time, effort and expenditure. As they say in the Arbys TV commercials. “WE HAVE THE MEAT!” All 300 pounds of it. Each!
Here I am all smiles with this 4 point bull. Not what I came for but happy to be successful from a meat standpoint.
The wind blew at us as if to say “So you want to hunt Moose in Newfoundland, eh!”
The wind cut like a knife into our lighter camo jackets, robbing us of necessary body heat. Below the moose approaches but the guide shut of the camera when it began to blizzard. All the guide saw was white!
Video above – Our guides spotted a bull on a far hillside more than a mile away. We began a loud electronic caller which mimicked a mating Cow Call. It sounds like a loud cow moan. As soon as the Cow call was started, one of the guides shouts, “he’s coming”! The guide stopped filming with my camera when all he could see was white!
I was disappointed, I have no shot footage to share.
It was a text book single 100 yard shot, front quartering on a moving target with my 375 Ruger with Nosler 300 grain heads. He was trotting facing us when he veered to the right, thus giving me that quartering shot. The rifle was mounted on the BOG Death Grip and it was easy to get a solid bead on the moving bull. Boom! went the 375 rifle!
The bull stood for just a few seconds, wondering what had just happened and then fell “dead as a door nail” with a resounding thud! Congratulations said Chris and Germain and Oliver.
Oliver hunted the next day with the two guides and saw no bulls but when a big cow showed up in a gnarly patch of black spruce he changed his mind for meat instead and shot her at 200 yards in the spine and she went down in the midst of the spruce.
It took axes to cut her from the tangled spruce.
He too was successful in taking an adult moose.
Both of us kept the hides and sent them for tanning with fur on.
The guides made fast work of removing the meat, and hide below.
The Chopper took us back with part of our game meat and had to stay another day for them to retrieve it all.
Sunset at Camp
https://youtu.be/4UBsW5e5hvw
We drove back to take the midnight ferry to Nova Scotia. We slept in large reclining chairs.
We stopped for gas and bathroom breaks but made it back home in time to start the butchering process.
What you see for meat below, we did for each quarter of the moose in our kitchen. My wife helped, but she admitted that she never saw that much meat in one place in her whole life. I kept some of the last of it in the freezer so it was cold and fresh to cut. We added 20 pounds of beef pot roast full of fat to help bind the burger as it had no fat.
It took 4 full days for us to process, cut, and grind and vacuum seal steaks,back strap,moose tips, stew meat and over 100 pounds of moose burger.
If you are after a big Moose rack, I do not recommend this area to hunt.
But if you are after adventure and lots of meat, this hunt does that well and it was great family fun!
Last year at New Hampshire Rifleman Magazine we tested the Weatherby® Vanguard™ Weatherguard™ in 6.5 Creedmoor both on the range and in the field. Today you can get one of the finest all-weather hunting rifles for a mere $650 dollars. That’s right just six hundred and fifty buckeroos! If you want to spend more on style and quality Weatherby is there for the hunter too.
Today this is still the best rifle model you can buy for the money!
First, I chose to test the 6.5 Creedmoor bullets have a legendary sectional density that is first in game penetration for CXP2/3 for its diameter and of its nearest peers. Second, it outperforms in accuracy due to its low recoil providing confidence galore to young and old alike.
The Weatherby is famous for its Monte Carlo stock with a raised cheek. Many hunters today struggle, yes really struggle with eye alignment to the scope due to the absence of a cheek rest due to today’s high 50 mm scopes. Scope rings available are often too high.
The Monte Carlo style high comb of the Weatherby solves this problem completely!
Bottom line is that without a good cheek rest like Weatherby and scope eye alignment your shots are not going to be consistent. Weatherby was first to understand this and incorporate it in its rifle design.
If I were looking for a new rifle the Weatherby is a sure bet for a lifelong hunting purchase! Of course I own one!
Recently I purchased recurves for my grandkids and a 45 pound recurve for me to play with them. No sights just the bare bow. I have spent years shooting bare bow but gravitated to the compound bow and rifle for longer distance hunting accuracy.
Shooting instinctive, barebow there are no sights but you can train yourself to see the sight picture as a gap that your brain can calibrate to. Point, draw/aim and shoot. As a youngster I learned to shoot split finger where the index finger was above the arrow knock and two fingers below. Drawing back the bow so my index finger touched the corner of my mouth as an anchor and then released. This worked ok but I found that shooting tight groups accurately helped to shoot three fingers under the arrow. As you can use the arrow to sight down it. With training you can be a great shot but it takes dedication.
I use a technique called “Walking the String” some call it Apache Draw, here you place your three fingers under the arrow, then use your thumb to mark where the split in the finger tab is. About an inch below the arrow. Draw the bow an inch below the arrow, then use the arrow to sight the target. You can angle or cant the bow a bit if it feels and sights better. Secondly you can use a stance that is quartering toward the target with your feet a shoulder width apart with your knees slightly bent and loose like a spring. Set your distances at 15, 20 and 30 yards and establish your form and accuracy at 15 yards then 20 etc.. I use helical 4 inch feather fletch arrows as I will later put broadheads on them.
Many articles later, the most popular Moose caliber I observe is the venerable, time tested 30-06 Springfield with 180 grain bullets on your average Moose for your average Moose hunter. Moose have been cleanly killed with cartridges of lesser energy but those kills were best taken broadside such as the 308 Win, .270 Win and 7mm-08 and 6.5 Creedmoor are most common. Of course the Swede’s love the 6.5 – 55 Swedish Mauser but we aren’t in Sweden. We are in North America East in Newfoundland, Canada.
If you you-tube for bull moose kills with rifle, you will often see multiple shots taken and hits to the lung area too. Moose are hard to fall where the shot was taken.
Shot Placement – Top of Heart center Lungs as shown.
It is essential to shoot as accurately as possible. It is shot placement that kills Moose when coupled with adequate penetration and energy. Bullet construction should be such that when the bullet mushrooms and expands that it stays together as it penetrates. Bonded, Partition and All Copper style bullets are recommended. I am a fan of Nosler Bullets such as the E-Tip Solid Gilding Copper, AccuBond and Partition.
Bullet Energy – If you follow some Fish and Game recommendations used to be around 2500 ft lbs (recommended). I assumed delivered energy. Now some F & G officials suggest 2200 to 2500 ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle however I believe this is very misleading as the shooter should know his energy limits when the bullet strikes the moose at longer ranges. In the case of elk, terminal energy is recommended at 1500 ft -lbs. Moose should be more like 1800-2000 ft lbs delivered or better with velocities around 2000fps.
The 30-06 is not ideal for the largest of Moose in all situations, particularly quartering away. Shoot a cartridge that gives you the most options. If you can handle larger calibers and recoil such as the 300 Win Mag or larger then you shot options increase dramatically. Do you have to? Of course not, you may have to wait to get closer or change the shot angle. A 30-06 180 grain bullet with a Muzzle velocity of 2600 fps delivers around 2000 ft-lbs at 200 yards. So that would be a suggested max range.
My hunt outfitter says shots are 40 to 300 yards. At 300 yards a 180 grain 30-06 delivers around 1700 ft-lbs. A 300 win mag will deliver over 2000 ft lbs at that range.
Of course if you cant handle the recoil of big magnum rifles and cant shoot them accurately, then don’t shoot them! Note: There are many recoil pads on the market today to cut recoil in half. So before shooting these heavy recoil rifles always do some homework on recoil management. You will be glad you did!!! Pachmayr makes the Decelerator™ one of my favorites for heavy recoil.
The 7mm Rem Mag and 7mm STW, 7mm Wby Mag 7mm RUM are great on the largest of 300 yard Bull Moose as is the The 28 Nosler (.284) which spits a 175 grain out at 3100 fps and can hit the 2500 ft-lb delivered energy at 450 yards. Wow!
The 8mm Rem Magnum with 180 grain bullets can reach to 300 yards near to 2500 ft-lbs delivered enegy. Nice!
Many 338 Mags below can throw a 225g bullet to 400 yards near 2500 ft-lbs. I shot the .338 Win Mag in Africa; 338 Win Mag, 340 Weatherby Mag, 338 Rem Ultra Mag, 338 Lapua Mag, 33 Nosler or the 338-378 Weatherby Mag all do a great job.
The .358’s such as the 350 Win Mag, 358 Norma Mag, and 358 STA -Shooting Times Alaska all do that! The 358 STA shoots a 225 grain bullet at 3000 fps out to 375 yards at just around 2500 ft-lbs.
My .375 Ruger or a .375 H&H hurles a 260 to 300 grain bullet to 300 yards with 2500 ft-lbs and the 300 grain bullet does so with a sectional density of .299 that rates highest in penetration. The .375 Ruger and .375 H&H are geared for Cape Buffalo or 1200 plus lb Bull Moose or a 2000 lb Bison. Alaskan Guides like the .375’s around Brown bear too.
My Newfoundland bull fell after the first shot with my 375 Ruger with 300 grain Nosler AccuBonds in less than 10 seconds. It was a quartering toward shot smashing the front shoulder, fully mushrooming, wrecking the lungs and piled up on the skin on the far side while still maintaining 80% of its weight. Note: I shot him in a snow squall in near whiteout conditions in a 20 mph wind in my face at 100 yards (wind chill below zero) . His rack was small but a big body! I decide to take him as I did not want to hunt a full week in these conditions. My friend Oliver, on the left,( just turned 80 years old before the hunt) took a cow at 200 yards with his 7mm Rem Mag. the next day. He too was not willing to hunt longer than he had to in these conditions.
The 45-70 does not meet the 300 yard criteria but a great close Moose killer for years.
The off-the-rounds in the .400 class are often designed strictly for dangerous African game and can be used on big Moose but are not necessary. Of course if you hand load then you can load the 458 Win Mag down to equal the 45-70. It is the same caliber. It’s your hunt! Have Fun!
The Savage A22 appears to be a well made basic Semi-Auto production rifle. Out of the Box I added a 3×9 Scope to test it. Weaver bases were pre-installed. Scope bases are picatinny type thus making scope swaps easy from one rifle to another these days. The barrel is pictured with a front sight. Mine had no front sight as it was intended for scope only. The price of $284 dollars is terrific for the features provided. The only feature that was lacking in my mind was the adjustable accu-trigger. I could not get it to adjust lower than 3 lb 10 oz. from the original 5 pounds it came with but performed crisply.
I am very impressed with the A22 as it shoots CCI Velocitor ammo at around 1400 fps and with great ease and accuracy. Wow!
The A22 with CCI Velocitors – Good for Coyote? I think so as there are several video’s that can attest.
The Savage A22 At the Range
Specifications Accuracy at 50 yards/w CCI Velocitor
MSRP – $284.00 Group 1 1 1/4 inches
Action – Semi Auto Group 2 2.0 inches (probably me)
Barrel – Color Blued Group 3 1 1/8 inches
Barrel Finish – High Luster
Barrel Length (in)/(mm) – 22 / 558.80
Barrel Material – Carbon Steel
Caliber – 22 LR
Magazine Capacity – 10
Magazine Rotary
LOP 13 3/4
Overall Length (in)/(mm) 41 / 1,041.40
Rate of Twist (in) 1 in 16
Receiver Color Blued
Receiver Finish High Luster
Receiver Material Carbon Steel
Type Rimfire
Stock Color Black
Stock Finish Matte
Stock Material Synthetic with Swivel Mount studs
Stock Type Sporter
Weight (lb)/(kg) 5.6 / 2.54
The Synthetic 10 round rotary magazine worked very well once you get the hang of loading a few.
Again, the Savage A22 performed flawlessly with such a powerful round as the Velocitor and with great accuracy at an affordable price. The longer barrel holds bullet velocity and energy at longer ranges.
More testing with other bullet brands and at longer ranges soon.
Now is a great time to research App’s for Hunting and Fishing and Outdoors. I have been playing with a free App called HuntWise which has GPS, Maps and Hunt Times for my IPhone. Of course you need a signal for it to work when you are in the field. But at home you can literally go any where and see topographic info, if in the woods you can track yourself to your stand by recording a walking path, mark a spot, check distances make notes. I used it to do hunt map research in Canada and it works great.
Here at home in the USA it documents the boundaries of land and ownership, acreage and address of the owner if you choose the overlay which has Land for Sale, Land Contours, Land Owner Lines and an overlay for Land Owner Names.
There are other similar Apps out there that you may like better. There is so much out there!
Another App I like is the Ballistics Advanced Edition App and uses JBM Ballistics software. Cost is only $4.99. You can go to JBM Ballistics website too and just select trajectory and get simple trajectories but the App allows for many advanced features and “Save” features.
Why learn to use these and other Apps? It is because your phone is not really a phone. It is a powerful computer that has a phone as part of it! If you have it with you in the field or on the range you can use it to great advantage.
