And BIG on 2nd Amendment!

Miss Kendall Jones is a leader, hunter, conservationist, conservative, who lives life large. And she writes for Turning Point USA to educate students on college campus about the greatness of our nation, constitution and in particular the first and second amendment.

https://www.tpusa.com/live/giveaway-who-wants-a-free-crossbow

Karoline Leavitt, a native New Hampshire Fighter/Conservative, 2nd Amendment loving woman from Hampton, NH is running against Rep. Chris Pappas, a Nancy Pelosi lock-stepper leftist. She is a fighter! Check it out! I think she can beat Socialist Pappas with your help!  Spread the word!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaeedUSYh1I

https://www.tpusa.com/live/arizona-bans-trail-cameras 

Kendall Jones is a hunter, conservative and a member of Turning Point USA writes:

“Well, the votes are in, and trail cameras will be banned in the state of Arizona starting January 1, 2022… It is sad to see, read more at the website above.

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New Hampshire Rifleman’s Editor Ed Hale writes; Here in New Hampshire there are  a few hunter restrictions but game cameras and trail cameras are used for wildlife watching conservationists, wildlife photographers and observers as well as hunters. See the high tech article below from New Hampshire Wildlife Journal PDF File. Thanks NHFG!

Click to access hitech-wildlife-watching.pdf

For those of us who love experimenting, the monolithic alloy hunting bullets made by Nosler and Hornady are great choices for hunting short range or long because the bullets maintain up to 95% of their weight and leave no lead behind. 

I resist shooting soft all copper bullets as they tend to create copper fouling that is hard to remove. 

Nosler’s Expansion Tip aka the E-Tip is a copper alloy bullet that is harder than all copper bullets and leaves your barrel fouled as normal gilding copper jacketed bullets do. I like that because having hard to remove heavy deposits of soft copper can create confidence issues when I test a bullet for group. Was it the bullet, the powder, seating depth or the copper fouling I can’t get out of my barrel from shooting soft copper? 

Nosler offers the E- Tip for many calibers. I have experience taking a 300 pound boar with its thick shield  and the 30 caliber E-Tip devastated the boar.

The exit wound below!

The Hornady GMX (Game Expanding) bullet is another fine spitzer style bullet that has a polymer tip to initiate expansion like the Nosler E-Tip.  They offer a vimeo that I can’t show you here unless you go their website.

Quote they state:

“Featuring a long, sleek profile with cannelures, the design reduces overall bearing surface and drag, while achieving some of the highest ballistic coefficients from monolithic, non-traditional bullets. Initiating expansion upon impact, the hard polymer tip drives into the hollow cavity at the front of the bullet, creating a mushroom-style projectile as it travels through the animal. Fully California compatible and appropriate for use in areas requiring the use of non-traditional bullets, GMX^® is ideal for any sized game, from antelope to moose.”

https://www.hornady.com/bullets/rifle/30-cal-308-180-gr-gmx#!/

I have not tested the GMX on game yet but it is reported to be highly successful in expansion critical to delivering tremendous energy inside game as its petals expand just like the Nosler’s.

Check them out!

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There are some websites that say shooting deer with a rifle in the Autonomic Plexus drops them fast. Say What? But it is not where the center mass of heart and lungs are exactly. Really? Ok so what is the autonomic plexus? 

It is a point just forward of the front leg where there is a nerve and artery junction entering the lungs. I have learned that it is sometimes called the hilar zone.                   

image taken from www.ballisticstudies.com

So why am I telling you this? Honestly, after 50+ years of hunting deer, I have never used this point of aim on a whitetail or an ungulate with rifle or bow. Too much chance to miss vitals, I think. I aim rearward three or four inches of the above crosshairs striking the upper heart arteries and lungs. Below, this 50 cal muzzleloader shot was two inches high but he will never tell. He collapsed on the shot.

There are slightly differing point of aim for bow vs rifle.

Where shooting with bow slightly behind the front leg on a broadside shot to clip the heart and center punch the lungs. On rifle, there are many other professionals that teach to shoot on the front shoulder or just behind it on the lower 3rd of the body if on the ground. Or about three inches higher if shooting from a 15 ft high tree stand.

The truth is, if the angle of the deer changes, so should your aim point as the deer quarters toward or away.

Visualizing the 3D anatomy of heart and lungs are essential to strike them with bullet or arrow. Thus the use of the autonomic plexus as an aim point is, in my estimation, a poor common aim point as it is seen best when broadside and requires precision shot placement. 

Bowhunter education, for example,  drives home the concept of visualizing the heart and lungs at different angles so your arrow may find them. Rifle hunting is much the same but is, at times, not covered as well educationally as in archery. Shoot for low center lungs, on the shoulder or just behind. What looks like the shoulder above the front leg is where the scapula and leg bones make a triangle shape that has no bone.  Some anatomic charts vary a bit but you get the picture.

Good Shooting!