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 who do research on line for hunting bullet load data you may already be aware of load data from the following sites from a powder perspective and a bullet perspective as well. Enjoy!
https://www.hodgdonreloading.com/reloading-data-center
The second site is Alliant Powder and similarly has rifle, pistol and shotgun load data. https://www.alliantpowder.com/reloaders/index.aspx
Nosler has a load data site too for rifles that has great data for Nosler bullets. Click the Load Data below.
https://load-data.nosler.com/
Speer also has rifle load data for Speer bullets below.
https://reloadingdata.speer.com/SpeerReloading/Rifle
Hornady has load data that has not been published in their handbook yet so it is limited. In fact, the Hornady handbook #11 has loads and powders not shown even in their limited load data site. Note: Hornady’s 11th Edition Handbook is specific to Hornady bullets.
https://www.hornady.com/support/load-data/
There may be other sites I have not highlighted here but these sites cover much of the rifle load data except for companies that will not fully publish and desire you to purchase their handbook.
Sierra has a limited load data site.
https://sierrabullets.wordpress.com/category/load-data/
More and more we see a clean barrel bench rest “cold shot” shoot higher an inch or two and then as the barrel warms the shots group lower and tight. So some shooters call the first shot a flyer and are happy with the other group and adjust the scope for the group. Not so fast, if you are hunting, it was that first shot that counted. Two things are happening here. First is a clean barrel perhaps with some lubricant or cleaning agent adhering to the barrel affecting the cold shot. Second is the cold barrel shot itself. Veteran hunters advise taking a fouling shot or two and then with a cold barrel shoot for group marking the first shot as the one that counted and adjust the scope accordingly. That works with recent fouling shots and is my method. However, a recent article below experimented with fouling shots to find that they work. But the experiment also included a clean barrel that was finished with a barrel degreaser to remove any lube or residue and fired a cold barrel shot. Check it out. We may learn something here.
https://www.outdoorlife.com/how-to-shoot-straight-with-cold-barrel/
Good Shooting!
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!
I am so pleased to have spent time fishing safely in the Florida Keys. Check out Kendall Jones of TPUSA Fishing for Lunkers below. But first check out Benny on the Block below. Antifa OUT!
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Fishing for Lunkers is Kendall Jones of Turning Point USA
I published this article in February 2021.
Yesterday June 6, I went Mackerel fishing out of Hampton, NH on a party boat with my son Jason and grandchildren Amelia, Thomas (fraternal twins) age 9 and Calvin age 6.
No masks! Hurray!
I had happily planned on paying for the trip for all. As I neared the parking in Hampton, NH, my son called my cell and said; “Just pay the $5 dollar parking fee Dad”. I’ve paid for the trip, “Happy early Father’s Day”, he said.
I parked my truck right beside his and when I got out, the kids each greeted me with warm hugs. I love it! So long with masks on that it was very special to not have one on my face.
Jason and I were prepared for the trip with food, snacks, drinks and warmer clothing, hats, sun screen and of course fishing rods and a 5 gallon bucket for all the many mackerel we would catch.
This was a first for the grandkids to not only fish for the first time but a first for dad and grandfather (me) to share time learning to fish in the ocean, get splashed near the bow with cool salty ocean waves, and jig with a fishing rod.
The kids took to jigging the rod under Jason’s patient tutelage, and I was right there praising him. And they were eager and happy to learn.
In the middle of all that we caught a few fish, not as many as we expected but the inquisitive nature of the kids, each in turn picked up the fish by hand and examined them closely.
It was not mackerel madness that can sometimes happen if we ran into a big school of them, but it gave us Dad’s close loving time with the children.
We shared potato chips, watermelon, bites of my ham sub sandwich as we fished and giggled and hugged to stay warm in cool salty air up near the bow. What I caught was more than any fish, I caught the love of my son, and my loving grandkids. It was a great Father’s Day! Sometimes what you catch, can’t be measured in fish, but can be measured in love!
Enjoy!
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