I hear a lot every year about people planning blacktail trips to hunt Coastal Alaska on the popular Prince of Wales and Kodiak Islands. Furthermore, the Northern BC Coastal Mountain range is excellent mountain hunting country. An abundance in mountain goats and Dall Sheep fill this remote northern mountain range. For hunters unfamiliar with coastal […]
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The Browning BAR – Big Medicine
The name Browning is a legendary one in the firearms world. John Moses Browning designed numerous great firearms. Many of his designs, such as the Winchester 94 and the 1911 are still being produced today. However, this article is about a sporting rifle designed by a different Browning – his grandson. Bruce Browning followed in […]
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The Hornady ELD-X – Fad or Game Getter
While hunting rifles in the 21st century operate in the same fashion as they have for decades, ammunition has evolved dramatically. Trends continue to drive towards longer, sleeker, heavy for caliber bullets that provide excellent BC’s and Sectional densities. Likely driven by the accuracy and affordability of modern laser rangefinder technology, cutting edge bullets are […]
All over the internet there are discussions about which cartridges are best for which animals and what styles of hunts. Oftentimes people will devote hours of research picking the perfect cartridge, only to buy the cheapest box of ammo at their outfitter. This is asinine because out of all the pounds of equipment that hunters […]
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The Three Best Large Game Cartridges
Deer hunting is very popular, but pursuing the largest ungulate species in North America carries a unique allure. Chasing elk, moose, and caribou is a brand of adventure all of its own. The challenges are greater, but so are the rewards, with harvests promising hundreds of pounds of quality meat. Part of the challenge is […]
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Colt Canada C8 – Premium Canadian Quality
Fine wood and blued steel has its own charm, but modern sporting rifles offer a lot of utility. Todays modern sporting options are modular, light recoiling, and accurate. One top quality example of a semi-automatic sporting rifle is the Colt Canada C8. History Colt Canada is a relatively new name. Originally known as Diemaco, they […]
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The Top Three Best Deer Cartridges
Deer are the most popular game animal in North America. They live all over the continent in one species or another, from the deserts of Arizona to the rainforests of north west British Columbia. With such a wide variety of environments it can be difficult to pick a single cartridge. Today, we crunch the numbers […]
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The Best Hunting Cartridge Ever
Obviously certain cartridges are better for certain applications. However, almost all of us have wondered at some point or another what the best general purpose cartridge is. There have been hundreds of articles debating the merits of this or that cartridge. What those articles have failed to do is create a metric that allows us to compare […]
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Winchester SXP – Gimmick or Greatness?
Winchester has a long history making quality firearms. Throughout the first half of the 20th century Winchester produced some of the best firearms designs of all time. The Model 12, pre-64 Model 70, and the Model 94 were all fantastic Winchester designs. Winchester recently introduced a new shotgun for the 21st century with their Winchester […]
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Savage 64 – Old Reliable or Out of Date?
Some firearms designs seem impervious to the market fluctuations of the day. They are in production for decades at a time, through eras of economic hardship, hostile political environments, and global conflicts. Designs like the Winchester 94 and the Colt 1911 continue to perform to this day. One such design is the venerable Savage 64. […]