Hunting
Inexpensive scopes offer high quality
If you shoot and hunt with one of the new compact magnum cartridges, smaller, lower-powered scopes cosmetically match your rifle better. […]
Articles by Gordon Hutchinson
Hunting
Registration not a fact of gun purchase
In the last 30 days, I have fielded six questions from people who have either bought a gun from an individual, inherited a gun or were given a gun by someone. […]
Hunting
‘Primitive’ Knight KP-1 of exceptional quality
The Southern Shooting Center is located on Highway 3185 just outside of Thibodaux, La., and offers up to 300-yard rifle ranges and 30 cemented benches. […]
Hunting
Optima Elite .45-70 will ‘wallop’ deer
The late, great Robert Ruark wrote for many of the big outdoor mags in the 1950s and ’60s, and began a series of columns that would become one of the all-time hunting classics, entitled “The Old Man and the Boy.” […]
Hunting
New protectant perfect for duck marsh
With teal season beginning this month, and the full-fledged duck season only a month or so behind it, the annual trek to the salt marshes of our coastline will begin. And thus again will begin the annual battle of all waterfowlers, the fight against rust. […]
Hunting
Heller opens a welcome can of worms
If you are a firearms enthusiast, by now you have heard of the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26 in the Heller case. […]
Hunting
Once-a-year cleaning all that’s necessary
Each year I wonder how many sportsmen drag a firearm out of the closet in anticipation of the upcoming season, and find a patina of rust on the barrel or receiver, or worse, patches of rust that have actually eaten into the finish and marred it. […]
Other Hunting
You don’t lose gun rights in traffic stop
“Do I look like a thug?” The gentleman who asked this question was dressed casually and stylishly. He looked like a middle-class male, about 40 years of age. No obvious tattoos, he had short-cropped hair. Tall, average weight, well-spoken, to my eyes he looked like anything but a street criminal, and I said so. […]
Hunting
Merkel KR-1 approaches the ultimate
The hottest news in rifles as we approached and entered the 21st century was the proliferation of “short-fat” cartridges, and rifles to shoot them. […]
Hunting
SAF, GRPC — alphabet soup for gun lovers
In the middle of the frenetic activities of finishing a book and getting it ready for the printer, my publisher answered the phone to find the director of the Second Amendment Foundation on the line. […]
Deer Hunting
Are your guns ready for deer season?
We were sighting in several rifles for a friend last year — each year it seems he has another boy old enough to start deer hunting, and another rifle gets added to the batch I have to tune in on my range. […]
Hunting
Right shotgun will hold child’s interest
The first wild game Brent ever took was a dove — and he killed it with a Daisy air rifle. Kell Munson and I were cleaning our limits of birds with more than an hour of daylight left. It had been a great hunt over browntop millet, and Brent, my stepson, had a lot of fun all afternoon running out to pick up my birds. […]