Why Firearms Training at New Hampshire’s Sig Sauer Academy?

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As a defender of my home and property I know that we are in the midst of a flood of Criminal Activity from the Southern Border with drugs, MS 13 and the like. I need to be firearms trained and ready to protect my family and home with Defensive Shooting Skills.

Sanctuary Cities Abound 

https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States

See this Investors Business report.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-crisis-at-the-border/

 

And a Mexican Drugs like fentenyl pour into New Hampshire from Massachusetts Sanctuary City of Lawrence said the President Last Year.

https://patch.com/massachusetts/northandover/trump-singles-out-sanctuary-city-lawrence-nh-opioid-source

Are you ready to defend your loved ones at home and away at a Department store, Gas Station, Restaurant etc.

If you haven’t done it already, now may be the time to prepare.

Get Training in use of your firearms. I use Sig Sauer Academy. They are the Best!

https://www.sigsaueracademy.com/

Keep your firearms in a safe and locked up. For protection have a firearm that is accessible with a key or finger print from a state of the art Safe.

Sig Academy however will not allow a person to train who has not been investigated via the Permit Process by town and state officials.  Accordingly, it is best to get a Permit via your Town or State Level.

Be Prepared and Stay Safe!!  

 

 

 

10mm S&W Revolver for Whitetails

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The recent addition of the S&W 610 Revolver in 10mm Auto begs the question. Could the 10mm be your next deer gun? Well, if you like to get close to game like bow hunters do, then yes say a host of successful hand-gunners. It is a well respected pistol hunting cartridge with a 200 or 220 grain bullet and kept within 30 or so yards, they say it does a fine job and does not recoil as heavy as the 41 or 44 Magnum, 45 Long Colt. And it has more energy and penetration than the 45ACP. We want full penetration for blood trailing purposes.

A 180 to 220 grain cast solid will penetrate very well say many handgunners. I am not per se a handgun hunter but may give it a go. Buffalo Bore makes a 220 cast flat point and cartridge for the 10mm Auto for hunting

Use a rest such as a bog-pod to steady your shot.

Gel tests are helpful. Here we compare the 10mm to the .357 Magnum

Fun Fun Fun!

Good Shooting!

More soon on this…

 

Smith & Wesson Model 610 Reintroduced for Spring 2019

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News Release

Smith & Wesson Model 610 Reintroduced for Spring 2019

Powerful 10mm Auto revolver available with 4-inch, 6.5-inch barrel

 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., (March 26, 2019) – Smith & Wesson Corp. today announced that it has reintroduced its Model 610 revolver, chambered in the powerful 10mm Auto cartridge.  Well suited for handgun hunting and protection in the backcountry, the Model 610 is built on the large Smith & Wesson N-frame and is available with either a 4-inch or 6.5-inch barrel.

Jan Mladek, General Manager of Smith & Wesson and M&P brands, said, “With the recent increase in popularity of the 10mm Auto cartridge, we felt it important to offer a 10mm revolver for personal protection and handgun hunting.  The N-frame revolver has long been a staple in big-bore revolvers, and the 10mm is a natural caliber addition to the line.”

 

The Model 610 revolver features a six-round capacity is available with an MSRP of $ 969.00.  Designed for use with the included six-shot moon clips, the Smith & Wesson M610 is also capable of firing the 40 S&W cartridge.  The Model 610 revolver features a stainless steel frame, barrel and cylinder,  black synthetic finger groove grips, black blade interchangeable front sight with an adjustable white outline rear sight.

 

To learn more about the new Model 610 revolver and the complete line of  Smith & Wesson firearms, including spec sheets and images, please click here.

 

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Bog-Pod Death Grip Coming Soon for Testing

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This Bog- Pod is really different and innovative! It is a clamping device on a tripod. It can pan and tilt and is said to not mar the finish on your rifle. We will test and hunt with the Carbon Fiber Model  and let you know what we think. Coming Soon! It is brand new! This can be back packed! For me that is a must!

Bog DeathGrip Carbon Fiber Tripod with Durable, Lightweight, Stable Design, Bubble Level and Hands-Free Operation for Hunting, Shooting and Outdoors

 

Purge old 22LR Ammo – Buy New Ammo. I love CCI Brand

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I have 22LR ammo that is now over 20 years old from my late fathers stock supply. Some of it shoots well but I found in very cold weather some of the rounds were not very consistent.  This spring I have begun to shoot it off at the range and plink some metal plates at a distance. I will buy newer stock of brands that my rifle prefers. I have an old Marlin Glenfield Model 60 semi-auto that still shoots well for all its years. Fact is, it didn’t get shot much for target, only hunting and that was very irregular on squirrels. I have a new Savage rifle coming and want to test it with new ammo as well. The Marlin likes high velocity ammo and really likes CCI Velocitor for accuracy. I have just ordered more. It is a very accurate round for squirrels, snowshoe hares and varmints. At 50 yards my older Winchester High Velocity Ammo was shooting 2 inch groups at 50 yards below.

Good for Squirrels at say 25 yards to get better groups for a head shot so I have kept some.

But I remember that the CCI Velocitor shot even more accurately. So I shot a few also at 50 yards to confirm. Yup. Below all in less than 1 inch with a flyer. I just need to move the crosshairs a bit to the right. It not only delivers at extremely high energy but very accurate too.

I did take time to clean the barrel and clean and lube the action.

I will do a 100 yard test at some point.

Here are stats from CCI below.

https://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/detail.aspx?use=2&loadNo=0047

Velocitor # 0047

CALIBER BULLET WEIGHT (GR) BULLET TYPE BOX COUNT
22 LR 40 CPHP 50
Velocity, ft/sec

MUZZLE 50 YARDS 75 YARDS 100 YARDS
1435 1230 1149 1084
Energy, ft-lbs

MUZZLE 50 YARDS 75 YARDS 100 YARDS
183 134 117 104
Trajectory if sighted at 75 yards

25 YARDS 50 YARDS 75 YARDS 100 YARDS
0.3 0.9 0.0 -2.5

I found a YouTube that tests CCI 22LR Rounds including the Velocitor.

The Velocitor mushroomed and penetrated to 13. 5 inches. Remember that they must shoot accurately in your gun.

App’s for Hunting and Shooting

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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.

I will talk more about other Apps soon!

 

Good Hunting and Shooting!

 

 

 

 

 

Spring Rifle Testing: Savage 110 Apex Storm XP

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My friends at Savage are sending me a Savage 110 Apex Storm XP Package with a stainless steel, button rifled barrel to test in 6.5 Creedmoor. I requested this model because it is jam packed with features that costs well over $1000 and includes a Vortex Scope. They say it is ready for anything nature can dish out! We shall see…

FEATURES

  • Redesigned Model 110 rifle
  • Stainless steel button-rifled barrel
  • 3-9x40mm Vortex Crossfire II scope, mounted and bore-sighted
  • Dead-Hold BDC reticle’s hashmark design reduces guesswork on holdover and windage
  • Vortex Hunter medium rings and one-piece EGW 0 MOA rail
  • User-adjustable AccuTrigger
  • Adjustable length-of-pull
  • Modern ergonomics
  • Detachable box magazine

The MSRP is just $749. Wow!

110 APEX STORM XP

 

Four Feet of Snow to chase Snowshoe Hare’s?

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I headed up to my family camp just north of Milan, NH day before yesterday March 12, 2019 to hunt the bunnies north of the Pontook dam. I have a case of Cabin Fever and I knew of a spruce thicket that would be great to see the snowshoes. I could only get a couple hundred yards in without snowshoes. What a slog!

In the thicket I was up to my thigh in snow but out in the open I was up to my hips and could barely move.  On entry I saw many tracks of every species of game, predator and prey alike including deer and moose. In fact, I was snorted at by an unseen deer. I think they have wintered-up nearby as there were few thickets to be found these days. Years back there were plenty of heavy timber thickets for deer to winter and yard up.

Later I found a snowmobile trail behind camp that I could use and walked a half mile to a thicket of silver birch and spruce where there were some fresh snowshoe hare tracks. It was a beautiful day full of sunshine and blue sky. In fact, the silence was deafening as it usually is in the north-woods.  My minor tinnitus dominated the silence but I didn’t mind as the splendor of the day was evident. The snowmobile trail was used by a coyote recently as he peed in the snow every couple hundred yards to mark his territory.

I will mark this visit Month and Day as a no hunt for my future calendar unless I had a snowmobile and snowshoes. However, it was a great release of my cabin fever!!

If you have a snowmobile, get going up there! Still lots of snow!

Good Hunting!

 

 

 

 

The .375 Ruger: Enough Cartridge and Accurate!

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The .375 Ruger was introduced in 2007 as a rimless standard length cartridge that is slightly larger in powder capacity and energy than the .375 H & H Magnum (a belted and tapered cartridge) , widely used in Africa all the way up to Elephant. Great on big Russian Boar with their protective shield!

The .375 Ruger cartridge is used on the same dangerous game with a shorter Ruger rifle bolt throw like the 30-06 and a Mauser action which reliably grabs the rim of the cartridge and chambers the round. And in North America the .375 Ruger is ideal for Brown Bear, Moose and Bison. It will throw a 300 grain bullet at around 2500 fps and 2650 fps with 260 grain Noslers, both achieving around 2 tons of energy at the muzzle or so.

The .375 Ruger is offered in the Ruger Hawkeye African with American Walnut and the Ruger Hawkeye Alaskan with a synthetic stock. I hunted plains game in Africa with the Ruger M77 in .338 Winchester Magnum and 250 grain Nosler Partitions, accordingly, I got acclimated to heavy recoil.

As an Outdoor Writer I wanted more experience with powerful cartridges so I purchased the Ruger Hawkeye African in .375 Ruger some years back.

What is to tame in the .375 Ruger? Felt recoil with the stock recoil pad originally provided was insufficient to tame full power recoil at a bench rest where I was locked into the rifle position for accurate shooting.

There are several pads that are available on the market today to reduce felt recoil by 50% or more. I use the Pachmayr Decelerator. It did not take me long to purchase and test a few. They tame the full power loads so much that I can shoot them in my T-Shirt.

The accuracy of my .375 Ruger in the M77 Ruger African Rifle is nothing short of exceptional, often regularly shooting sub-MOA groups. Nosler is my go-to bullet company. The AccuBond and E-Tip and Partition give me superior bullet construction delivering over 4000 ft-lbs (2 tons) of energy at the muzzle and like 2800 ft-lbs at over 200 yards.

Years back, at 50 yard a friend observed my very first shot with the rifle right out of the box with dangerous game loads. After placing a shot with a Leupold Scope on paper, he said, go ahead and shoot another. I shot the second round. He said, I missed the whole target. Shoot another… and I did. Missed that one too he said. So we went down range to find the three bullets in the same hole. My friend said, “Your keeping that rifle, Right?” I grinned a big smile.

So what else is there to tame? Well, this rifle cartridge, when hand loaded can be easily reduced in power to hunt deer and black bear if you like.

You can search articles here in NH Rifleman for more on the .375 Ruger reduced loads.

https://www.nhrifleman.com/375-ruger-reduced-loads-and-powder-are-here/

It is like owning a 38-55, a .375 Winchester, and a cartridge more power than the .375 H & H Magnum. Finally the Ruger is not fussy about bullets, it shoots them all very well and I can shoot all the way down to 220 grain bullets.

I have some 235 grain heads for deer. See the article below.

https://www.nhrifleman.com/the-375-ruger-just-plain-fun-with-speer-235-grain-hot-cor-and-reduced-loads/

 

One rifle for the world, you might say. Read more in my ebook African Safari – Rifle and Bow and Arrow.

Good Hunting!

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Laser Bore Sights – Valuable On Your Hunt?

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From a hunting perspective I think that a laser bore sight can be very valuable if you take it in the field with you!  I had to experience my own stupidity on a trophy hunt and my rifle and scope gets knocked around or dropped. I was in Texas this past October on a Trophy Whitetail Hunt and banged my rifle and scope a bit. I missed a shot one evening on a very nice buck. Truth is, was it a banged scope or me as excited as i was. Or perhaps a combination of the two. There is another possibility as well, that my scope was dialed up so high that it was difficult to keep the crosshairs steady. In any event, I did not have a laser bore sight in my backpack to validate the scope. It was now night time. So I asked myself and my guide; “Should I take the same rifle out in the morning or use my backup rifle?”

The answer was to use my already proven back-up rifle. 

But what if I had no back up rifle?

I would then have to wait for daylight and go to the range with the banged rifle scope to see what was happening and miss the critical dawn whitetail hunting.

A laser bore sight device is made by several manufacturers.

I have seen Jim Shockey advertise the Site-Light SL-100. But seeing is believing. I will try to hunt and field test one of their models here this spring. 

They make three models. The SL-100 is cost effective at $99 dollars via most retailers. The SL-150 is $160 or so. The SL-500 is military grade at over $200 and can be seen out to 100 yards.  

http://sitelite-lasers.com/BuyNow.html 

 

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