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Fishing gear then and now
It is interesting to wander through a big sporting goods store, or examine a Cabela’s fishing catalog and see the bewildering array of fishing gear available these days … baffling numbers, styles and colors of fishing lures, dozens of fishing lines in any pound test one wishes, dozens of spinning reels and advanced bait-casting reels that seldom if ever backlash.
Friday, May, 17, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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It is interesting to wander through a big sporting goods store, or examine a Cabela’s fishing catalog and see the bewildering array of fishing gear available these days … baffling numbers, styles and colors of fishing lures, dozens of fishing lines in any pound test one wishes, dozens of spinning reels and advanced bait-casting reels that seldom if ever backlash.
Friday, May, 17, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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A true rifle traditionalist
American-made big game rifles after World War II were certainly adequate but also mundane — even the superb Model 70 Winchester with its incomparable action and excellent trigger was sold with a walnut stock that was less than inspiring.
Friday, May, 10, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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American-made big game rifles after World War II were certainly adequate but also mundane — even the superb Model 70 Winchester with its incomparable action and excellent trigger was sold with a walnut stock that was less than inspiring.
Friday, May, 10, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Trends in rifles
It was somewhat comforting, paging through the 1980 Gun Digest Review of Custom Guns, edited by Ken Warner, with chapters by John T. Amber — the latter largely responsible for the Gun Digest editions that I devoured as a youngster. Warner and Amber are both long gone, but reading about rifles circa 1980 was like going back in time to the days when I was a young man.
Friday, May, 03, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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It was somewhat comforting, paging through the 1980 Gun Digest Review of Custom Guns, edited by Ken Warner, with chapters by John T. Amber — the latter largely responsible for the Gun Digest editions that I devoured as a youngster. Warner and Amber are both long gone, but reading about rifles circa 1980 was like going back in time to the days when I was a young man.
Friday, May, 03, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Black bears and springtime
When the first green grasses poke out of mountain slides, westerners call it “greenup,” and you can bet that black bears will be emerging from hibernation and feeding on the succulent vegetation.
Friday, April, 26, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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When the first green grasses poke out of mountain slides, westerners call it “greenup,” and you can bet that black bears will be emerging from hibernation and feeding on the succulent vegetation.
Friday, April, 26, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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The truth about background checks
Those clamoring for “universal background checks” ignore the fact we have had instant background checks in the purchase of firearms for years.
Friday, April, 19, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Those clamoring for “universal background checks” ignore the fact we have had instant background checks in the purchase of firearms for years.
Friday, April, 19, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Actual skills that helped
When I observe two generations of people younger than myself who cannot seem to go more than eight minutes without playing with their electronic gadgetry, I hesitate to point out a few educational experiences from the distant past that helped me during my work years. But I’ll do it anyway. At St. John’s Academy more than a half century ago, a couple nuns forced us urchins to diagram sentences.
Friday, April, 12, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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When I observe two generations of people younger than myself who cannot seem to go more than eight minutes without playing with their electronic gadgetry, I hesitate to point out a few educational experiences from the distant past that helped me during my work years. But I’ll do it anyway. At St. John’s Academy more than a half century ago, a couple nuns forced us urchins to diagram sentences.
Friday, April, 12, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Traveling cross the plains
And so we rolled down the highway in the old Suburban, heading toward Oklahoma for our annual visit with daughter Katrina and family, and we saw the big open country along the Yellowstone, just greening up with spring, and far in the distance the mountains of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and the Crazy Mountains, still deep in snow with peaks scraping the sky.
Friday, April, 05, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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And so we rolled down the highway in the old Suburban, heading toward Oklahoma for our annual visit with daughter Katrina and family, and we saw the big open country along the Yellowstone, just greening up with spring, and far in the distance the mountains of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and the Crazy Mountains, still deep in snow with peaks scraping the sky.
Friday, April, 05, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Taking
A reader recently e-mailed his inventory of ammunition components — powder, primers, and bullets — to get my opinion. I replied that with some 6,000 primers, 2,500 bullets in five calibers and 23 pounds of gunpowder, he was in pretty good shape, granted he had sufficient empty casings to load.
Friday, March, 29, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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A reader recently e-mailed his inventory of ammunition components — powder, primers, and bullets — to get my opinion. I replied that with some 6,000 primers, 2,500 bullets in five calibers and 23 pounds of gunpowder, he was in pretty good shape, granted he had sufficient empty casings to load.
Friday, March, 29, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Passing down the .280 rifle
There is nothing fancy about one of the rifles I have brought to the range today. It is a Ruger Model 77 bolt-action in .280 Rem. topped with a 40-year-old Redfield Widefield 4X with Duplex reticle. The rifle belonged to my father, Jake, who sent it along with me not long before his death, asking that I give it to my son-in-law, Brad Koerner.
Friday, March, 22, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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There is nothing fancy about one of the rifles I have brought to the range today. It is a Ruger Model 77 bolt-action in .280 Rem. topped with a 40-year-old Redfield Widefield 4X with Duplex reticle. The rifle belonged to my father, Jake, who sent it along with me not long before his death, asking that I give it to my son-in-law, Brad Koerner.
Friday, March, 22, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Handmade knife addiction
My father used a pair of Buck folding “Hunters” for all types of big game and birds, and a Buck fillet knife for fish. He was amused by my affinity for handmade knives and never owned one. Commercially-made knives are far better today than they were 50 years ago, and the majority of outdoorsmen, like my late father, operate very happily without a handmade knife.
Friday, March, 15, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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My father used a pair of Buck folding “Hunters” for all types of big game and birds, and a Buck fillet knife for fish. He was amused by my affinity for handmade knives and never owned one. Commercially-made knives are far better today than they were 50 years ago, and the majority of outdoorsmen, like my late father, operate very happily without a handmade knife.
Friday, March, 15, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Stories of fine knives
Knives have been made by hand for centuries, but it wasn’t until guys like Bill Scagel of Michigan and North Dakotan R. H. “Rudy” Ruana started making knives available to discerning customers in the early years of the 20th Century that the knife-making art began as a commercial enterprise. Scagel’s knives today, if you can find one, sell for $20,000 or more. Scagel, who died in 1963, generally is recognized as the pioneer of modern knife-making.
Friday, March, 08, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Knives have been made by hand for centuries, but it wasn’t until guys like Bill Scagel of Michigan and North Dakotan R. H. “Rudy” Ruana started making knives available to discerning customers in the early years of the 20th Century that the knife-making art began as a commercial enterprise. Scagel’s knives today, if you can find one, sell for $20,000 or more. Scagel, who died in 1963, generally is recognized as the pioneer of modern knife-making.
Friday, March, 08, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Anti-gun furor continues
Self-defense “expert” and Vice-President Joe Biden is at it again. He was interviewed last week by Parents magazine, and took questions from viewers. When one woman asked if a re-instatement of the 1994 “Assault Weapons Ban” would leave people defenseless, Biden said, “… get a double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun and have shells on hand.”
Friday, March, 01, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Self-defense “expert” and Vice-President Joe Biden is at it again. He was interviewed last week by Parents magazine, and took questions from viewers. When one woman asked if a re-instatement of the 1994 “Assault Weapons Ban” would leave people defenseless, Biden said, “… get a double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun and have shells on hand.”
Friday, March, 01, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Vexing questions about moose
Minnesota is shutting down its moose hunting season after moose populations dropped 52 percent in two years, and Montana is beginning a 10-year study on moose numbers in that state, which has likely seen moose populations decrease by at least 50 percent since the mid-’90s, though the wildlife agency doesn’t provide an estimate.
Friday, February, 22, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Minnesota is shutting down its moose hunting season after moose populations dropped 52 percent in two years, and Montana is beginning a 10-year study on moose numbers in that state, which has likely seen moose populations decrease by at least 50 percent since the mid-’90s, though the wildlife agency doesn’t provide an estimate.
Friday, February, 22, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Politicians and guns
Politicians love to portray themselves as good ol’ country boys and girls who are just like you — they grew up in a small town or on a farm, and they grew up with hunting and shooting. They’d have you believe that they continue to have an undying respect for the Second Amendment and firearms. In truth, they regard bumpkins like us with suspicion, they left the small town or farm as soon as they could get the hell away from it, and they haven’t picked up a gun in decades, let alone gone hunting or target shooting.
Friday, February, 15, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Politicians love to portray themselves as good ol’ country boys and girls who are just like you — they grew up in a small town or on a farm, and they grew up with hunting and shooting. They’d have you believe that they continue to have an undying respect for the Second Amendment and firearms. In truth, they regard bumpkins like us with suspicion, they left the small town or farm as soon as they could get the hell away from it, and they haven’t picked up a gun in decades, let alone gone hunting or target shooting.
Friday, February, 15, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Thoughts on hunting
I have loved hunting since the first days when my father took me along back in the mid-1950s, and I hunted because he hunted, and because both of my grandfathers and most of my uncles hunted. Maybe I have hunted because my ancestors going far back in time in Austria and Germany also hunted.
Friday, February, 08, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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I have loved hunting since the first days when my father took me along back in the mid-1950s, and I hunted because he hunted, and because both of my grandfathers and most of my uncles hunted. Maybe I have hunted because my ancestors going far back in time in Austria and Germany also hunted.
Friday, February, 08, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Fine memories of ice fishing
One February day about a dozen years ago some fishery biologists and I met about 25 youngsters at Canyon Ferry Reservoir, which is the first reservoir on the Missouri River near Townsend and Helena in Montana. This was part of the “Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs” Program that many wildlife agencies promote in schools.
Friday, February, 01, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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One February day about a dozen years ago some fishery biologists and I met about 25 youngsters at Canyon Ferry Reservoir, which is the first reservoir on the Missouri River near Townsend and Helena in Montana. This was part of the “Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs” Program that many wildlife agencies promote in schools.
Friday, February, 01, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Ideas for the mule deer dilemma
A mule deer symposium sponsored by the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association (MOGA), the Boone & Crockett Club, the Mule Deer Foundation and the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation was held in Bozeman earlier this month without many earth-shaking revelations.
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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A mule deer symposium sponsored by the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association (MOGA), the Boone & Crockett Club, the Mule Deer Foundation and the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation was held in Bozeman earlier this month without many earth-shaking revelations.
Friday, January, 25, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Sorting through gun debate craziness
For much of the past five weeks I’ve watched and listened to hysterics from anti-gun journalists and activists who know little or nothing about firearms, expounding on a variety of things, including the “heavy power” of the .223 cartridge, which in reality isn’t powerful enough for use as a reliable deer rifle.
Friday, January, 18, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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For much of the past five weeks I’ve watched and listened to hysterics from anti-gun journalists and activists who know little or nothing about firearms, expounding on a variety of things, including the “heavy power” of the .223 cartridge, which in reality isn’t powerful enough for use as a reliable deer rifle.
Friday, January, 18, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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A fine hunt and fellowship
The day after I killed the desert bighorn ram in the Monte Cristo Mountains of Nevada, guide Roy Lerg left early in the morning for home, but not before graciously inviting Laurie and me to join him and his wife Debbie at their residence in the Smith Valley.
Friday, January, 11, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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The day after I killed the desert bighorn ram in the Monte Cristo Mountains of Nevada, guide Roy Lerg left early in the morning for home, but not before graciously inviting Laurie and me to join him and his wife Debbie at their residence in the Smith Valley.
Friday, January, 11, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Completing a second grand slam
Guide Roy Lerg and I are moving slowly up a dry wash, when suddenly he says, “Rams! Up to the left! Get ready to shoot!”
Friday, January, 04, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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Guide Roy Lerg and I are moving slowly up a dry wash, when suddenly he says, “Rams! Up to the left! Get ready to shoot!”
Friday, January, 04, 2013 - The Jamestown Sun - Outdoors
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