Category Archives: Rifle Hunting

Missed shots

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

Hunting stories almost always end with the writer describing the limit of birds in the bag, the size of the antlers on the buck hanging from the pole, the 20-inch smallmouth bass in the net, or the incredible shot that … Continue reading →

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Blooded

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

BLOODED. Not sure when or where I first heard that word applied to an item of hunting or fishing gear, but its meaning was clear. Blooded meant that the piece of gear in question — a rifle, shotgun, bow, knife, … Continue reading →

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A nice old rifle

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

Gunsmiths retire. Some of the best ones – master craftsmen who are a blend of artist, metallurgist, woodworker, scientist, ballistician, firearms historian, and avid shooter — labor on and on into their seventies and eighties, probably because we clients plead … Continue reading →

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The .44 Magnum caper

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

…as we aging members of the Over the Hill Gang know, circumstances change.   The .44 Magnum caper Blame it on a change in deer hunting regulations. And a fat little doe that came out of the woods on the … Continue reading →

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Notta lotta difference

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Jerry Johnson

In this era of once unimaginable bullet design and construction, the superb quality of factory loaded ammunition, the excellence of CNC manufactured rifle barrels and actions, and the equally impressive quality and reliability of telescopic sights, there is notta lotta … Continue reading →

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Nebraska blizzard gifts

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.     ~Josh Billings, pen name of American humor writer and lecturer Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885) Nebraska blizzard gifts  Unexpected blizzards still sweep across the Nebraska prairies in November, but … Continue reading →

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Hunting velociraptors

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.             – Mark Twain (1835-1910) Stunt, dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and … Continue reading →

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