Category Archives: Shooting Sports

On the road to recovery

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Jerry Johnson

The road to recovery from obsessive compulsive disorder is a long march over rocky ground, and support from caring friends speeds the journey. Sometimes this support arrives in a package marked “tough love,” but the gift is no less valuable … Continue reading →

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The whirr of homeward bound wings

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

Bobwhite quail are the most obliging of training birds… after being set free and scattered across the hayfield, they call one another back to the cage in the evening, climb in, settle for the night, and are ready to go … Continue reading →

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Sow’s ear

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Jerry Johnson

Like all grandfathers, I felt a bittersweet happiness and satisfaction that afternoon spent with my grandson, caught up in remembrances of times past and surges of nostalgia unexpectedly triggered by a sharing between generations of men, an old man and … Continue reading →

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Schrödinger’s damned cat

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Quantum mechanics changed the world… by extinguishing the dream of perfect determinism and mathematical predictability that structured the Newtonian universe.      – Amir Alexander, science and mathematics historian at UCLA and author of the book Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical … Continue reading →

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Falling into a pattern

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Call me eccentric, call me crazy, but I see no sense in measuring patterns at 40 yards because I seldom shoot at game birds at that distance. I want to know the pattern data at 25 yards – the distance … Continue reading →

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The hunting marketplace

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted…  If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he … Continue reading →

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Plinking

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

Plink- vt. (plink; rhymes with sink) [slang, American]: to shoot informal targets such as tin cans with a small caliber rifle or handgun; the word ‘plink’ is an onomatopoeia of the sharp, metallic sound of a small caliber bullet hitting … Continue reading →

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Jerry Johnson

The bottom line is that the advantages of overloaded rounds are largely illusory. In practical fact, the bloody things aren’t worth either the expense or the discomfort. And they are discomfortable in the extreme. So what good are 30 percent … Continue reading →

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