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Deer meat hanging on ice to age
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How Aging Enhances Meat’s Flavor & Texture

An Age-Old Question About Aging Meat Arguments abound on both sides of the aging question with most of the debate centering around personal opinion and experience. Science tries to settle this…
3 Cabela's Jerky Juice bottles
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How to Make Your Own Great-Tasting & Nutritious Jerky (video)

Before refrigerators and freezers were available, people needed a way to prevent the meat they harvested from spoiling. One of the earliest methods was creating jerky – a form of meat preservation in…
muzzleloader elk hunt
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Elk Hunt with Traditions Vortek Muzzleloader

Mountain Hunting Success With A Muzzleloader The good thing about catching an early-morning flight to Denver is that the plane was landing as the sun was breaking on the eastern horizon. Another…
Slug shotshells for whitetail
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Whitetail Hunting with Slug Guns

Whitetails should moonlight as psychics. That's my take on the Iowa buck I was targeting with my slug gun. The night before season the cornfield-raiding bruiser was still parading around with plenty…
Hornady hunting bullets
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Hornady's Ammo Revolution

Match Grade at Any Distance Using Doppler radar and state-of-the-art aeroballistics software, Hornady® engineers discovered that conventional polymer tips in high-ballistic-coefficient bullets melt…
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Long-range Ammunition and Reloading

Countless books, articles, video series and even classes have been devoted to the subject of long-range shooting and the factory- or hand-loaded ammunition that's needed to achieve success. Many…
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Determining Eye Dominance

While most right-handed people will shoot right-handed due to a consistently dominant right side, that doesn’t necessarily mean every individual will follow those unwritten rules. For instance, some…
olympic trapshooter corey cogdell
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Olympian's Solid Shooting Lessons Learned in 4-H

With a competitive record as decorated as hers, Corey Cogdell hardly needs an introduction. She's earned many of the highest accolades in trapshooting, including two National Championship titles and…
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Florida's Overlooked Duck Hunting

Don't Miss The Excellent Waterfowl Hunting Opportunities Florida Has To Offer Biologists say up to 25 percent of the Atlantic Flyway duck population winters in Florida: somewhere between 2 million…
Shoot Like A Girl Training
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Shoot Like a Girl - Empowering Women in Shooting Sports

Women who have an interest in learning how to shoot a rifle, pistol or bow can do so in a safe, unintimidating environment while trying out a variety of equipment thanks to Shoot Like A Girl and…
everyday carry tips
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10 Things You Learn Carrying Every Day

By Tom McHale WHAT CAN YOU LEARN WHEN YOU CARRY EVERYDAY? A whole lot, it turns out. Reflecting on my experiences carrying a gun for nearly two decades, I figured out that I've learned a couple of…
Hunters transporting firearms
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Safely Transporting Firearms and Ammo

While there is no reason to live in fear, there is certainly reason enough for taking precautions toward ensuring personal protection wherever you are. At home or on the road, personal safety is…