#1 - Break a True Pair Take the rear target first and continue your swing to get out in front of the lead clay. For going-away birds, take the clay that’s more of a straightaway and then swing on the target that’s angling away.
#2 - Get Steady Off-Hand During dry-fire practice, pick a small target to focus on, and with the rifle held low, bring it up in a smooth motion. As soon as the target comes into view with the reticle centered on it, break the trigger.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to hunt gobblers with Stoeger's new M3000, a 12-gauge semi-auto 3-inch gun built for turkey and waterfowl hunting. The gun works off the same inertia-driven system that Benelli utilizes -- Stoeger is owned by Benelli -- but comes at just a fraction of the price of a Super Black Eagle II.
A Federal Premium Ammunition employee (who wished to remain anonymous) snapped these photos for us of a new shotshell in the works. Federal is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a new turkey load that will be available for the spring 2013 season. What do company engineers have up their sleeves?
Thanks to a few tips from my source, I think it’s fair to speculate that Federal is cooking up a turkey load that combines at least a couple shot sizes. There are two ways such shells are typically loaded: as a homogenous mixture, or through what’s known as “multi-plexing,” in which shot is layered by size.
When it was launched in 2011, Winchester’s Blindside steel waterfowl loads exceeded all the ammo maker’s expectations – selling a whopping three times better than the company’s initial estimates. What sets Blindside apart is the six-sided, Hex™ Steel Shot pellets stacked inside the shells which packs 15 percent more pellets in the same space versus traditional round pellets.
Apparently, Benelli isn’t satisfied with the great waterfowling shotguns it already makes, as it has just released a new shotgun custom-tuned for the hard-core waterfowler—the Benelli Super Black Eagle II (SBE II) Performance Shop Waterfowl Edition. Essentially, Benelli took its already well-established SBE II and added a number of Benelli's Performance Shop enhancements.
For example, the Waterfowl Edition comes with a set of Rob Roberts Custom Triple Threat™ chokes, to give shooters a selection of choke tubes that apply specifically to waterfowl hunting at short, medium and long-range distances. Each individual gun is also test-fired with Federal Premium's Black Cloud® shotshells.
Weatherby enters the slug gun market with a bang, offering the new PA-08™ Slug Gun Combo for your deer hunting and upland game needs. The PA-08 comes with two interchangeable barrels, a 24-inch rifled barrel for slugs and a 28-inch field barrel for shotshells.
The PA-08 is only offered in 12 gauge, with two models available: the Upland, which sports a walnut stock with gloss finish, and the Synthetic, which has a lightweight and durable injection-molded black synthetic stock.
This dramatic photo captures the impact of a load of No. 6 shot as it slams into a turkey. You can see the wad from the shotshell over the back of the tom. The distance of this shot was about 35 yards and the specific shell used was Federal Premium’s Heavyweight No. 6s with the Flitecontrol wad. This is actually from a 20-gauge shotgun, specifically Benelli’s excellent M2.
Major League Baseball's gun ban reveals how some sports reporters are clueless about real issues
Most sports reporters live in privileged sanctuaries where the world's realities are but a hazy background to games, scores, statistics and players. And let's be honest: Most of us would happily live such a life, if we could.
But sports reporters are still journalists. As such, they should be held to the same standards as all journalists and take the time to understand issues before commenting on them.
Meet Otis McDonald, 76, a retired maintenance engineer, grandfather, and life-long Democrat who wants a handgun for self-defense in case gang members break into his Chicago home—again.
But, Chicago says he can't have one because the city has a 28-year-old handgun ban.
And so, on March 2, Otis McDonald will become the "new face of the Second Amendment" when opening arguments in McDonald v. city of Chicago begin before the U.S. Supreme Court.
