The idea of long range shooting on game animals is one that, I think, tends to fascinate new shooters and it can be interesting to us old shooters as well. However, it is not something to be embarked on lightly. Almost certainly a young, new shooter is unlikely to have any real concept of just ...
Having been living and working in Asia for the past several years I will be leaving in a few months and returning to my home country. When I left my home country I had to sell or give away the entire contents of my rifle cabinet, which was a bit of a hard thing to ...
Although there seems to be no shortage of free targets out there with which to sight in our rifle, pistol or slug shooting shotgun there is a small collection I discovered a while ago that I think provide one of the best selections. These come from P Kammermann AG in Switzerland. The targets are free ...
When I was a young, new shooter I read shooting magazines such as "Guns and Ammo", in fact "read" is not really the right word, I devoured them. I progressively acquired a shooting library over the ensuing years and got to try out a lot of the things I'd read about, and quite a few ...
I'd been using various American rifle scopes by Leupold, Weaver and Burris for years before I discovered Kahles from Austria. At the time I was setting up a rifle for low light shooting, often at extended ranges, so I splurged on a Kahles 8x56. It was the beginning of a love affair - if you ...
The telescopic sight we put on a rifle and depend on so we can place our shot with the precision that open sights cannot provide is a potentially delicate thing. Rifle-scopes are made to be rugged and to survive not only the recoil of a heavy caliber rifle or pistol, but also to survive the ...