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10. The Great Rim fire Shortage of 2013 -

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Kendall Kahn Camo Girl

A Shot of Texas Pro Staff writer Barry Stewart tells us why ammo has gone through the roof

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Llano River

By Outdoor Photographer Jim Baines

Since 2003 a family of Bald eagles has built/maintained a nest on the Llano River. About 8 miles east of Llano on Texas Highway 29, this family can be viewed each winter from the roadside viewing area approximately 92 yards from the nest in a large pecan tree.

So far there have been 16 eaglets raised in two different nests. In January 2007 just after a single eaglet hatched, the female disappeared. The

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adult male continued his vigil guarding, hunting, and feeding the eaglet all by himself.

Near the end of January a stray eagle showed up but was initially rejected by the male. Soon, they became acquainted as the new adult eagle turned out to be a female. They both started caring for the young eaglet and became life-long partners. As a team they have raised 11 additional eaglets from two

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nests. This adult male has nested in this location now for 11 years; the female has nested with him for 7 years.

This is the same couple you see in these photographs.

Their season begins with nest rebuilding in late October and carries ou through the winter nesting, hatching, and fledging of normally two healthy eaglets. Their solo flights occur in early March. The adults return the following

Bald Eagles year around late September/ early October again to begin improvements on the nest.

After years of improvement the original nest was estimated to weigh about 750 lbs.

That nest was abandoned in 2010 and a new nest built at its current location. The second and newest nest, approximately 500 yards east of the abandoned nest, has just completed its third year of a complete Bald eagle life-cycle.

Note from the Editor: I was driving out to my deer lease in November of 2012 headed out highway 29 from Georgetown Texas. I spotted Jim Baines on the side of the road. He had his camera set up photographing the amazing birds in his story. I had just published my first issue of A Shot of Texas Magazine. I had found my very first wild life photographer and Jims photos have appeared in our magazine ever since.

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The Great Rimfire Shortage of 2013

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What to do to scratch that itch?

By Barry Stewart

he entire year of 2013 has seen.

22 rimfire ammo availability go from bad to worse!

There are things you can do to get in valuable practice, shoot more than ever before, and even go hunting without ever paying ridiculous prices from scalpers. What is the easy answer to the dilemma?

Airguns!

easy to find airgun ammo

As of August 1st, the rimfire shortage is still going strong. Ammo shelves and websites around the country have seen some stock of centerfire ammo showing up, but the popular .22lr has not made that appearance yet. Without delving too deep into the politics and schematics of the “shortage” that hinders us all, in short, the shelves remain bare of rimfire ammo primarily for the following two reasons: First is SUPPLY. Although manufacturers have ramped up production and output of brand new .22lr ammo, (in many cases working 24 hours a day to get ammo out) it never sees the light of the retail shelf. Why? That leads us to the second reason…

DEMAND. With the demand for rimfire ammo so high, unscrupulous websites, auctions, and retailers are getting ridiculous prices for it. The demand is further fueled by panic buyers and hoarders. The result is the ammo never

gets to the shelves, and most of the public has no access to it, unless they are willing to stand in line at known ammo retailers to intercept the shipments that come in before they get to the shelf, or pay sometimes 5 times the normal retail price for .22lr ammo on auction sites, or websites that practice scalping. Until this vicious cycle goes away, it isn’t likely to improve in the near future.

Get an airgun and get back to shooting and hunting!

A few years ago, I started noticing a more serious airgun appearing on the market. These airguns are accurate, cost effective, and powerful enough to hunt with.

The powerful, accurate airguns mostly consist of two types. Break barrel, and PCP. The break barrel is a single shot gun that is cocked by breaking the barrel down at a pivot point, and cocking the spring or Nitro-Piston to fire the gun a single time.

They are powerful and accurate. But, they only fire once before the procedure has to

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hard to find .22lr.

On left, standard .22lr and fired bullet. On Right, .25 caliber pellet unfired, and recovered after being shot from Marauder be repeated to fire again. The break barrel can move a .22 pellet at upwards of 1100 fps… Now that is right up there with some conventional rimfire rounds!

The PCP airguns are considerably more advanced.

What is a PCP airgun? PCP stands for Pre-Charged Pneumatic. Under the bar-

rel is an air reservoir that is pressured up so that the rifle can fire many rounds before the reservoir has to be filled again.

Filling the PCP airgun can generally be done two ways. First is a hand pump. The pump looks a lot like a bicycle tire pump, but that is where the similarities end. The pump will charge the gun with up to 3000 PSI. (That’s quite a bit of pressure and air volume!)

The second way to fill a PCP gun is using a scuba type air tank. You get it filled

Hog taken with .25 caliber air rifle.

at a diveshop. There are locations all over the U.S., so finding one to fill your tank should not be hard. They usually charge $5-10 to fill the tank for you. The scuba type tank is really a game changer. I usually fill my scuba tank once, or twice a year. And I shoot a LOT. For mere pennies a shot, I have a powerful accurate rifle that shoots 8 rounds of .25 caliber pellets, at up to 900 fps, as fast as I can work the bolt on the rifle. And it keeps

shooting! Spare magazines of pellets afford me to shoot up to 30 shots before I need to refill the gun with air.

Now let’s look at how accurate and powerful these guns are. Lets also look at how loud they are, (or aren’t).

My personal favorite airgun is a .25 caliber Benjamin Marauder. I literally shoot this gun every day. I use it to take pests around the house, target shoot, plink, and very often do serious hunting with it.

What do I hunt with it? I have taken rabbits, squirrels, birds, and the usual small game…. But, beyond that I have taken raccoons, hogs and coyotes with the same rifle! Yes, I did say hogs and coyotes.

On small game, the Marauder .25 shoots and provides clean kills just as a .22lr does, when a shot is placed in the same vital area you would when using a .22lr. Follow-up shots are seldom needed on small game.

On bigger game such as coyotes and hogs, you need to change the game somewhat and go for the headshot. I have taken hogs in excess of 100 pounds with a single headshot at ranges exceeding 40 yards.

Coyotes, I have taken with the same type headshot approaching 50 yards. Much like you change the game of hunting with a rifle, to using a bow. Range and shot placement becomes important. I wouldn’t shoot a hog at 100 yards in the shoulder with a .22lr either, so change the rules to fit the game you are hunting.

Okay. It’s powerful. But how accurate is an airgun?

I have a 3-12x44mm scope in my Marauder .25 and keep it sighted at 50 yards most of the time, much the same as my .22lr. My groups at that range consist of 8 shots when checking my zero, and I can consistently cover my groups at that range with a nickel. I don’t own a .22lr that shoots any better.

One thing that “took some getting used to” when I got a Marauder .25, was the noise level. When I shoot the Marauder .25, the loudest thing about it, is the pellet hitting its target. Let me explain that… Being a firearms guy, I know that performance is related to recoil and muzzle blast. Right? NOT so with a rifle like the Marauder .25. First, there was no recoil. How could THAT be? Second, it must not be working properly because it was only as loud as my old western style BB gun I had as a kid when it went off. To simply put things, the recoil is not there because a small, but powerful

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also added that they had seen not only people buying airguns to shoot and practice with, but that in the process of gaining many new customers, they saw sales of the powerful adult airguns rise as well because more people were getting hands on experience with them, and saw they can do pretty much what they could with a .22lr, but enjoy things like no firearms regulations, and shooting in areas closed to use of firearms. Chip tells me sales of airguns and airgun ammo remains good, but they are not hampered by shortages in retail outlets, or online. I know the cost of an airgun and ammo for it has remained much the same throughout this past year.

Perhaps in the coming year we will see a bit of the “Great Rimfire Shortage of 2013” start to fade away. But in the meantime, get that pellet rifle out, or go get a new powerful, silent one that incorporates the latest technology and start having fun shooting without the worry of high prices or availability of .22lr ammo!

Be Safe!

And Enjoy the Outdoors!

Barry

Coyote called and killed with air rifle.

charge of air is used, not a spring. Hence, the no recoil operation. The noise (or lack of), is easy to explain as well. The Marauder uses a shrouded barrel. Simply put, it is a built in “silencer system”.

But, how can they do that? Silencer devices are illegal aren’t they? Sure they are, for firearms, unless you pay the tax stamp and go through the red tape. But, this is on an airgun, and the rules don’t apply. An airgun can be silenced to your

heart’s content. Many of the break barrel Nitro-Piston rifles use an incorporated “silencer” as well. They come from the factory that way!

No shortage of pellets. That is a good thing! Air is cheap too.

I asked Chip Hunnicutt, a manager at Crosman Corp., the makers of many brands of airguns, what effects the rimfire ammo shortage had on their business.

Chip told me that business is brisk. He

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Controlling Heat Stress factors?

Heat stress occurs when your body is unable to cool itself by sweating. Heat stress is commonly associated with warm weather; however, it isn’t the only cause. Heat stress can occur any time the surrounding temperature is elevated.

Your body can adjust to working in a warm environment through a process known as “acclimatization.” Acclimatization processes involve gradually increasing the amount of time you spend working in a hot environment. This gradual increase allows your body to properly adjust to the heat.

Preventing heat stress is simply a matter of controlling factors that cause it. Some of those factors are temperature, humidity and physical activity.

Engineering controls can be implemented to reduce the possibility of heat stress. These might include: • exhaust hot air or steam away from the work area • take breaks in an area using air-conditioning • use of fans to circulate the air Administrative controls are also an effective way prevent heat stress injuries. These might include: • increase the frequency and duration of breaks

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• schedule

tasks to avoid heavy physical activity during the hottest parts of the day • provide cool drinking water and encourage its consumption • make sure everyone understands the signs and symptoms of heat stress Don’t forget common-sense precautions.

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Coyote The day was Tuesday June 18th, we woke up to a nice cool soft rain. After David left for work I opened the front door to listen to the rain softly coming down, and take in the wonderful smell that comes with the rain. Buck our six year old chiuahaha was lounging in the recliner while Chloe and Rudy also small rescue dogs were curled up on the floor. A little before 9:00 the rain stopped, I noticed the chickens about 30 yards away under our large oak tree had come out to check out what fun treats may have been exposed by this morning’s rains. After a few minutes I heard the chickens making their danger noise, the dogs also heard it and before I knew it all three had sprung to their feet and were out the door to check it out. Before the dogs got to the chickens I noticed a Coyote was attempting to take one of the chickens. The arrival of the dogs scared the coyote away, or so they thought, all of the sudden from out of the brush behind the dogs, sprung the coyote, the dogs still barking and facing the opposite direction. Buck was the one closest from where the coyote had originally come from. The coyote ran to buck and snatched him by the scruff of the neck and took off with him. ( the whole event from start to finish was probably less than 2 minutes), I took off after them screaming and calling Buck’s name. After about 10 minutes of searching my sandals were so caked with mud I could hardly lift my feet. I ran back to the house and called David. When David arrived we drove to the property next to us and asked our neighbors whom we had never met if we could search for Buck. They were more than happy to help the man grabbed his gun and off we went. We found Buck just inside their fence no more than 50 yards from where he had been taken. We were too late, we picked him up and noticed that he had not even a scratch on him. We could only assume that the coyote had broken his neck, or that Buck had died from fright.

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Beware!

Now I want to tell you the reason we even considered the later cause of death. We adopted Buck as an 8 week old puppy from the animal shelter after he had been abandoned on their door step. He wasn’t the cutest puppy we had seen before, he was malnourished, and had huge ears, never the less we decided to bring him home and make him part of our family. For the first several days David would have nothing to do with him.

The kids and I struggled to come up with a proper name for our new puppy. One night while we were bantering back and forth David walks in and says “Buck, his name is Buck,” and so the bond began.

David loved my children, but had never been blessed with kids of his own, he had never even had a dog before, Buck seemed to bring out a side of David that I had never seen before. In the 6 years we had Buck there was not one night that he was not under the covers at our feet with us in bed. He would let us know if we got to close to him with a growl and a nip at our feet, David Bathe him several times per week, Buck was rarely out of the house unsupervised. As my kids grew up and moved out, I too grew closer to Buck. I usually got home from work earlier than David so I would let Buck out of the house, and he would take off down to the gate where he would wait until David got home. David was not too happy about that but we thought we were safe out here in the country. When David finally got in and sat down Buck was right up in his lap

with his head under David’s hand wanting him to pet him. From that point on Buck would not leave David’s side, Buck would sit sometimes and stare at David. We always wondered what he must be thinking.

Oh ya, he also liked to sing. It was kind of embarrassing when David asked me to get Buck to sing in front of other people, because I had to start howling and right away Buck would start in.

Buck loved to “Go” all David would have to say was that little magic word and Buck was running around in circles, and would be waiting at the truck for us. Most every Saturday morning we would make our weekly trip to town to Home Depot Buck loved to ride in the basket where he was well known by several of the employees.

He went on every vacation with us, we would sneak him in to the hotel in a dufflebag, or wrapped in a towel, he loved to go to the beach and chase the waves, and he never missed a holiday or any other event while he was with us.

So you can see why this was such a devastating thing for us, we didn’t lose a pet, we lost a member of our family, especially David, it has been two weeks, and he still sits by Bucks grave every night.

I took the advice of a dear old friend and surprised David with a new puppy, I think it has helped him heal, but nothing will replace Buck.

The coyote meanwhile continues to roam our property and kill what few chickens we have left, without a care of the devastation and pain it has caused.

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can be when a hunter stays still and is at least partially obscured by brush. Research has shown that a deer’s eyes are designed to catch motion and see well in low light conditions.

A hunter whose outline is broken up and is perfectly still might as well be invisible to a deer. A secondary benefit in this hunt was the deer was walking basically right at me. Their forward vision is very poor because of the fact their eyes are on the side of their head (I was taught as a kid that those who eat meat have eyes on the front of their head and the meat that gets eaten has eyes on the sides of their heads).

The simply lesson is that the less motion you make, the more likely you are to connect on your deer. If you are on the ground make sure you do not stand out like a statue. Pile some blown down branches around you and stuff leaves in between. If you’re hunting a field with a bow a portable tent style blind works. Just be sure to set it up a last a couple of days ahead of time so the deer get used to it.

If hunting from a tree stand, deer will still see you if you are making motion. When you do move go real slow as the deer is a lot less likely to pick you up than if you move quickly.

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t was early in the bow season (first week of October in New England), and I wasn’t planning on going out. I hadn’t even set up my tree stand yet, but the opportunity to get out in the woods presented itself. I had been practicing shooting and was sharp from a marksmanship point of view. I didn’t get into the woods until 10 in the morning. I figured I do a little scouting to make sure the deer still frequented the same ridge they have for many years. I knew the chance of connecting that day was very low, but it sure beat doing choirs.

The plan was to throw the camo on, grab the bow, and pussy foot around for a while looking for sign and a couple of locations for tree and ground stands. It was warm already, in the high 50’s. The woods were absolutely crazy with activity. Red and grey squirrels practically ran me over as I made my way up a partially grown over fire road. The birds were really loud as huge flocks gathered for their annual trip south and I walked under the trees where they rested. I heard it was good luck to get pooped on, but I by just as soon avoid it if I could.

I was almost to the top of the hill when motion caught my eye. There were still plenty of leaves on trees and bushes so it took a few moments to see what had drawn my attention. Finally, I saw the familiar brown hair of a deer moving through the brush. And I saw horns. He was maybe 60 yards off and the trail he was on would have him pass hopefully within my self imposed 25 yard limit.

Luckily the small breeze that was blowing was perfect and I doubted he would smell me.

I kneeled down real slow, knocked my arrow and attached the release. Raised my head real slow above the low scrub to see where he was. The deer had changed course and he was walking almost directly at me. I waited until he was behind a tree and stood up. I can see him clear as day now, and he’s getting close and still coming almost directly at me. Looking ahead I could see where he would pass behind another tree. As soon as he got there I drew.

He cleared the tree just as I got to full draw, and he was only 15 yards away. Somehow he hadn’t made me yet. Now I start praying the opposite of most hunters pray for. PLEASE turn so you don’t walk into me! At maybe 6 yards he goes slightly to the right and avoids a collision. I let him pass a bit to get a quartering away shot and let fly. Even though I held low on him I still hit high (got to practice those 4 yard shots more).

He took off into the thick stuff but he dropped about 60 yards away where I could barley see him and he thrashed around for 15 seconds before the end came. It was a year and half old 5 pointer. No trophy but a good eating deer and great start to the hunting season.

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The flight from Los Angeles to Auckland, our first point of entry, was over 11 hours. These flights cross the massive Pacific Ocean crossing thru the International Date Line…..leaving the USA on a Tuesday arriving Wellington on Thursday morning…Poof you lose a day!

The country of New Zealand consist of two islands, North & South Island as the Kiwi’s refer to them Wellington… the journey begins in the capital of New Zealand known as the

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“Capital of Cool”. Their city is located on the southern tip of the North Island etched between lush mountains and located around a basin of water leading out to Cook Strait. Cities population is just over 200,000.

Cooks Strait… known as one of the most dangerous and unpredictable bodies of water in the world. The strait connects the Tasman Sea with the Pacific Ocean and the ferry ride is 58 miles from Wellington to Picton taking just over three hours to complete.

suffered its first rounds of devastating earthquakes beginning 2010/2011…. with many countless aftershocks!

***We actually left a day early for our crossing as weather predictions had severe warnings of turbulent winds with the probability of rough seas.

Bye-Bye Wellington Blenheim… Marlborough Wine Region…delightful and charming village right in the center of the fruitful wine regions.

Christchurch…Under Seige…Once a magnificent historical garden city they *Tip for rough seas = sea sickness….eat a small piece of raw ginger as a precaution…it works!

Trans Alpine Scenic Train… Christchurch to Greymouth East to West on the South Island….this train ride took us through rain forests, entering winding snowcapped mountains with incredible scenery that could only be captured by train as many miles of the trip had no roads.

Franz Joseph… World famous ice glacier descending 7.5 miles from the Southern Alps…Cosmic blue hues of ice and caves Lake Wanaka… we drove along the west coast of the south island reaching this phenomenal lake. Lake Wanaka covers 74 square miles, or 47,360 acres, and is 980 ft deep in some parts... massive and spectacular, clear dark blue water surrounded by epic mountains Mount Maude Lodge… on to Lake Hawea a comfortable B&B where we spent four nights hiking, fishing, and relaxing in the New Zealand country side…comfortable surroundings meeting local Kiwi’s!

Queenstown… this charming city known for its well year round climate, cultural entertainment/restaurants, skiing, hiking, gliding and rafting….one of its hidden gems is Arrowtown, located on the outskirts of Queenstown, on the Arrow River, where a massive gold rush took place in the 1860’s.

SUMMARY: My first article was just a mere overview of our itinerary. I will go into further travel details in the next publication, as our travels were a masterpiece of statistics.

USA… we say, “Let’s start a savings account for travel”….the Kiwi’s say “Need to start a runaway fund” …have to love those Kiwi’s and their sense of humor…either way make sure to place this country on your wish list Bon Voyage…Barbara

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