CONTENTS
VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 2
COVER STORY
‘FROM ONE OLD WARRIOR TO ANOTHER’
As retired US Army Staff Sergeant Lance Craig battles Lou Gehrig’s disease, he applied for an Outdoors For Our Heroes-sponsored hunt for a central Washington elk. While any bull would have done the job, what Craig bagged was no ordinary animal, making this bucket-list excursion all the more special. OFOH’s Kelli Schueler shares his story.
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ROADHUNTER: HUNTING FALL TURKEYS WITH A DOG Fall turkey season is far less popular than the spring edition, but in many states you can bring along your four-legged hunting partner. Our Scott Haugen details how to team up with your pup to bag that Thanksgiving turkey.
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SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING: LESSONS FROM BLACK HAWK DOWN In part one of a two-part series, Paul Pawela shares nine personal defense truths seen through the lens of the battle between US forces and a Somali warlord on the streets of Mogadishu, as chronicled in Mark Bowden’s book.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT SPOTLIGHT: OFF-DUTY MILITARY POLICE OFFICER DRIVES OVER SHOOTER Master Sergeant David Royer, a now-retired US Army MP, was off base in a construction zone on a bridge when he took “heroic” and “extraordinary” actions to stop a shooter, likely saving the lives of fellow drivers and crews working on the structure. Nick Perna hails this American hero.
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MILITARY SPOTLIGHT: GIVING VETERANS HOPE, A SAFE SPACE For veterans with PTSD and other combat trauma, there’s hope – Camp Hope. Since opening in 2012 with just eight beds, the Houston-based organization that provides residential treatment for vets has expanded to four housing units, and more is on the way, founder David Maulsby tells our Nick Perna.
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WE SAID WE’D NEVER FORGET: WILL WE? For the first time in 20 years, we celebrate Veterans Day in relative peace, but there is “still work to do,” writes Joseph Reagan of Wreaths Across America: making sure those asked to put their lives on the line for all of us are taken care of and given a chance to thrive after their tour is up.
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BULLET BULLETIN: MILITARY PROJECTILES: SOME TRUTHS AND SOME MYTHS While they’re held to different specifications than hunting projectiles, our Phil Massaro takes a look at the development of fighting bullets, from lead and Minie balls to full metal jackets and match-grade sniper loads.
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BLACK POWDER: SALUTING ‘A GRAND OLD VETERAN’ No, it’s not what you think of as a typical vet, but Mike Nesbitt has a tip of the cap to the .50-70, “our first military centerfire cartridge,” which saw duty across the West in the late 1800s. Nesbitt shares its story, one that contributed to subsequent military and sporting uses too.
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MEET AMU AND PRS SHOOTER BEN GOSSETT “Marine. Soldier. Competitive shooter. Family man. A winner in every sense of the word.” Those are just a few of the things we can say about Georgia’s Ben Gossett after checking in with the US Army Marksmanship Unit Shooting Team member who is competing in the Precision Rifle Series.
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American Shooting Journal // November 2021
