American Shooting Journal // February 2022

CONTENTS

VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 5

FEATURES

23 COOL UNDER PRESSURE

When the Precision Rifle Series’s 2021 Armageddon Gear Cup came down to a three-way sudden-death shoot-off late last year, Chad Heckler was dialed in for the win. We chatted with this long-range competitor about how he handled the high pressure, and more.

26 GUN REVIEW: HENRY AR-7

With its intriguing US military backstory and modern design from a famed Wisconsin gunmaker, this semiautomatic rifle in .22 LR is “the right tool for the serious survivalist.” So writes Nick Perna, who put a Henry AR-7 through its paces.

35 SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING: WHATS, WHYS AND HOWS OF MY EVERYDAY CARRY EQUIPMENT

Paul Pawela shares the rationale behind each piece of personal protective gear and accessories he doesn’t leave home without.

45 LAW ENFORCEMENT SPOTLIGHT: THE MAN WHO KEPT THE PEACE

Jan Ketchum enjoyed a 26-year career as a state trooper in western New York, eschewing promotions so that he didn’t have to move his family, but keeping the peace didn’t end when he hung up his badge. No, Ketchum merely traded it for a judge’s garb. Nick Perna details the life of this man of the law.

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COVER STORY

ROADHUNTER: CONFESSIONS OF A CACK ADDICT

Hooked on hunting cackling geese during February’s late season, but struggling to get the big flocks to come around again? Scott Haugen’s been there and done that, and has three keys for getting the birds to funnel back into your spread.

48 SAVING LIVES ON THE FRONT LINES

Growing up in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills as part of an outdoors- and hunting-loving family that also had military bloodlines, Donnelly Wilkes had a pretty good idea what he wanted to do. He became a Navy doctor and in an excerpt from his book, Code Red Fallujah: A Doctor’s Memoir at War, Wilkes chronicles his experiences in Iraq.

79 BULLET BULLETIN: WOODLEIGH BULLETS – HOPEFULLY RISING FROM THE ASHES

A fire last fall left Woodleigh Bullets’ factory in ruins and the Australian company’s future uncertain. Phil Massaro hopes we haven’t seen the last of either his friend and Woodleigh owner Geoff McDonald or the many dangerous game projectiles McDonald makes, some of which Massaro has also used on African safaris over the years.

(DR. DONNELLY WILKES)

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