ROAD HUNTER: DOUBLE, TRIPLE UP ON PREDATORS

Features

30 TRIGGER CONTROL

An accurate gun, good ammunition and a sharp eye will only get you so far when it comes to hitting your target, whatever that may be. Jason Brooks – a longtime big game hunter, target shooter and detective – details the mechanics behind triggers and how to master them to become a better shot.

52 USING GAME CAMERAS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME AND HUNTING EXPERIENCE

No doubt about it, modern trail cams will help you better pattern the critters you want to hunt and save time over scouting, but there are a few device setup tricks to know too. Nick Perna shares advice that will have you hunting smarter, not harder.

57 BULLE T BULLETIN: FOR THE LOVE OF LEVERS

When it comes to selecting ammo for this classic American rifle, modern or vintage, there are choices galore, and nobody knows that better than our professor of projectiles, Phil Massaro. He has a look at the “pleasures and pitfalls of lever gun ammo” through the decades, as well as today’s best cartridges.

71 BL ACK POWDER: THIS ‘TRAPPER’ IS A KEEPER!

Speaking of lever-actions, Mike Nesbitt got ahold of a used super-shortbarreled carbine in .44-40, a black powder cartridge rifle known as a “trapper” that’s also long on historical connection and shooting fun.

79 SC ATTERGUN ALLEY: SHOTGUN PICKS FROM SHOT SHOW 2023 Larry Case is still sore from walking all the aisles at January’s big Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, but he gamely provided us with a look at some of the new 12- and 20-gauges, shotshells and gun cases that caught his eye in Las Vegas.

Also Inside

89 SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING: ON ‘THE BIBLE OF GUNFIGHTING’

If Paul Pawela is anything, he’s a student of history, and when it comes to the book on gunfights, there’s none better than Edmundo and Elizabeth Mireles’s FBI Miami Firefight. Pawela shares details and lessons from the historic 1986 firefight between G-men and bank robbers that changed how the bureau, law enforcement and others train.

97 L AW ENFORCEMENT SPOTLIGHT: A MARINE AND COP TO HIS CORE

Decked out in his dress blues at the Marine Corps Ball, off-duty California cop Fernando Ramirez could hardly have imagined witnessing a car crash and having to save the driver’s life – twice. But that’s just what his dual training taught him to do. Nick Perna shares Officer Ramirez’s duty-bound heroics.

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C&E Gun Shows

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Florida

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Wes Knodel Gun Shows

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