American Shooting Journal // June 2022

CONTENTS

VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 9

20

COVER STORY

CAMP HOPE

SAVING VETERANS’ LIVES

Suicide claimed four times as many American soldiers, sailors and other service members as died from active duty the past 20 years, per a 2021 report, but David Maulsby of the PTSD Foundation of America is working to stop the loss. He sat down with Frank Jardim to talk about Camp Hope and how it helps our veterans. FEATURES

39 PRS PROFILE: COMPETING IS HIS THING

Call Robert Brantley the long-range Louisianian. We check in with the longtime multidiscipline precision rifle shooter to find out what makes him tick.

42 SHOOTING MAXIMUM POINTBLANK RANGE

Shot opportunities at big game are often fleeting, meaning you’ll have little to no time to calculate all of the variables needed to adjust a scope. Fortunately, elk and deer hunter Jason Brooks knows another way to be on target and not miss your chance at filling the freezer.

55 BULLET BULLETIN: A TIP OF THE HAT TO NEW FAMILY MEMBER

Core-Lokt bullets have been around since 1939 and generations of hunters have taken the field with them, but now they’re available in a new polymer Tipped version. Phil Massaro makes the introductions to this newest member of a classic Remington family line.

75 SCATTERGUN ALLEY: TAKING TURKEYS, NEAR AND FAR

You may remember the name David Miller from these pages for his shotgunning world records, but did you also know he had a hand in developing CZ-USA’s Magnum Reaper, an over-and-under that gives turkey hunters options for birds that are either hung-up or close-in?

83 ROADHUNTER: VERSATILE HUNTING DOGS

Scott Haugen had a pretty long list of boxes to check when he went looking for an all-around hunting dog – handle winter waterfowling, scour the hills for antler sheds, track down upland birds, sit patiently for doves – and he just might have found it in these three breeds.

91 SELFDEFENSE TRAINING: OLD WEST AURA AROUND NEW SHOTGUN

You could say Paul Pawela felt a certain amount of nostalgia for the Old West as he put Mossberg’s short-barreled 590A1 Special through its paces. It might have been the Arizona desert setting, or perhaps the descendant of a fabled figure he was testing it with.

105 LAW ENFORCEMENT SPOTLIGHT: OFFICER GETS STUDENT ROLLING

Heroism is more than braving gunfire. It’s human kindness and compassion, like what Arkansas School Resource Officer Jeff Shirley demonstrated when he realized one of his high schoolers was walking 6 miles roundtrip to class and back and did something to ease the teen’s journey. Nick Perna shares their touching story.

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