American Shooting Journal // July 2022

CONTENTS

VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 10

34

COVER STORY

(FOX NATION)

THE BATTLES THAT SHAPED AMERICA

Actor Kelsey Grammer made a career as the wisecracking Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier, but he’s also a military history buff. That passion is the driving force behind his new Fox Nation series, Kelsey Grammer’s Historic Battles for America. Our TV critic and fellow history student Chris Cocoles reviews season one’s big campaigns. FEATURES

46 MAKAYLA SCOTT’S FIELD OF DREAMS

Makayla Scott of West Virginia got into the shotgun sports through a 4-H shooting program, and never looked back. She’s not only a Guinness World Record holder but a driving force behind the recent creation of both a clay target facility and a scholastic shooting club that uses the range. Larry Case shares the story of this veritable dynamo!

54 LEGENDS OF THE SPRING

Pursuing big black bears in the mountains as winter recedes is “one of the most underrated big game hunts someone can do.” So states Cassidy Caron, a Canadian outfitter who has hunted bruins since she was a girl and has lived tales of hair-raising springtime adventure on high.

65 BULLET BULLETIN: GOING FROM GOOD TO GREAT

Our professor of projectiles, Phil Massaro, likes what he sees in Hornady’s new CX expanding copper bullets, a step up from their GMX line and a solid choice for pursuing big game where lead-free ammo is required.

75 ROADHUNTER: OF PREDATORS AND TRAIL CAMERAS

Bucks and bulls aren’t the only critters you can scout with today’s game cameras. Scott Haugen shares how you can use them to draw a better bead on predators like bears and cougars.

85 SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING: DEFINING REALISTIC SELF-DEFENSE PRACTICE

There’s only one way to be ready for a violent encounter: to train for it in ways that are as realistic as possible. Paul Pawela details how his self-defense courses go the distance – real guns, fake blood, “drunk goggles” and all.

98 CIVICS AND SHARPSHOOTING

April 19 might seem like a random day of the year, but not at Project Appleseed, which teaches both marksmanship and history lessons as it aims to “reignite the spirit of the American Revolution.” We chatted with the program’s national coordinator, Rusty Bonkoski, on the meaning of that fateful day and to learn more about the project’s classes and courses being held around the country.

107 BLACK POWDER: CALL IT QUIGLEY LIGHT

Mike Nesbitt makes an annual trek to southeast Montana to participate in the famed Matthew Quigley Buffalo Rifle Match, and this year the long-range rifle competition served as inspiration for he and fellow black powder cartridge shooters to hold their version back home, albeit with smaller targets set at shorter distances. Mike relives some fine doin’s.

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