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Having clearly stated goals will tell you if you need to spend extra time with your dog doing more drills to meet one of those goals, or if you need to add to your goal list.

When the early spring rolls around, there’s one thing I can’t get off my mind; applying for upcoming big game draws. In today’s draw systems, there are two prevailing ideas for the distribution of tags, opportunity, and trophy. Opportunity places emphasis on getting hunters in the field and trophy places emphasis on developing a larger and older age class of animals.

This may seem like an odd comparison, but I cannot count the number of times I have been in a gun store listening to either the “gun guru” behind the counter, or the “expert sniper” on the other side talking about how the 6.5 Creedmoor is like a 300 Win Mag without the recoil.  The 6.5 Creedmoor is also touted as a long range big game caliber like the 300 Win Mag.

Legendary Arms Works is back in business and that’s a good thing. They’ve made a great pair of rifles: The Professional and The Big Five.

StingerWorx aimed for hunters with its new suppressor. Lightweight and modular—its likely to help hunters in places where suppressor hunting is legal.

The new CRF is capable of ranging targets up to 2800 yards with decimal calculations up to 200 yards. The LED display automatically adjusts to ambient lighting conditions and in addition to the range offers three ballistic outputs- uphill, downhill, and flat.

These calls have three speakers covering a full circle around the call. The biggest, Top Dogg, even has a subwoofer.

As the New Year rings in every Dec 31, most hunters believe that they will have to wait until September to get the opportunity to chase fur and feathers again, as most of the big game seasons have closed and for the most part the only season open is waterfowl. Although waterfowl hunting is a great pursuit, the barriers to entry can be steep with the cost of decoys and equipment. But luckily for most Americans, there is a large game bird that offers quite the challenge, the ringneck pheasant.

The Savage 110 AccuFit Hunter provides a custom fit without the custom price tag, working impressively out-of-the-box with the factory settings.