slow cooker venison stew

This recipe is great for those tougher cuts of meat such as the rounds or shoulder. My personal favorite cut has been for years the neck roast, bone in and split into two roasts.
I simply throw the roast into the slow cooker with a couple cups veal or beef stock, (either make your own or [...]

.405 Winchester

By Larry Weishuhn
The .405 Winchester was introduced in 1904, the same year Theodore Roosevelt was re-elected President. The large rimmed cartridge was developed for the Winchester Model 1895 lever-action rifle, which became a favorite of Roosevelt’s. He called it his “big medicine” gun.
Teddy not only used the straight-walled round on elk, moose and bears in [...]

the good ‘ole days

“They paid cash, don’t come back.”

.444 Marlin

>> .444 Marlin- America’s Most Versatile Big-Bore Part I :: By Marshall Stanton on 2001-06-27
When Marlin Firearms Company introduced the .444 Marlin to the shooting community in early 1964, it was the only true big bore lever action offered at the time! The Winchester 1886 had long been discontinued in all chamberings (1935), and the [...]

.35 Whelen

35 Whelen
.35 Whelen is a widely used wildcat cartridge that made it into the main stream. In the early 1910s and 1920s there was a need to develop a cartridge to work with .35 bullets. The ammunition expert Townsend Whelen had come out with the .400 Whelen. His colleague James Howe, modified the .400 Whelen [...]

.350 Remington Magnum

The .350 Remington Magnum
By Chuck Hawks
The .350 Remington Magnum was the first true short magnum cartridge, and it was introduced in the mid-1960’s. By the 1990’s the cartridge had fallen on hard times, and for a while Remington quit factory loading .350 ammunition. But the introduction of the WSM and SAUM short magnum cartridges in [...]

more on the .358 Winchester

The Mystery of the .358 Winchester
By Rick Ryals
I have read several articles about the .358 Winchester, including Chuck Hawks’ article on the Rifle Cartridge Page of Guns and Shooting Online. Based on what I have read, everyone who has used the cartridge has had nothing but high praise for it. From all accounts its killing [...]

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favorite deer caliber in New England ( surveys)