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22/03/2025

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22/03/2025

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭
– 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘪𝘨-𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴.
Photo: Many hunters are obsessed with how much weight a bullet retains. All of these bullets were recovered from various big-game animals. They retain varying amounts of their original weight, yet all of them obviously resulted in a dead animal.

While some hunters try every new big-game bullet that comes out, others stick with one or two because they’ve always worked well for them. But even “old” bullets can change, sometimes considerably, partly due to bullet manufacturers tweaking the basic design to improve them, whether for field performance or more efficient manufacturing. I’ve used many different bullets, but in the last thirty years I have probably used more Barnes X-Bullets and Nosler Partitions than anything else. Both have changed markedly over that period.

Partitions appeared in 1948, and were designed to retain around two-thirds of their weight, with a softer front core that fragmented to increase tissue damage. The jackets were lathe-turned, but in the late 1970s Nosler started impact-extruding Partitions to speed production. I can’t say whether this improved accuracy or performance, because I started using the original Partitions only a few years before the extruded version appeared. Both 130-grain bullets in the .270 Wi******er and 200-grainers in the .30-06 grouped three rounds into an inch at 100 yards, which back then was considered very good. None of the 130s were recovered from deer or 200s from elk, so I don’t know how much weight they retained.

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Learn more here: https://sportsafield.com/2025/building-a-better-bullet/

21/03/2025

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20/03/2025

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20/03/2025

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20/03/2025

19/03/2025

𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚:
Step into the heart of conservation with Rhino Rescue, a powerful documentary that takes you inside Rockwood Conservation, where a dedicated team is fighting to save the endangered white rhino from poaching and extinction.

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19/03/2025

𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐧-𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞
– 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴.
The photo, from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, shows the sheep nicknamed Montana Mountain King, which was illegally cloned using tissue from a Marco Polo sheep by a Montana rancher who was later sentenced on federal wildlife charges.

In October 2024, a Montana rancher was sentenced to federal prison time and charged a hefty fine for illegally cloning a giant hybrid sheep, afterward referred to as the “Montana Mountain King.” Using testicles and other tissues illegally imported to the United States from a Marco Polo argali (Ovis ammon polii) hunted in Kyrgyzstan, the rancher contracted a laboratory to create cloned embryos, which he then implanted to ewes on his ranch, eventually resulting in an impressive male specimen tailored for the captive trophy hunting industry. He then worked with co-conspirators to use semen from the cloned animal to impregnate various other sheep and create hybrid specimens of large body and horn size for illegal sale to captive hunting facilities in various other states.

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18/03/2025

✨𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 – 𝟏𝟓.𝟕𝟒 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐬 ✨
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18/03/2025

𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐬
– 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐩𝐩
Improve your hunting skills and do your part for wildlife management by filling a doe or cow elk tag.
Photo above: Calling in this cow elk on public land in Colorado made for an exciting and memorable hunt. Photo by Trail’s End Media

It was a beautiful fall morning in the Colorado high country. I was sitting with my back against a tree, rifle across my knees, watching as dawn slowly brightened a grassy opening that was ringed with the brilliant gold of aspen trees at the height of their autumn glory.

A piercing bugle sounded from somewhere behind me. A real bull, I wondered, or another hunter? This was national forest land, and there were plenty of other hunters around, so I couldn’t be sure. I sat still and waited. From roughly that same direction came a series of chirps and mews. Cow elk. I sat up straighter. Maybe there were actual elk close by.

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16/03/2025

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝?
– 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝
Not only famous outdoor writers, but politicians, novelists, and entertainers have graced our pages over the decades.
Photo above: Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970), the novelist who created the Perry Mason detective series, was also a frequent contributor to Sports Afield.

Throughout its 133-year history, Sports Afield has published the writings of the nation’s top outdoor experts, conservationists, and gunwriters. Not only that, but articles and stories by U.S. presidents, senators, novelists, captains of industry, and even a famous burlesque entertainer have graced our pages over the years. Below is a list of a few of the more famous names who have had articles published in Sports Afield since its founding.

Learn more here: https://sportsafield.com/2020/who-wrote-for-sports-afield/

15/03/2025

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13/03/2025

🌟𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬!🌟
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12/03/2025

𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐎𝐔 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘
– 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐭𝐳𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤
A challenging and rewarding hunt in one of the most remote places on Earth.

The headwaters of the Colville River begin along the northern edge of Alaska’s Brooks Range, and from there the river runs north and east for about 350 miles before it spills into the Arctic Ocean west of Prudhoe Bay. Along its course the Colville, located entirely above the Arctic Circle, doesn’t pass anything resembling a town. When the river flows (it’s covered in ice for more than half the year), it passes through hundreds of miles of empty, treeless tundra. Researchers have named the confluence of the Colville and its tributary, the Etivluk River, the most remote place in all of North America.

After ten hours riding upstream in a Zodiac loaded with caribou-hunting gear, I had no trouble believing this was indeed the most far-flung destination on the continent. Neal Emery, who worked for Hornady at the time, rode in the bow of the boat while I was draped across guns and equipment amidships and our nineteen-year-old guide, Geordy, manned the steering column from the stern. The din of the outboard motors made talking impossible, so I spent long hours searching the hillsides for mammoth tusks, which sometimes become exposed on cliffs along the river.

Read more here: https://sportsafield.com/2024/caribou-of-the-colville-country/