SteveThe sticks and brush in the wilderness can be unforgiving to a hunter. While your pair of blue jeans can protect you from the sharp sticks that might injure your skill, the pants are heavy and bulky. Again, these pants absorb water and become even heavier. Granted, you need the best hunting pants to protect …
A successful hunt demands more than the right weapon. You need to have experience, patience, and the right protective clothing to survive the wilderness. The best hunting boots are especially important as you will walk for miles through hazardous terrain sometimes in unforgiving weather conditions. If your hunting boots are not up for the task, …
Hunting is fun only when you have all the essential gear available. It is a total waste of time and energy to get into the hunting field without any of the right tools. However, you might be confused or faced with the daunting task of choosing the right gear. This post will help you out …
At the moment the bullet leaves the muzzle of a barrel, its trajectory (or path) is somewhat straight, but as it continues to fly, itspath becomes an arc. While a bullet accelerates within a barrel owing to rifling, the moment it leaves the muzzle, it loses energy and slows down as the distance grows, partly …
As the most riflescopes are not appropriately adjusted out of the box, the rifle owners should know how to sight a riflescope. A skill to properly sight in or “zero” optics is very appreciated in the modern gun community whether one belongs to military operators, long-range shooting competitors, or hunter’s brotherhood. Today, a rifle or handgun scope …
The Minute of Angle unit is useful to shooters not only to hit that far away target, applying Long Range Shooting Technique but also when you are zeroing in a new scope, or you need to range a target at an unknown distance. My old man always told me: “If you can hit a salad plate …
Although the parallax is one of the concerns of hunters and shooters when buying optics, this irrational fear usually stems from unenlightened or ill-advised users. As first, parallax as a phenomenon is present and visible only in high-powered optics above 10X magnification and at longer ranges, say over 250 yards. Since the shooting at ranges of …
Whether you are going hunting or planning a casual plinking at the range, you want to hit the target you are aiming at, so the basic rule is to make sure your rifle is properly zeroed. Widely known quote “Only accurate rifles are interesting,” from famed hunter Col. Townsend Whelen is very applicable in our …
Aligning binoculars at home is all about checking whether there’s a serious misalignment and making the most out of your warranty. If you examine your binocular externally, you may not notice that it’s misaligned. Unless the tubes are badly damaged, it’s difficult to tell. But when you look through both eyepieces, and you feel as …
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Sometimes, you can drop, hit or sit on a binocular on purpose or by mistake. Whichever way, chances are the optics of your binocular will misalign (check this post for fixing alignment problems). Shipping and delivery can also cause loss of collimation. With binoculars focus problem come annoying double images. More expensive binoculars are less …