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Archive for Firearm Maintenance

Your new Bersa Thunder .380 Firearm

   When you take your new Bersa Thunder 380 firearm home, you must first unlock the trigger lock safety (located on the left side of the reciever, above and slightly forward of the trigger) by rotating it to ‘F’.  This will allow the slide to be retracted.       Bersa’s come well packed with preservative

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Gunsmith: Most weapons can be rescued from flood Repair process must start as quickly as possible

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Sep 25, 2005 Start Page: 16.D Section: Outdoors   Treasured heirlooms passed from one or more generations. The .410 that takes a man back to his childhood. A Christmas gift that to a teenager meant a first step to adulthood. David Reynerson is hearing those stories

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Checklist for opening day of dove season Safety should be first priority

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Date: Aug 25, 2005 Start Page: 8.E Section: Outdoors     The list isn’t long, at least not when comparing preparations needed for dove hunting with the extensive preps for deer and duck seasons, but there is a checklist for the Sept. 3 dove-season opener. Safety first Firearms experts

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Cleaning key to gun care Now as good a time as any to clean rifle, shotguns

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Dec 9, 2004 Start Page: 12.C Section: Outdoors   OK, so you got the deer, took those ducks, bagged a limit of squirrels and added enough rabbits to the larder for a great, cold- weather sauce piquant. And, the youngsters on Thanksgiving week holiday had

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Zeroing in on the season With deer hunting around corner, now best time to sight-in rifle

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La.   Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Nov 4, 2004 Start Page: 12.C Section: Outdoors   Warning! There are only 16 shopping days left before the hunting season. OK, so hunting seasons have been on since early September, but for thousands of Area 1 and Area 6 hunters, Nov. 20′s opener

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Dove Season opener right around corner

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Aug 26, 2004 Start Page: 10.E Section: Outdoors The countdown is on: LSU football season is just nine days away. So, too, is the opening of the dove season. The days are drawing nigh to an expanse of days, weeks and months that will allow

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It’s time to clean up from hunting season

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Feb 1, 2004 Start Page: 18.C Section: Outdoors Now that deer and duck hunters are talking about their seasons in the past tense, it’s time to start thinking about next year. The season’s not over until you get the stuff safety stowed away so it’ll

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Take time to sight rifle Target tests help determine adjustments

  This Is The Second Of A Two-part Series On Editor Cpm Edition] Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Dec 1, 2002 Start Page: 21.C Section: Outdoors   Properly Sighting a Rifle Series Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on properly sighting in a rifle for the hunting

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Out of sight? Waste of time Taking time to correctly sight rifle means better success in field

  Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Nov 28, 2002 Start Page: 11.C Section: Outdoors Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on properly sighting in a rifle for the hunting season. Been missing lately? Your bullet isn’t finding it’s mark? The guys at the camp are laughing, and

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Store that stuff *** Proper care of hunting equipment key

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Feb 1, 2001 Start Page: 10.C Section: Outdoors Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on caring for equipment between the major hunting seasons. Had a good deer season? How about ducks? These are sad days – indeed – because those seasons are

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