Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Oct 19, 2000 Start Page: 14.C Section: Outdoors Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about adjustments and care of a rifle to maintain or better accuracy. Have a rifle? Want it to shoot better? Better yet, do you want it
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Oct 12, 2000 Start Page:12.C Section:Outdoors Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on improving accuracy in shooting. It took only a couple of minutes for the diagnosis. David Reynerson stood over the sick patient with instruments enough to effect a cure. It
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Aug 17, 2000 Start Page:12.E Section:Outdoors It’s easy to forget, but if you haven’t check your calendar, then dove season is just 16 days away. The special teal season opens in less than 30 days, and the squirrel and rabbit season is just seven weeks down the
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Date:Aug 17, 2000 Start Page:12.E Section:Outdoors David Reynerson says you should always treat a gun as if it is loaded. Other possession gun-cleaning tips include: . Don’t fool with the trigger mechanism: There are to many small parts. Use solvent to clean barrels: He recommends Hoppe’s No. 9. Run
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Mar 16, 2000 Start Page:12.C Section:Outdoors Camp talk. Humbug, except that this one was a little more serious than the weeks just before the last deer season. It was spring – really late winter – and its a time akin to baseball’s Hot Stove League. You know about
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Dec 24, 1998 Start Page:8.D Section:OUTDOORS Gunsmith David Reynerson’s list of do’s and don’ts for firearms owners is simple, and the first item, he believes, is always the most important, so much so that it hangs outside the door of his shop. “Always treat a firearm as
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Dec 24, 1998 Start Page:1.D Section:OUTDOORS Hundreds, maybe thousands of young Louisianians will remember this Christmas Day for the rest of their lives. It’s the day they found their “Christmas” rifle or shotgun under the tree. It’s a day they’ve looked forward to for a long, long
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Aug 17, 1997 Start Page:20.c Section:Outdoors It was 33 degrees Wednesday night in International Falls, Minn. That’s Fahrenheit, not Centigrade. (Excuse me, my age is showing; centigrade is called “Celsius” these days.) It’s hard to dream about something like that when our heat-index factor – the combination
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ttuAdvocate – Baton Rouge, La. Date: Feb 27, 1997 Start Page: 10.D Section: Outdoors TALKING TURKEY SERIES All shotguns have a cone-shaped wedge in front of the chamber that “forces” the shot into gun’s barrel when the shell is fired. Hence the name “forcing cone.” Forged in the factory, most of these cones are
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Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author: JOE MACALUSO Date: Feb 27, 1997 Start Page: 10.D Section: Outdoors TALKING TURKEY SERIES Editor’s note: This is the second in a weekly series of stories to help hunters get ready for the spring turkey season. Mention turkey hunters and all David Reynerson can do is
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