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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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Straight shooting *** Cleaning barrels key to accuracy

  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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Pulling the trigger *** Best advice: Let experts work on rifle’s mechanism

  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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Clean out your freezer on Sunday

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Sep 21, 2000 Start Page:14.C Section:Outdoors   The sixth-annual Hunters for the Hungry Committee “Clean Out Your Freezer Day” comes up Sunday, and the group has set a lofty goal. “Last year was our best ever. We collected 14,000 pounds of game and fish on one day, and

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Time to consider cleaning guns

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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Time to consider cleaning guns *** CHECKLIST

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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Know your gun before you go

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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Taking aim *** Competition fierce, course challenging at Governor’s Sporting Clays Shoot

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Oct 21, 1999 Start Page:10.C Section:Outdoors   All Steve Pol could do was wipe his brow and let loose a whistle. “I hope the ducks are easier to hit than some of these targets,” Pol said after tackling the “Teal in the Morning” station, one of 14 in

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Safety should be first priority for turkey hunters

Advocate – Baton Rouge, La. Author:JOE MACALUSO Date:Mar 25, 1999 Start Page:1.C Section:Outdoors  Right about now there are thousands of Louisianians for whom Saturday morning won’t get here quick enough. They are turkey hunters, and Saturday’s season opener in State Areas A and C are as long-awaited a date as any on the hunting calendar.

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Safety first for Christmas *** Rule No. 1: “Always treat a firearm as if it is loaded”

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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