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Archive: July 2011

Growing Future Shooters

Sunday, July 31, 2011
Written by Ann Kercheville
Categories: Ann Kercheville

It’s late morning on a Saturday in mid-July at Joshua Creek Ranch and seems unusually still and quiet after being abuzz day and night for the past week with high-energy active teenage guests.  The JCR staff performs post-guest clean-up dutifully, but with the help of some extra young people. All are anxious to be done with their work and on with enjoying some time off after a very intense week of managing the busy itinerary of the group that just departed.  What’s been going on the prior week has become one of my favorite activities at the ranch…the Youth Outdoor Adventure Program (YOAP).

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So You Want to Buy an Old English Side by Side?

Sunday, July 24, 2011
Written by Nick Sisley
Categories: Guns

At the expense of incurring the wrath of all the shotgun manufactures I test guns for – this is written in stone – a new gun price depreciates significantly the moment you sign on the dotted line for the sale. Walk out the showroom door with a new smoothbore, try to sell it the next day, the next week or the next month and you are going to see that the new gun is worth considerably less than what you paid for it. This isn’t a completely bad thing for there’s a lot that can be considered rewarding to buying and shooting a new gun.

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Shooting Michael McIntosh’s Legendary AYA at the Southern Side by Side

Sunday, July 10, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Guns

The 12th Annual Southern Side by Side Championship & Exhibition Spring Classic provided an extraordinary opportunity to shoot a round robin of highly coveted shotguns, of which Michael McIntosh’s AYA Nº 2 was certainly the most prominent.
Conceivably the best writer about fine shotguns of his generation, Mr. McIntosh forged a path of elegant and insightful books and magazine articles that made his readers gush with pride as fellow shotgun owners.

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Thank You, Bill Clinton

Friday, July 01, 2011
Written by Ann Kercheville
Categories: Ann Kercheville

Who but the taxing authority that devised it would ever consider a retroactive tax rate increase a good thing?  Certainly not a conservative thinker like myself.  But such a thing actually happened back when President Clinton retroactively increased federal income tax rates in 1993.  As the president made law with the stroke of his pen, the leader of our household declared we would NOT pay additional taxes, but instead we would work less and vacation more.  That sounded like a great plan to me, as the prior few years had seen very little vacationing for our family since the opening of our year-round hunting/shooting resort.  Some quick calculations determined that a month of vacationing would net us the same tax burden as the old tax rates, so destinations became the next order of business.

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Ptarmigan in Canada

Friday, July 01, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotgun Journal

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Crow Hunting

Friday, July 01, 2011
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Shotgun Journal

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