Innehållsförteckning för February 2017 från Gun Digest

Big game season may be over, but you don’t have to hang up your guns yet. No matter where you live, you’ve got another excuse for spending time outdoors with a rifle in your hands: predators. Southern coyotes, western bobcats and eastern foxes all offer hunting opportunities beyond big game seasons. Even better, you’ll help young deer, elk, antelope and small game make it through the gauntlet of predators by thinning those meat eaters out. You’ll need some specialized gear, though. The good news is that gun and ammo makers have fine-tuned their products just for punching holes in predators. Even better, countless high-quality accessories are available to help you have a more productive, more enjoyable and more exciting hunt. 1 WINCHESTER VARMINT X .17 AND .22 HORNET Made specifically…

Whether hunting coyotes in Wyoming or pursuing foxes in the the East, one of the most vital tools you can have is a quality call to bring in predators. Anybody who has ever looked into buying predator calls knows there are tons of options. While many are leaning toward electronic calls these days, a good hand-held reed call can still work wonders on predators. The new Ambush Predator Call from Knight & Hale is one such example. Featuring an open reed design, the Ambush is a two-in-one predator call that produces sounds as the user inhales and exhales. This allows callers to create both high-pitched squeals of smaller prey species, as well as deeper distress sounds for larger prey. As if that wasn’t enough, the Ambush Predator Call can replicate…

Black rifles matter. In fact, the AR-15 is likely the most popular firearm in America today. According to research by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), “30 percent of all Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) owners purchased their first rifle in 2009 or 2010.” Those millions of new AR-15 owners are eager for more trigger time and need plenty of ammo to continue feeding their hungry rifles. Data from the NSSF also indicates that MSR owners consider accuracy and reliability to be the two most important things to consider when buying an AR-15. With its slogan, “Accurate. Deadly. Dependable.” Hornady manufacturing has been loading quality ammo for rifle owners since 1949. Considering the bonanza of AR-15 sales over the past decade, Hornady’s new Black line of ammunition suited specifically for Modern…

Not so long ago, the notion of bringing a Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) into the field as a serious hunting tool seemed like a highly foreign concept. Indeed, over most of the 20th century, the hunting woods were almost exclusively the domains of traditional bolt- or lever-action rifles. These rifles sported a classic wooden stock that may or may not have been scratched up, depending on how often they were used; if their owners cared more about practicality than looks, some might also have featured synthetic stocks. And there might have even been a few traditionally designed semi-autos. But an AR-15 or similar gun used as a hunting rifle? Unlikely. Of course, this has changed tremendously in recent years. The market for AR-style rifles has flourished over the past decade…

On a whitetail hunt at the JL Bar Ranch in Texas two years ago, I tagged out early and my guide asked if I was interested in spending the remaining mornings and evenings calling gray fox on the far side of the ranch. The cover was thick over there, he said, and since there were no deer hunters on that side of the property we wouldn’t blow anyone’s chances at a big buck. I should have been working—I had a deadline looming, I clearly remember—but I simply couldn’t pass on an opportunity to hunt predators in a new part of the country. I was glad that I took him up on the offer. We hadn’t been set up for more than two minutes when the first gray appeared, almost literally,…