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Apr 29

Norman Wong Articles (for the eye doctor)

Dr. Norman Wong Articles as posted to the Bullseye List.  Here are a number of articles that will be of interest to both eyecare professional and shooters. http://www.starreloaders.com/edhall/nwongarts.html http://www.bullseyepistol.com/wong.htm

Jan 22

“Off Hand Rifle Shooting” by H.M. Pope

The following has been copied and pasted from International Schuetzenfest. Introduction by Ned Roberts; From about 1888 to the late 1920’s, Harry Pope and Dr. W. G. Hudson were two of the most skillful, most expert offhand riflemen in the United States, and it’s extremely doubtful if there were any riflemen in Germany, Switzerland or …

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Nov 26

Quick and Easy Camp Stove

Here’s a little montage on my quick and easy camp stove. It’s nothing more than a Weber RapidFire Chimney (charcoal starter) and 1/2 of a CanCooker rack, but it works great. Best of all it required no assembly or fabrication, just the purchase of two off-the-shelf products. I went camping/hunting this last weekend after a …

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Nov 14

Squirrel Barking – No, not the sound they make…

Well, this is just fascinating.  Until reading about it in this post at RimfireCentral I’d never heard of the technique of ‘barking squirrels’; that is, how to kill squirrels without hitting ’em. As mentioned in the forum thread, the technique is described fully in a ‘Guns Magazine’ article from April of 1956.  The full magazine …

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Aug 11

JBM – Free Online Ballistics Calculators

JBM has been providing free online ballistics calculators and info for approximately fifteen years.  Here is a starting links to their site:  Calculators, Trajectory Card, Trajectory Card (simplified), Trajectory (drift), and Software Listings.

Aug 03

Derivation of Riflescope Parallax Equation

Derivation of Riflescope Parallax Equation Workbook Click the link below to open/download an Excel (xlsx) workbook that allows you to enter your scope’s values and visually observe on a graph the amount of parallax errors which might be incurred.  The workbook and calculations are derived from the article/post:  “Derivation of Riflescope Parallax Equation” by Michael …

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Jul 29

Aperture (Peep) Sights

Aperture Sights – Parallax Suppression with a Target Rifle Aperture Sight Article on peep sights and the suggestion that sight alignment, in the traditional sense, does not affect the point of aim.  A must-read for those that use peep sights or are debating irons versus optics. Authors:  Robert J. Burdge and Douglas A. Kerr, P.E. …

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