The Adventures of Rizzo: August 2014

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Western Whitetail article: Silence is Golden

The new issue of Western Whitetail is out (Early Season 2014), and my "Make The Shot" column in this issue takes a look at why using silencers/suppressors for hunting is a huge benefit to everyone, including those who don't like suppressors or don't own any (yet). You can read the article in full by clicking here or on the image of the first page below.

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Happy (Silent) Hunting!

Sunday, August 10, 2014

An Oldie But A Goodie: Coyote takes Cat from backyard in Scottsdale, AZ in broad daylight

It's 4 years old, but interesting nonetheless. Just another reason that coyotes need to be thinned out as much as possible, though it seems to be a fight we'll never win.

Video imbed wouldn't work for this one, so you'll have to click the link. The comments below the video are priceless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXYOvqt48VE

Happy Hunting!

Great Outdoors Quotes

In our emasculate age, it is considered uncouth to confess to anything resembling a killer instinct. Yet such a thing does exist, and it is worth study. It is fashionable to protest that one does not hunt in order to kill, as with Ortega y Gasset, yet if one does not kill, hunting is emotionally unsatisfying. This is why some people hunt and others do not. I think it is ingenuous to protest that the killer instinct is evil. Man is a carnivorous predator - you have but to look to his teeth - and though very few men now need to hunt for their food, a good many men do need to hunt for emotional fulfillment. This is not evil. It is as natural as the enjoyment of good food, great art, and fine music. To deny this is simply to look foolish. I know many shooters who are not hunters, and I do not think less of them for this. I know a surprising number of hunters who are not shooters, and while I think this is peculiar, I do not think it is wicked. I must admit that today in my declining years my bloodlust has slackened, but this has no moral significance for me. Even today I hunt whenever I can, and I often play catch-and-release by snapping in on an empty chamber. The fact remains, however, that there is such a thing as a killer instinct, and it is neither to be extolled nor condemned. In my own family there are those who are true killers and those who are not, and I love them equally. Judging from my own experience (which is a thing one never ought to do) I feel that those without the killer instinct lead somewhat diminished lives, as do people who are tone deaf or color blind, but I think we should drop psychological pretense in this matter, and face facts as they are. I happen to relish chili very much, but I do not demand that you do. It is not a moral issue. - Col. Jeff Cooper
We do not 'harvest' or 'take' or 'reduce to possession' in our sport. We kill. Dress it up anyway you want, but we pursue white-tailed deer with the intent of ending their lives. - Walt Hampton
Personal field testing trumps everything despite what Field and Stream says, your degree of perceived manhood, and what your buddies think. - Greg Williams
The Woods were my Ritalin. – Richard Louv

The Adventures of Rizzo

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Western Whitetail article: Silence is Golden

Sunday, August 10, 2014

An Oldie But A Goodie: Coyote takes Cat from backyard in Scottsdale, AZ in broad daylight

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