Recent content by jaybird62

I had great luck with Weatherby's newest light-weight 20 gauge turkey gun. Check it out. https://shootingsavvy.com/bantam-boomers-for-bandit-birds/

Perhaps that's all YOU need to know about hunting tight-lipped turkeys, but in my experience there's a little more to it than what you believe to be true. I've opened up a few seasons in a few places over the last 40 years chasing these birds and they've taught me most of what I know. BTW...

Part III in a three-part series on hunting silent toms is on ShootingSavvy.com. Please share with the turkey hunting brother- and sisterhood. https://shootingsavvy.com/why-toms-go-silent-and-how-to-hunt-them-when-they-do-silent-gobblers-part-iii/

I'm resurrecting a 3-part series on hunting tight-lipped turkeys. It was originally published in Turkey Call Magazine in 2000. You might want to add some of these tactics to your hunting, since the TWRA moved the season two weeks later...

I recently published an article about a custom 1911 I had built by Nighthawk Custom. Check it out. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/nighthawk-custom-guns-custom-gun-capabilities-for-a-perfect-build/

Sorry for the lack of clarity. I meant never have and/or never will.

Over the past 20 years we've all seen an increase in media coverage of deer hunting with AR-style rifles. I was wondering just how many hunters on TNDeer actually deer hunt with an AR-15 or AR-10-style rifle.

Well-known outdoors writer and naturalist Dennis Chastain from Pickens, South Carolina shared an phenomenal hunt 30 years ago with me in an article published in November 1992... before there was in Internet. Enjoy. https://shootingsavvy.com/two-heads-are-better-than-one/

This will cure your problems. Built by a guy from Milan, TN. He's my long-time elk hunting buddy. Tell him "Jay" sent you. https://www.riflespeed.com/

Here's the latest on Sturm Ruger's four new guns. https://shootingsavvy.com/celebrating-the-75th-anniversary-of-sturm-ruger-company/

I wrote America's 100 Greatest Guns 10 years ago and decided to start posting it to my blog site. If you get a chance, check it out. https://shootingsavvy.com/kahr-pm9-pistol/

Check out Echo 3 Armory in Chapel Hill https://echo3armoryllc.com/. Rich is the gunsmith, machinist and owner. He's threaded several of my barrels. You might also want to take a look at this article on the Silencer Central Banish Backcountry. My good friend Brent Spicer just posted this review...

The new company that bought Remington Arms finally figured out how to handle the nightmare triggers for the Model 700 rifle. They hired Timney! Check out more.... https://shootingsavvy.com/new-remington-model-700-rifles-now-fitted-with-timney-triggers/

My wife found a first draft of a bowhunting article our son, Wilson, wrote many years ago. She was digging through her recipes this morning and found this gem written on the back of one of them. Go rest high on that mountain, son. https://shootingsavvy.com/a-bowhunters-memorial/

Same old story... the "focal" group met and their solution was to manipulate the human part of the equation in Mississippi, too. Since it's never just one thing that influences wild turkey recruitment, they're going for the lower-hanging fruit and trying to justify it with research. Until...