My task was fairly simple: take the new Barnes Harvest Collection ammo, choose a chambering, and test that factory ammo through a value, budget-mided rifle with fitting components, and a more expensive rifle with higher end optics and add-ons to see how it performed. The results were suprising, and might have you rethinking your hunting budget for next season. Every year, as whitetail firearm sea …

In this blog, I’m going to highlight our experiences shooting various muzzleloader bullets.  We’ve harvested many whitetails using muzzleloaders but had less the ideal results before switching to the Barnes Spitfire TMZ. This is how we got there.  By winter of 2017 we at The Hunting Public had harvested multiple bucks with a Thompson Center Impact muzzleloader using various …

I have been putting in for Wyoming points for Mule Deer, Elk and Antelope for 10 years for my 2 boys and I. The goal has always been to hopefully draw some good tags when the time is right so me and my boys can have some fun hunts together. After 10 years of applying, we decided the time was right and we had the necessary points to draw a good unit. In fact, we had enough points we could bring my …

In this blog, I’m going to highlight a couple of hunts where scouting and specific weather conditions played a significant role in creating an opportunity at a mature buck.  Obviously, scouting can take many forms.  E-scouting, off-season scouting, in-season scouting “boots on the ground”, scouting from a vehicle, and so on.   But I’m going to focus specifica …