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Barnes Harvest Collection Test: Value Rifle vs. Pricey Rifle

Barnes Harvest Collection Test: Value Rifle vs. Pricey Rifle

Posted by Frank Melloni Jan 13th 2026

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 …
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Top Tips For Choosing The Best Muzzleloader Bullets

Top Tips For Choosing The Best Muzzleloader Bullets

Posted by Aaron Warbritton Oct 27th 2025

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 …
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New Scouting Advice for Whitetails from The Hunting Public

New Scouting Advice for Whitetails from The Hunting Public

Posted by Greg Clements Jul 7th 2025

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 …
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