James Nash

The hind quarter is easily broken down into some really nice and extremely underrated pieces of meat.

The game of shooting is mostly mental, but what we practice the most are the physical elements, hoping that our mind goes along for the ride.

For years, MOA was the more popular of the two in the US, but now 80-90% of competition shooters are using mRad and (finally) more hunters are using mRad than MOA with 55% of Leupold’s sales being mRad.

Absolutely nothing else matters if we can’t hold the rifle steady.

This is how I set up a scope so it can receive the maximum reasonable amount of damage and maintain its zero.

Enter the American-made VF-ORYX 22WMR by Volquartsen. This rifle is an absolute beast. The moment I picked it up, I could sense its precision. The modern design immediately caught my attention, but it was the performance that truly impressed me.

The ammunition I used is made by a family-owned business in the Pacific Northwest called G9 Defense, and if not for the distinctive capabilities of this stuff, I wouldn’t consider trying to kill a 600lb animal with a 10mm. But this ammo doesn’t behave the way other pistol ammo does.

Mule deer are the primary prey base for cougars in Oregon. If cougars exclusively ate mule deer, those 7,000 cats would eat 364,000 mule deer a year.

One of the barracuda turned and started swimming towards me then opened his mouth full of pretty intimidating teeth. The game had just changed.