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Born Ballistic
It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of Robert “Bob” Nosler, on September 2, 2025, at the age of 79.Bob devoted his life to carrying forward the innovation and spirit of Nosler, building on the foundation laid by his father, John A. Nosler. From his early days on the production floor to…
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Hunting Bushbuck
When I knew I was going back to hunt bushbuck, I put a Sig Sauer Whiskey 5 scope on the old Winchester Model 70. I would shoot a 150-grain Nosler Partition bullet in the 270 Winchester. With the Sig’s oversize objective and battery powered reticle, I figured I would have the edge in quick shooting.…
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Knives we take to Africa
Three days before I boarded the plane for South Africa, I got a call from Jim Allen, of Three Sisters Forge, in Bend, Oregon. Jim said he wanted to loan me a knife to take along. This particular blade had already seen action in Afghanistan. Now it was headed back into harm’s way. It was…
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Blackpowder and the ‘Beest
I pulled my hat down and turned my coat collar up against the chill of the winter morning. 32 degrees Fahrenheit. By midday, the temperature would reach 90. Hannes Steyn, our professional hunter, reached down from the observation tower of the Land Cruiser and took my rifle, then reached out a hand to pull…
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Boomtown Rats
The Rat Squeaker speaketh: Sage rat hunting in eastern Oregon.
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Double Rifles “On Safari” in the High Desert
Prepping for a hunt in Africa on static, moving and charging targets back home
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Sage Rats from the Second Story
One study showed that a single sage rat will eat 14.55 pounds of alfalfa between green-up and the first cutting in June. The sage rat is an eating machine and when they are not eating, they spend their time making more sage rats. Females give birth to a litter of five to eight pups, which…
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A Tale of Three Takedown 22s
Out in the flatlands east of beyond, the shoots of green grass are shouldering through the stubble. Down in their dens, the Belding’s ground squirrels are astir. It won’t be long before sage rats are perched atop their mounds in the spring sunlight. There are a lot of ways to deal with this pest of…
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Hunting Hares Without a Hound
The pines were planted in rows and trimmed up to chest height. To see for any distance we had to bend at the waist or kneel and peer ahead. We were on the edge of a hay field, about a quarter of a mile from fields of alfalfa and oats. Rabbit hunts are the same…
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Bushytails on the Barlow Trail
We turned off the pavement and onto a gravel road and then turned left on another road that wound through stands of pine and oak. Tree roots stuck out into the dirt track and we bumped along, headed west toward Mount Hood shrouded in the clouds. Before there was a Highway 26 that crossed the…