Last year, Winchester® presented the first “Winchester Legend Award” to six-time Olympic shooting medalist, Kim Rhode. Now, Winchester honors outdoor marketing luminary Marion McCollum of Mack’s Prairie Wings with the presentation of its second Winchester Legend Award. Many stories of success include right place-right time. In the case of Mack’s and the McCollum family, it was virtually […]
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Spring is here – well, at least close to it. One of the absolute most favorite things of mine to do in the spring is to grab a BB gun or .22 pistol or rifle and do some plinking in one of our back fields at the farm. It’s super-cheap, super-fun and gets me primed […]
For the most part, game birds are like buses: Miss one and there’s another coming along soon. That’s not the case with wild turkey. Turkey may represent the one kind of shotgun hunting in which an entire season comes down to a single shot. And to make that shot count demands particular attention to detail. HORNADY FRONTIER 5.56NATO 55GR FMJ […]
We peeled into my father’s driveway with less than two hours of daylight. After a six-hour road trip to his farm in Wisconsin, a dead sprint to the turkey blind with my 5-year old son in tow felt refreshing … and loosened up the joints. We far exceeded the weight limit in hauling gear. Our […]
Regardless of age, sheep hunting in any state isn’t a walk in the park. Some men and women prepare their whole lives for the mountainous endeavor while others have youth on their side. The lure of hunting sheep has an intoxication all its own…really unlike anything I hunt. Hunters will travel great distances to pursue […]
To me, the single most important aspect of adverse hunting is mental toughness. The ability to be wet, cold, sore, tired, and borderline hypothermic and to continue to press on hunting separates the average from the better hunter. This is easier said than done, but eventually you will hit a threshold that either makes you […]
First-time gun owners are often met with an overwhelming amount of information to digest. But what do you need to know to be safe and enjoy your firearms? I’m going to share a few tips on range rules for new gun owners so you can safely start enjoying your range days! GLOCK 17 Gen4 in […]
First-time gun owners have a bright spot to focus on – they are essentially a “clean slate” when it comes to developing safe firearm-handling habits and proper technique. I’m going to share a few tips for each platform: rifle, pistol and shotgun. The goal is for you to use this information to safely start enjoying […]
Team Winchester member, Dania Vizzi has come a long way in a short time. Only in her mid-20s, the Floridian has been claiming junior, national, and world championships. Shooting literally hundreds of days a year, and going through tens of thousands of Winchester AA cartridges in a season, Vizzi has committed not just to memory, […]
It doesn’t matter when or why you decided to join the ranks of law-abiding gun owners; now you’re here, and millions of like-minded Americans welcome you! But merely owning a firearm and being responsible doesn’t magically make you safe. You must develop the necessary attitude, knowledge and skills to be confident and competent if you must use it. But […]