by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
Personal protective equipment is necessary for many activities. We wear seat belts when we drive, helmets when we ride. Power tools require safety glasses. Shooting and hunting require personal protective equipment, and most modern shooters faithfully don ballistic...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
If Henry David Thoreau traveled through time picking up Tom Sawyer and Laura Ingles on the way attend Woodstock together, we’d have a fair representation the village where I grew up. It was the ‘70s and ‘80s as I grew up in a small coastal bush village in Alaska among...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
Suppressors are exploding in popularity because they are a good idea. They were a good idea back when Theodore Roosevelt installed one on his .30-30 to avoid annoying his Long Island neighbors, and they are a good idea today. Silencers are such a good idea that in...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
I grew up around hunters. Not tree-stand-sitting recreational hunters dressed up like the front cover of a Cabella’s catalog, but wilderness hunters in blue jeans and flannel shirts, whose families went without if their hunts were unsuccessful. They were more...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
I was a sworn iron sight hunter. Growing up on a homestead in the wilderness of Alaska, I saw more hunters using iron sights than scopes. I watched my father down deer with iron sights at ranges most hunters with scopes would not have attempted. When I bought a rifle,...
by Dylan Saunders | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
I was wrong. I was dead wrong. I had one of those moments where everything I had believed about something came crashing down. That moment came when I walked into McMillan’s Facility in Phoenix, Arizona. I love walnut and I love maple. I know it’s not modern...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
Hunting rifles have evolved. It is to be expected. History proves that hunting firearms have always followed advances in military small arms technology. For many of us, our hunting rifles are no longer polished blue steel and high-grade walnut. We tend to gravitate to...
by Dylan Saunders | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting, Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
When it comes to lead in bullets, the issue is not environmental pollution, but the pollution of the truth. Obama’s recent ban on lead in the fishing and shooting industries is nothing more than a below-the-belt parting shot at responsible sportsmen and gun...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
What do you get when you cross deer hunting with hog hunting and throw in a Kiwi accent? You get Taranaki wild goat hunting in wild New Zealand! Wild goats in New Zealand are considered invasive and damaging to the native environment, so hunting is largely...
by Dylan Saunders | Wilderness Tactical Hunter - Dylan Saunders
“I can’t shoot this!” She moved her left hand to the grip and wrapped her tiny left index finger around her right finger as she struggled with the trigger. The short rifle struggled with the trigger as well, the unsuppressed .300 Blackout failing to...
