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Hunting for All Seasons 4Shotgun season isn’t just for fall anymore. Hunting with the Model 870® is a year-round proposition, with some unusual quarries.

Silencers: The Silent Preyer 12Legal to own, legal to hunt with across most of the country, today’s silencers provide safety, comfort, increased accuracy, and greater hunting opportunities.

Inertia vs. Gas 16A century old, semi-auto shotguns came of age in ’63 and underwent their biggest revolution a few years ago, thanks to Remington’s engineers.

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T he place to start is a pecan grove.

Pecans are one of the favorite foods of the common crow–actually the American crow,

Corvus brachyrhynchos; and the crow is one of the biggest depredators with which

commercial pecan growers have to contend, creating some great shooting opportunities.

Some years ago I hunted crows Down South in a grove of pecans with a guide, decoys, a

blind, crow calls, and my Remington Model 870® Wingmaster®. Most crow hunters rely on

recreating a fighting situation, in which a mob, or murder (you can look it up), of crows flocks in to

swarm some mortal enemy, such as an owl. Hunters will use an owl decoy (there was a time past

when a live owl was used) and fighting calls, which can bring in a furious but brief blizzard of birds,

and some fast shooting. In the pecans we wanted the crows to come in a few at a time, intending

to land among a spread of crow decoys on the ground, responding to attention and confidence calls.

Hunted this way, the crows arrived in twos and threes, maple leafing down through the trees like

greenheads dropping into flooded timber, giving us a full morning of steady shooting without having

to change positions. It was also wild wingshooting we could do a good month after almost all the

other bird-hunting seasons had closed.

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For too many hunters, shotgun hunting subdivides into

doves in September, pheasants in October, ducks and geese

in November, and bobwhites in December. Then the guns go

back in the safe until it’s time to shoot clays in the summer with

the likes of the Remington Model 870® Wingmaster®

Classic Trap. In fact, it doesn’t take very much looking

around to discover that there is game to be pursued well into

the spring, if a hunter will expand his or her horizons, and not

even as far as crows.

One option, of course, is preserve hunting. Many

preserves remain open at least through March, and some

beyond, so a hunter can shake off some of that winter rust or

show a new dog a generous number of pheasants and chukars,

or maybe quail. Some preserves even offer the end-of-season

chance to clean up, at a good price, on the birds left over from

the season’s hunts.

For wild birds, the number of late-season goose hunts

are growing from east to west and north to south. California

has a goose season, including Canadas, going into March, while

across the country in New York there is hunting for Canada

geese into March as well, with snow-goose seasons running

into April. Head up to South Dakota and you can hunt snows,

blues, and Rosses into May; and Louisiana has hunting for light

geese in March. C. J. Brown, founder of Remington Country

Outfitters (www.remingtoncountryoutfitters.com)

recommends a hunt, that can be viewed at Arkansas Ducks

and Snows, where you can use your Remington Model

870® Express® Super Mag Waterfowl Camo for

geese well into April.

Mexico has late-season hunting for snow geese on the

Central Flyway, and for black brant on the Pacific side of the

Baja Peninsula, while in March on the Yucatan Peninsula, the

teal hunting is considered exceptional. For a hunter willing to

put in some air miles, there is also wingshootng to be found in

South America during our spring and summer, in countries such

as Argentina and Uruguay. For doves this is the best time of

year in Argentina, and the duck season opens in April, when a

hunter could hunt dove and duck.

Another kind of wingshooting to look at is for non-

game species such as rock pigeons and Eurasian collared doves.

Everything listed above is edible, even crow (marinate the

breasts in Dale’s Seasoning and grill). Feral pigeons and doves,

though, especially if they have been feeding on seeds and

grains, have the added benefit of actually being good to eat,

and in many areas there is no closed season on either or a bag

limit. Check your regulations.

Not everything that a hunter may point his Remington

Model 870® at this time of year has to have wings. Now, in

Maine (CLICK HERE), is a great season for hunting snowshoe

hares with dogs. Snowshoe, or “varying,” hares are found

along the northern tier of the continental United States and up

into Canada. A large hare, females being bigger than males,

might reach four pounds and leap more than 10 feet in a single

bound. They get their name from their oversized rear feet, for

going over snow, and the white color they turn in the winter.

Hunting for hares and rabbits in general is open widely

all across the country, whether you use dogs (beagles being the

dog of choice, of course) or simply still-hunt them. There are

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also several open squirrel seasons of which to take advantage;

and hunting with dogs–especially traditional fice dogs–is another

variation on squirrels. For this kind of hunting, with a lot of

chasing after dogs or simply walking the woods, a nice light

20-gauge, like the 26-inch-barreled Model 870® Express®

at 6¼ pounds, would be in order.

For all the exceptional wingshooting we may do in the

fall and winter, there is something in this off-season hunting that

speaks to our roots in small game and finding what opportunities

might lie in our own backyards. Which can only bring to mind

that gun with which so many of us started out.

In continuous production for to more than 60 years, with

more than 12 million turned out, the Remington Model 870®,

while applying the advancements in technology, has maintained

the same standards as it followed in 1950. It is still made in Ilion,

New York, and is “born” in the words of Michael Vrooman (VRO-

man), Remington’s product manager for shotguns, out of a single,

nine-pound steel billet, from which the receiver is machined, just

as it always has been.

To honor that legacy, and to “celebrate the history of the

Model 870®,” says Vrooman–Remington has introduced, new

for 2014, a classically styled Remington Model 870®–along

with the a newly vintage Remington Model 1100™.

Built in 12 and 20 gauges, the new gun brings forward

the style of the Model 870® of more than a generation ago,

while upgrading beyond what was standard for the time. So

the wood is handsome B-grade walnut. Gold-filled machine-cut

engraving of hunting scenes lies on each side of the receiver.

White spacing returns to the line around the recoil pad, which

is the well-remembered orange, ventilated style; and a white

diamond is back on the grip cap of the stock. Retro high-polish

blue finish completes the nostalgic look.

This makes the classic Remington Model 870®

something of a time machine for when we happily hunted what

we had for every season. We can know, though, that we now

have a gun that looks and

shoots as well as the ones we

remember from back then,

and likely does both even

better.

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Remington Model

WoodOne of the features of the new

Remington Model 870® is the fine

walnut used in the stock. Wood is graded

according to the amount of “figuring”–

an attractive patterning in the wood

that in some trees can result, ironically,

from infestations of parasites, such

as fungus and insects, in the wood

when it was alive. The more figuring

throughout the blank from which the

stock is fashioned, the higher the grade.

The B-grade walnut used in the Model

870® would be a high mid-range.

How Remington obtained this

quality wood came about

through a partnering

with MidwayUSA.

Remington offered to make

a substantial donation to a

gun cause, in response to

which, Midway supplied

Remington with the

walnut it needed to

stock its new Model

870®.

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he growing

plague of feral

hogs across the

land has led to

a broadening of

hunting regula-

tions in order to

combat it, including the increasing use of

silencers. There are parts of the country

where hogs can legally be hunted at night

and even from aircraft, and the silencer

is the perfect adjunct to those hunting

situations. Imagine a herd of destructive

pigs rooting up a beet or other crop field.

Now, a hunter at night, with his night-

vision optics and a silencer, can selectively

take out one pig after another, each shot

barely disturbing the rest of the herd as

the shooter goes about his business. With

a silencer, a hog has neither the sound

nor the flash of the shot to locate on, and

so really doesn’t know where to go to

escape, and probably doesn’t understand

what has happened to the fellow pig that

has fallen beside it, allowing the hunter

to make multiple kills out of a band of

depredating hogs, in order to try to keep

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them in check. The advantages of a

silencer in hunting don’t end there, either.

What is a silencer? We think

we know. In many of our minds, it is

one of those tools we associate with the

tradecraft of espionage, usually screwed

onto the muzzle of a Makarov pistol in the

hands of a SMERSH agent, who steps out

from a darkened doorway to phutt-phutt

his unfortunate target. A silencer, though

(and the other term for it is a “sound

suppressor” or a “can” to some, because

of its shape), is nothing more sinister than

a device that functions essentially like a

muffler on an automobile.

The silencer, patented in 1908

by Hiram Percy Maxim, son of the

great firearms innovator of the 19th

century, works by providing a controlled

environment that allows the gases of a

gunshot to expand and cool before exiting

into the air, creating less energy and noise.

The lessening of energy is about the blast

and not about the propellant power of the

powder driving the bullet from the barrel.

A silencer does not decrease the velocity

of a bullet. In fact, in its way, it creates

It may be a hog’s worst friend.

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Inertia is a polite way of saying recoil. The effort to create a firearm action that could fire, eject, reload, and recock with each pull of the trigger (and this needs to be differentiated from the fully automatic action used in machine guns that fire as long as the trigger is depressed, and the magazine does not run out of ammunition) goes back to the late 1800s, mostly focusing on pistols and rifles.

A semi-auto fires

manually, and

loads automatically,

which sometimes

leads to its being

called an “auto-

loading” firearm,

while an automatic firearm continues to

fire, unload, reload, and fire again, after

a single pull of the trigger. For more

than one hundred years, the semi-auto-

matic actions of shotguns operated on

a system that used the entire recoil of

the firearm when it was fired to cycle the

action. It was a matter of brute force,

with all the mechanical elegance of a

hammer on an anvil.

The earliest semi-auto action in

shotguns is known as the “long-recoil

action.” The system operates with

the barrel and bolt remaining locked

together and moving backward when

the gun is fired (seen in slow motion, the

bolt and barrel move a few inches during

recoil and the bolt locks at the rear,

while springs compressed in the process

push the barrel back forward, the bolt

unlocking when the barrel returns to is

original position). When a long-recoil

action operates, all of the energy goes

into the movement of the firearm, so

there is no net reduction of the kick.

What you shoot is what you get.

This recoil-action was state

of the art in semi-autos for half a

century. Then in 1963 came a change in

autoloading shotguns that was a night

and day advance over inertia. That was

the year of the introduction of the gas-

operated Remington® Autoloading

Model 1100™, which has gone on

to be the largest selling autoloader in

shotgun history, an estimated 4 million

having been purchased. Gas-operated

guns bleed off some of the high-pressure

gas from the burning of the powder in

the cartridge. Directed through ports

into a chamber, the gas drives an “action

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sleeve” to open the bolt, and to complete

all the steps of unloading, cocking, and

reloading.

The 1100 became famed for

its reliability and durability, as embodied

in the use of a machined-steel receiver

and steel parts in the action (rather than

aluminum and plastic used in some other

systems), which do add weight, though

that is not as much of a deficiency as

might be imagined. The weight of the

steel helped to dampen the recoil, on

what is already a milder-shooting action

than the inertia.

For all the revolutionary, for the

time, features of the 1100, it still faced

the question of how different shotshells

worked in it. This was nothing new

over the inertia action; and though gas-

operated systems are major improvements

over recoil, the first ones could still have

problems accepting varied cartridges.

Semi-auto pistols and rifles had

the advantage of operating on a standard

cartridge, and so could be purpose built,

whether the M1 Garand for the 30-

06 Springfield or the Model 1911 (the

Remington® Model 1911 R1™ one

of the newest versions of that classic

pistol) for the 45 Auto. A semi-auto

shotgun, though, had to be able to accept

charges and payloads from light target

loads (such as ¾ of an ounce of No. 7½

shot in the Remington® Premier®

Nitro Gold Sporting Clays Target

Loads) to heavy pheasant (like 1 ³/8

ounces of No. 4s in Remington® Nitro

Pheasant® Loads) or waterfowl

cartridges (such as 1¼ ounces of BBs in

Remington® Waterfowl Loads). In

the gas-operated system, this involved a

relief valve so that excess pressure could

be bled off.

Two decades after the Model

1100 came a significant advance in semi-

auto technology in the Remington®

Autoloading Model 11-87™.

The 11-87 was self-compensating–to a

greater degree than seen on the Model

1100 upon which it is based–allowing

for the use of both 2¾- and 3-inch shells

without having to make any adjustments

to the gun. It provided true dependability,

permitting a shooter and hunter to use it

one day at the trap and skeet range, and

the next in the duck blind or quail field,

just by changing the cartridges to suit the

conditions. And the gas operation, as on

the Model 1100, provided a reduction

in recoil, allowing the hunter or target

shooter to shoot more comfortably,

longer.

The biggest breakthrough in gas-

operated actions, rivaling the magnitude

of the change from inertia actions,

occurred in 2010 with the introduction

of the Remington® Autoloading

VERSA MAX® shotgun. The Versa

Max® carried the concept of the self-

compensating semi-auto action to a new

level.

In its way, the system is

ingeniously simple. The self-cleaning

Versaport® gas-piston system uses seven

ports to power itself, and the length of

the shell to regulate the action. With a

2¾-inch shell, all of the ports come into

play to drive the action. Move up to the

higher powered 3-inch shell, and the

cartridge length engages only four of the

ports. Then with 3½-inch loads, just three

of the ports come into play, to move twin

pistons only ³/8 of an inch.

The result of this is, for the

shooter, an action that cycles at a

comparable rate from shell length to shell

length, and a felt recoil that also remains

relatively the same. No longer does a

shooter have to expect that moving from

a target to a magnum hunting load is

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going to result in a concomitant increase

in recoil. Nor does he have to worry

about different shells bringing about

jamming or short chucking, the Versa

Max® affording predictably similarly

cycling whatever is fed into it.

The Versa Max® offers other

very definite advantages over previous

gas-operated systems, and certainly

over recoil actions. Other semi-autos

did, in some cases, make provisions for

different length shells, but required their

being partially disassembled and toggles

thrown between shells. With the Versa

Max®, simply loading the shell, whether

2¾ or 3½, makes the adjustment by

itself. The Versa Max® is self-cleaning,

meaning that a shooter does not need

to fixate on maintenance for fear of

malfunctioning, with routine care

enough. And the recoil is certainly softer,

the 12 gauge feeling like a 20 against

the shoulder. Plus, gases relieved off the

pistons after cycling are vented upward,

helping to modify muzzle rise, and so

letting the shooter remain on target for

any follow-up.

With the Versa Max® a hunter

may now begin at the range with target

loads, then move to the field, with light

dove loads, for the early season, then

moving up to Remington® ShurShot®

Heavy Dove Loads for later, higher-

flying birds, without experiencing any

appreciable change in recoil or cycling.

Or simply hand a Versa Max® to a fellow

hunter in a duck blind and let him try it

with Remington® Waterfowl Loads and

find that the effect is far different from

other gas-operated semi-auto actions or

the old sledgehammer performance of

inertia operated. Not to mention much

more pleasurable.

Think about it, starting off the

waterfowl hunting with steel No. 4s in

2¾ shells for teal, then moving up to No.

2 3 inch as the big ducks begin putting

on more fat and feathers and start to

become decoy shy. Finally, at the end

of the year, or when the geese arrive,

loading 3½-inch BBs, all in the same

gun without any noticeable difference in

recoil or cycling, fulfilling the promise of

one semi-auto shotgun for all seasons.

Like the Boy Scout motto, a

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conditions he finds in the field with just

one gun and some different shells in each

pocket of his game vest. Just don’t have

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can be loaded with 3-inch pheasant loads for those birds that get up 30 or 40 yards ahead. Finally, there are 3½-inch Remington®

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the product of special powders and the unique features of the Remington Xelerator® Wad®. The first is a two-stage ignition system

in which a chamber in the wad rests over the primer, so that at ignition, wad and shot column move forward in the chamber before

the main load of powder ignites. This starts the shot with less pressure and creates more room for the powder to burn, so it has more

power. The result is 1700 feet-per-second muzzle velocity, the fastest there is, meaning a half-body-length lead advantage on a duck

over conventional steel-shot loads.

A mallard can fly at 60 miles per hour, while a teal, thought to be the fastest duck, only reaches about 30. A canvasback was once clocked at 72.

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When you get it, you want

to keep it. That’s how

the old mountain men

and Native Americans

felt about the game they

hunted. From the begin-

ning, hunters have looked

for ways of preserving and storing the meat they could not con-

sume at the site of a kill; and that consumption could be consider-

able, an Indian hunter reported to have been capable of eating 20

pounds of fresh buffalo at one time. Drying and smoking were two

of the most basic methods of saving food; and the beaded, rawhide

parfleche was the original food-storage bag. Davy Crockett’s fame

as a bear hunter grew out of his need to stockpile meat for winter,

which he did by literally “salting away” the scores of black bear he

took each year.

Drying, smoking, and salting have been vastly improved

upon by the use of freezing and vacuum packing. The key to those

methods start, though, with the proper handling of the game

from the moment of the kill. Charlie Palmer, for example, is an

unshakeable believer in eviscerating wild birds and packing them

in ice as soon as possible after they are retrieved, to chill them

down. (A good tool for cleaning birds is the Remington Heritage

870™ Series R-11 Upland knife, by the way.)

Charlie Palmer is, of course, the famed, award-winning

chef, as well as a restaurateur (including New York’s landmark

Aureole), hotelier, television personality, and author of

numerous cookbooks, such as Great American Food and

Charlie Palmer’s Practical Guide to the New American

Kitchen, and his latest, the 272-page Remington

FOOD STORAGE TIPS FROM CHARLIE PALMER

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The key is the proper handling of the game from the moment of the kill.

– Charlie Palmer, Award Winning Chef

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FOOD STORAGE TIPS FROM CHARLIE PALMER

Camp Cooking with more than a hundred tested recipes

out of, and for, the hunting and fishing camp, along with

40 classic full-color illustrations from the Remington Arms

Company Art Collection.

Palmer, who describes his cooking style as

“Progressive American” cuisine, is an avid hunter and angler

dating back to his days chasing rabbits with dogs as a boy

in Smyrna, New York; and he is as capable of navigating a

campfire as a cooking range. He’s pursued deer and other big

game since he was 14, and is profoundly aware of the care

and respect a carcass is due, especially if a hunter hopes to

create something delicious out of that carcass and put it on

the table. Palmer’s message about how to handle wild birds

is essentially the same for all game, big and small. And the

added message is that there are a lot of

misconceptions about the proper ways to

handle meat.

Take the idea that hanging

a carcass with the hide on in normal

temperatures will help “age” the meat.

According to Palmer, this is simply “the

most unsanitary way to handle game.”

After skinning (most easily accomplished

while the animal still retains its natural

body heat), washing, wiping, and drying

the chest cavity, and quartering the

carcass, the meat may be hung in a cool

or refrigerated room and chilled down–40˚

F is generally considered the threshold

for keeping meat. Doing otherwise is an

invitation to bacteria growth.

The cooling process can begin even before big game

is brought in from the field. The first step is to dress the

animal (and a knife like the Remington Heritage 700™

Series RH-21 Big-Game Drop Point is a good choice for the

job), opening it the full length of the body up to the windpipe

(if there are no plans to take the head skin for a taxidermied

mount, and removing all the intestines. If the weather is

warm), gallon storage bags or empty plastic milk jugs, filled

with water and frozen solid, can be placed inside the body

cavity to chill the carcass down without creating an excessive

amount of meltwater.

Once chilled, the next step would be to package the

meat. For decades the best product for that was freezer paper,

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Tips For Packing Spices

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Enjoy Charlie Palmer’s Practical

Guide to the New American

Kitchen, and his latest, the

272-page Remington Camp

Cooking with more than 100

tested recipes out of, and for,

the hunting and fishing camp,

along with 40 classic full-color

illustrations from the Remington

Arms Company Art Collection.

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Woodducks by Beecham from the Remington Arms Company Art Collection

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then plastic wrap. Those have now been replaced, in terms of greatest effectiveness, by the

several vacuum food-storage systems on the market.

We may need oxygen to survive; but without proper protection against oxygen, meat

can, like iron, and because of the iron in it, oxidize and begin to break down microbiologically,

turning rancid. Even when frozen, or especially so, and in a non-airtight package, the exposed

meat will oxidize and dehydrate and turn that lovely shade and texture of gray leather. Freezer

burn is not toxic, just disgusting.

The best thing to do with any game meat is to eat it without freezing it. A limit

of breasted doves, in many hunters’s humble opinions, should never be put in a freezer but

cooked within a few days of being killed. If a hunter, though, has a three-day possession limit

of pheasants or ducks, or a deer or pronghorn, and certainly an elk, then there is nothing to

be done but to freeze the amount that cannot be eaten in the first few days after the hunt.

And with the modern home-storage systems available on the market today, an excellent job of

preserving game meat can be achieved.

Charlie Palmer feels that only if something is going to be cooked whole, like a bird

or small game, should it be frozen whole. Even with birds and small game, a hunter should

think about how he is going to use the carcass and break it down accordingly. That may mean

taking the breasts and packaging them together to freeze, and freezing the legs in another

package–the legs benefiting from different cooking methods from the breasts, like being brined

and slow braised, for instance. Or with a rabbit or hare, removing the saddle and deboning it

before freezing for future pan frying; or using the meat from the front quarters for pasta sauce

or chili. The remaining bones from birds and small game can be frozen for later use in making

stock or a sauce or gravy or end up in something like a jambalaya.

Palmer recalls someone’s once having given him a whole rack of antelope loin.

Unfortunately, the rib ends had perforated the freezer wrap, allowing the meat to burn. If

the loin had first been removed from the bones and trussed and frozen, it could have been

defrosted without any freezer burn and cooked whole. Or it might have been cut into boneless

chops and sealed up in the correct number for the people it would be serving, maybe two or

four chops per package.

Breaking down and butchering game before freezing also gives a hunter the chance to

inspect the carcass and trim away the tallowy fat from deer meat or all the bloodshot portions

or wiping any loose hairs that can leave a “gamey” taste. With birds, he can pick out as much

of the shot as he can, along with all those little feathers that get stuck through the skin by

the shot. By preparing cuts or grinding the meat or packaging it for stews or chilis, a hunter is

more likely to use the game before it spends too long in the freezer (and there is a limit to how

long meat should be kept frozen before cooking, generally no more than six months, if it is truly

airtight).

Once vacuum-wrapped meat has been placed in the freezer and frozen, it is better not

to disturb it too much afterward before taking it out, because ice crystals inside the packaging

can pierce the plastic bag and let drying air in. And it is always a good idea to label the

package with the type, cut of meat, and the date it was put into the freezer, to separate the

sheep from the goats. Or the whitetail from the mule deer.

Continued from page 23

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the finest target crown a firearm can

have, increasing accuracy, as well

has suppressing the muzzle flash,

concealing the source of the shot.

The mythology of the

silencer as a somehow clandestine

and criminal device arises out of the

federal government’s decision to

include it under the National Firearms

Act of 1934 that grew out of the era

of John Dillinger and Public Enemies

and regulated the sale and possession

of automatic weapons. Some may

not realize that the 1934 act never

outlawed the purchase and possession

of “machine guns,” nor of silencers. It

merely created a licensing system for

owning them. Today in 39 states, it is

legal to have a licensed silencer. It is

also legal in 30 of those states to hunt

big game with a silencer, and varmints-

only in two others (the American

Suppressor Association has a

list of states that permit possession of,

and hunting with, silencers, or click on

“Gun Laws” at the NRA).

The process for obtaining

a silencer, contrary to some popular

opinion, is fairly straightforward, if

not immediate. To own a silencer

in one of the 39 states where it is

legal, you must be 21 or older, a legal

resident of the United States, and be

eligible to purchase a firearm. Next,

you need to locate a Class 3 firearms

dealer who trades in silencers. He

should be able to supply you with the

necessary federal

Form 4s that must

be completed in

duplicate. Then with the signature of

your chief of police, sheriff, or other

like law-enforcement official on the

backs of the forms verifying your clean

record, two sets of fingerprint cards,

passport photos affixed to the forms,

and the all-important one-time (per

silencer) $200 transfer-tax check,

submit it all to the Department of

the Treasury and be prepared to wait

60 to 120 days for approval (go to

silencer manufacturer Advanced

Armament Corporation’s AAC

CanU site for full details of the

purchase process). Once you have your

silencer, carry a copy of the paperwork

with you and you can use your silencer

in your state, and any other where

possession and use is legal.

Some people believe that by

owning a silencer, they are opening

themselves up to unannounced

appearances of the BATFE at their

door. There is nothing in owning

a silencer, though, that supersedes

anyone’s protections against unlawful

search and seizure. It doesn’t put

you on anyone’s radar, anymore than

owning a car makes you a target of the

DMV.

Out of all the dark

associations swirling around silencers,

the question arises, why would you

own one? To which the other question

may be asked, why wouldn’t you?

Let’s speak of the first benefit

of a silencer, if you are still able to

hear me. Many of us, alas, grew up

in an era before most people thought

about the permanent damage being

done to their hearing by muzzle blast.

All those tiny hairs, or “cilia,” that

detect sound for our ears are broken if

exposed to unmuffled loud noises and

do not regenerate (most unsilenced

gunshots are louder than nearby

thunder); perhaps worse, those broken

hairs swimming around in our ears

are a cause of tinnitus, that constant

ringing that probably some of you are

experiencing right now. Every raw shot

we are exposed to takes away a little

bit more of our hearing. So we must

wear hearing protection whenever

we are shooting; at the range, in the

bird field, and even while hunting

big game. Yet how many of us do?

A silencer on a firearm is a fail-safe

hearing protection device for the

shooter and those around him.

Many muzzle brakes only

worsen the effects of gunshots on

our hearing. The silencer, though,

not only takes down the noise, but

reduces the amplitude of the recoil

better than most brakes. With less

recoil and less muzzle jump, a shooter

can concentrate better on his shot and

reacquire his target more quickly for a

second one, if necessary. As mentioned

above, silencers also suppress muzzle

flash, and they make firearms more

accurate by improving the “harmonic

stabilization” of the barrel and

reducing the jet effect of the gases

exiting the muzzle that can destabilize

the bullet. Finally, with more and more

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hunting opportunities cropping

up in suburban areas with the

exploding populations of hogs and

whitetails, a silencer, which reduces

the noise of a firearm to the action

working (on a semi-auto), the

bullet breaking the sound barrier,

if subsonic ammunition isn’t being

used, and sound of the impact,

allows us to hunt without drawing

attention or complaints from

neighbors or the public.

A good example of a

top-quality silencer is Advanced

Armament’s

Cyclone™.

Twenty-two

ounces in

weight,

and built

for the 308

Winchester caliber, it

adds 8¾-inches to the length

of the barrel when threaded

onto the muzzle, and eliminates

approximately 95 percent of the

report of the rifle. Remington offers

its Remington Model 700®

SPS™ Tactical with a threaded

muzzle, requiring no custom work.

For silenced rimfire shooting, there

is the Remington Model 597™

AAC-SD, also with a threaded

muzzle. And Advanced Armament

offers an array of rimfire silencers

to be found in their catalog.

Centerfire or rimfire, there are more

opportunities than ever to prey

silently.

SILENCER MAINTENANCE

Upkeep on a silencer is about what you would put into maintaining your firearm,

or less. It does depend on whether you are using a rimfire or a centerfire silencer.

Extreme buildup of carbon and lead in a silencer can ultimately “choke” the

projectile. Rimfire leaves more residue than a centerfire, so Advance Armament’s 22

silencers can be taken apart and the internal baffles cleaned with a non-ammonia

solvent. (Some baffles are aluminum, so ammonia-based cleaners can be hard on

them.) As often as you clean your gun, the interior of the silencer can be brushed

down with Remington Rem® Oil, as an example, the excess wiped away, and

the silencer reassembled and put back into use. Centerfire silencers, because the

powders used in the cartridges burn hotter and cleaner, require even less cleaning–

they don’t disassemble, so just cleaning where the “can” is mated to the muzzle is

all that is needed.

Bread toasters, it is estimated, have been involved in more crimes than legal silencers.

As little as 85 decibels of sound can cause permanent hearing damage over time. An unsilenced gunshot can be between 140 and 190 decibels, capable of causing instant damage.

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ULTimate

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Remington Model 700®

MUZZLELOADER

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The story of the newest product in the Remington firearms line is one of coming full circle. Looking back almost

200 years, America’s oldest existing manufacturing company began with the desire of a young man to have a

muzzleloading rifle. When Eliphalet Remington II, could not convince his father to give him the money to buy

a new flintlock, the 20-something went to the forge in the family blacksmith shop in central New York and

fabricated a barrel. He then is said to have set out on foot to Utica to have a gunsmith ream and rifle the barrel.

That gunsmith supposedly praised the quality of Remington’s work before Remington hiked back home and

completed the building of his long gun. The finished firearm caught the eye of his neighbors, who were soon

pestering Remington to build rifles for them, giving birth to the Remington Arms Company.

Now, Remington has returned to the making of muzzleloaders with the Remington® Model 700® Ultimate

Muzzleloader®, a rifle as likely to draw attention as that first Remington rifle.

The progress of muzzleloaders has been about ignition systems. Start with the first trigger mechanism, the matchlock,

which began as a simple lever to bring a slow match–a burning cord–held in a serpentine–a curved clamp–into contact with the

powder in the flash pan, thus letting the shooter continue to hold the musket in both hands and aim, or at least point, it as he

fired. Further advancements included the wheellock which worked like the sparking device on a cigarette lighter; the snaphance,

which can be referred to as “rocklock” because it uses a stone to strike a plate and produce sparks and the flintlock. Then in the

early 1800s, with the previous discovery of explosive fulminates, the Scots minister the Rev. A. J. Forsyth patented the percussion

cap which would work in all weather conditions, wet or dry, and eliminated the

“flash in the pan” that could spook birds on the wing.

For more than 150 years the percussion system was the state of the art in

muzzleloader ignition. Then in the 1980s came the development of in-line firing

mechanisms. Now a percussion cap on a nipple, over the powder charge inside

the barrel, was struck by a hammer that

traveled in a straight line, rather than in

the circular motion of a “cock,” making

ignition faster and surer.

A hunter still had that knobbed end of the in-line hammer sticking back in his face, so the next logical step was

to employ a bolt action to fire the percussion cap, making an entirely closed system which led to the use of primers, such as the

those for shotgun cartridges, rather than percussion caps, to ignite the powder. In-lines gave a hunter reliable killing ranges out to

150 yards, especially when the primer and percussion cap were combined with a saboted jacketed large-caliber pistol bullet. Now

Remington has gone beyond that to create the ultimate in muzzleloaders.

Remington’s Director of Product Management for rifles, John Fink, has been hunting with the Model 700® Ultimate

Muzzleloader® a good bit and has so far taken almost a dozen whitetail from his treestand in North Carolina, including eight, nine,

and 11 pointers, all of them clean one-shot kills, some as far out as one-hundred-eightyyards. A hundred-eighty is, though, just

scratching the surface for the Ultimate Muzzleloader®.

Along with deer, Fink has taken coyote and groundhogs, where things get truly interesting, because some of those

“hogs” have been at ranges out to 300 yards. This is what you might expect to get out of a centerfire rifle, but is unheard of in

muzzleloaders.

On the Remington rifle everything goes back to the ignition system. Not only is it built on the the time-tested

Remington® Bolt Action Model 700® bolt and receiver, but it incorporates a patented “Ultimate Muzzleloader Ignition

MUZZLELOADER

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In the Ultimate

Muzzleloader®,

charges of 200

grains ignited

by the 9½

primer, burn

efficiently and

cleanly.

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System”. This utilizes a brass case primed with a Remington No. 9½ large magnum rifle primer. The case fits completely over a

chamfered nozzle in the breechplug, seating the primer above a funnel into the powder charge. With the primer and brass case

locked under the face of the bolt action, a gas-tight seal is made to send, when the trigger is

pulled, a jet of flame into the propellant. The results are, frankly, outstanding.

Maximum powder loads in muzzleloaders have, up till now, topped off at 150

grains, often with a lot of that powder blowing unburnt out of the muzzle. In the Ultimate

Muzzleloader®, charges of 200 grains (four 50-grain pellets of Hodgdon® Triple Seven®

propellant–“Triple Seven” a registered trademark of Hodgdon Powder Company), ignited by the

9½ primer, burn efficiently and cleanly. The result is a 250-grain Barnes® Spit-Fire T-EZ™

(“Spit-Fire T-EZ” a trademark of Barnes Bullets, LLC) leaving the rifle at over 2400 feet per

second, which is reaching 338 Winchester Magnum territory, giving the muzzleloader genuine

300-yard capability, the projectile still traveling at more than 1,300 feet per second at that

range.

This opens an entirely new world for the muzzleloader hunter. There is now no game

beyond his reach, whether mountain sheep or grizzly bear. Or any of the classic plains game

of Africa. A list of the muzzleloader seasons and regulations in the United States can be found

at muzzleloading seasons by state, though it is simpler just to list the states that do

not permit the use of “closed” ignitions, such as that on the Ultmate Muzzleloader®. Those

states the three Northwestern ones of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Everywhere else, the

revolutionary Model 700® frontloader is allowed.

Along with its extreme range, velocity, and energy, the Remington Ultimate

Muzzleloader® is built to withstand the elements with a 26-inch fluted stainless-steel barrel

and a Bell and Carlson composite stock. For added accuracy, the rifle uses the X-Mark

Pro Adjustable Trigger found on the regular Model 700® rifles, the trigger adjustable to

between 2½ and 5 pounds.

The Ultimate Muzzleloader® comes either with iron sights or is tapped and drilled for scope mounts, ready to carry

“blackpowder” hunting into the 21st Century, and maybe beyond.

AMMUNITIONFor almost a 1000 years, the formula for gunpowder, or blackpowder, was a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulphur. This

burned quickly but rather inefficiently, leaving behind a great deal of fouling residue in the barrel, meaning swabbing between shots,

and promoting corrosion if not cleaned after shooting. The late 1970s saw the introduction of Pyrodex® (“Pyrodex” is a registered

trademark of Hodgdon Powder Company), a blackpowder substitute, composed similarly to blackpowder with added ingredients, that

burns cleaner and more efficiently than blackpowder. The next step, and today’s state of the art, was Triple Seven, a sulphurless, hotter,

higher-velocity alternative to blackpowder, which in pellet form gives precisely measured loads. The pellet includes a center channel,

so it burns from the rear, the outside in, and the inside out, producing more energy and less “ejecta,” or residue. Triple Seven pellets

are the choice of propellant for the 250-grain 451-diameter Barnes® Spit-Fire T-EZ™. A 100-percent copper with a polymer tip, the

flat bottomed bullet is easier load with a sabot in tighter bores, and provides cutting, penetrating expansion at both short and long

ranges. This is all a far cry from the patched roundballs and blackpowder Eliphalet Remington, II hunted with. But they do speak to

the future of muzzleloading hunting.

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Dan Harrison just flew in from

across the ocean and hemispheres. With

more than a quarter-century of guiding

experience, and today known

as a co-host of Remington

Country, the television show of

the Remington Arms Company,

Harrison spent two weeks this

spring, the fall down there,

hunting in the game-rich island nation of

New Zealand and had left with the job

partially unfinished. After scaling cliffs more

rugged and treacherous than any he had

ever chased game on before, he had not

taken a Himalayan tahr, one of the most

prized trophies in New Zealand, and hunted

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elsewhere only in Nepal. That was all right,

though, because even without taking a tahr,

he still had one of the most exciting hunting

trips of his life in the land of the kiwis, and

one he was looking forward to sharing with

viewers in a series of shows. Besides, he

now had a perfect excuse for returning to

New Zealand and completing his quest.

This is just one of the adventures

Harrison, and his fellow hosts, will

present on this season’s slate of episodes.

Remington Country is not about showcasing

Remington products, or body counts, as

much as it is about portraying the way of life

that is centered around hunting. Airing on

the Outdoor Channel–twice on Wednesdays

and once on Thursdays, from July to

December–it is a program whose theme is

the passion and enthusiasm veteran hunters

carry with them into the field, along with

their firearms and ammunition.

Remington Country is a major

undertaking for the show’s producer, Orion

Entertainment, the leading maker of

outdoor entertainment in the world today. It

begins with three hosts and two producers.

An even dozen veteran camera people work

in the field to capture all the action, drama,

human interest, and scenic beauty of each

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show, the series covering 16 separate

hunting locations. Although state-of-the-

art technology goes into the making of

Remington Country, it maintains the feel

and look of classic cinema.

Even with excursions

to New Zealand, at the heart of

Remington Country lies the tradition

of North American hunting. If you

know the way a lot of outdoor

TV gets made, the process is

often one of beginning with a

destination and then working

backward to the host–making

that host fit the hunt, rather than

drawing on his expertise to obtain

the most from the hunt. In Remington

Country, the concept has been one of

starting with a trio of hosts who are not

only experts in the areas of game that

appeal to them most, but bring decades

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production. This makes for an unrivaled

insight into hunting, especially because

the three focus on their own individual

pursuits.

Begin with Harrison, who in

Colorado guides for elk, deer, antelope,

bear, and more, and who himself hunts

for it all across North America.

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waterfowl expert, and likewise

guide, Doug Larsen, who, if

you ask him, will not be able to

tell you how long he has been

hunting ducks and geese, but that

he cannot genuinely remember

when he was not. Finally, there

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who offers hunters some of the finest bird

hunting to be found in eastern Colorado.

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Beginning with their chosen

game and destinations, the hosts operate

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outdoors is a lot more than pulling the

trigger on an animal.” An added twist to

the shows is that the hosts, after decades

of guiding hundreds if not thousands of

hunters, now find the positions reversed,

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because they are the best around.

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chosen professions and guiding other

hunters in their territories from time to

time, such as Harrison taking a father

and son after Colorado elk, while Russell

MacLennan, the resident expert in deer

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guiding for mule deer in Nebraska.

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Remington, as it approaches its 200th

year. As well, the show will provide

insights into the way hunting is today.

Take Doug Larsen as an example. Having

begun waterfowling in a time of restricted

bag limits and hunting days, Larsen is not

a little astounded to have enjoyed year

after year of liberal bags and long seasons

as populations seem constantly to defy

expectations. What he sees, though, is

birds adapting quicker to being hunted

and more wary of the setups hunters are

using. It’s a challenge he addresses in

the shows, which in no way means he

does not have excellent hunting, because

he knows how to work to get it. He also

draws attention to the improvements

in waterfowling gear, even beyond

Remington’s advancements in shotguns

and loads, including something as simple

as warm neoprene waders versus rubber,

and how all this contributes to the safety

of duck hunting compared to years ago.

There’s also a greater opportunity these

days to follow the migration down the

continent from Canada to the South, as

Larsen does.

Something else that will be

different about Remington Country is

that it will not be the place to look for

celebrities being ushered around the field

and pointed at game to shoot. The soul

of the show is family and friends, those

fathers and sons, or on the New Zealand

shows, Harrison introducing the daughter

of a late friend to international hunting.

For Larsen, the shows present a chance

to hunt not only with some of the people

close to him, but as importantly, even with

his own dogs.

From new locales (Harrison in

one show hunts New Mexico for the

very first time, even though he has lived

his entire life just across the state line in

Colorado) to intimately known territories

(MacLennan will be guiding on his own

family-owned The Bluffs), the hosts will be

dealing with the natural conditions, such

as the vagaries of weather that can shut

things down for days, to trying to line up a

shot under real-world conditions, and not

from a benchrest in a shooting house.

You can add a list of destinations

besides New Zealand, New Mexico, and

Colorado that includes Texas, Manitoba,

Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

These are in keeping with the deeply

American roots of Remington. They also

represent possible dreams for the average

hunter, not impossible ones, helping him

to identify with the production.

For 30 minutes per show,

Remington presents a vision of hunting

the way it truly is and how it should

genuinely be. This is only to be expected

from a company with the reputation

of a Remington, which is a reputation

held by none other in the firearms and

ammunition industry. And there is always

an invitation being made to the viewer to

come along, there’s room for one more on

the hunt.

GANDER

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REMINGTON RIFLE TEAM UPDATE

S P E C I A L R E P O R T

on target

Bushmaster 3 Gun Team:Rob Tate, Aaron Reed, Ravin Perry

May 24 – Bushmaster®-Tarheel 3

Gun Monthly Match in New Hill, NC

May 31 – Remington® Versa Max®-

Tarheel 3 Gun Quarterly Match in New

Hill, NC

June 21 – Freedom Munitions 3 Gun

in Clinton, SC

June 28 - Bushmaster®-Tarheel 3

Gun Monthly Match in New Hill, NC

July 12 – Remington® Versa Max®-

Tarheel 3 Gun Quarterly Match in New

Hill, NC

July 19 - Bushmaster®-Tarheel 3

Gun Monthly Match in New Hill, NC

Remington Sporting Clays Team:Wendell Cherry, Brad Kidd, Jr., Gebben

Miles, David Radulovich, Diane

Sorantino, Ashleigh Hafley, Bill McGuire,

Annabelle Ayres, Mike Wilgus

June 2-8 US Open Sporting Clays

Championships in Columbus, KS

August 13-17 North Central

Regional Sporting Clays Championships

in Hainesville, IL

Remington Trap Team:Harlan Campbell, Jr., Kay Ohye,

Dennis Bringelson, Chris Vendel, Sean

Hawley, Deb Ohye-Neilson, Dave Kelly,

Stacey Bringelson, Mike Jordan, Hardy

Musselman, Sam Foppe, Rob Taylor

June 2-8 Kansas State Trap

Championships in Wichita, KS

June 10-15 Illinois State Trap

Championships in Bunker Hill, IL

June 17-22 Ohio State Trap

Championships in Marengo, OH

July 8-13 Minnesota State Trap

Championships in Alexandria, MN

July 15-20 Wisconsin State Trap

Championships in Waukeshaw, WI

July 22-27 Iowa State Trap

Championship in Cedar Fall, IA

August 6-16 Grand Falls American

World Trapshooting Championships in

Sparta, IL

There’s the saying

about grace under

pressure, and one

of the truest tests

of the reliability

and performance of firearms and

ammunition comes in the heat of

competition. Summer is the height

of the competitive season and Rem-

ington is fielding teams in virtually

every discipline across the next few

months. Here is a list of the teams

and the events. Remington, with a

track record of consistent victories,

will be out to win, so follow along

to see how well its teams do.

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Remington Skeet Team:Todd Bender, Paul Giambrone, Jr., Robert Paxton

Sept 26-Oct 3 World Skeet Championships in San Antonio, TX

Remington Rifle Team:Ken Roxburgh, Carl Bernosky, Gary Hendricks, Joe Hendricks, Sr. Joe Hendricks, Jr., Tom Rider, Mark Laramie, Nate Guernsey, Fritz

Hemplemann, Donald Trump, Jr., Dwight Briggs

May 29-June 1 Remington® Long Range Regional in State College, PA

June 6-8 Remington® High Power Classic in State College, PA

June 20-23 High Power Match in New Holland, PA

June 28-29 Long Range Match in State College, PA

July 14-Aug 2 Remington®/NRA National Matches in Camp Perry, OH

Top row, standing, from left: Frank Adelson, Nate Guernsey, Joe Hendricks, Sr. (Asst. Team Captain), Carl Bernosky, Mark Laramie, Gary Hendricks, Hugo Adelson Second row, from left: Phillip “Mick” McCotter, Joe Hendricks, Jr., Ken Roxburgh (Team Captain), Alex Arietta, Dwight “Tiny” Briggs (Team Armorer) Seated in front: Sara Rozanski

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Extra-Virgin Olive OilVegetable OilSalt And Pepper4 Wild Turkey Breasts, Boneless4 Large Eggs1 Tablespoon Dijon Mustard3 Cups All-Purpose Flour¼ Tsp Each Salt And Pepper1 ½ Cups Panko Breadcrumbs1 ½ Cups Dried Bread Crumbs

Wild Turkey Schnitzel

Caper Vinaigrette3 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter

¼ Cup Capers, Drained

1 Cup Italian Parsley Leaves, Chopped

1 Lemon, Segmented

Napa Cabbage Slaw

1 Large Head Napa Cabbage, Cored, Shredded

2 Each Carrots, Finely Julienne

1/2 -Bunch Scallion, Chiffonade

1/2 -Bunch Cilantro, Chiffonade

Slaw Vinaigrette

Slaw Vinaigrette1/2 Cup Natural Rice Wine Vinegar

1/4 Cup Water

1 Tablespoon Sugar

1/2 Teaspoons Ginger, Grated

1/2 Cloves Garlic, Grated

SERVES

4

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Turkey Schnitzel DirectionsPlace a 12-inch square of plastic wrap on a sturdy work surface. Drizzle about 1 teaspoon of oil onto the plastic and set a portion of turkey directly on it, then drizzle on another spoonful of oil and cover the meat with a second piece of plastic wrap.

Gently pound the turkey breast with a wooden mallet until it is about ¼ inch thick all over. Flip the breast over halfway through the process to produce an even thickness. Repeat with remaining breasts. Season turkey breasts with salt and pepper.

Whisk together the eggs and mustard in a bowl. Put the flour in a bowl and the breadcrumbs in a shallow dish. Line them up; flour, then egg, then crumbs. Dip a seasoned turkey breast in the flour, pat off any excess, and then dip it in the egg, coating it completely. Pick up the breast by one edge and hold it over the dish for a few seconds so any excess egg drips off, then dredge the breast in breadcrumbs. Repeat with the remaining turkey breasts. Refrigerate turkey until ready to cook.

Pour about ½ inch of oil into a large sauté pan and heat over medium-high heat until it registers 320°F on a deep-fat thermometer, or until breadcrumbs flicked into the oil sizzle right up instead of sinking.

One by one, fry the turkey breasts crisp, cooking them about 2 minutes per side. If the breading browns too quickly, or starts turning blotchy instead of an even golden brown, the oil is too hot, reduce the heat and wait for it to cool a bit before continuing. Transfer the turkey breasts to a platter or pan lined with paper towels and keep warm in a 200°F oven. Don’t stack the cooked breasts or they’ll get steamy and lose that all-important crispness.

When the last breast is fried, melt the butter in a medium sauté pan and cook until golden, swirling the pan as the butter colors (otherwise the milk solids will fall to the bottom of the pan and burn). Sprinkle in the capers and sizzle them around for just a minute. Add the lemon segments and toss just until heated through–too much cooking and they’ll fall apart.

Remove the pan from the heat and season with a few cracks of pepper; stir in the parsley, which will wilt on contact. Spoon warm caper vinaigrette over turkey schnitzel and serve Napa cabbage coleslaw along side.

Cabbage Slaw DirectionsToss shredded cabbage, carrots, scallions and cilantro together in bowl. Place shredded slaw mixture in the refrigerator while you

prepare vinaigrette. Add all vinaigrette ingredients into a stainless steel bowl and whisk to combine. Set vinaigrette in the refrigerator

to chill for a least one hour. Toss cabbage slaw with vinaigrette and serve immediately.

After unearthing a steppe bison frozen in Alaskan tundra for 36,000 years, zoologists celebrated with a pot of neck-meat stew.

Canning food began with Napoleon’s armies, but the can opener did not appear for another 50 years.

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PURCHASE ANY DPMS® 223 / 5.56 MODERN SPORTING RIFLE

RECEIVE

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OF REMINGTON® UMC® 223 AMMUNITION BACK BY MAILTHE FOLLOWING STATES ARE INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE AMMUNITION: AK, CA, CT, D.C., IL, HI, MA, NY, NJ.CUSTOMER ENTRIES FROM THESE STATES WILL RECEIVE $50.00 CASH BACK BY MAIL.

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25%DISCOUNT FOR DPMS®ONLINE PARTS STORE

B O N U S O F F E R

Eligible consumers must pay $5.00 shipping/handling fee via check or money order. Do NOT send cash. Residents of California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Alaska are not eligible for ammunition offer. Residents of these states will receive $50.00 back by mail. 25% discount expires 12/31/15. This Promotion is open only to residents of the United States age 21 or older who are legally able to purchase ammunition in their state or locale. Proof of age required. Void where prohibited. Promotion valid on new (not previously owned) DPMS® 223/5.56 Modern Sporting Rifle purchases made 5/1/14 – 8/31/14. Must be postmarked by 9/27/14. Complete the Redemption Form available at your local retailer or online at www.dpmsinc.com/promo and submit all required information. Allow 10 - 12 weeks for processing. Offer void where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law. This offer is valid for end-users only. Offer limited to product in stock during time of promotion. No rain checks. For complete terms and conditions, please see the Redemption Form available at your local participating retailer or online at www.dpmsinc.com. ©2014 DPMS Panther Arms

PROMOTION: 55801 DPMSINC.COM/PROMO

CUSTOMER WILL PAY $5.00 SHIPPING & HANDLING FEE FOR AMMUNITION. SEE OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM FOR DETAILS.

©2013 REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, LLC.

Made in the USA by American workers

PREMIER® ACCUTIP™

PREMIER® CORE-LOKT™

PREMIER® SCIROCCO™

PREMIER® A-FRAME™

REMINGTON® PREMIER® AMMUNITION. Our R&D staff is tirelessly perfecting the science behind

the one-shot kill, for you. Proudly crafting the most accurate, most lethal family of big-game ammunition

available today. Premier® ammunition, by the name America trusts. Remington.®

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P.O. Box 700

Madison, NC 27025-0700

TEL: 1-800-243-9700

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