By David E. Petzal

A couple of months back, the Savages took me on a prairie dog hunt and the evening before the shooting started I was handed a new version of the Model 12 Series Varmint in .223 to sight in. I did so, and what I saw 100 yards away in the fading light caught my interest—all five shots went in one ragged hole. Could this, I wondered, be the long-sought factory rifle that would break the ½-moa mark?

By Dave Hurteau

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources recently confirmed that an animal killed by a motorist south of Bemidji was a young male cougar (see our previous coverage). Since then, the agency has been fielding a barrage of letters and emails claiming that the incident proves a cougar cover-up—that is, that the DNR has purposely tried to keep secret the presence of a breeding population of mountain lions in the state.

By Chad Love

Far be it from me to make light of someone else's tragedy, but what's up with all celebrity dogs being eaten by coyotes?
 
First it was Ozzy Osbourne watching his Pomeranian "Little Bit" become a little bit of a snack for a bold LA coyote, then two of Paris Hilton's purse rats may or may not have been consumed.