By Dave Hurteau

I’m sorry. Did I write “favorite” or “all-purpose” cartridges instead of “long-range” in the headline for the last round? I must have. Let me see…. Oh wait, I did write “long-range.” Hmm. And yet the .30-06 beat the 7mm Rem. Mag? And the .25-06 thumped the .257 Weatherby? Am I reading that right?

Kidding. Kidding.

By Dave Hurteau

Bestul and I are in the midst of a giant bow test, and so we are shooting a lot. (Nothing like a deadline to get you out on the range.) But before I took any shots for posterity, I spent a half a day or so warming up at 30 and 40 yards, jotting down my group sizes just for fun. After that, I put the target out at 60 and shot 20 three-shot groups.

Now, you have read from me and Bestul and many others that long-range shooting can really help your accuracy at typical hunting ranges. But today, I can
quantify it.

By Scott Bestul

There’s nothing quite like the sound of a delivery truck pulling up to your driveway to drop off a new toy—specially a hunting toy that you didn’t have to pay for. Of course, I’m referring to the Bear Motive 6 compound bow, the company’s new flagship model and the prize in our first scoring contest of 2013. So without further yammering, let’s check out the actual scores of the bucks you eyeballed, and then see who guessed the best.

By Scott Bestul

Well folks, this is it—the fourth and final buck in our scoring contest, and your big chance to take home a Bear Motive 6, the company’s flagship bow for 2013.

So you’ll need to eye up this buck, estimate a gross B&C score, and add it to your gross-score estimates for the previous three bucks, photos of which are linked below. Then, post your grand total for all four bucks in the comments section. Remember, fractionals count.