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The AMERICAN AIRGUN HUNTER |
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| Jim Chapman's Hunting Log |
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New Book Available: Practical Guide to Airgun Hunting |
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American Airgun Hunter BLOG I'll use my Blog at AirgunArena to update information on hunts, guns, and gear on a frequent basis. Stop by for a chat or to see what's new! |
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Featured Reviews and Articles - The Benjamin Trail NPXL 1100 - H&N Pellets - Hunter Extreme - Airgun Shrouds and Moderators - Missouri Deer Hunt
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QUICK LINKS - Airgun Resource Listings |
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QUICK LINKS - Forums |
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Brocock Enigma Posting Soon |
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Initial Experience with the Crosman Benjamin Nitro Trail XL1100 May revive the springer experience for many hunters |
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The Brocock Enigma is a rifle I spotted on the AoA booth at this years SHOT Show. It looked like a gun that I'd like to use in the field, and I finally got the chance to have a go! |
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The Big Game Trophy Wall A new feature on American Airgun Hunter will be the Big Game Trophy Wall, where pictures and descriptions of the guns used will be presented. Every one is welcome to submit their photos, and the guidelines are straight forward. The animal has to be legal in the jurisdiction where taken, and the gun used has to be an appropriate caliber and power output. Types of game include deer, feral hogs, rams and other exotics. |
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New Series on the H&N Pellets Going to the Source! |
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H&N Baracuda Pellets I try out the H&N line of pellets through several of my favorite hunting rifles. This is the first installment in a series on using these pellets for hunting. |
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Trip to South Africa Just got back from my yearly airgunning trip to the Eastern Cape. This year I brought Crosmans Marauders in .177 and .22 and a Discovery in .177. The guns worked great and in this article I'll relate our experiences! |
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My Best Pigeon Hunt Ever!! I had the chance to hunt pigeons for a few days while at the Eastern Cape, and saw hundreds of birds - fast shooting and great eating! |
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Archived Articles
Is a library of articles from the last six years of the American Airgun Hunter; discussing guns, projectiles, game, and other gear. |
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Predator Hunting with an Airgun
We take a look at the use of high powered airguns for taking North American Predator Species. This will be a series of indepth articles looking at Coyote, Bobcat, Fox, and Raccoon. The first aritcle of the series is an introduction to predator hunting with an airpowered rifle, touching on some of the basic topics related to this interesting topic. |
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Archived Articles |
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Archived Articles |
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NEW Book Available Soon Sorry everyone, delay at the printers, New release date is March 15th. I just got the galley proofs this week PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AIRGUN HUNTING by Jim Chapman This book covers all aspects of airgun hunting for small game, large game, varmint, and predators. The material includes sections on spring piston and precharged pnuematic guns, optics, filling equipment, accessories, and all of the adjunct gear that the airgun hunter will use. Ther is also a discussion of the various quarry and techniques for hunting them with an airgun.
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You can purchase through one of the online shops mentioned below, or you can Purchase Online with PayPal here. |
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Please note that books will not be ready to ship until March 2010. |
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My Airgun Hunting Books are available from the following shops; Pyramyd Airguns Adventures in Airguns Airgun Depot Cobra Airgun Airguns of Arizon UmarexUSA
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AGH Daypack |
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HandPumps for PCPs |
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A New Custom Stock!! The new James Linthicum C1 style custom stock for the Crosman Discovery! I have some initial observations and will continue building this review page over time. |
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New Guns: This is the section where I look at guns I've just gotten in to shoot or hunt with, or existing models with new features, functions, or calibers |
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Crosman Nitro: I have been using the Nitro Gas Piston rifle for squirrel hunting since season opened this year, and have been impressed by the rifles shootability and performance on game. |
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The Hawke Sidewinder 30 I've been using this scope on several hunting rifles, and weigh in with my thoughts on how it performs in the field.
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Crosman Marauder At the SHOT show alast year in Orlando I got my first glimpse of the Marauder. And there it was, a beautiful rifle with ….. a match grade trigger, a ten shot rotary magazine, and OH YEA …. A fully shrouded barrel!
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Hunter Extreme I got a season under my belt with the Gamo Hunter Extreme, this uber magnum is a serious sledge hammer! |
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New Video: Deer Hunt with Big Bore Airguns |
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Predator TalkCast: Podcast on the Predator hunting network: I was a guest and had the opportunity to discuss airguns and airgun hunting |
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More Great Links! |
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Links for Airgun Forums, Airgun Companies, and Resources |
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Recently Archived Reviews and Articles Click here to access! |
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Adventures in Airguns Hunting Forum |
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Great Radio! Dennis Quackenbush Interview Click Here to Listen ! |
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Three of my current writting Venues: Airgun Hunting Quarterly is an online Ezine that I publish, Predator Xtreme is my "Home Base" where I do a regular Airgun Advantage Column, and Fur-Fish-Game, which is a new publication (for me) I've signed up to write airgunning articles for. |
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Stories Posted |
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Second Edition of the Airgun Hunting Quarterly !!!! Will be available for download soon! The focus of this edition is big game airgun hunting!! |
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This book is out of print now and copies are no longer available. I've gotten many request for the book, and since I've decided not to reprint, thought I'd post a few stories I'll update from time to time. |
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The Crosman 2240 Page This page has information on modifications, and reports of hunting trips using this versitile air pistol |
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Site Owner: Jim Chapman email: echochap@aol.com The American Airgun Hunter © |
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The American Airgun Hunter © 2000 - 2010 The contents of all material and HTML coding available on this Internet Site are copyrighted by James V. Chapman, unless otherwise indicated. All rights are reserved by James Chapman. Content may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission. Copyright infringement is a violation of federal law subject to criminal and civil. |
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Disclosure: In the course of my shooting and hunting activities, I receive loan guns from manufacturers and distributors to evaluate. There is no pre-existing agreement that I will write about a gun, but my policy is that if I don't like a gun I won't write about it but will give constructive feedback. In this way I continue to have the opportunity to try new guns, to make a positive impact on this sport, and gain more experience with varied technologies. I will sometimes buy a gun if I want to add it to my collection; I will typically pay full price, sometimes I will receive a discount. This is never contingent on a review, however any reader of my reviews and stories is hereby informed. But more to the point, and as I state on my review page; these reviews and result are my opinions and my experience,. It is important that you make up your own mind, think about how you want to use a gun, what type of gun you like, what you want to pay for it, etc ...... make an informed decision and enjoy the sport! The velocity measurements and posted group sizes presented are quantitative, every thing else is subjective and you might reach a different conclusion. |
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