Tag: Larry Benoit

Short Gun Love: The Pleasures of Hunting with a Carbine

It seems that no matter where I turn, be it an article in a magazine, a discussion in a bar, or the gun rack in my local sports shop, I just can’t get away from long range hunting rifles. It’s a sweeping trend that is taking the hunting world by storm. Every hunter I run

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Larry Benoit: The whitetail king

Larry Benoit: The whitetail king

There’s a lot to be said about heroes. Not so much the fictional, comic-book kind, but the real-life men and women whose actions and lives influence us and shape us into who we will become. I remember perfectly one cold November day back in Vermont. I was eight years old and a friend’s father took

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The Remington 7600: The perfect rifle for hunters on the move

The Remington 7600: The perfect rifle for hunters on the move

In September 1970, Sports Afield magazine ran a special cover story that would change the face of American hunting culture forever. It was a picture of a man staring down the peep sight of a Remington Model 742 rifle with the caption, “Larry Benoit—Is He The Best Deer Hunter In America?” Until that point in

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