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David E. Petzal

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As seen in: Field & Stream, MSN, Yahoo Life, The Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY), RealClear Defense, Our Community Now, The Field And Stream Podcast
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The 5 Best Lever Action Rifles Ever Made

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By David E. Petzal
| The Field And Stream Podcast
FIELD & STREAM NEWSLETTERS ALL F&S NEWSLETTERS We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more Lever-action rifles are turning up by the scores in used-gun racks, their wooden stocks battered and once-blued steel worn silver. The grandfathers who used them are afield in happier hunting grounds, and the grandkids who would have gotten them either don’t hunt or prefer a precision bolt-action.
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The So-Called “Killing Power” of Your Favorite Rifle Cartridge Is Total B.S.

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By David E. Petzal
| The Field And Stream Podcast
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › As a kid, I read far too much writing about guns and took far too much of it seriously. One of the staples of all this verbiage was “killing power,” having to do with assigning mystical numeric values to cartridges’ alleged ability to put game on the ground quickly.
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In Memory of F&S Contributor Philip Caputo, 1941-2026

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By David E. Petzal
| The Field And Stream Podcast
On May 7, cancer succeeded in doing what Illinois mobsters, the People’s Army of Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and various Middle Eastern terrorists, failed to do, by ending the life of Philip Caputo. Phil, like Ernest Hemingway, was a major American writer who loved the outdoors, particularly hunting, and wrote about it. Field & Stream was lucky enough to have him grace its pages in many issues. One of his finest contributions, “The Old Man and the Mountains,” is below.
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