BROADENING YOUR HORIZONS
Six exciting facts about
1 The hunting season in the US is fairly short compared to Europe, for instance. In most cases, hunters have the opportunity to go hunting just six times a year or even fewer. It would only be a slight exaggeration to say that a box of 20 bullets would last between three and five years. It is understandable that
| This is also the reason why in the US the majority of |
| projectiles are not fired during hunting expeditions, |
2 but in other situations, such as target practice. | |
| The country’s wide expanse is very well suited to long- |
| range shooting. There are huge numbers of clubs, |
3 especially in the west and south of the country where | |
| there are many open, sparsely populated areas. |
4 | “Looking for new challenges” is what most people give |
as their reason for finding | |
They would like to practice their shooting skills so | |
that they can shoot better during the short hunting season. Another reason for people to get involved in
| Another vital aspect of this is also to test new, exciting, |
| and innovative equipment. The ATX/STX |
5 spotting scope in particular, launched last year by | |
| SWAROVSKI OPTIK, is causing a stir among those in- |
| volved in |
| been a spotting scope with such |
| resolution and up to 70x magnification. Even with its |
| 95 mm objective lens, this slim spotting scope weighs |
| just around 70.5 oz. Hits all the marks for anyone |
| wanting to control their shots over long distances. |
6 | Even 20 years ago, a distance of around 328 yards |
would have been described as a | |
Thanks to the huge strides made in technology, it is | |
possible nowadays to take accurate shots at much longer distances as the above mentioned 328 yds. This is also a challenge to all 
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