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How Poorly Reasoned Government Procurement of Cavalry Long Guns Led to Defeat at Little Bighorn

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Cavalry Long Guns

Of all the disadvantages that contributed to the annihilation of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer’s five-troop battalion at the Battle of the Little Bighorn –among them superior numbers of enemy forces (a 5:1 ratio seems a safe bet), criminal disobedience of direct orders by junior officers in command of support battalions, and terrain so inimical to cavalry maneuvering as to negate every advantage commonly enjoyed by mounted troops in generically similar situations – none was more devastating than the inferiority of the Seventh Cavalry’s government-issued single shot carbines.

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Burgeson Pioneered the Deer Scent Industry

Burgeson Pioneered the Deer Scent Industry

It is with heavy hearts in that we must report the passing of another hunting industry pioneer. Our friend and longtime industry partner John Burgeson, co-founder of the Wildlife Research Center, passed away suddenly last weekend near his home in Anoka, Minn. He was 66. After years of hunting trips, hobby experimentations and lots of trial and error, John and his brother Brian Burgeson, with help from their dad, hit […]

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Minnesota Has New Catch-and-Release Lake Sturgeon Record

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Minnesota catch and release lake sturgeon record

This lucky angler beat the previous record by 3 inches. Jack Burke is Minnesota’s new catch-and-release lake sturgeon record holder, taking the title with a 73-inch fish he caught May 4. Burke, along with his fishing partner Michael Orgas, were fishing Koochiching County’s Rainy Lake. They’d previously landed 20 lake sturgeon over the course of

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