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By the time of the European War, the Wild West had been broken and tamed. The boom town was now a ghost town. The nester had fenced himself in and was there to stay. The bad man didn’t come to town to drown his thirst any longer; law and order were on tap.

LIGHT CARTRIDGES FOR DEER: A New Shooting Trend — or Impending Disaster?

BY L.P. BREZNY

Author zeroing his .22-250 Savage from a bench rest table. Accuracy is very much required when using .22 centerfires for big game.

It was the third and last deer season in western South Dakota. That meant the air temperature was hovering around eight degrees above zero, and the winds off the Big Horn mountains were gusting to a strong 55 mph, with a constant breeze settling in at about 35 mph. Not the best day for deer hunting, but the only one our group of four hunters had. Tom Hanson, my friend and neighbor on our South Dakota mountain hideout, had been glassing several deer down on a wide flat half-cut winter cornfield about an hour north of home for better than an hour. With the time now approaching 8:00 a.m., Tom knew that very soon those whitetail would bed down about mid-field and at that point it would be time to move down against the stiff wind, walk the corn row edges, then glass between the quarter-mile long rows until a target could be located.