You’ve spent countless hours checking cameras, tending food plots and scouting out your fall whitetail hunt. You researched rifles, calibers, and optics before purchase and you’ve painstakingly dialed them all in, to pinpoint perfection.
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So why in the world would you put all that hard work at risk by choosing sub-par ammunition?
Nosler engineers understand that the final link between hunter and deer is the bullet. It’s the final factor between a harvested deer and a lost one.
This is why they have spent more than 30 years optimizing their line of Ballistic Tip ammunition, making it the perfect choice for whitetail hunters across the country.
The truck already had a name for itself, at least on Instagram, where Pierce started @the_Pandra and shared photos (while gathering a good community of followers).
The Pandra vaulted into truck immortality when the fires started and Pierce took it upon himself to step up. He used his vehicle and his fortitude to get himself to safety on two separate occasions, then helped evacuate a local hospital.
Proof in the performance: Nosler’s Ballistic Tip ammunition
As his town was burning around him, the truck was dealing with its own share of abuse. The melted taillight covers, the plastic that began to drip away, and the toasted marshmallow paint job are the visible scars that the Tundra suffered, but the integrity of the truck survived.
The only exterior portion of the truck that was virtually unaffected by the heat and the flames was the DECKED Storage System he had installed in the bed.
When DECKED and Toyota heard about The Pandra's story, they both paid back the selflessness with replacements.
The Pandra now sits in Toyota's Plano, Texas corporate headquarters as a testament to the toughness Pierce, his truck, and his DECKED system showed
that day.
Not only did DECKED replace the system for Pierce's new truck, but they also donated the amount of his first system to the GoFundMe page set up by his friends.
Pierce likes to think he did what anyone would do, and focuses on what's important. The Pandra helped him set up a triage station on the hospital's helipad, where he and his fellow rescuers watched the city succumb to the flames. Once his family was safe and his duty at the hospital fulfilled, Pierce became reflective.
He knew saving things like his photographs, written song lyrics, and treasured guitars was most crucial. Anything else could be replaced. What couldn't was the history of his town, the people who made it their home. Luckily, he and The Panda were there to help preserve some of that.
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Wide Open Country caught up with Riggs, who just released his new EP Love & Panic, in Nashville. The emerging start talked about finding balance in an often hectic career — while fishing the Cumberland River, just steps from downtown Nashville.
Sam Riggs spent much of his upbringing enjoying the outdoors. “It was a real musical family, real rural family,” Riggs says. “Kind of grew up blue collar, so being in the woods and fishing was always a big part of my life.”
He learned a lot about fishing from his granddad, who was a preacher and fished “religiously,” Riggs says. As an artist who built his fan base by touring relentlessly, Riggs has seen a lot of the country. “It’s the most amazing job in the world,” he says.
And for an artist as passionate as Riggs, spending a little bit of time by the water certainly helps replenish all that energy spent performing across the country night in and night out. Even if it means just pulling a Zebco rod out from behind his seat and stealing away for an hour.
Wide Open Spaces caught up with Riggs, who just released his new EP Love & Panic, in Nashville. The emerging start talked about finding balance in an often hectic career — while fishing the Cumberland River, just steps from downtown Nashville.
Sam Riggs spent much of his upbringing enjoying the outdoors. “It was a real musical family, real rural family,” Riggs says. “Kind of grew up blue collar, so being in the woods and fishing was always a big part of my life.”
He learned a lot about fishing from his granddad, who was a preacher and fished “religiously,” Riggs says. As an artist who built his fan base by touring relentlessly, Riggs has seen a lot of the country. “It’s the most amazing job in the world,” he says.
And for an artist as passionate as Riggs, spending a little bit of time by the water certainly helps replenish all that energy spent performing across the country night in and night out. Even if it means just pulling a Zebco rod out from behind his seat and stealing away for an hour.
There aren’t many all-terrain tires out there that can actually master both functions. The GEOLANDAR X-AT has seemingly repositioned the bar for dual-purpose capabilities, which realistically appeals to every driver. Sure, it’s nice to have the ability to escape the monotony of a paved road, but not at the expense of safe and satisfactory road performance.
Designed for pickup trucks, Jeeps, and SUVs, the GEOLANDAR X-AT is an extreme all-terrain tire built to promote great grip, extreme durability, and a quiet, comfortable ride.
“The GEOLANDAR X-AT delivers it all,” said Bob Abram, Yokohama’s senior manager of product planning. “It offers ultimate off-road performance without sacrificing any on-road comfort, making it a great performance upgrade for a variety of pick-up trucks and SUVs, no matter how or where they’re driven.”
Yokohama’s GEO-SHIELD technology, which features multiple sidewall plies, a high turn-up carcass and a full nylon cap, gives the tire great puncture-resistance. Also, a superior tread life is made possible through a new HD2 compound. It’s a special triple-polymer blend engineered for reliable long tread life and impressive cut- and chip-resistance.
The GEOLANDAR X-AT has dynamic, large shoulder blocks that are varied in length to create a biting edge and promote mud- and stone-ejection. Also, the angular center blocks give it extra strength and grip.
It’s available in 27 sizes ranging from 15 to 22 inches.
The best bullet in the world, however, does little good if it’s not delivered to the animal with the utmost reliability and superior accuracy. Nosler’s Ballistic Tip ammo shines in this arena as well.
High-performance powders are matched to each bullet caliber and weight for optimal performance, accuracy and consistentcy.
From the 90-grain 243 Winchester to the new 180-grain 300 Winchester Magnum, Nosler offers Ballistic Tip ammunition in all the standard whitetail calibers and weights. Each round is hand-inspected before it’s packaged, ensuring you are getting a high-quality cartridge.
A whitetail in the freezer requires a lot of hard work ahead of time. Your bullet is the transition from pre-harvest preparation to post-harvest enjoyment. Don’t trust this pivotal moment to whatever basic hunting ammo happens to be on sale this week. You’ve prepared and planned for every day of deer season – you deserve ammunition that’s as well thought out as you are.
As with any cartridge, the performance ends with the bullet, and the Nosler Ballistic Tip is the perfect combination of accuracy, consistency and power.
All of this starts at the tip, where a streamlined polymer tip improves aerodynamics, raises ballistic coefficients and protects against tip deformation in the magazine. Most importantly, the polymer tip initiates bullet expansion, helping deliver maximum energy into the target to drop deer in their tracks.
A special lead-alloy core is paired with a fully tapered copper jacket, creating the perfect balance of expansion and weight retention. This is key in a hunting bullet, as reliable consistent expansion coupled with penetration creates the best wound channels and quickest kills. The jacket of the bullet is thick at the base, which helps control expansion and drives the bullet deep into the vitals.
So why in the world would you put all that hard work at risk by choosing sub-par ammunition?
Nosler engineers understand that the final link between hunter and deer is the bullet. It’s the final factor between a harvested deer and a lost one.
This is why they have spent more than 30 years optimizing their line of Ballistic Tip ammunition, making it the perfect choice for whitetail hunters across the country.
As with any cartridge, the performance ends with the bullet, and the Nosler Ballistic Tip is the perfect combination of accuracy, consistency and power.
All of this starts at the tip, where a streamlined polymer tip improves aerodynamics, raises ballistic coefficients and protects against tip deformation in the magazine. Most importantly, the polymer tip initiates bullet expansion, helping deliver maximum energy into the target to drop deer in their tracks.
A special lead-alloy core is paired with a fully tapered copper jacket, creating the perfect balance of expansion and weight retention. This is key in a hunting bullet, as reliable consistent expansion coupled with penetration creates the best wound channels and quickest kills. The jacket of the bullet is thick at the base, which helps control expansion and drives the bullet deep into the vitals.