I saw an older gentleman with a rifle, a glass of scotch and a dog, and immediately pressed play. If my children learn nothing else from me, it will be that our elders are a valuable, and all too often under appreciated resource. This man is a shining example of that undeniable principle.

This is what you might call “A wealth of knowledge” When he talks, you listen and absorb as much as you can.

Really enjoy these videos. Nothing is better than listening to someone who knows what they are talking about. Thank you

I would love to spend a day or two with this man and just take in all he had to share and do some shooting.

"Jack O'Connor" Now there's a name that one rarely hears of these days. Great writings that man had! When I was younger, I tried to read everything that man put in ink.👍

A rifle, a tick collector, a wee dram, and a head full of wisdom. Excellent presentation. 5 stars, two thumbs up, and a toast.

Hello my friend Thank you for the teachings over the years Have a great day 🙏

25th ID Schofield Barracks Hawaii “Strike like tropic lightning!” Thank you for your service sir and thank you for all the great educational content that you have given to us over the years. God Bless.

👍 Give Benny a pat on the head for me.

I love watching your videos. It reminds me of conversations with my Dad. Great memories!

I love listening to You. Always great advice on firearms, self defense, hunting and aspects of Life. God bless You Sir ✝️🇺🇸✝️

Tremendous teacher, tremendous content.

I love a brush up on ballistics. I sight in my AR for a 50/200 yd zero.

Benny still looks content. he looks great! Blessings to you and your family! Hawk

I have to say you are an exceptional teacher, Mr. Your videos have been a treasure trove of practical information for a person like me who has been planning of getting his first rifle for hunting. I spent one year in military but that was 10 years ago and it was hardly useful in getting a bolt action rifle. Your videos on the other hand have helped me tremendously in choosing the right rifle, optics and in general being confident about handling and taking care of it. Thank you and best wishes from Finland.

Glad to see you and Benny! God Bless you and your household. Great wisdom and technical information in this video.

Thank you for your service. My father-in-law died not long ago at age 72. He served and saw combat in Vietnam and had been suffering from PTSD for many years. He lived with us and I know it was very difficult for him. His doctor at the VA hospital said he died of complications due to exposure to agent orange. He had very little functioning lung capacity and was on oxygen his last few years. Not only that, but at least two of his children somehow may be suffering health complications associated with his exposure. I hadn't heard of that before, but it only underscores the fact we often ask way too much of our troops seeing combat in my opinion. Anyway, thank you again for your service and I hope you and yours are in good health.

Thanks a lot for your rich information!

I don't think I've ever fully understood this concept. This helps a lot. Thanks!

SO good to see you again. Always benefit from your information dense discourse. Thank you !

Good to see you and Benny. I wish you and the Mrs good health as well as Benny. God bless you all!

Thank you so much! Perfect timing too... I still a noob, and needed exactly this video to help me with my new rifle. EDIT - even better haha - that's exactly my rifle

Always love your videos and and solid usable advice for hunting at ethical ranges. Glad to see Benny enjoying the afternoon with you. Take care and have a great hunting season this year.

Always a pleasure to see you and Benny Hope you have a safe and enjoyable hunt.👍🐶👨🏻‍🌾😍🇺🇸

Spot on again. Taking advantage of bullet trajectory really puts you in a great place for reliably hitting your target/game at longer range. Good to see you and Bennie are doing well. Thank you for sharing. God Bless.

Thank you, sir, for another great video! Happy to see that you and Benny are doing well.

Thx, Sir! 'So far, so good'. God bless!

I love these casual chats, thank you Gunblue490 and Benny of course.

Very well explained, as usual. I believe the technique you described is referred to as sighting in for maximum "point blank range."

I look forward to some day meeting you. I work at Four Seasons Firearms in Woburn,Ma.. With the influx of first time gun buyers we are experiencing and their lack of any firearm experience. I recommend a steady diet of your videos to get them started!

Always excellent videos! Thank you for your help and thank you for your service! 2A! 🇺🇸

Thank you for all you share with the shooting community. Your knowledge is a blessing to the rest of us.

I truly think you have the best channel on KZfaq! Thank you for your videos!

Get Benny a Seresto flea and tick collar. They work great for our lab and Gordon Setter, even with her long hair. Thanks for the video.

Welcome back, great to see and hear from you again. This new hunter thanks you profusely for the education. God bless and good hunting!

Always enjoy time with you, sir. Yes - I can tell Benny is a good boy. Y'all keep each other safe.

Blessings to both you and Benny!

Hey Professor ! Life is good ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Outstanding explanation. thanks for taking the time to share this info.

Thank you Sir for all these excellent videos. So very helpful. We so need these discussions.

Thank you for sharing that valuable information!

You always explain your topics very well. Thanks for all your great videos. I’m seventy now and you’ve gotten me back to reloading and going to the range. Thanks again

Love the wealth of information here...one of the best gun channels on KZfaq....God bless.

Thanks, I already understand a trajectory but you explained it very well for someone who doesn’t. I enjoy all of your videos and I have also learned a few things, like the perfect sling for a rifle. Now all of my rifles are sporting a loop sling, the same ones in your video. Thanks again Gun Blue we love you and Bennie😎

Fantastic illustration and explanation! Thank you!

Your knowledge is greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to share it. Its funny how many new gadgets and gizmos you see come on to the market that are an answer in search of a problem. I ave always favored simple reticles and use good judgment in the field.

I've learned a lot from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Thank you for the video. Very enjoyable.

Videos and information don't get better than this. Thank you.

Thanks a lot for your information. loved the video.

Thank you. This drawings were perfect for explaining to my buddies why I choose my specific hunting zero 😊

Thanks for all the lessons.

So simple, yet so misunderstood. Thank you Sir.

Excellent teaching! Thank you.

Excellent video. I've been tinkering a lot with my 336 and some higher velocity hand loads, again thanks in part to your videos. Since my most common target is clays and sometimes playing cards, I originally set it to hit no more than 3 inches high with my old standard 170 grain Winchester loads. My hand loads are getting pushed to 2500 fps or so, and I'd like to set the high point at 6" for a slightly larger target, 12" bullseyes. Thanks again for the great information.

Excellent channel awesome content! Excellent info, this is a critically underated channel. Paul Harrell is my current favorite, but yours is a close second.

Though I've long known this of what you speak, it is just so refreshing & wonderfully enjoyable to have YOU explain it with such simple & precise terminology, and in a calm & at ease manner. You make learning and/or continuing education an absolute pleasure. You being a New Hampshire boy and longtime Master Educator I believe it past time Dartmouth College give you an Honorary Doctorate. Their Honorary Doctorate Degrees in Education aren't just for Josiah Bartlett(1790), Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel '25(1955), or Fred "Mr." Rogers '47(2002).

Its always good to see another new GunBlue490 video posted. Be well and God bless.

Priceless knowledge Always appreciate your videos

Just imagine how wonderful it would be to be on the other side of that table, with a glass of whiskey, giving Benny an occasional scratch and spending the afternoon discussing firearms, reloading and game with this gentleman!! 😊👍

Awesome... and thank you for your service Sir.

Love that pup, is aging much better than you and me! Another excellent video, thank you sir.

Good Luck this season Sir !!! Semper Fidelis

I thought I knew a few things about guns until I started watching this man.

Great Explanation!!

I am forever grateful for you spending time and sharing your knowledge. Very nice pour of scotch.

Great explanation! Thank you 👏

A great video. I've been sighting in for maximum effective point blank range for longer than I can remember. I'm coming up on my 70th birthday and although I can't hunt much anymore because of health issues I still enjoy taking my rifles out to the pasture on my farm and giving them a little workout. For a lot of the faster center rfles the old 3" high at 100 yards is still a good starting point. Then shooting groups at both shorter and longer ranges will show where the bullet is hitting above or below those two magic "dead on" spots along the bore axis line of sight. With some work the real maximum effective point blank range for the larger bore slower rounds can be figured out. Modern bullets, especially the Hornady FTX in the LeverEvolution has increased the practical maximum effective point blank range in the 30-30, 35 Remington, 444 Marlin and 45-70 Gov't. They're still not 300 yard plus bean field rifles but have made them better for that potential 200 yard shot, especially if you happen to have a low powered scope on your "woods" rifle. I guess my age is showing in that I can't believe how many current day shooters or hunters never heard of Jack O'Connor or his journalistic nemesis Elmer Keith and many other great gun and hunting writers who really "wrote the book" on all things hunting and shooting from as far back as the early 1930's through the early to mid 1970's. I've seen a lot of internet no-nothings who have obviously never read much of anything he wrote saying that Jack only hunted with the 270 Winchester which is far from the truth. Although he killed eleven Grizzly Bears with his beloved 270, Jack hunted with a lot of cartridges from 250 Savage to 458 Winchester Magnum, but in his "Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns" he said (paraphrasing here) "If I could have only one rifle to hunt the world over it would be a 375 H&H Magnum. If I was allowed a second rifle it would be a 270 Winchester. Happy hunting boys and girls.

Great to see Benny again!

Thanks for all you are doing. Such a wealth knowledge and experience. I am learning so much. You are living the good life; a great dog, a fist full of whiskey, and a plan for the hunt. Wish I was there!!! Thanks again!!!

Great reminder. Thanks.

I love your channel and information.. I was not aware you were a New Englander. Hello from RI!

Thanks for the thoughtful presentation, glad to see Benny is collecting ticks 🥵it’ll be frosty 🥶 hopefully soon. Can’t wait to see a video about a hunt or at least an at length discussion of it. I’ll pull up the wine 🍷 and a Monte #2 💨.

Glad Benny is doing well and hope he continues to keep doing well. I feel the same way about my dogs.

I own a .257 Roberts because of you. Thanks for yet another informative and helpful video. Good luck this fall and be safe.

Thanks for posting the video. I knew about the elevation of the gun barrel relative to the line of sight but I had not realized that there were actually two zero points. It makes perfect sense and seems so obvious now that you explained it. It looks like you have a Marlin XT 22 rifle there on the table. That's the model I have also and the one I plan to take to the range next month to complete my shooting tests. I took a hunter safety education course from my state's Fish and Game commission and the last part of the exams requires us to shoot a paper target at 50 feet. I was wondering why those chose 50 feet and now it seems clear it's because for most 22 rifles that's probably where the initial zero is located. Cheers!

I wish my grandpa was like this gentleman.

Thanks for the tutorial.

Enjoyed the visit.

Old School wisdom... Thank you, Sir.

Glad to see you. I was just thinking about you hoping you were ok

Thank you for helping me understand a lot of things that I never understand about shooting

Benny is a such a good boy!!

I too am an old Fossil. I live in the high desert in Idaho. I learned point blank sighting years ago at the same time I learned about ethical shooting at distances that are not guessing. I get involved with teaching young hunters and help then sight in their rifles for hunting seasons. If the father is between 30 and 40 they usually are programed for shooting game at 1000 yrs. I feel that is totally unethical and inhumane. I have a rifle that will hit an 16 inch target at a measured mile. (Under ideal conditions) That is right I said a mile with all the documentation. I have yet to shoot at any game animal at much over 300 Yds. I have passed up several good ones. I am 79 and have never starved nor wounded and lost and animal. Thank You. You are accurate, factual and a Blessing to our game animals and the shooting community. Dale Tustison

We received 14" of snow overnight here in Montana and today is the first day of deer season. That didn't keep a lot of businesses from closing to go hunting.

I always find something new to learn.

"Shoot at the deer first" ha, that's great. I see that electric strawberry. Tropic Lightning!

You have a lot of class sir!

Good to see you fella

Wow thanks for the info. I'm probably going to have to watch just three or four times until it sinks in though😆😆

Thanks again 👍

Great video😊

I wish all my college subjects were as interesting as shooting. There are so many things to learn. Thank-you for the lesson. I find very interesting the relation between: scope mount height, first zero, down range zero, bullet drop, temperature,... I use "federal ballistics calculator " to help me make decisions on some of the variables. When i started this hobby i never thought shooting was so absorbing. BTW. ... I still trying to convince the wife to let me buy that beeman R7 you showed on previous video....

this man is a class act!!

Thank you Sir.

I am like you Captain. I will NOT take a shot on big game that is beyond 350yds. When I was a boy, I went deer hunting with my cousin. He took a shot on a deer that was greater than 350yds and he misjudged bullet drop and it was windy. He hit that deer outside the kill zones, but he wounded the deer and it fled into the open dessert. We looked and looked and couldn't find it. The next day we noticed some buzzards coming in and out of a ravine. We found that deer because of them and the buzzards were picking that carcass clean. When we got back, we told the story to my dad and he made my cousin fill out his tag and turn it in. He said, "you shot that deer and it is dead. You have your deer for the season". It is disrespectful and irresponsible to shoot game outside of your capability. And it is irresponsible to not know the limitations of yourself and your rifle. A very belated thanks to you for this video.

Terrific. Thanks.

Well done! Enjoyed the simplicity an accuracy of his explanation. Some people make shooting too complicated for new shooters. Morden weapons & scopes are designed for eaiser use. Semper Fi

Mr Gunblue Just so you know. I was unsubscribe to my favorite KZfaq channel, yours. Utube up to its old tricks. I hope there will be a platform that is pro gun education. Again thanks for all your lessons.

Absolute. Legend.