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The right connections can usually overcome the worst luck even when the hunting is lousy and the fishing is worse.

Theodore Roosevelt is arguably the most recognized outdoorsman to lead the United States, but he wasn’t always a hunter. Come along on a New Yorker’s first Western hunting venture.

Enter NRA Whittington Center’s “Hunt of a Lifetime” raffle for your chance to win a New Mexico trophy bison hunt, an original 1874 Sharps rifle, a locally-made Damascus knife and sheath, and an original piece of wall art by Ronald Kil.

If a new rifle cartridge is not supported by one of the main ammunition manufacturers, it doesn’t seem to get much traction. This is unfortunate, specifically in the case of the .25-45 Sharps, because it provides an easy-to-obtain ballistic advantage over the two most popular AR-15 chamberings: the .223 Rem. and the .300 Blackout.

The Sharps Rifle Company (SRC) developed the .25-45 Sharps cartridge and introduced it in 2012. Not to be confused with Shiloh Sharps—a company that makes historically correct blackpowder cartridge rifles—SRC is for all practical purposes built around this one cartridge, which is designed to replicate .250 Savage ballistics in an AR-15. Four years after its introduction, most hunters have never heard of the .25-45 Sharps. That’s about to change.

Simple pleasures: That’s what deer hunting with friends is all about.

Sharps Rifle Company will bring more power to the AR platform with the .25-45 Sharps this summer.