Tuesday, August 2, 2016




Kromka Sporting Adventures' own Sam Palumbo 
is proud to introduce the new 

Clay and Oak Sporting Club at Clove Spring Range.




Polish your shooting skills with Sam at this upscale
 trap and skeet sporting club, located at 
44 Clove Road Wantage NJ, in a bucolic setting, surrounded by historical dairy farms, meandering brooks, old wood forest 
and secret fishing holes.


The unique, newly renovated 1953 Winchester lodge 
will take you back in time. 

The club is open to the public and can accommodate private events for families, corporations and charity organizations.


              
             
      


Raise Your Skeet and Trap Shooting Skills To The Next Level By Contacting Sam Palumbo Today


973-202- 8667

 Clay and Oak Sporting Club





Tuesday, April 14, 2015

KSA Supports The BSA with 2015 Sporting Clays Shoot.

Boy Scouts Of America 2015 Sporting Clays Shoot.

Pawling Mountain Club, Pawling, NY.
May 11th 9am - 1pm.


Kromka Sporting Adventures is a 
proud sponsor and participant 
in this fundraiser for
 
The Boy Scouts of America. 

Please join us and help support this great organization!

To Register:

Invest Your Tax Refund In Yourself This Year!



Has Uncle Sam 
Been Good To You This Year?

Then Maybe It's Time 
To Be Good To Yourself.

Get The Rifle, Shotgun or Scope You've Been Wishing For.
 Let the pros at KSA assist you with selecting the perfect combination for your hunting or shooting application. 

   


KSA is a full service Nosler, Swarovski, Beretta, Rizzini, Perazzi, Fierce and Schilling FFL dealer, providing new and used guns, optics, consignment guns, gunsmithing, NRA certified shooting instruction / training, 
ammunition and accessories.


 KSA wants to be your source for all your 
shooting and hunt gear. 

Jim Kromka 
862-812-3846


Sam Palumbo 

Friday, February 6, 2015

Look For KSA At The Great American Outdoor Show - Booth # 619.



We'll be at Booth # 619. Stop by to enter to win a free $200.00 KSA Gift Certificate!


The Great American Outdoor Show is a nine day event celebrating hunting, 


fishing and


outdoor traditions that are treasured by millions 



of Americans and their families. The show features over 1,000 exhibitors 


ranging from 


shooting manufacturers to outfitters to fishing 


boats and RV’s, and archery to art covering 650,000 square feet of exhibit hall 


space! Not 


to mention a jam packed schedule including 


country concerts, fundraising dinners, speaking events, archery competitions, 


celebrity 


appearances, seminars, demonstrations and 


much more!





Saturday, January 3, 2015

Nosler® Ballistic Tip® Varmint bullets.



 





Nosler® Ballistic Tip® Varmint bullets deliver the accuracy, consistency and down-range punch required for clean kills in all situations. 



These at-shooting, wind-defying bullets utilize ballistic-designed boat-tails and polymer tips to increase long-range efficiency and protect against tip damage in the magazine. Unique tapered jacket provide controlled expansion at all practical ranges and velocities





                                                     




Nosler® Ballistic Tip® Varmint bullets thrive on ultra-high velocity loads yet will go the
distance with spectacular results all the way down to the lowest practical velocity
levels. This is made possible by the proprietary manufacturing process that allows
for several key benefits for varmint shooters to take advantage of. 


First, the BT Varmint has a solid, boat-tail base for increased ballistic co-efficient and
 ease of reloading. 

Second, it is constructed with thick jacket walls, eliminating the chance of air solubility at extreme velocities. 

Third, the jacket thins at the nose of the bullet which, combined with the polymer tip, creates rapid and explosive expansion.


                                                     

Fast or slow, near or far, no matter what rifle /cartridge combination you're shooting

or what varmint you're shooting at, Nosler® Ballistic Tip® Varmint delivers
match-grade accuracy with all the performance characteristics serious varminters
are looking for.



Saturday, August 23, 2014

High Velocity, Smaller Calibers, and Kinetic Energy

In the years following WWI there was a trend to convert surplus 
03 Springfields into sporting rifles.The 30-06 was the caliber in the Springfield, and thus the 30cal set the industry standard for decades on Big Game Hunting in the U.S.

Just like the the Big Block muscle cars of the 60's, the thought was Bigger is Better when it came to knock-down power on Big Game, and with the limited bullet designs there were back then that thought was true. 

With too many Sportsman today that notion is alive and well. On the other side of the coin there are many of us that love the smaller, higher velocity cartridges, that the bench shooters brought into play, with their so called wildcat rounds - with their lower recoil, flatter trajectories, and their efficient way of delivering the technologically advanced bullets of today. Their controlled expansion, combined with high velocity, stays with the animal as it goes down. 

Let me explain! Kinetic energy is the energy of mass in motion. A 180gr bullet traveling at 2950fps hitting a deer is going to do the job, however most of the heavier bullet's kinetic energy is lost passing out the other side of the deer. With a 129gr bullet traveling at 3400fps, the lighter bullet will hit the deer, release its energy inside through controlled expansion much more efficiently, and create devastating dropping power.The high velocity combined with today's modern bullet designs makes for fantastic ballistics and stopping power.       

In the earlier days of bullet designs the round nose and spitzers were it. Then in 1948 John Nosler designed the Partition bullet, which revolutionized the industry. Most of the Rifles back then were controlled feed, so the soft point of the partition combined with the weight retention of the bullet when it expanded (mushroom effect) worked well. Then, as the more common push feed bolt actions came into the field, the soft lead tipped bullets were getting distorted upon hitting the feed ramp as it entered the chamber, causing the bullet to lose accuracy. 

Once again John Nosler designed and introduced the Ballistic Tip in 1984 and changed the industry for years to come. With its hard polymer tip, it did not distort upon hitting the feed ramp with push feed bolts. And thus made for a more accurate, faster, and superior expansion on impact. Not to mention better ballistic coefficients (aerodynamics of the bullet) in flight. It also required less propellant to move the bullet faster, thus less recoil and less flinching. The ballistic tip, and Accubond bullets, have incredible controlled expansion and are designed to expand in the animal and disperse the bullets kinetic energy inside the animal and not lose it going out the other side. Here is a ballistic gelatin test photo to show how and where the energy is dumped upon expansion:


As you can see this 110gr bullet at 3000fps opened up at 5" inside, released its kinetic energy, and leaves at 12" as clean as it went in. The 18" mark is just about the width of most deer. It still went through the deer BUT it released its power inside. Here is a quote from a friend in the industry which makes sense:

"A 200-pound deer's chest is about 2 inches wider than a 100-pound deer's chest. You don't have to shoot through an extra 100 pounds to kill a 200-pound deer." I tend to agree and my thought is MANY Elk, Moose and Bear were put down with a pop gun called the 44 Henry !!!


Here are a few of my favorite choices for calibers for deer, and these work very well for larger game also.  
   
LONG ACTIONS   300-600yds
  • 26 Nosler Hands down the NEW CHAMP!!! Muzzle velocity 3400fps with a129gr bullet out performs the 264win mag, 338 lapua, 270win, 30-06 sprg. Zeroed at 350yrds the 26 Nosler has a point blank range of 415yrds,and at 400yrds has the same velocity as a 260rem does at the muzzle.
  • 280 Ackley Improved
  • 280 rem
  • 25-06
SHORT ACTIONS   100-300yrds
  • 270wsm  a zipper and good beyond 300yrds
  • 260 rem  this little cartridge is a flat shooter, low recoil, and a wide variety of factory loadings
  • 7mm-08 rem  another great round often called the improved 7x57
Benefits of smaller High Velocity cartridges
  • Flatter trajectory (makes hold over much easier and forgiving).
  • Lower recoil (in most cases less recoil means less flinching. I like watching it happen right thru the scope ! )
  • Great distribution of energy INTO your Game, NOT in the tree BEHIND IT!!!
  • Quite a few of these lighter rounds travel so fast, that they do buck the wind better than most people think.
 Reccommended  Bullets
  • Deer, Antelope     Nosler  Ballistic Tip
  • Elk, Moose           Nosler  Accubond
                                       !!! Good Luck to you ALL this season !!!!    
Jim Kromka
 kromkasportingadventures.com