Bank Fishing Blueprint #013: Fishing Small Shade in the Summer

Welcome back to Bank Fishing Blueprint, the weekly AllOutdoor series focused on helping anglers find and catch more fish from the bank. Last week we covered choke points on windy days, and how a stiff southeast wind pushing water through a narrow gap can stack bass up in a spot most people walk r...

By Keith Lusher

Ichord Report: What If Congress Had Let the M16 Die?

“Practically every one of our dead was found with his rifle torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it.” – Excerpt from a letter written by Marine in 1966 to his family after a firefight in Vietnam. Parts of this Marine’s letter was read by Rep. James J. Howard (...

By Robert A. Sadowski

MG5 - Germany’s Modern Machine Gun

Previously, I wrote about the HK43 and how it eventually evolved into the MG4. From there, the design continued, leading to the HK121, better known today as the MG5. That’s where this picks up. The Heckler & Koch MG5 is Germany’s modern general-purpose machine gun, developed to re...

By Lynndon Schooler

Beretta A400 Solo: Speed & Softness in a Mid-Range Semi-Auto

Beretta's new A400 Solo slots into the Goldilocks zone of the A400 lineup: faster cycling and cleaner operation than the A300 family, but without the premium features and recoil reduction of the Xtreme Plus or AX800 Suprema. It's built for hunters who want the A400 platform's prove...

By Eric B

AllOutdoor Review – XKG Sonora Air Shirt

You will find Kings Camo/XKG in Lindon, Utah and they are a hunting apparel brand that has been around since 2002. The two brothers who put the company on the map back then were the ones to debut their terrain-specific camo patterns. A change of guard came in 2013 with Ryan Foutz, Jed Nelson and ...

By Patrik Orcutt

Vortex Crossfire II Red Dots Add Solar, Motion Activation

For years the original Crossfire was the default answer when somebody asked what red dot to hang on a first AR without spending real money. Vortex updated it earlier this month, and the Crossfire II lineup closes most of the gaps that had opened up between the old sight and the rest of the budget...

By Sam.S

Fokker D.VIII Fighter: The Deadly Flying Razor

In the summer of 1918, a new fighter ascended in the German Air Combat Forces, or Luftstreitkräfte, boasting a level of performance that would outpace any of Anthony Fokkers’ famous designs. The Fokker E.V parasol monoplane, eventually known as the Fokker D.VIII, demonstrated tremendous combat...

By Tom Laemlein

The Rimfire Report: ELEY’s Penultimate 40 gr Match Flat Nose

If you’ve been keeping track of my ongoing ammunition testing series, you know we’ve been dabbling a bit on both ends of the spectrum of cost and reputation. On the higher end of the spectrum, we’ve been slowly going through ELEY’s catalog of 22LR offerings; today we&rsquo...

By Luke C.
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