Fall Muskie Tactics: Why Bigger Baits Win Before Freeze

Muskies feed hardest in the weeks before a lake locks up, and if you want the biggest fish of your life, this is the window to target. The reason is biological: muskies carry an innate urgency to feed heavily and store body fat to survive winter, and that drive often overrides their usual caution...

By James Chen •

I Saved Seven Years for a Kodiak Brown Bear Hunt

Some hunts you book on a whim. A Kodiak brown bear is not one of them. The dream started on a wet fall evening in 1950, when an ad in a hunting magazine offered a Kodiak bear hunt, and it ended on a sheltered bay at the southwest corner of the island nearly seven years […] The post I Saved ...

By James Chen •

October's 1.4M Checks Mask a 2027 Cost Shift

October's adjusted NICS checks rose 7.9 percent while the raw FBI count fell 8.1 percent. The election did not change this quarter's demand, but it changed the state map that sets your 2027 compliance costs and product mix.

By Mark Edwards •

Pros and Cons of the Three-Point Sling

We suspect most of you know about two-point slings, as it seems to us that those are the most popular choice with most shooters. The second most common type is a single-point sling. Although single- and two-point slings dominate the market for the most part, there is one more sling, a m...

By GunSpot •

A Late Tribute to An Early Mentor

Paul Moss was a cousin, but throughout our growing up years he was more like a brother. He lived in the country; my family had moved to town. I managed to spend as much time in the country as I could, either at my grandparents house or at Paul’s house. We did typical country boy […]

By David Freeman •
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