Night fishing rewards patience, and it punishes fumbling in the dark. When brown trout and striped bass are most active at dusk and dawn, and steelhead anglers routinely make pre-dawn treks to reach the first-light bite, a good headlamp earns its place in the tackle bag fast. The reason is simple...
The first rifle I ever really shot was a plain old Ruger 10/22, and the ammo feeding it came out of a brown box that looked like it belonged in my grandfather's tackle shed. Peters . Forty grains of lead, high velocity, round nose, and in my memory it never once let me or my 10/22 down at th...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1911 built by people who were not in the gun business at all. Cabot Guns came out of Penn United Technologies in Cabot, Pennsylvania, a carbide tooling shop that grew out of a three bay garage and now turns out precision parts for aerospa...
Though it’s been about a century and a quarter since John Browning first graced us with the .45 ACP, it’s not tremendously difficult to see why it’s still with us. While some gravitate to the cartridge due to nostalgia or a connection with America’s military past, just as many people reco...
Picture this: you drive out to the range with a rifle you know is zeroed. You spent good money on a scope, so you have a crystal-clear, parallax-free view of your target. You get your rifle set up on a good rest, chamber a round, and pull the trigger to the rear. You are rewarded Read More The po...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a suppressor review, and the topic is the Dead Air Sandman X, a short, full-auto-rated .30 caliber can I ran on two very different host rifles and watched do something I did not expect. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , who...
Whether you carry strong side or had to switch after an injury or years favoring one side on the trail, an ambidextrous holster solves a problem plenty of hunters run into eventually. Mission First Tactical’s new AIWB WML Ambidextrous Holster is built around that idea, with a single Boltaro...
Springfield Armory has been a major player in the U.S. firearms market for more than five decades now. Its initial offering in 1974 was the M1A, a semi-auto version of the famed M14 rifle which is still used by special units in the U.S. military. Then, the company expanded into a line of quality ...
When I visited Q in Dover New Hampshire, over a year ago, I walked out of there with one quote in my mind that I can still remember. "Nobody really minds what you're up to, as long as you're enjoying yourself," explained Nick Schaefer, an engineer who has played a key role in ...
There is a certain level of quality that I think we all expect when we see the term “Match” attached to a product. Whether that be a component, the whole gun, or the ammo, the word Match typically implies that the item in question is made with high precision, tighter tolerances, and m...