Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Brown Manufacturing Company Ballard Patent single shot sporting rifle manufactured 1869 to 1873 out of Newburyport, Massachusetts, with at least 500 produced according to Flayderman’s Guide. Brown Manufacturing was one of several small...
Back in December 2024, I posted on Facebook about pocket-carry fixed blades. I predicted their popularity was going to explode in 2025. It was based on nothing more than gut instinct. It was interesting that the comments on that thread were very polarizing. People either loved small fixed blade k...
When we talk about rimfires today, we mostly think of .22LR, .22 Short or maybe .22 Magnum. In the past few years, we’ve seen .17 HMR and .21 Sharp come on the scene, and the .17 HM2 come and go. All these cartridges have their advantages and disadvantages, but they’re all small-bore ...
The Supreme Court’s 9-0 Hemani judgment rejected automatic disarmament based solely on regular marijuana use. Its rigorous historical analysis could also spell trouble for Hawaii’s “Vampire Rule” in Wolford v. Lopez.
Trika USA is a newer fishing gear company using premium materials like carbon fiber to make quality American-made tackle. Last year, right before ICAST, they introduced the new Trika Ti Series Spinning reels, a high-quality sealed spinning reel that uses aerospace-grade materials in its build. ...
In this article, Greg Frebourg reviews the Springfield Ronin EMP 9mm pistol. The handgun was loaned to the author by the company for this article. If it quacks like a duck, floats, walks and looks like a duck, well, it is a duck. That common sense saying might be full of wisdom, but it falls Read...
When a soldier takes a round to the shin or catches a blast that fractures the tibia, the traditional response pulls two to four additional service members off the line to haul a litter, plus a security element to cover them. That's a significant combat power cost for a single casualty. The ...
How our former shooting editor made history in benchrest competition The post ‘I Finally Shot a Good Group.’ The Story of Jim Carmichel’s Benchrest World Record appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Handmade knives are great, but sometimes the problem is that there aren’t enough hands. Anyone who’s tried getting a custom knife only to be forever chasing them to be in stock understands the pain. L.T. Wright Knives from Winterville, Ohio, is a small shop that typically does all of ...