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 •

How Tank Armor Really Works

There is a comfortable lie sold by war movies and video games that a tank survives incoming fire simply by being an absurdly thick wall of solid steel. You take a hit, the hull rings like a church bell, sparks fly into the dirt, and the crew rolls forward without spilling their coffee. Anyone who...

By Mason Berryman •

Derya Arms Enters the Suppressor Market with the OBone

If you have never shot .22 LR suppressed, you have missed one of the best experiences in shooting. A subsonic rimfire behind a can is genuinely quiet, the whole thing costs very little per round, and new shooters who flinch at a centerfire rifle will happily shoot a suppressed .22 all afternoon. ...

By Eric B •

Holographic Sights for Hunting: Not Useless, Not Ideal

A little while back, Vortex Optics sent over their AMG UH-1 Gen II holographic sight, and it spent its time with me riding on a MAC IX and a Rossi R95 Triple Black lever action. Somewhere between those two guns, a question got stuck in my head. Holographic sights are built for larpers, close-quar...

By Sam.S •

Taurus TX9 Gets a Flat Dark Earth Finish Across Three Sizes

Taurus has added a Flat Dark Earth finish to the TX9, and it covers all three sizes at once: full-size, compact and sub-compact. Both the slide and frame are FDE, with a matte black barrel peeking out through the ejection port. Taurus marketing GM Caleb Giddings put it simply when he said that in...

By Eric B •
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