When YETI brought out the new Cayo All-Weather Backpack last summer at ICAST, I was pretty interested, especially after getting rained on all day during the On-The-Water portion of the show. As someone who often gets caught out in the rain while fishing or hunting, a quality water-resistant backp...
Sometimes too much is not a good thing, and that’s exactly why the Minimalist Nessmuk knife by CRKT works so well. This compact minimalist knife gives you just what you need and nothing you don’t. From its easily carried and concealable size to its top-heavy blade and its barely-there handle,...
The Springfield Armory Hellcat is the smallest highest-capacity micro 9mm handgun available on the market. But, this isn’t new information for anyone that has been paying attention to the concealed carry handgun market. The Hellcat truly is tiny considering its 11+1 capacity (13+1 with the incl...
Rifles brought from Europe were of little use in the American wilderness. So hunters, frontiersmen, and revolutionaries began demanding something new from their gunsmiths The post How the Kentucky Rifle Turned Frontier Hunters into America’s First Snipers appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Bond Arms is marking the America 250th birthday with a limited-edition run of their Hand Cannon derringer, and unlike most commemorative firearms that dress up a standard production gun with minimal changes, this one has actual craft behind the engraving work and comes in two distinct configurati...
XS Sights has added a magazine extension to their lineup, and the approach here is worth understanding before you write it off as another aftermarket add-on. Most extensions at this price point either require a spring swap to function reliably with the added capacity, or they do not function rel...
We’ve been following the US Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program here at TFB from the very beginning and we recently reported that the US Army had received the first batch of the new and improved version of the NGSW-Rifle - the XM8 . The XM8 Carbine is a shorter and ligh...
The intention behind the original Cutts Compensator was to reduce your gun’s muzzle climb as well as its recoil. The idea was that the ports cut into the compensator’s body would redirect gasses in such a way that your gun was more controllable, focusing on vertical muzzle movement du...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Cobray/SWD Terminator single shot open bolt shotgun manufactured 1986 to 1988, marked for both 20 and 12 gauge with 2.75-inch chambers and cylinder choke. The open bolt design is the main thing here. The bolt sits rearward until you pull the...
This post explains how to achieve a 50/200 yard zero, its benefits for AR-15 and .308 rifles, and offers step-by-step instructions.