One of the biggest names in saltwater fishing, PENN, is taking their saltwater expertise beyond fishing gear with a new line of waterproof bags, kill bags, and accessories. Knowing just how harsh saltwater is on everything, the PENN team spent two years researching, testing, and spending time on ...
Makers of highly realistic baits, Savage Gear is back, bringing life to blueback herring imitations with the new 3D 4Play Herring swimbait. This is a new swimbait that uses a 3D scan of a real blueback herring and photo-printed details to make a swimmer-style jointed swimbait that combines a real...
Just in time for Spooky Month, Berkley Fishing is here with a new limited-edition three-pack of Swamp Lord topwater frogs, the Swamp Lord Terror Pack. Featuring three haunting new color patterns on the tried-and-true Berkley Swamp Lord hollow-body frog. The Swamp Lord Terror Pack delivers the sa...
Early-season wingshooting humbles experienced hunters as much as newcomers. Birds slip through untouched, the shells pile up, and frustration builds. The culprit is rarely bad luck. Most misses trace back to a handful of repeatable mistakes, and each one has a fix you can work on before you ever ...
You are lying prone behind a rifle, the clock is running, and you need the wind, the range and your drop. So you lift your head, look at the Kestrel in your hand, read the numbers, lose your sight picture and start again. I have done that more times than I care to count, on the range, in matches ...
Swordfish have always been a fish I’ve only read about or seen a few steaks of behind the glass at the fish counter growing up. Something that I thought was only attainable through commercial means, or with long-range offshore trips that required great effort and some luck. Then in the 2000...
Glock’s Gen6 pistols are on the street, and the aftermarket is catching up. XS Sights has two new Glock products out this month: an ACRO footprint optic plate for Gen6 pistols and R3D 2.0 night sights for the Glock 43X and 48 COA models. The Gen6 plate has been a while coming. XS showed a [R...
Big bass eat big baits, and Savage Gear is giving glide bait anglers a bigger option to prove it. The 3D Line Thru Soft Shine Glide now comes in a 9-inch size, stepping up from the original 7-inch model with more length, more weight, and more momentum in the water. Like the 7-inch version, the [&...
I have been fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with the Springfield Armory Echelon platform since it was first introduced. From the original 4.5F full-size pistol through the 4.0C compact, compensated and other configurations (such as the 4.0FC) that followed, I have reviewed and experimente...
This summer I got an afternoon on a mellow 5-mile river stretch with Alpacka’s new Aleutian, their take on a travel-friendly sea kayak in packraft form. I’m used to regular packrafts that feel more like floating couches than precise boats, so I was curious how this longer, more kayak-shaped d...