Safety Glasses for Shooters: Standards, Fit, and Lens Selection
What Z87+ actually means, why fit matters more than tint, and the care mistakes that ruin good lenses. A practical guide to protective eyewear for the range.
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AllOutdoor Review: Springfield Armory SA-35 Polished Blued 9mm
Springfield Armory sent yours truly their SA-35 Polished Blued for review, and it is the version a lot of people have been waiting for since the original launched. I covered that first SA-35 as a T&E gun, came away impressed, and have been curious what Springfield would do next with the platf...
Review: GOYOJO GRL335 Thermal Optic
In today’s article, Jeremy Tremp reviews the GOYOJO GRL335 thermal optic. This 4x optical scope offers an attractive price point with a professional-grade sensor and easy operation. How does it perform? That’s what Tremp sets out to discover. The optic was provided by GOYOJO Optics fo...
AllOutdoor Review – Benchmade SOCP Dagger
The Special Operations Combatives Program (SOCP) is a realistic combatives system created for special operations forces in the military. It concentrates on close-quarters fighting skills that are useful, particularly when wearing all of your gear. Greg Thompson, who founded and developed the SOCP...
Quantified Performance – Becoming a Better Competitor with Jack Leuba
With Quantified Performance celebrating three years of putting on gas gun matches, we reached out to Jack Leuba of Quantified Performance (and Knight's Armament) to discuss its growth, how matches might change in the future, trends he's observed, and practical advice on how shooters can improve t...
Review: KAER Biometric Rifle & Pistol Safe
The first thing that stood out when I got the KAER safe into position wasn’t any single feature—it was the balance of it. I like it. It’s not too heavy nor too big. It feels weighty in position and secure in place. It’s not something you want to move casually about the house. You pour Rea...
First Impressions of Zeiss's New V3 Scope Series
I recently had a great opportunity to try out Zeiss’ new V3 Lineup of Rifle Scopes on a beautiful ranch in Oklahoma. While I had always known about the scopes that Zeiss makes, I honestly think of them as a photo and video lens company first, given my background as a photographer and videog...
Why Do Movie Armorers and Consultants Make Mistakes? My Experience
When I was a kid, I always watched the credits of action movies until the end. I was waiting for one credit in particular - the movie armorer. The existence of such a job seemed too good to be true, since it encompassed all of my favorite hobbies: guns and movies.
Magnum Research Threads the .50 AE Desert Eagle
Magnum Research has announced a threaded barrel option for the Desert Eagle chambered in .50 Action Express, complete with a custom L5 piston designed specifically for suppressed fire. It's an interesting engineering solution to a platform that doesn't typically appear on suppressor-equ...
Next-Gen 3D Trout Swimbaits from Savage Gear
Savage Gear is expanding upon their swimbait line with a couple of new Next-Gen 3D Trout Swimbaits, the 3D Line Thru Trout Pro and 3D Line Thru Pulse Tail Trout Pro. These are two new scent infused soft bodied swimbaits that are ultra-realistic with refined simming action. Both of the swimbait...