Optics Buying Guide

The best hunting binoculars of 2026 will kill more game for you than any rifle upgrade. I know that sounds backwards, but think about how a hunt actually goes. You spend hours looking and seconds shooting. The guy who finds the animal first, sizes it up, and picks the stalk wins. The guy squinting through [...]

The best rangefinders of 2026 fix the most common reason hunters miss, and it is not the rifle. It is the guess. Most people are terrible at judging distance, especially across open country, canyons, or water. A deer that looks like 300 yards is 420, and a bull across a basin that looks like a [...]

The Gen II doesn’t just upgrade; it overhauls. The optical system is re-engineered to improve color accuracy and low-light performance.

Upon first glance, a red dot sight or scope looks hard to mount. Luckily, there are a lot of methods available that can be used to mount modern optics to your AK securely. Optics can enhance shooting, but require reliable mounts.

Thankfully for all the buddies on a budget, the AGM Rattler has a bit more of an affordable price than your average thermal scope.

Aiming to capture what the user sees through their optic, TriggerCam designed their 2.1 action camera to mount on the rear of traditional scope in a way that does not obstruct the users’ field of view.

When I heard that Crimson Trace had come out with a new line of red dot sights, their Rapid Aiming Dots (RAD), it made complete sense to me. After all, Crimson Trace has been in the firearm laser and light business for decades, and in more recent years has introduced their scope lines, so adding electronics into optics to get new electronic sights seems to be the natural progression.

I’ll say at the outset that the title of this review is a lie. In order to do a “full review” of the new Vortex Fury binos, I’d need a lot more copy space than my editor is going to give me. The Vortex Fury HB 5000 AB is so loaded with features and functionalities [...]

The NX8 2.5-20x performed exceptionally well on all fronts, and I look forward to seeing the action in Africa behind the crosshairs of one.