Expert Guides

The Airlock Industries Zero Gravity 30 weighs just 7.5 ounces and measures 6 inches long, but the 2026 Silencer Summit numbers show this titanium hunting suppressor can run surprisingly close to much bigger cans. After shooting it on a .300 PRC, I understand why.

=The Leupold BX-6 Range HD finally puts Leupold into the alpha-class rangefinding binocular fight, combining excellent glass, fast ranging, Hornady 4DOF ballistics, GPS, and superb wind controls. It is also heavy, expensive, and imperfect enough that the $3,999.99 question deserves a hard look.

The Velotric Nomad 2X brings full suspension, fat tires, serious hauling capacity, and genuinely useful Stealth Mode into a hunting e-bike that costs considerably less than many purpose-built competitors. After riding it through sagebrush, rocks, gravel roads, and steep country, I like it enough that it will be riding in my horse trailer this hunting season.

The Burris XTR PS 5.5-30x56mm let me dial 1,080 yards and hit steel on the first shot without counting clicks or digging through a DOPE chart. After a week of hard shooting, the bigger question was whether this $2,760 scope makes long-range shooting better, or almost too easy.

The Henry SPD HUSH takes the classic .30-30 lever action somewhere very different, pairing carbon fiber, M-LOK and suppressor-ready engineering with accuracy that briefly had me wondering whether the Shooting Gods had taken over.

Cold-weather hunting can reward the prepared and punish the stubborn. This field-tested clothing and gear guide will help you stay warmer, hike smarter, glass longer, and avoid turning a good mountain hunt into a frozen sufferfest.

Rain, mud, wet boats, and flooded timber have a talent for finding the gear you need most. The Dive Bomb Waterproof Zip Backpack gives shells, calls, snacks, clothing, and electronics a rugged dry place to ride when the hunt turns sloppy.

Rich, comforting, and fast, this elk heart mashed potato soup turns heart meat and Thanksgiving leftovers into a thick, savory chowder in about 20 minutes. Zero waste, all reward.

“Freezer is full,” Green wrote on Instagram. “Not many things challenge you like bow hunting elk.”