Gear Reviews

Cold can be the deer hunter’s friend. A good pre-rut chill can kick deer movement into overdrive while serious cold settling in during the late season can inspire deer to move and feed. However, cold can also be as challenging to withstand for the hunter as it can be for the deer.

While deer hunting may be seen by some as a sport where hunters simply go sit in a spot and wait for something to walk by, that characterization couldn’t be further from the truth. What if your deer is out of range and you need to bring him closer? That’s where a great hunter turns to his calls, and making the right ones can be critical.

Today, everyone in the industry is aware of the 300 BLACKOUT cartridge. Indeed, firearms and ammunition in 300 BLK are readily available from most major manufacturers. However, many readers may have forgotten, or never heard, the origins of the cartridge. And the company that developed has its own AR designed to fire it.

The ATF has issued two notices on explosives — and has quickly retracted one of them.

In a perfect world we all have enough secure storage for all of our guns, and not only do our homes offer us ample space for giant safes, those safes also magically appear with no conspicuous delivery and team of installers. For the real world, there is the bolt together, take apart Snap Safe. It still arrives by truck freight, but the box does not resemble a safe, and you can take the pieces in one by one, inconspicuously, up the stairs, whatever, without advertising your safe to the neighborhood.

When it comes to scouting and whitetails, trail cameras are one of the best inventions ever created. Find out more about top tips on employing them as well as some of the best options available today.

A good backpack is essential gear for the hunter no matter whether he or she plans to hike far off the beaten path to their favorite stand or plan on sitting a blind right off the edge of a field behind the house.

Hunting a new kind of game for the first time can be intimidating. No matter how much you read and research, the most valuable knowledge can only be gained in the field. Waterfowl hunting always seemed like a big mystery to me; that is, until a few weeks ago.

The Franklin Armory Binary Firing System drop-in AR-15 trigger allows a shooter to fire a round with the press of a trigger and fire a second round with a release of the trigger. From a tactical standpoint, the Franklin Armory BFS can significantly increase the rate of fire.