Gear Reviews

The Mantis Blackbeard turns an AR-15 into a fast-resetting laser dry fire trainer without making you manually cycle the action after every shot. After thousands of possible trigger presses per charge, boring dry fire starts looking a whole lot more interesting.

The SnapSafe Two-Gun Keypad Vault is a simple quick-access handgun safe with room for 2 guns, smart backup features, and an easy setup. At $140.99 MSRP, it solved a very real storage problem well enough that I’m buying another one.

The best Vortex scopes cover just about every job a rifle or pistol can do, from a budget deer scope to an LPVO that costs more than most of the rifles it rides on. That range is the reason Vortex is the brand so many shooters start with, and the reason it is so easy [...]

The Arken EP-5 GENII 7-35×56 delivers sharp glass, confident tracking, and competition-ready controls for $749. It is not perfect, but this precision rifle scope performs well above the price printed on the box.

The RCBS MatchMaster Precision Case Trimmer promises to trim, chamfer, and deburr brass in one pass. After 523 cartridges and 78.5″ of brass removed on the same cutter head, I found out just how hard this $699.99 precision machine can work.

The best spotting scopes of 2026 do the job your binoculars cannot. A good 10x binocular finds the animal. A spotting scope tells you whether that buck is a shooter, whether that ram is legal, and whether that bullet hit the steel at 900 yards or kicked up dirt behind it. If you hunt open [...]

The Tactacam REVEAL Pro 3.0 is a no-glow cellular trail camera that delivers fast photos, strong battery life, built-in GPS, and real field reliability without turning setup into a science project. After roughly a year across feeders, game trails, and open fields, this camera proved it can sit quietly, send intel fast, and stay out of your way.

The Tenet Vesper combines an 8-inch Grade 5 titanium body, sub-10-ounce weight and unusually strong sound reduction. After shooting both versions, it is subjectively the quietest centerfire rifle suppressor I’ve personally tested.

The VX-Freedom still proves you do not need mortgage-payment money to put dependable Leupold glass on a rifle. But in 2026, the harder question is whether the VX-3HD or VX-5HD gives you enough extra performance to justify climbing the ladder.