Winning With the In Laws and Stacking Wild Hogs – The NiteSite Night Vision Review
My father-in-law had already told me “No,” but he didn’t know what he was saying “no” to. I grabbed his .22-250 bolt action rifle fitted with an inexpensive no-name 3-9x40 scope I ran to the closet in the guest room with the rifle in hand and pulled out the case for...
Musical Triggers – What You’ve Known All Along But Couldn’t Quite Say Right
The more I interact with guns, the more apparent I find the correlation between music and firearms - they both have the power to produce instant memories. They force us to think, learn, feel and ask questions, and, much like music, guns provoke within their operators...
Change the Caliber Change the Game – We Take the X95 Tavor 300 Blackout Tactical Hog Hunting!
Last year I published a story here saying the IWI X95 Tavor might be the best hog hunting rifle ever. Well, times change and maybe we can call that Part 1. But now we have the X95 chambered in 300 Blackout and, yeah, it might just be even better! Full disclosure...
DIY: Why and How to DuraCoat Your Own Gun
Hunting rifles have evolved. It is to be expected. History proves that hunting firearms have always followed advances in military small arms technology. For many of us, our hunting rifles are no longer polished blue steel and high-grade walnut. We tend to gravitate to...
Why We Love Recon Bags – A Review Three Years In the Making (Video)
If you’re the kind of adventurer who’s HQ is a tent whether hunting, scouting, or just having fun discovering what you can find over the next ridge, you need a sleeping bag. For about three years of adventures now, I’ve been waking up inside a Recon sleeping bag. I’ll...
Cyclic Rate of Fire, what is it, and why is it part of the Bump Stock Ban?
A friend with an AR asked me a question yesterday. Like most gun owners she knows how to use them, but no gun background to speak of. She wanted to know what can increase rate of fire in an AR, and why is banning bump fire stocks such a problem? Politics aside, there...
Like a Video Game! Rookie Texas Dove Combat for this Rocky Mountain Girl!
How many of you know, when you are invited by SHWAT™ to join a Remington Outdoor Company dove hunt on a ranch in Texas, you go? Never mind the fact that you’re pretty much exclusively a big game hunter. Or that although your archery skills may be quite polished,...
Hundreds of Hogs – Real World Hunting with the Trijicon EO REAP-IR
It’s the Friday before Labor Day and with the family in tow, we start the 2.5 hour trek west to the farm. This can mean only one thing… Labor Day Hog Hunting. Years ago, Labor Day weekend was when we unofficially started our hog hunting season (and it usually ends on...
PSA: Win 2 2018 Custom Jeep Wranglers from Extreme Terrain!
Consider this a PSA post SHWAT™ Team (it's not our giveaway): What does a well known off road aftermarket company have to do with SHWAT™ and you? On the one hand maybe nothing. On the other hand, they are giving away a couple of ridiculous custom Jeep Wranglers that...
See Through Suppressor Super Slow Motion Video by SmarterEveryDay
I don't much about YouTuber SmarterEveryDay, but he's got one awesome video up this evening! For this video he teams up with Soteria Suppressors (new to us as well). Soteria has created see through suppressors using cast acrylic tubes. Pull the trigger and you can...
