Take These Everywhere! Princeton Tec Helix Backcountry and Basecamp Light Reviews
If you’re into the outdoors – hunting, scouting, camping, overland adventuring – you end up in the dark. Without lights, you stumble around, drop ammo that never gets recovered, lose your hearing protection, trip over a backpack and knock your teeth out. Don’t be that...
Long Range Hunting – The Cheaper By the Kill Shot Challenge
The concept of long range deer hunting in the mid-west is a matter of perception. Most of us grew up hunting with a shotgun and the effective kill range was well within 100 yards. Now imagine stretching the kill range to 600 yards or more? What!? This range is...
Seriously? J5 Tactical V1 Pro Pocket Flashlight Practical Review
Who doesn’t love a sweet flashlight? Exactly, so when J5 Tactical offered to send me one of their V1 Pro pocket flashlights with no strings attached, I said, “send it!” I might have been a little skeptical since sensational marketing statements rarely play well with...
Maybe the Most In Depth Spotting Scope Review Ever? Trijicon HD Spotting Scope
Have you ever worked on zeroing a rifle in the field where you had to run back and forth from your shooting position to your target to see what you’re doing? Sure, you had a scope and binoculars, but they just weren’t strong enough. Or maybe you’ve shot at steel...
HOW TO: Set up and shoot subsonics accurately in darkness
Nearly every night I browse the internet in search of tips and advice from experts to better my shooting game. For me, it's the only way to satisfy my urge to shoot when I don’t have the time to actually shoot. I lie in bed and read and read until I pass out from...
Hog Sniping with Suppressed Subsonic .308 Bolt Actions and Maker Bullets
You know the often used movie scene where the shooter mounts a silencer to a rifle, aims, then gets a too-good-to-be-true muffled pop as the gun fires while the bullet miraculously flies 500 yards or so taking down the target? You may know that the 300 Blackout can...
Part 2: 72 Hours – 458 SOCOM DRAWS BLOOD
Have you ever gone through the exercise of writing down the time you’ve spent in preseason preparation? How about the sum of hours spent on ballistics testing, range work and gun/gear prep? It’s daunting and my wife thinks I’m crazy! This doesn’t include the time in...
458 SOCOM: Part 1 – From Military Tech to My Personal Hunting Mini Cannon, How I Got Here
Did you know that one of the greatest developments in modern firearm cartridges was the result of a beer and BBQ event? Imagine that, some of toughest operators on the planet hanging out, having a cold one at a BBQ and indirectly contributing to the development of one...
Clean Your AR like a Green Beret
Consider this an update, or overhaul, of our prior work on gun cleaning. Call me a slacker, but I have this idea that carbines should run just fine without meticulous cleaning. Okay, that’s part philosophy and part lazy. To me, cleaning guns in a necessary evil. So if...
When You Bring Your 300 WinMag and Nothing Goes As Planned
We have all had those trips in which we felt things were set perfectly, we had a great positive outlook and were ready for the challenges ahead no matter what. So there I was with the new 300 WinMag Federal Premium Edge TLR ammo... New Savage Long Range Hunter? Check....
