Modern airguns aren’t much like your childhood Daisy Red Ryder. Whether break-action, pump, or pre-charged pneumatic, today’s airguns are marvels of technology capable of delivering accuracy and power levels that just might surprise you. Can you hunt with them? Absolutely. Let’s explore. What Can You Hunt with Airguns? The common perception is that airguns are […]
SIG SAUER Introduces 300 Win Mag SIG HT Hunting Ammunition
Newington, NH (March 1, 2018) – SIG SAUER, Inc. is now offering a 300 Win Mag round in its line of SIG HT™ premium-grade, copper hunting ammunition. This accurate hunting round features an all-copper bullet that delivers deep penetration and consistent 1.8x diameter expansion. The 165gr 300 Win Mag bullet has a muzzle velocity of […]
Thomson Center’s New Compass Rifle – Affordable Minute of Angle Accuracy
As I write this, the new Compass rifle from Thompson Center / Smith & Wesson will be very close to shipping to retailers across the country. There are infinity-million bolt-action rifles on the market already, so what makes this one special? Three things in my opinion. First, the most nifty thing about this new rifle […]
Talking Camo With Extreme Bowhunter Cameron Hanes
This article originally appeared at OutdoorHub. SHOT Show is chock full of interesting people. I met one who thinks it’s fun to run 200-mile (yes, two hundred) marathons and hunt bear from ground positions with a bow. That would be bowhunter, extreme fitness enthusiast, and apex predator Cameron Hanes. We had the opportunity to sit […]
Dogs Gone By: On the Front Line in the War Against Prairie Dogs
We awoke at dawn. Most of us were slightly nervous, but energized by the certainty of impending combat. I doubt the enemy ever sleeps. They’re too busy digging a tunnel network to support their underground trafficking enterprise. We’d been the ones to choose the field of battle – the Silver Spur Ranch in Encampment, Wyoming. […]
Gun Review: Browning Citori 725 Feather Over & Under Shotgun
There are times when a heavier shotgun is nice to have—the trap or clays course, for example, where you’ll be popping off a hundred or so 12-gauge shells and have ample opportunity to set your (heavy) gun down. And there are other times when lugging around a gun that weighs the same as a gallon […]
Team Smith & Wesson’s Trevor Baucom: Go Big or Go Home!
If you’re thinking about getting into competitive shooting, you could always start small, maybe with a local club match. Of you could just go and enter the most challenging competition there is – the Bianchi Cup. That’s what Team Smith & Wesson’s Trevor Baucom did. Oh, and he did it from a wheelchair. You see, Trevor […]
What Has More Energy? A 3 ½” 12 Gauge Buckshot Load or a Throat Punch By Mike Tyson?
Find out with the Cartridge Comparison Guide, Second Edition I now have all the answers. Not because I’m some sort of genius, but because I met the guy who HAS found all the answers at this year’s Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) Conference. His name is Andrew and he created the Cartridge Comparison Guide, now […]
Should Turkey Decoys Do The Nasty? These and Other Questions with Barbara Baird of The WON
I love this job. Although it is, at times, dangerous. Like at the recent NRA Annual Meeting. Minding my own business at a Smith & Wesson / ATK media briefing, I was suddenly accosted by a band of half-crazed gun-outdoor-archer-hunter-shooter-fisher women. And one of the ringleaders was Barbara Baird, publisher of The WON. So I […]
How To Stare A Bull Elk Into Your Freezer: Our Interview With Huntress Mia Anstine
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing not just an interesting “gun person” but an exceptionally busy one as well. Meet Mia Anstine – Professional hunting guide at Wolf Creek Outfitters, blogger, Womens Outdoor News contributor, mentor, coach, soon-to-be-official shooting instructor, mom, wife, TenPoint Crossbows pro-staffer, Prois Hunting Apparel representative, and author of “Mia and […]