Ben Erb of Bemidji, Minnesota, already held his state’s catch-and-release record for bowfin. On July 3, he beat it with a fish caught just a half inch longer than the one he landed the summer before. A Backwater He Knew Well Erb, a 31-year-old graduate fisheries biologist researcher at Bemi...
The ballistic math never made sense, but that didn't stop American hunters from buying new big-bore rifles The post Here’s Why Big-Bore Rifles Got So Popular in the Late 90s appeared first on Outdoor Life.
The argument can be made that the Germans make the world’s best engineers. By way of evidence I would submit the StG44 assault rifle, the Me 262 jet fighter, and the Panther tank. While, in each case, the exigencies of around-the-clock bombing certainly took a toll on these revolutionary weapon...
A new Supreme Court brief argues that Cook County and Connecticut have the Second Amendment backward: The AR-15’s militia utility strengthens its constitutional protection rather than justifying a ban.
The new Taurus GX4 Carry T.O.R.O. packs 15+1 rounds into a soft-shooting, optics-ready .380. Its capacity and ergonomics impressed us, is it ready for everyday carry?
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt hand picked by the most famous man the company ever put in front of the public. John Henry Fitzgerald, Fitz to everybody who knew him, was Colt’s roving expert from the early 1920s until he died in 1945. He ran the exhibition sh...
Whitetails will hunt down the best-tasting acorns from opening day through the last cold week of the season, and the fastest way to fill a tag in the timber is to figure out which trees are dropping the mast deer actually want. That means identifying whether reds or whites are on the ground, then...
As the War in Ukraine shifts once again, Russia has moved to a defensive approach to the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), particularly as drone attacks have increasingly reached targets inside Russian territory. This expanding threat has created a clear need for systems that...
SAF and four allies urge the Massachusetts SJC to strike the state's subjective suitability test after a police chief denied a carry license. Read the original story: Charges From Over a Decade Ago, Never Convicted, Still Denied: SAF Takes a Police Chief’s Carry Denial to Massachusetts̵...
We pitted modern rifles against wood-stocked classics The post The Truth About Traditional Hunting Rifles (and New Ones) appeared first on Outdoor Life.