Last year I received the Benchmade Dacian for review, a premium fixed blade EDC knife that was made to hold up to whatever it had thrown at it while outdoors or in town. Made from durable Magnacut and Micarta, I put the knife to the test as my EDC knife, taking it everywhere from the […] Th...
Ever cleaned the cosmoline out of an military surplus firearm? In today’s article, we demonstrate a straightforward way of cosmoline removal using a Type 56 carbine to show the cleaning process. As a lover of guns, I aspire to collect pretty much all of them. But I remember a not-so-distant pas...
A few points at first. While you decide what works for you, let’s point out that whether we’re hunting upland birds (pheasants, grouse, woodcock) or waterfowl (geese and ducks, mostly), it doesn’t make much difference in what action you decide on. There are lots of great upland ...
The U.S. buck harvest sits near record levels, and the share of mature bucks in that harvest is the highest it has been in more than a century. The part of deer management that keeps herds healthy, though, is antlerless harvest. Deer numbers are climbing across much of whitetail range, and while ...
A few months back, I was invited down to the Cross Bell Ranch in Oklahoma for a Zeiss media event introducing their new V3 lineup. We spent a couple of solid days behind pre-production samples of these scopes, running everything from rimfire out to 150 yards up to 6.5 Creedmoor stretching past 70...
I’ve been carrying the Surefire Stiletto Pro flashlight for the past five months now as my EDC flashlight. Taking it with me pretty much everywhere I go, from the woods, the store, across the pond, to 100 miles off the coast. It was carried with me every day. Anyone in the firearms space sh...
Bear & Son Cutlery has introduced their new Carbon Steel 2-Blade Folding Knife as well as the 4” Locking Piranha 2-Blade for hunters this fall. If anyone is searching for a knife to do field-dressing, quartering, or general field work this fall, both of these knives that we are about to cov...
OL's former shooting editor maintains you don't have to pick a single favorite rifle for hunting deer. Here are his top picks, and the stories behind each The post Jim Carmichel’s ‘Favorite’ Deer Rifles appeared first on Outdoor Life.
I’m a big fan of Daryl Bolke. Is it weird to be a fan of a firearm instructor? Probably, but I’m also a fan of his Facebook page because he shares some truly beautiful revolvers and wonderful educational content. See his post on the Fitz Special if you don’t believe me. I bring up Mr. [R...
Really Right Stuff is known for its high-end tripods, which are the best that money can buy. Their most recent product, the Benchmark series of tripods, keeps that same quality while hitting a price point that more shooters can afford. I had the chance to run one of these tripods in an NRL ...