Gear Review: SB Tactical SBPDW Pistol Stabilizing Brace
SB Tactical is to be one of my favorite companies in the firearms industry. They invented the pistol stabilizing brace and continue to improve and refine the design for a ton of different firearms....
Gear Review: Dual Adjust Weapon Sling From Arbor Arms
Slings...who doesn't love them? They keep your long gun on your body, improve retention, and give you a little relief on mile 18 of a 20-mile patrol. Slings rarely change much. Every so often,...
Gear Review: Maven 8×42 B.1 Binocular
Man, is this review of Maven's B.1 binocular overdue. It was originally planned for December 2020 after a trip to Mozambique...and then there was some crap about a virus. The folks at Maven allowed me...
Things That Don’t Suck: Long-Term Winkler Utility Knife Test
A while back my friends at The Knife Connection sent me a Winkler Utility Knife to put through some hard use tests. When say hard, I mean hard use. This knife has been put...
Gear Review: Darkside Dashboard by Kiote Rifles
On a recent prairie dog hunt with John Stewart, the owner of Kiote Rifles, I watched him pull out a tripod and screw a flat bracket to the top of it. Yet another gadget....
The Miculek Magnetic Buffer System for AR-15 Rifles
Why would anyone spend money to reduce the recoil of an AR-15 rifle? That's the question some will ask given the fact that a .223/5.56 round doesn't produce a whole lotta recoil. Fair enough....
Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors 3L Element Rain Proof Jacket
If you had asked me at the beginning of the year what would be my favorite piece of hunting gear for 2021, I would not have thought it would be a rain jacket.
It's a...
Gear Review: Vortex Spitfire HD Gen II Prism Scope
While red dots and LPVOs seem to rule the carbine market, I’ve always been a fan of prism-style optics. I blame it on my time with the ACOG in the service, but I’ve always...
Things That Don’t Suck: Olight BALDR S Tactical Light
If you've read our gear reviews, you've read about Olight's weapon lights and combination light/lasers. Olight's latest is the new BALDR S Tactical light. It's a larger, more powerful version of their BALDR Mini...
Book Review: The Family Business
Baen Books has released Mike Kupari's latest novel, The Family Business. It's a dystopian (perhaps post-apocalyptic*) tale of a Federal "Recovery Agent" on the job in a much-changed United States of America. As of...
Gear Review: Bushnell RXS-250 Reflex Sight
With pistol red dots becoming more popular seemingly by the week, the choices have expanded and the prices have come down. Competition is a wonderful thing. But the best of the micro red dots...
Gear Review: Leupold BX-5 Santiam HD 10x42mm Binoculars
2021 has been a good year. So far, I've been hunting in South Africa, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, all over Texas, and more. I've gone after all sorts of African plains game with a Ruger...