A bill passed in the Wyoming state legislature on Feb. 27, 2023, and signed by Gov. Mark Gordon on March 2 substantially increases the cost of the nonresident special draw fee but leaves regular nonresident draw fees unchanged. On the surface, it may ...
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Mauser 98 125th Anniversary Edition Museum-Quality Hunting Rifle
“Das Original” is releasing a small batch of Mauser 98 rifles to commemorate the model’s 125th anniversary. The manufacturer’s master gunsmiths built 25 rifles in the style of Mauser’s famous safari guns. Each uses wood-grade-8 walnut plus ...
The Over Under Shotgun Is Not As Old As You Think
The over under shotgun dominates the break-action category today. The majority of hunters and all but a very few target shooters prefer the narrow-sight picture of an O/U to the wider view down the barrels of a side-by-side. Over unders are ...
Top 5 Pistol Whipping Scenes From Movies – Ranked
Out of all the military and firearms training I’ve gone through, not one instructor has taught pistol whipping as a defensive tactic. Sure, in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, or MCMAP, they taught “one mind, any weapon,” but it’s not the same ...
How to Handle Wolves in Colorado Remains Controversial
In November 2020, Colorado voters passed Proposition 114 as a ballot initiative; the measure requires Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) to reintroduce wolves in northwestern Colorado before the end of 2023. As the deadline for reintroduction closes ...
Rep. Andrew Clyde on How He Wants to Chip Away at the NFA
When the new ATF pistol brace rule was published on Jan. 31, effectively changing the classification of braced pistols to highly regulated short-barreled rifles, Georgia Congressman Andrew Clyde introduced the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today ...
Smith & Wesson M&P FPC: The New Folding 9mm PCC
Smith & Wesson is getting into the pistol-caliber carbine (PCC) game with the M&P FPC. It’s chambered for 9mm, uses a carbine-length barrel, and checks in with an MSRP of $659. At first glance, this looks like more than a fun range toy. But ...
What Ever Happened to the Remington ACR Rifle?
In the early days of the Global War on Terror, all was not well in the world of U.S. military small arms. The sand in Iraq and Afghanistan was wreaking havoc on the internal components of M16 rifles and M4 carbines. As was the case in Vietnam, ...
357 SIG: Is the Semi-Auto .357 Magnum Dead?
If you look up lists of the most popular pistol calibers, the 357 SIG doesn’t make the top five, and it doesn’t make the top 10, either. If you don’t have any experience with this cartridge, you’re part of the vast majority of shooters these days. ...
Super Pigs: Huge Canadian Hybrid Hogs Poised to Invade U.S.
Massive, highly intelligent hybrid wild hogs — called “super pigs” — are running amok in the Canadian North, wreaking havoc and leaving massive destruction in their wake. Now, they’re threatening to invade the United States. Americans love a good ...
Best Selling Guns of 2022 on GunBroker: Numbers Are In!
Gun sales are a nebulous thing — they’re hard to keep track of, and that’s a good thing from a 2A perspective. Usually, we use the number of background checks run through the NICS system in a given time period to get a general idea of how many guns ...
327 Federal Magnum: The Little Loved Alternative to the .357
The .357 Magnum is a celebrity in the world of revolver cartridges. Like Jessica Simpson in the early 2000s, it gets showered with love and attention, and we’re all convinced it can do no wrong. Most people just ignore the little sister — no, not ...
Cruise Custom Flags: Stars and Stripes from Bourbon Barrels
When Army veteran Chris Cruise left the service in 2006, he took up woodworking as a way to channel his energy and keep busy. He viewed it as a form of therapy because he could be productive and relax simultaneously. But when he was laid off ...
SIG P320 and P320 Spectre Comp: Breakdown and History
The market for striker-fired polymer pistols is a busy place, but the SIG P320 has carved out one helluva piece. SIG Sauer builds 25 different pistols (and a standalone fire control unit we’ll get into later) in the P320 series, resulting in a ...
How To Keep Food Cold Without A Fridge: Power Loss Survival
I doubt there is a single person reading this who doesn’t have a refrigerator in their home. Some of you may even have a fridge with a freezer plus another freezer for long-term storage. The low temperatures a good refrigerator and freezer provide ...
How NASCAR Was Born of Bootlegging and Daredevils
This weekend, nearly 9 million Americans will cheer their way through the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing” — the iconic Daytona 500. The most popular and prestigious race on the NASCAR schedule, the Daytona 500, which has roots in bootlegging, kicks ...
Exclusive: PSE Archery Sold to New Heritage Outdoor Group
Heritage Outdoor Group just announced its purchase of Precision Shooting Equipment (PSE), one of the largest archery manufacturers in the United States. “We are thrilled to welcome PSE Archery to the Heritage Outdoor Group’s family of brands,” ...
The Bruen Test: Gun Prohibitions Nixed in Weed, Domestic Cases
This month, two federal appellate courts cited last summer’s landmark Supreme Court decision in the NYSRPA v. Bruen case when they ruled that laws prohibiting certain criminal classes from possessing firearms were unconstitutional. The ruling also ...
Feds Move Closer to Grizzly Bear Delisting
Federal wildlife officials have moved one step closer to surrendering the management of grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems to the three states that encompass them. Grizzly bear delisting could ...
The DP-12 Shotgun: A Wild Design That Works
Remember when you were a kid, and you used to draw all kinds of zany inventions that could never work in real life? Every so often, somebody’s bizarre contraption makes it into the real world. In the world of firearms, there might be no better ...
Vet-Owned Apex Ammo Drops New TSS Turkey Shells for Spring
Apex Ammunition is offering Mossy Oak Greenleaf Turkey TSS Blend, a new line of shotgun shells, just in time for spring turkey season. This new ammunition is available in 12-gauge 2 1/4-ounce and 20-gauge 1 5/8-ounce loads; both are 3-inch shells. ...
26 States Join Gun Groups to Block ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban
This week, 26 states teamed with gun groups to stop the federal government from enforcing a new rule that allows the ATF to regulate braced pistols as short-barreled rifles. In two separate lawsuits, the groups argue the decision exceeded ...
Did the American Shad Save George Washington’s Colonial Army?
Shad often lose the freshwater spotlight to trout, salmon, and largemouth bass, but there is no fish more American than the humble shad. The American shad (and its hickory and gizzard shad cousins) have long played a vital role in American ...
Senator Spends Night in Twitter Jail for Posting Hunting Photo
Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana landed in Twitter jail Monday evening after posting a photo on the social media platform. Twitter claimed he violated its “rules against graphic violence.” The offending image was of Daines and his wife, ...
405 Winchester: T.R.’s Famous Medicine Gun for Lions
The 405 Winchester was a beast of a cartridge in its time, suited for the absolute most dangerous, tear-your-guts-out big game on the planet. Mere months after leaving the White House and Washington politics behind him (for the time being) in 1909, ...
$70M Earmarked for Zombie Deer Disease Research, Management
In the recently passed omnibus spending bill, Congress significantly increased spending on researching and managing chronic wasting disease (CWD), an incurable degenerative brain disorder in deer — sometimes called zombie deer disease. With the ...
The Valentine’s Day Massacre Tommy Guns and Birth of the NFA
A shocking burst of full-auto gangland payback in 1929 that left seven bloody, bullet-ridden bodies on a garage floor was the Parkland Shooting of its day. The now infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was a horrendous display of violence that the ...
ATF Investigating Dumpster Filled with Guns
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen in a dumpster? Bag of money? A baby? How about a shitton of defective bullpup shotguns? Federal agents recently launched an investigation into an Oklahoma gun store owner after authorities discovered a ...
New Yeti LoadOut GoBoxes: Rock-Solid Gear Haulers
Yeti, a company famous for turning coolers into status symbols, is expanding its GoBox lineup with two new heavy-duty storage containers to keep your gear as organized and protected as your food and drinks. The new LoadOut series of hard cases now ...
Silencer Central’s Brandon Maddox Joins CSF Board
This post contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you buy through these links. This week, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation welcomed Silencer Central’s Brandon Maddox and two other corporate executives working in the hunting ...