Americans have loved .30 caliber rifle cartridges since the 1890s when Winchester released the .30-30 Win. And when Americans love a thing, they’re driven to improve it. That’s the story of Roy Weatherby and the 300 Weatherby Magnum. While the ...
How to Shoot a Hunting Rifle Off-Hand With a Sling
In every profession or hobby, skills die out over time as technology offers easier, better solutions. But some skills are worth retaining, because you never know when you might need them, and when you need one, you typically really need it. Using a ...
The Bolt Action Shotgun: An American Classic That’s Almost Dead
Double-barrel. Pump. Autoloader. Reading those words likely conjures specific images in your mind, all shotguns. Maybe you see the Remington 870 your dad bought you for your 12th birthday. Or your grandpa’s A5 leaning in a mudroom corner after a cold ...
The Bolt Action Rifle: A Massive and Enduring Leap for Gun Tech
The bolt action rifle is a citizen of the world. Militaries worldwide have used and still use them. Hunters from Scandinavia to Hawaii use bolt action rifles to pursue both big and small game. Americans love our bolt actions so much that we’ve ...
Ruger Precision Rifle: Lots of Long-Range Value on a Budget
Long-range shooting is cool. Like, Willie and Waylon singing “Good Hearted Woman” level cool. You press the trigger, absorb the recoil, and, after a second or so, hear the steel ding from 1,000 yards away. It’s some gratifying shit. But as someone ...
Hunting Backpacks That Don’t Suck: Gear Guide
You can whack the hell out of a screw with a hammer, but you’d be a lot better off using a screwdriver. Apply that same logic to hunting backpacks. Hunting backpacks are tools, and you want the right one for the job. You could, in theory, pack out an ...
P365 XMACRO Redefines Compact Capacity With 17-Round Mags
SIG created an everyday carry icon when it released the P365 in 2018. The gun made its way into Jack Carr’s novels about rogue Navy SEAL James Reece. And its stagger-stack magazine design became the envy of SIG’s competitors, increasing capacity in a ...
Proof Research Barrels Are on the New Savage Mountain Hunter
Thanks to shows like MeatEater, and the popularity of folks like Remi Warren, mountain and backcountry hunting has exploded in popularity. Droves of hunters are plunging deeper into the wilderness and climbing higher than ever before in search of big ...
How to Recognize, Handle, and Prevent a Squib Load or Hang Fire
Every handgun, rifle, or shotgun cartridge is a tiny bomb. The goal of every trigger press is to detonate that tiny bomb in a controlled, channeled explosion that propels a projectile or multiple projectiles. When everything goes right, the gun goes ...
SOF Medic on Wilderness Medicine Planning
Hunters spend hours e-scouting the backcountry in an effort to create a best-case scenario — a successful hunt. It’s high time they put an equal amount of time and effort into emergency planning and wilderness medicine training. According to ...
Alaska Hunting Guide Gets Prison Time for ‘Wildlife Crime Spree’
Stephen Jeremy Hicks is a former Alaskan hunting guide with a penchant for playing fast and loose with game laws. He first had his license put on probation in 2016 for not providing clients with contracts and failing to maintain safe field ...
Bear Blood May Hold Key to Best Supplements for Muscle Growth
A study recently released by Japanese researchers reads like a superhero origin story: Scientists extract blood serum from a creature and use it to grow human cells like some kind of super brew of muscle-building supplements. Then, of course, Japan ...
Stamina vs Endurance: How To Run Farther and Longer
Running is a great way to improve your fitness. It’s also a pivotal skill for military personnel and first responders. But to improve your fitness and build your overall running ability, you must improve your running stamina. Some might argue over ...
Why Hunters Pattern Their Shotguns: Dialing-In Your Turkey Killer
Many hunters go their entire lives taking the just let ‘er eat approach to shotgunning. And they never truly know where their shot is flying. These are the hunters who routinely whiff on gobblers that go scuttling off to roost another night. Then ...
Spiderman Pushups Throttle Your Core, Spandex Is Optional
Pushups are what they are, a very functional, boring-as-all-hell exercise. And they don’t get more interesting after doing thousands of reps during a training career. What’s more, the standard pushup’s narrow focus limits its positive effect. Pushups ...
Roman Chair Situps Are Bad for You – Don’t Do Them
Roman chair situps are a core exercise used by old-time strongmen. Picture singlet-clad guys named Bartleby and Xavier hoisting round dumbbells over their heads, their handlebar mustaches waxed to perfection. Since strength training’s antiquity, the ...
How Many Pushups Should I Do a Day?
You clicked on this article because you’re looking for an answer. Maybe you’ve been doing pushups in your training program for a while, but you’re not sure if you’re doing too many or too few. Your pushup motivation may be inspired by a PT test or ...
Duck Boats You Should Totally Buy, From Functional to Fully Tricked Out
Duck hunting presents three big problems to overcome: getting to your duck spot, retrieving the ducks you shot, and hiding from the ducks still circling overhead. Duck boats typically solve the first two problems, but some badass boats solve all ...
Goblet Squats: An Easy Way to Change Up Leg Day
Learning to squat is hard for a lot of folks. Most do some kind of ass drop that shoots them forward onto their toes. They follow that up with an ass pop like they should be covered in glitter and surrounded by the scent of lavender. “Everyone ...
Cold Weather Trout: 4 Tips and Tactics for Winter Trout on the Fly
Standing with a fly rod in a cold, free-flowing stream full of hungry trout without another angler in sight: that’s the beauty of cold-weather fishing. Fair-weather anglers are at home warming their toes by the fire. They believe winter trout fishing ...
Proper Pushup Form and Why You’re Probably Doing Them Wrong
“I bet you guys have never done pushups.” I get a chuckle out of guys every time I say it. And I say it every time I start with a new group of operators. These dudes have braved multiple selection courses while spending their careers in the ...
6 Simple Steps for Duck Hunting Creeks: Guns, Gear, and Tactics
Waterfowl hunting is some of the most fun that a guy or gal can have in the outdoors, and puddle ducks are some of the tastiest critters on the planet. Yet the barrier to entry to waterfowl hunting seems huge if you don’t have big water flowing ...
How to do Bulgarian Split Squats
Bulgarian split squats, also known as rear foot elevated split squats, were popularized in the 1980s by Bulgarian weightlifting coach Angel Spassov. This gnarly single-leg squat variation is revered by all who do them, and for dang good reasons. ...
DIY Alaska Caribou Hunt Checklist: How to Hunt the Dalton Highway
In May 2020, my friend Steve Opat of Alaskan Odysseys hit me with the news over the phone: “Change of plans. Alaska caribou hunt. We’re hunting the Haul Road.” We’d planned on going after moose that fall, but the ‘rona shut down access to the ...
Ditch the Situps: Better Core Training for Hunters
Situps. Crunches. Russian Twists. These abdominal training dinosaurs still show up in hunting fitness programs even though they should have been left to fossilize long ago. While the burn they produce might feel productive, situps and their brethren ...
Wilderness First Aid: The Backcountry Medkit Every Hunter Should Carry
Backcountry hunters obsess over dialing in their gear. There’s ultralight gore-tex this and treated down that. But there’s one piece of gear to which many hunters don’t pay enough attention: wilderness first aid and the medkit they carry. Jimmy ...
Upper Body Strength: Presses That Will Get You In Hunting Shape
Upper-body strength isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about getting fit for hunting season. Prepping to traverse rough country and haul a heavy pack tends to make hunters focus on their legs and core the most, but a strong upper ...
Backcountry Hunting Self Care: Stretches to Keep You Healthy
Backcountry hunting beats the hell out of your body. Long hours are spent hiking with heavy loads, followed by long hours spent glassing. After that, the backcountry hunter catches some Z's on uneven ground, doing their best to avoid the rocks, ...
Proper Deadlift Technique: 4 Steps to Dial in the Correct Form
Many deadlift attempts are DOA before the plates ever leave the ground because most folks don’t know how to lock in their setup. But with a basic understanding of position, leverage, and tension, you can dial in your deadlift technique and rip heavy ...
How to Master Proper Squat Technique: It’s All About Your Form
The squat should be easy to manage. Grab some weight, sit down, stand back up. No rocket surgery is required. Then why do so many folks struggle with squats? It’s because they’re missing form tweaks that dial in the proper technique. Each ...
