For many of us, our first gun was a BB gun. These simple air guns typically launched a single BB before requiring us to manually power the next shot, and they taught us our earliest fundamentals of marksmanship, safety and responsible firearm ownership. Over the past two decades, the world of BB guns has gotten way more sophisticated than the simple muscle-powered models of our youth. A case in point is Crosman’s new-for-2026 Raiden, the company’s first battery-powered, full-automatic BB gun.  The Raiden is Crosman’s first battery-powered full-auto BB gun, powered by a rechargeable battery stored in the buttstock. The…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining and just in general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the Store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. Fish bait. It’s what’s for dinner. It’s kind of an overlooked part of fishing, not in…

Gun-control groups are again trying to ban one of the best-selling and most iconic semi-automatic pistols ever—yes, most Glocks. They are also after, with some temporary success, any other semi-automatic pistols they can accuse of being “machine-gun convertible.” A few states have now enacted bans on so-called “machine gun convertible pistols,” a term primarily referring to semi-automatic handguns that can theoretically be illegally modified by criminals into machine guns via—again, illegal—devices like “switches” or auto sears. Federally, these “switches” and similar devices are classified as machine guns under the National Firearms Act (NFA), making their possession, manufacture and transfer illegal…

The Aimpoint ACRO made the closed emitter famous. The Steiner MPS followed with a similar construction and aesthetic. Some people love the “mailbox” design, some hate it. If you’re one of the latter, there is a sleeker option. We now have a closed emitter, rugged, extremely compact optic with a ubiquitous RMS-C footprint. This optic exhibits clear glass, shake-awake technology, a large viewing window, no “tunnel vision” and it’s not made in China! The new Steiner MPS-C is here, and it is one of my favorite new drops from SHOT Show 2026. I mounted one to my Smith & Wesson…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: What is going on? Welcome to Wired to Hunt. This is Jake Hoefer and building off of the theme for the month of June talking about failures and shortcomings and mistakes that all hunters likely make somewhere along their journey. How do I address them now and fix them or identify them for…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: That afternoon, we had one pounds back, two seventy fives and three fifty, so we did a mock pack out where they had to get to the pin with this day, we kind of would help them, you know, like when they would start to kind of either make a mistake or you know, forget about something, we would kind of, hey, look at it from this perspective. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: Maybe you know, mess with your topos. 00:00:19 Speaker 1: If you can’t read topo, use the three D, which is huge from Onyx. 00:00:24 Speaker…

A Montana man was recently sentenced for poaching a unique whitetail after attempting to claim it as a legitimate archery kill. According to a Facebook post by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), game wardens began investigating 23-year-old Tony Zimbleman in 2025 after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.At first, Zimbelman denied wrongdoing, claiming to have shot the trophy whitetail with archery gear during archery season in Pondera County, which is in north-central Montana. Eventually, though, he admitted to having actually shot the deer with a rifle one day before archery season opened.Zimbelman’s case is particularly notable because of…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just opened an investigation to “determine whether Philadelphia Police use a vague ‘good cause’ standard to cancel permits to carry legal firearms.” “I have directed the Civil Rights Division, through our Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding citizens from local authorities who infringe the right to safely carry legal firearms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Law-abiding Americans, regardless of where they live, should not have to worry that their city will revoke their means of self-defense.”  In this case, the DOJ says its investigation is focusing on Philadelphia Police’s handgun…

I watched my buzzbait disappear in an explosion of water when one of the biggest largemouths I’d seen surged out from under a tangle of hyacinths. My heart skipped several beats as I set the hook, and the fish immediately made a run for deeper water. For a few seconds, that fish peeled line off my spinning reel before it turned back toward the boat.I remember thinking, “don’t screw this up.” That’s about the time my line snapped. The sudden loss of tension nearly pitched me overboard. The fish was gone. I said a few colorful words and spent the…

Walther Arms introduced its PDP line of striker-fired, polymer-framed handguns in 2021, and during the past five years, the company has expanded the line into every conceivable space, providing steel-framed, competition-oriented models, its female-focused F-Series and more. Recently, Walther has combined several PDP feature sets with a Parker Mountain Machine compensator to produce the Pro-X PMM. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of this unique, hybrid design. “Now, if you haven’t been paying attention, Walther has really flipped the script when it came out with its PDP series of guns. PDP standing for…