Argentinean manufacturer Bersa has long been known for its line of compact handguns centered around the company’s Thunder models. Over the past few years, the company has expanded its lineup for the American market, including 1911s, 2011s and AR-15s, and it has also established a manufacturing base in this country. New for 2026, the company is upsizing its polymer-framed, striker-fired BP9cc into the BP9 FS (full-size). The BP9 FS is a new, from-the-ground-up design that is intended for the duty, self-defense and competition markets. Chambered in 9 mm Luger, while the BP9 FS is similar to the compact carry BP9cc…

Trends seen in the past two years continue in the firearms industry. Spurred on by the repeal of the $200 NFA tax on suppressors, threaded barrels are offered on more and more guns. In handguns, compact and larger personal-protection pistols now routinely include an optics cut, and many model lines now include a variant with an integral compensator. Overall, gunmakers are continuing to incrementally improve their products, causing manufacturers to introduce guns with “value added” features. The big winner in this, of course, is you, the consumer. It’s a buyer’s market. You know what to do. New Handguns   Archon…

Like a lot of anglers, I got my intro to fishing with a farm-pond bank, a can of earthworms, and a red and white bobber. Reeling in bluegill (aka bream) was enough to get me hooked on fishing. But as a kid, I saw bream fishing as something to graduate from. I thought trading bobbers and bluegill beds for a bass boat and a baitcaster was just the natural progression of things.But bream aren’t just starter fish. Bluegill, shell crackers, and other sunfish are aggressive little predators. They don’t just cruise around looking for drowning worms or crickets. They’ll chase…

What if someone told you a likely voter who identifies as “very liberal” is more likely to carry concealed than a likely voter who identifies as “very conservative”? You’d likely ask what website printed that statistic. In this case, it came from a very reputable one: the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on May 19, 2026, to determine how many voters carry concealed handguns.  “Hispanic and black voters carry concealed handguns at disproportionately high rates relative to their shares of the voting population,” noted the CPRC. “Perhaps most surprising,…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Cobeza Devaca was one of the only survivors of a shipwreck that stranded him on the Texas shore in the fifteen twenties, but turned misfortune into one of the great journeys in Western history. I’m dan Flores and this is the American West, Cobza Devaka’s fantastic journey after ten thousand years. How would you into it that the world as you’ve known it is about to change forever? Maybe you’d dream it, which at one insightful moment in the fifteen hundreds, is how a group of Native people located far inland on today’s Lake Superior first understood…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, 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 Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which is brought to you by first Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about fawns and how they survive their first few weeks when everything is trying to eat them. We take it for granted…

Multi-role rifles, specifically AR-15s, are becoming increasingly more precise, with their main limiting factor being their sighting systems. Low-power variable optics, or LPVOs, have reigned supreme with these firearms, as they provide a close-quarters solution while also offering a means to place rounds on more distant targets. While the industry has mastered the 1X part of the formula, it is forever working on pushing the number on the other side of the hashmark to keep pace with this pattern’s ever-increasing capabilities. Michigan-based Trijicon has pushed the envelope with its Credo line, now offering a compact unit capable of up to…

Research conducted by Responsive Management annually for the Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports (CAHSS) found that, in 2025, 78 percent of adult residents in the United States believe learning self-defense skills with a firearm is completely acceptable. That figure is up one percent when compared to 2024’s findings. Study results showed 74 percent approve of any form of recreational shooting. Broken down between genders, 85 percent of males approved of the pursuit and 63 percent of females. Those who were ages 35 to 54 were most comfortable with the shooting sports (77 percent), followed by the 55…

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The Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee (ALSWCC) has received a $17.5 million grant through the USDA’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program to support a new five-year restoration effort focused on Alabama’s Black Belt Prairie ecosystem. Although the funding was approved in 2025, the initiative is now beginning to move into on-the-ground habitat work across the region. As habitat loss, changing land use, and declining grassland ecosystems continue to affect wildlife across the region, programs like this one come as welcomed news.So what is the Black Belt Prairie? Stretching across 19 counties of central Alabama and neighboring states, the Black Belt…