If you spend enough time chasing game, exploring river accesses before daylight, or driving down two-tracks that barely qualify as roads, you’ll eventually realize that your truck isn’t just transportation, it’s a critical part of your gear system.Over a few articles, we’re going to dive into practical truck upgrades that actually matter for outdoorsmen. Not the flashy stuff you see on YouTube or cruising main street on Friday nights, but upgrades that can help you get to your spot and back out safely. Our canvas for this series is a 2024 Silverado 1500 RST, sourced from our friends at Ressler…

One of the funniest bits in the 90’s TV show “Home Improvement” is Tim Taylor’s ongoing campaign to add horsepower to everyday objects. In the very first episode, he installs what is basically a car engine in his dishwasher, and the result is pretty much what you’d expect (hint: the dishes don’t survive).I felt a little like The Toolman going from a hand-crank case trimmer to the new RCBS MatchMaster Precision Trimmer, but I was much happier with the outcome.Designed in partnership with Henderson Precision, the MatchMaster trimmer uses an 115v electric motor to spin a set of carbide blades…

Canada-based MDT Sporting Goods (MDT), a leader in the precision rifle chassis systems and shooting accessories, has acquired Lone Peak Arms and Leading Edge Machine. Both are firms headquartered in Hyde, Utah, and each company contributes to the design and manufacturing of Razor and Fuzion precision rifle action lines. Lone Peak Arms, which was established in 2014, has a sterling reputation among competitive shooters, hunters and custom rifle builders for its lightweight, ultra-precise actions. All are produced at Leading Edge Machine’s CNC operation. “At MDT, everything we do is driven by one purpose; to help you take your best shot,”…

While I appreciate the overall usefulness of the M-Lok system, it requires a certain amount of finesse, patience and mechanical aptitude that I simply do not seem to possess. Adding an accessory with an M-Lok attachment point to a slot on a rifle’s fore-end means setting up the depth exactly right—and I can never seem to do that properly. I either set it too deep, in which case I get the two screws through the M-Lok slot and spin them endlessly; or I set it too shallow, in which case I put the screws through, can’t tighten it and have…

The United States Army dates its founding to June 14, 1775, after the Second Continental Congress proclaimed that the 20,000 militiamen arrayed outside of the city of Boston were officially soldiers in the Continental Army. Across 250 years of history, the actions of the Army have been closely intertwined with the direction and growth of the United States as a nation, and at the heart of it all was the soldier and his longarm. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature segment above to hear the story of the U.S. military’s first longarms, the smoothbore muskets. “After the events of April…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to the Foundation’s podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today is all about when reality crashes into our dreams of perfect dogs and perfect hunts and what that means for our off season. You know how everyone is just super pissed off lately and we all want to kill each other and everything sucks. Well, part of that, at least in my extremely unprofessional opinion, stems from us just being exposed to so much BS in our lives. We go online and everywhere return. It’s propaganda mostly meant to either divide us or…

Magnified, fixed-power riflescopes have not been particularly popular in decades; certainly since the dawn of the 21st century. Once the only choice due to technological limitations, variable-magnification scopes have long dominated the market for all pursuits, apart from 1X (zero magnification) dot sights and the occasional low magnification reflex sight like some models of Trijicon ACOG. But, what if while embracing variable magnification, we forgot about speed? After all, turning the ring at the back of the scope takes time and some amount of dexterity to maintain a hold on target while moving part of the scope. Enter the Integrix…

Janis Putelis kicks off our "12 in 26" series as he takes his bow to Manitoba in search of a giant black bear. To make things even more interesting, he hunts over bait for the first time to see what the fuss is all about. Presented by Moultrie and OnX Maps. Read the full article here

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Hunters debate the validity of baiting black bears (or any game for that matter) all the time. Baiting often raises questions of sportsmanship or fair chase, but it might not be as black and white of an issue as hunters sometimes make it. I’ve only hunted over bait a few times—for deer and pigs in Texas—and I wasn’t a fan. While I had my own opinions about baiting bears, I thought it might be different from deer and pigs. So, I gave it a try.Up until now, my bear hunting experience was limited to spot-and-stalk hunting in the mountains of…