In 2023, Smith & Wesson announced it would be moving its headquarters from its longtime location in Massachusetts to a new manufacturing facility in Maryville, Tenn. One of the latest expansions at S&W’s new Maryville facility is the addition of an entirely new training ground, the new home of the legendary Smith & Wesson Academy. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature segment above to see the details of this new training school. “The Smith & Wesson Academy has just been a staple, you know, for decades. You know, in Springfield, Mass., you know, back in the days when, you know,…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s a mediat podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I am not Spencer Newhearth. Instead, I’m your guest host, Doctor Randall Williams. Today we’re joined by Brody Seth, Nate, Max, Alyssa and Sarah. Now, as you know, this is a ten round quiz show with questions from met Eats for verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. Now, my stat of the week this week…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: Repeat photography done one hundred years apart, is giving us a sense of a West that once looked and functioned very differently than the modern landscapes we now live in or visit. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West, time and time again, the fascinating evidence from Western repeat photography. In episode thirteen of this podcast, I said a few things about the West’s great nineteenth century landscape photographers. For almost four decades, from the eighteen sixties through the eighteen nineties, photographers like Edward Mybridge, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O’Sullivan and their assistants lugged hundreds…

Shotshell ammunition is a bit more complex than centerfire rifle, pistol or revolver ammunition. With shotguns and shotshells, you need to know the gauge of the shotgun and the length of its chamber, but you must also consider shot and payload size and velocity. The total understanding of shotshell ballistics seems more like a soft than hard science, and ironically, when it comes to shotgun shooting, the practice seems to have more feel to it than the absolute of shooting rifles and handguns. To help you better understand shotshells, here’s a look at the basics of shotshell cartridges, shotshell pressures…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show. This week, we’ve got the NRA in continued legal trouble. We’ve got does it really help to make fish drink pop? What is beach access? And why do some wealthy folks hate it so damn bad. Spencer reports on an outbreak of mushroom poisonings and deaths in California and me Steve is troubled by the word outbreak in that context, but we will see. We’ve got Despite what you’ve read, there is in fact no evidence of jaguar pups living right now in Arizona. And it happened a hunter in Alaska killed…

My dad hauled a beat-up old pop-up camper into the Virginia mountains every deer season. It wasn’t much more than a tent on wheels, just some canvas walls, a tiny two-burner stove, and barely enough room for two people to stand up. But after a hard day of climbing steep ridges and toughing out frigid conditions, it felt like a little slice of heaven. It had just enough room to peel out of wet clothes, warm up a meal, and then climb into sleeping bags on thin mattresses instead of the cold, hard ground.That little camper didn’t need a list…

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Armed Citizen® Today On Memorial Day, a 27-year-old man whose motives were unknown allegedly began shooting inside the Price Chopper grocery store in Pleasant Hill, Mo. He struck a teen worker and fatally struck a 45-year-old woman inside the store, but when approached by two armed citizens, he turned his gun on himself. The suspect was nonetheless reported to be in stable condition at the hospital and is facing charges of first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and two counts of first-degree assault. The teen was also listed in stable condition. The police chief praised the two armed…

To say that lever-action rifles have gone tactical recently would be a bit of an understatement. Adding skeletonized stocks and M-Lok fore-ends to these traditional rifles have introduced a new generation to their benefits. A new collaboration between modern lever-action specialists Ranger Point Precision and Line49 Rifle transforms Henry’s groundbreaking Lever Action Supreme Rifle(LASR). Line49 Rifle’s LASR conversions add enhancements to Henry’s groundbreaking lever-action rifle. Introduced in 2025, Henry’s LASR sought to transform the lever gun world, with features like an adjustable trigger, free-floating barrel and AR-magazine compatibility, in a compact package that came chambered for modern AR-style cartridges. It…