Smith & Wesson made an exciting announcement for revolver collectors earlier this year. Working in conjunction with Lipsey’s, the company updated and released two L-Frame models from the lightweight Night Guard series which was discontinued back in 2012. One was the highly anticipated Model 386, a 7-shot .357 Mag. sporting a 3-inch barrel. The other was a bit of a letdown for some shooting sports enthusiasts. Of all the other possible Night Guard configurations to choose from, the company went with the Model 396, which is a five-shot chambered in .44 Special. Folks who are less familiar with this particular…

If you want to hit your target, you need three things: a gun, a target and a method by which to hit that target with that gun. Shooting well is the result of a specific process. Consistent fire control is the application of that process compressed into three sequential steps. The shooting process is simply this: bring stability to alignment and press the round off without disturbing that alignment. These core mechanics have been around since handguns first entered into practical use, and they are very simple to understand. But given realistic pressure, it’s not easy. Only the well-trained can…

Since its introduction in 1983, the Desert Eagle has not only secured a niche as a semi-auto handgun chambered for cartridges normally reserved for magnum revolvers, but its imposing image became a cultural icon, in everything from movies to video games. With the growing popularity of suppressors, Magnum Research is bringing the icon up to date with a suppressor-ready, threaded-barrel version of the Desert Eagle Mark XIX in .50 AE. Magnum Research has updated its iconic Desert Eagle with a suppressor-ready, threaded-barrel version. The new suppressor-ready Desert Eagle takes the standard Mark XIX pistol and makes two important changes. First,…

For 2026, Winchester Ammunition took a big step forward in its ammo offerings with Supreme Long Range. Unlike previous offerings from the company, this purpose-built long-range hunting and shooting line required the company to invest in an entirely new bullet design, as well as a completely new production process. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature above to hear the story behind Winchester Supreme Long Range. “We’re really excited about this one,” said Nathan Robinson, marketing manager for Winchester Ammunition. “So, for 2026, we have the Supreme Long Range. And the name kind of says it all. This is the best…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s a media podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer new Arthan. Today we’re joined by Jannis Brody, Randall, Nate, Sarah and Cory. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from Medeater’s four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. All right, we have a mailbag question to start today’s show. If you have a question you want the crew to…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Hunters and anglers have a superpower. I have it, You probably have it. I think just about any outdoorsman or woman out there who has fallen in love with the pursuit of turkeys or trout, walleye or white tails. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: Probably has it too. 00:00:19 Speaker 1: And that superpower, that incredible gift, is optimism. Despite all the failed casts, the skunked outings, the seasons that just don’t go your way, we keep returning to the field, into the water, believing that it’s all gonna be different this time, Today is going to be the…

America celebrated its 200th anniversary when I was 11 years old. It was a big deal. There were parades and television specials, and it was the most important Independence Day I can remember. The landmark event was celebrated with everything from T-shirts to automobiles, but I also remember seeing a box of Winchester .30-30 Win. Bicentennial ammunition down at Ray’s Bait Shop. I remember thinking: “That must be some really special ammo!” A half-century later we’re celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest country on Earth, and we have some new limited-edition munitions to commemorate that achievement. Federal is one…

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases challenging bans on popular semi-automatic rifles that local governments have defined in different ways as being “assault weapons.” Grant v. Higgins is a challenge to Connecticut’s ban on its definition of “assault weapons” and Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois is a challenge to Cook County’s ban on what it deems to be “assault-weapons.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld Connecticut’s ban in August 2025, while the Seventh Circuit upheld Cook County’s ban in June 2025. The Supreme Court will hear these cases together in the next term.…

Montana’s Hunting District 380 is one of the most difficult units to draw a bull elk tag. The success rate in 2023 was well under one percent. According to court records, multiple people bypassed the draw system entirely, illegally killing multiple bulls as well as several deer over a two-month period that ended in multiple convictions.The case centered on Tylor Castona and Alisha Byrd of East Helena, who illegally shot three six-point bull elk with rifles during archery season in the Elkhorn Mountains. They also took three whitetail bucks, including one deer left where it fell after a landowner heard…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: What John Wesley Powell accomplished first in the eighteen seventies. Float the length of the Grand Canyon. You can do today and it’s still the Western wild lands experience of a lifetime. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West, down the West’s grandest Canyon. Our personal motives for experiences in the American West have always been many. Some of us move west or relocate within the West for a new start in life. Some come to seek wealth and become rich. Some of us are lured westward because everything from scenery to wild animals is…