In recent years, Colt has revived its vaunted line of “snake guns,” a collection of double-action revolvers with serpent-inspired nomenclature, such as the Cobra, the Python and the Anaconda. One of the latest additions to the second-generation line of snake guns is the Viper, which stands out in the lineup for several reasons. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” Rifleman Review segment above to see the details and watch it in action on the range. “The original Vipers came out in 1977. They were an aluminum alloy-frame gun, and they were chambered in the .38 Special cartridge,” former American Rifleman Editor…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to The Houndation’s podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about dealing with the attrition of hunting skills when we leave the training grounds and head out into the fields and on the water with our dogs. If you haven’t yet gone through what I’m going to talk about on this show, you’re either the best dog trainer on the planet, or you have the best dog on the planet, or you’re blissfully aware of the reality when you actually hunt. All three would be great, but only one is…

Old Glory Bank served as the presenting sponsor during the 2025 National Youth Shooting Sports Conference (NYSSC) in October, reaffirming the company’s support for the Second Amendment and the shooting sports. The gathering, the only conference in the nation focused on youth shooting sports, took place in Columbia, Mo. “We are strong supporters of our military, veterans and first responders, many of whom benefited from participation in youth shooting sports,” said Eric Ohlhausen, chief strategy officer at Old Glory Bank. “Partnering with MidwayUSA Foundation allows us to make a direct impact on thousands of young athletes who are learning the…

Already a fan of Ruger’s long-discontinued double-action Security-Six, Police Service-Six and Speed-Six revolvers, I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to acquire one of the latter in 9 mm Luger when an unfired, 42-year-old example turned up at a gun show. Having recently updated the magazine’s Exploded View coverage of the classic Six series (January 2025, p. 58), I knew that a 9 mm Luger Speed-Six was considered a collectible. Still, after studying up on the cartridge’s ballistics from short-barreled revolvers, and becoming convinced that loading rimless rounds via moon clips was likely to outpace loading a rimmed-cartridge revolver with…

Researchers were capturing fish on a recently restored floodplain in Mississippi last month when they tangled with an absolute brute: a 7-foot 10-inch alligator gar with a whopping girth of 55 inches.Solomon R. David, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and a highly regarded gar expert, was leading the scientific effort on October 20th with students and several staffers for The Nature Conservancy, including Scott Lemmons. His team had received guidance from US Fish & Wildlife Service Fisheries Biologist Kayla Kimmel. The researchers were capturing, measuring, and tagging gar on Loch Leven, a floodplain lake of the Mississippi…

The benefit of a lightweight rifle is lost the moment you top it with a clunky, overweight optic, particularly a lengthy one. To that end, we are starting to see an emphasis on riflescopes that are less cumbersome when mounted, such as Steiner’s Predator 4S. As the name suggests, the 4S is a line extension to the company’s hit Predator series, with the “S” indicating it is a shorter version of the series’s existing 4-16X scope. Unlike its longer brother, it features a smaller 44 mm objective lens and has a paltry overall length of just 10.9″. Moreover, the entire…

Too often, homesteading articles, blogs, websites, and videos (including this one – guilty!) show only the successful side of homesteading. The abundant harvest, the completed projects, the fresh eggs and baby chicks and overflowing milk, the healthy livestock … by golly, this lifestyle must be easy-peasy, right? Yes and no. Of course things go right. And of course things go wrong. But what is seldom shown is the nitty-gritty day-to-day dirty side of homesteading, including the daily chores that must be done for the comfort and welfare of animals. For that reason, I thought I’d show you something I do…

According to Swiss lore, on November 18, 1307, William Tell of the canton of Uri was forced by Habsburg invaders to shoot an apple off his son’s head, with a crossbow. The international gun rights organization ProTell was named in his honor. — On November 18, 1865, Mark Twain published the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in The New York Saturday Press. — On this day in 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of…

Think of the piece of public hunting ground closest to your house. You know, that property 15 minutes from town that has multiple trucks in the parking lot every weekend throughout deer season. As you drive by, you probably think to yourself, “How could that property possibly be worth hunting? There’s probably a ladder stand chained to every other tree. Surely if I’m willing to drive a little further from town, I’ll find a secluded honey hole, seldom explored by other hunters.”The truth is, with the ease and convenience of GPS hunting apps, everybody else is e-scouting those honey holes…

Father and son John and Hayden Lowe were charged late last month with several counts of animal cruelty and obstruction of justice after allegedly shooting two pet dogs while hunting from treestands on private land in LaPorte, Indiana, then attempting to cover up the crime.On Saturday, October 21st, the owner of the two dogs–a beagle named Josie and a chocolate lab named Bear–noticed that the beagle’s GPS collar had stopped sending signals. She went to the collar’s last recorded location on the property next to hers and found Josie’s body. The dog had been killed by an arrow. According to…