Ahead of SHOT Show 2026, Nighthawk Custom announced it would be releasing three new handguns, all built with the company’s “One Gun, One Gunsmith” approach. Each pistol is designed to fulfill a different role, ranging from the practical to the nostalgic, and because of the company’s custom approach, each pistol can have a number of custom options and upgrades applied during the build process. Alpha HawkThe Alpha Hawk is a purpose-built, compensated, compact carry 1911, engineered from the ground up to deliver reduced recoil and flatter shooting performance in a concealed-carry format. A Commander-length, chunk-ported barrel provides integrated compensation without…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to The Houndation’s podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and this episode is all about understanding how good our dogs noses really are and how they use them, and how we can make sure that once we understand that, we can be better trainers and just better dog owners. If you talk to I don’t know literally any dog owner anywhere, or at least bird dog owner, you’ll probably hear them talk about their dogs having a really good nose. I used to think that was a thing, like, you know, some dogs have…

Jack O’Connor was a prolific writer widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost hunting experts. His firearm knowledge was undeniable and the success of the .270 Win. cartridge is partly—perhaps largely—due to his passion for the cartridge that was often reflected in his stories. He was on the staff at Outdoor Life for more than three decades and penned 15 books. An apparent heart attack, while on board a ship returning to San Francisco from Hawaii, claimed his life on Jan. 20, 1978. It didn’t end the long string of stories written by an O’Connor, however. His son, Bradford,…

These times of sparsely available handloading components require scrimping here and there in order to continue shooting, and the .38 Special provides a lot of bang for the buck. Using a lead wadcutter powered by 4.0 grains of propellant makes for as miserly a handload as is possible. Commercial swaged-lead wadcutters and wadcutters with a hollow base readily “bump up” to seal the bore; expect some smears of lead, though, in the bore from these bullets. The wadcutter listed in the recipe was cast of lead with the addition of 2 percent tin, which helped the melt flow to produce…

There’s a small section on a particular piece of public I look forward to hunting every year during the peak rut. There’s about a three- or four-day stretch that I know I’ll see bucks chasing in this specific stretch of woods. The first year I hunted this spot, I was nearly trampled by a group of does during a midday scout. I was hunting my way into an evening setup when a sweet buck chased these does into my lap. They made a quick 180, and I had just a quick glimpse of tall tines speeding back through the switch…

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Between its carbon-fiber barrels and stocks, Christensen Arms makes some of the most high-tech bolt-actions in the world. Our author recently had a chance to assemble one with his own two hands—and, boy, is it a shooter. I’d been aware of Christensen Arms for years and even handled its semi-custom rifles at various trade shows, but frankly, I was ignorant in terms of actual field testing. Eventually, I became embarrassed by friends and acquaintances asking me about Christensen’s guns and having to admit my deficiencies, so one day in 2024, I called the company. I asked if I could receive…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal We may be getting closer to finding patient zero of one of the most consequential outbreaks in human history. In this case, I’m not talking about the bubonic plague. I’m talking, of course, about cats. A recent study in the journal American Antiquity has identified the remains of what might be the earliest domestic cats in the Americas. They were discovered in the wreck of the Immanuel point two, a Spanish ship that was run aground…

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