European American Armory (EAA) is known for importing both classic firearm designs as well as unique and innovative products at an affordable price. This year, the company expanded its catalog with a new hunting rifle line, the Balikli BLK bolt-action, a rifle with high-end features for its price, as well as compatibility with broad aftermarket.   The Balikli BLK series is an M700-pattern bolt action hunting rifle at an affordable price.   Made by Turkish manufacturer Balikli, BLK bolt-action rifles are based around an M700-pattern action, meaning it is compatible with aftermarket parts designed for the Remington Model 700. It…

A well-known hunter is in hot water over a controversial video showing him stab a wounded coyote with a knife. The graphic video, which was originally leaked to Cowboy State Daily by a private investigator, depicts Aaron Snyder approach a wounded coyote, pull it from a bush, kick it to the ground, and stab it in the chest. Snyder then taps the coyote on the head with his knife.Snyder is a prominent figure in the hunting community. He is the former president and CEO of Kifaru and has a large social media following. Prior to the release of this video,…

Rock River Arms, the Colona, Ill.-based firearm manufacturer, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The company’s story really began in 1994, when brothers Mark and Chuck Larson launched a small operation called Tolerance Plus from a two-story garage along the Rock River in Cleveland, Ill. It originally produced high-quality custom 1911 components, but when the company incorporated as Rock River Arms in 1996, it expanded into AR-platform manufacturing. From the first custom 1911 sold in 1997, to the launch of the company’s first complete LAR-15 rifles, Rock River Arms built its momentum and garnered a reputation for high standards…

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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…

This Week in History: On June 16, 1779 US General Anthony Wayne (pictured) captured Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British. — June, 1462: Vlad III the Impaler (the inspiration for “Dracula”) attempted to assassinate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in a night attack at Târgoviște. But the failure of that attack forced him to retreat from Wallachia. — And in 1873: US President Ulysses Grant declared a portion of Wallowa Valley, Oregon are a reservation for the Nez Perce Native American tribe. But the order was rescinded two years later and the tribe was forcibly re-located to…

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…