Savage kicked off 2026 by announcing the next generation of its classic Model 110 line of bolt-action rifles. This included the Pro series, Core series, rimfire versions and new chamberings. The company has also introduced its updated Ultralite series, which combines the 110 action with a carbon-fiber-wrapped barrel. All of Savages Ultralite firearms are based around a Proof Research carbon-fiber-wrapped, stainless-steel barrel. “Next Gen” Model 110 features introduced this year include improved manufacturing processes used for the receiver, resulting in smoother and more precise bolt travel, an improved extractor claw with a dual ejector system and a second generation AccuTrigger.…

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For folks who enjoy shooting sports, it will probably not come as much of a surprise to learn that the .22 LR is the most popular cartridge in the United States. On average, about 1.5 billion rounds are manufactured and sold annually, or roughly 19 percent of all the ammunition produced domestically. Plenty of enthusiasts shoot it from a variety of pistols, revolvers and long guns for pursuits that include small game hunting, formal target shooting competitions and casual plinking.   Due to its ubiquitous availability, and its other positive shooting characteristics, it’s only natural that .22 LR would find its…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: From mediator and author Brian Burrow, this is Gunfighters, a gripping descent into the shocking true history of the American frontier. 00:00:09 Speaker 2: What’s long been considered the very first gunfight of the old western frontier happened in the scraggly village of Springfield, Missouri, just before 6 o’clock at the beginning of a warm Friday evening. As everyone watched, two men stepped out into the open. They had argued over a pocket watch one of them seized from the other to satisfy a poker debt. The man who took the watch was a tough character named…

It’s the first collaboration between MeatEater and Bryan Burrough, an award-winning journalist at The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Texas Monthly. Bryan is also the author of eight books, four of them New York Times best-sellers. This new podcast is based on his 2025 book, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, published by Penguin Press.In the podcast, Bryan tells the narrative history of what he calls The Gunfighter Era, from 1865 to 1901, the thirty-six years between the first post-Civil War gunfight to receive national acclaims and the moment the frontier’s last two outlaws of note, Butch…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show, everybody. This week, we’ve got a market report on halibut prices and what those prices mean for dudes who fish. Former smokejumper and public lands advocate Sam Forstag is here to give us an update on his U.S. House of Representatives race. Helicopter hunting in Wyoming goes all wrong for an outdoor life editor. Etsy becomes the devil incarnate. That’s hyperbolic. And more. Not really, though. But first, on to our news. 00:00:38 Speaker 2: Our news. 00:00:40 Speaker 1: Okay, I’ll tell you about our news. Quick. Quickly. I was trying…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Hey everybody, this is Clay Newcomb. We’re going to be doing things just a little bit different the next couple of episodes of Bear Grease. Sometimes we move so fast that some of our best stuff gets kind of forgotten, kind of left in the past. And I want to go back to April 19th, 2023, to one of my favorite series of that time period. And it’s our series called Con Man. And it’s about a man named Asa Carter. who in 1976 published a book called The Education of Little Tree. He wrote the book…

Known for its imported, affordable self-defense handguns, Bersa USA has begun manufacturing some of its products in the U.S. and expanded its catalog to include modern sporting rifles and pistols, 1911 pistols, 2011-style pistols and suppressors. New for 2026, the company is updating its suppressor offerings with the new B-Series lineup. According to Bersa USA, B-Series suppressors were “engineered from the ground up to deliver hard-use performance, broad caliber versatility and user-friendly design across pistol, rimfire and rifle platform”. They are user-serviceable, made of premium materials and given a high-temp Cerakote finish, and cover cartridges from .22 LR to .300…

One of the many opportunities offered to attendees at the National Sporting Clays Association’s National Championship is the Ladies Discover Sporting Clays Experience, a specially tailored clinic designed to help new female shooters become familiar with the basics of firearm safety, shotgun-handling and sporting-clays shooting. “Years ago, I noticed that there were a lot of ladies. They would come up to me, and they would tell me that they admired me being out on the grounds here shooting, and that they would love to do it, but they were too afraid,” said Anne Mauro, founder and lead instructor of Ladies…

Nineteen-year-old Ethan Owen, a wildlife and fisheries management student at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, rushed out of his general botany class at 12:50 on the opening day of Tennessee’s three-day velvet season. He had an hour-long drive between him and a big velvet buck he’d been watching all summer.He made it home to Watertown, scarfed down something to eat, grabbed his Mathews Traverse bow, and by 3:30 p.m. was settled into his treestand.Owen got the first glimpse of his target buck last summer, when it showed up on a trail camera overlooking a clover food plot. But the buck…