Earlier this year, I took a weeklong long-distance precision rifle shooting course at the famous FTW Ranch in Barksdale, Texas. This property is nestled in the state’s mountainous region and situated west of San Antonio. It’s a destination for shooters and hunters alike. The acreage holds scores of steel target arrays set out to distance while also taking advantage of the natural environment. This creates realistic shooting scenarios that cause the shooter or hunter to carefully take the wind and other environmental factors into consideration. I specifically attended the FTW SAAM/Impact Precision Advanced Course, which leans heavily into helping students…

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One Tennessee man recently lost his hunting privileges for life. A tip to a wildlife hotline led game wardens to Austin Hale’s home, where they found 18 deer mounts, 52 turkey beards, 84 turkey spurs, and one fan mount. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) says the vast majority of the wildlife parts were obtained illegally. They were confiscated as evidence and later ordered forfeited when Hale pleaded guilty to six counts of possession of illegal wildlife.TWRA received a tip in March about two wild turkeys they believed were killed illegally near Alexandria. The concerned citizen gave game wardens photos…

The Nordic Police, comprising of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, recently selected Federal Ammunition’s 62-grain Tactical Bonded .223 Rem. load for duty ammunition. Terms of the agreement include the firm supplying the agencies with up to 35 million rounds over seven years. In addition, Federal’s 5.56 NATO 55-grain Disintegrator Jacketed Frangible was selected as the reduced-hazard training ammunition for the Nordic Police. “Federal is proud to supply duty and training ammunition to police, government agencies and militaries in America and to key allies around the world,” said Peter Gillette, senior director of international and DoD sales at Federal. “The…

The FBI just released its final 2025 national crime statistics. The numbers from 2024 to 2025 are striking: Violent crime fell 9.3 percent Murder and non-negligent manslaughter fell 18.1 percent Robbery fell 18.5 percent Rape fell 7.6 percent Aggravated assault fell 7.2 percent The murder rate fell to 4.1 per 100,000 in 2025, which the FBI says is tied with 1955-56 for the lowest national rate in its historical estimates. The FBI actually describes the 9.3 percent decline as the largest year-to-year drop in violent crime since national estimates began in 1936.  An important caveat is that these are national statistical estimates based…

For more than three decades, Friends of NRA has been bringing communities together in support of a shared mission: preserving our hunting and shooting heritage while advancing firearm safety, education, training and youth programs. Today, that mission has reached a remarkable milestone as Friends of NRA celebrates reaching more than 5 million attendees through events held across the country. Those 5 million attendees represent far more than a number. They represent families, first-time shooters, lifelong hunters, volunteers, sponsors and supporters who have become part of the Friends of NRA story. Every event has created new friendships, strengthened communities, introduced future…

As of Aug. 24, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) webpage is again providing defensive-gun-use (DGU) data. The Biden administration, at the behest of gun-control groups that want to shape anti-gun narratives in the media, dropped scientific surveys that indicate how many times armed citizens annually use their guns for self-defense. The Trump administration’s CDC is again publishing this well-established data. The CDC’s “About Firearm Injury and Death” page now says, “The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.” The 60,000-2.5 million range is not…

Sitting on the border of Quebec and Vermont, Lake Memphremagog is one of the largest lakes in the Green Mountain State and a true angler’s paradise. With over 20 species of gamefish found in Memphremagog’s glacial waters, anglers flock to its shorelines to catch everything and anything from perch to salmon.However, the recent discovery of a contagious melanoma that’s been discovered among Memphremagog’s brown bullhead population has tainted this fishing oasis.A Cancerous DiscoveryBack in 2011, anglers started reporting “black, tar-like” marks on the faces and bodies of bullhead they regularly caught in Lake Memphremagog, said Vermont Fish and Wildlife (VTFW)…

While the company is mostly known for its metal-frame, hammer-fired DA/SA handguns, Beretta jumped into the striker-fired, polymer-frame pistol market with the APX in 2017, followed in 2022 by the upgraded A1 series in 2022. New for 2026, the company is adding another first to the APX lineup with the first factory ported model. The new Beretta APX A1 Ported has a single barrel port that aligns with seven ports on the slide. The APX A1 Ported carries the features of the A1 family, including its modular serialized stainless-steel chassis, improved ergonomics, interchangeable backstraps, an optics-ready slide that uses adapter…

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