Question: I live in Michigan’s lower peninsula and recently purchased a property in the upper peninsula. I love hunting up there but have had a hard time patterning deer.I’ve always looked for food and bedding and then found their paths in between. However, where I am in the UP, there are no significant mast crops or ag. The deer primarily feed on browse in the cedar swamps and maple stands that exist in this area. Therefore, everything around them is a potential food source and they don’t have to travel to get a meal.My question is, with the absence of…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: What is going on? 00:00:00 Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of Back 40. This is Jake Holfer, and we brought back our guest and panel for this sequence of Back 40. 00:00:10 Speaker 1: We have Bill Wienke, Jeff Sturgis, Aaron Warburton, and Adam Keith. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: And now that it is September, there’s this delicate balance of preparing for this upcoming season and not impacting your odds from pressure or intrusion. And I hope you guys really enjoy this point-blank, The question that I’m providing to the guest is every time I scout, I…

Suppressing a firearm is the polite thing to do, for everyone from the hunting buddy sitting beside you in the field to your neighbor at the next bench on the range. Using suppressors allow us greater opportunities to exercise our right to bear arms and an armed society is…. well, we all know that quote. This is the idea behind the products and the name of Polite Society Industries, a new suppressor manufacturing company. Polite Society Industries is a new suppressor manufacturing company located in Tampa, Fla.   Polite Society Industries is starting out by launching six new suppressors. All…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Are you overwhelmed by the firehose of public land news and social media posts and crises seemingly coming at us day after day right now? Yeah, me too. There is a lot going on right now related to our national parks and wilderness areas and forests and the like. Serious change is underway. And even for me, someone whose job it is to stay up on this stuff, It is nearly impossible to keep track of it all and what’s real and what’s not and what’s actually important. The thing is, if you hunt or fish or…

Despite being early adopters of several semi-automatic rifles for military use, the French army took several decades to work out a standardized semi-automatic rifle for general service use. The rifle that finally came to being was the MAS-49, which took several design cues from the previous MAS-36 bolt-action rifle. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: I Have This Old Gun” segment above to see the MAS-49 in action on the range. “The French were also early pioneers when it came to even semi-automatic service rifles with the RSC 1917, but with the RSC and some of the other semi-autos that they…

00:00:14 Speaker 1: My name is Clay Newcomb, and this is a production of the Bear Grease Podcast called the Bear Grease Render, where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual Bear Grease Podcast, brought to you by Tacobas Boots. I’m a cowboy boot man, and I’ve been wearing Tacobas for years. They’re the most comfortable boot I’ve ever put on. Good boots for good times. So here we are. We’ve got, we’re coming off hot after the latest Bear Grylls podcast about men’s health. It really was about health in general. We didn’t…

The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today announced Patriot Mobile as the official wireless connectivity partner of the 2026 NRA Gun Bus Battleground Tour. The partnership will put Patriot Mobile’s brand front and center on the tour under the designation “Connected by: Patriot Mobile,” reflecting both the company’s role as the NRA’s official wireless provider and the connectivity it will supply as the Gun Bus travels the country. The NRA bus Tour is designed to take NRA-ILA’s grassroots, legislative, and political work directly to gun owners, ranges, and communities nationwide. Throughout the tour, NRA-ILA will highlight key…

Randy Brooks, former president and CEO of Barnes Bullets, passed away on Aug. 27 peacefully in his Mona, Utah, home. He and his wife, Coni, purchased the firm they built to legendary status in 1974. The company’s operations, based out of American Fork, Utah, were modest at first. The “factory” was the family home, with his wife and two daughters seating bullet cores. Sometime around 1985, Randy—who was an avid hunter—came up with what was then a radical concept for an all-copper bullet with improved terminal performance and penetration. After extensive testing and fine tuning of the manufacturing process, the…

The new VP9CC is Heckler & Koch’s second micro-size pistol, following the CC9’s debut in late 2024. Made at HK’s Oberndorf, Germany, factory, the VP9CC was intended for the European market, but was released in rather limited numbers. Its construction, dimensions and magazine capacity precisely fit the “micro-9” market niche pioneered by KelTec’s P11 in 1995, which was nearly dormant until SIG Sauer’s P365 sparked a popularity explosion in this genre of concealed-carry handgun. Chambered in 9 mm, the VP9CC is striker-fired and uses the tilting-barrel, locked-breech operating system. It ships in a high-quality soft case with a 10-round flush-fit and…

A 35-year-old Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy faces four felony charges after letting his 3-year-old daughter trigger the 12-gauge shotgun blast that wounded a 40-year-old turkey-hunting mentor and the man’s 7-year-old son during April’s two-day youth-only turkey season.James D. Lehman of Union Grove was charged Aug. 17 in Racine County Circuit Court with two counts of second-degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon and two counts of injury by negligent use of a dangerous weapon. His initial court appearance is scheduled for September 10. Local news outlets report Lehman is on administrative leave from the Racine County Sheriff’s Department.The shooting occurred near…