In 2025, Federal Ammunition introduced one of the most innovative new cartridges in recent memory: the 7 mm Backcountry. Unlike other recent cartridge launches, the key to the 7 mm Backcountry wasn’t just in the design of the cartridge but also the type of material used in its case construction. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of this new rifle round. “Well, new cartridges in big-game hunting don’t come along very often, so when they do, it’s fairly big news. And this one, the 7 mm Backcountry by Federal is particularly interesting,” American…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Within a few hours, nineteen men found one leopard. They all blasted away, but a state trooper who was using a submachine gun he got credit for the kill. At dawn the next morning, a local lumberjack stalked the other leopard with a little mongrel pup called Tony and a deerhound. Tony spotted the leopard and bravely charged it. He was instantly killed. Fair stunned the beast with three quick shots, then clubbed it to death with his rifle. By the week’s end, one black bear and one monkey had surrendered meekly, but the other animals were…

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In this interview with The Armed Citizen Podcast at the 155th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Houston, Texas, NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Doug Hamlin talks about what is going on with the NRA, the many battles for our freedom around this nation the NRA is involved in, and what’s to come. When asked about anti-Second Amendment legislation in Virginia, Hamlin said, “We will be litigating.” He later noted that the Trump administration’s Department of Justice also said it will file suit if the state goes forward with unconstitutional legislation. In this interview Hamlin also talks about the…

A 27-year-old turkey hunter remains missing after a solo hunt on Mount Shavano in southern Colorado last week, according to the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office. Kaden Sites was reported missing around 7 p.m. on April 15. He left for a short hunt around 1:30 that afternoon and planned to be back for a doctor’s appointment at 3:45 but never showed. Family members found Sites’ truck parked near Blank’s Cabin Trailhead on Mount Shavano. His cellphone was still inside with a dead battery. Search and rescue efforts ramped up that evening, with approximately 80 people involved in a multi-agency effort, which…

Wilson Combat has acquired the Guncrafter Industries brand and assets, uniting two of America’s foremost custom firearm manufacturers. Guncrafter Industries was founded by Alex Zimmerman—a former research and development director at Wilson Combat—in 2004. That year, he unveiled his firm’s unusual take on the 1911 pistol at the SHOT Show, the Model 1, which is chambered in the .50 GI cartridge his company also developed. The company has developed a variety of popular handguns since then. Wilson Combat, founded by Bill Wilson in 1977, has built a global reputation for producing world-class 1911 pistols, premium defensive firearms and high-performance accessories…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: A trip through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the crown jewel of America’s wildlife preserves, reveals a stunning, prime evil world under constant threat of becoming a national sacrifice. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West, where the prime evil West abides. What wakes me is a sound I’ve never heard, or to be truer to the actual experience. Two sounds to which my memory banks cannot assign. Cause one is a soft, gentle sort of chuffing, coming awake to the slanting light out the tent door. I register this one first, an auditory accompaniment…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which has brought to you by first Light. Today’s episode is all about spring scouting and what you should be doing while you’re turkey hunting, and the truth about what you can learn about deer right now. I know this…

I recently went to two Project Appleseed shooting events. I went to one with friends one by myself. One was in the south in the summer the other in the north in the winter. There was a lot the same at these two events and a decent amount was different. There was a more negative experience for the first one and a more positive in the second, though neither was entirely positive or negative. How were these events different and why? Those are the questions I’m asking and answering here. I want to answer those questions both for the clinics…