Author: Gunner Quinn
Today marked a deeply personal and cathartic visit for me—one that bridged more than 35 years of memories, gratitude and admiration. I returned to Midway Arms, now MidwayUSA, a place I first visited decades ago in the early 1990s as publisher of Guns & Ammo magazine alongside the late, great Robert E. Petersen. What I found this time was not just a thriving business, but a testament to vision, passion and an unwavering commitment to America’s shooting sports heritage. Larry and Brenda Potterfield have truly set the recreational shooting world on fire. Under their leadership, MidwayUSA has earned three Malcolm Baldrige National…
WOOX, manufacturer of Italian-American made gunstocks, axes and knives, is breaking ground to expand its operations in Hickory, N.C.—where woodworking expertise has been passed on for generations. The manufacturing facility’s growth will help meet demand for the firm’s premium products, particularly its line of Standard American and High-Grade American Walnut stocks. For decades, Hickory was considered the furniture capital of America, or at least a major suburb. At its peak, the local furniture and woodworking industry employed thousands of skilled craftsmen, often in the same factory in which their parents and grandparents worked. The tradition began in the late 1890s…
Gun-control groups are again trying to ban one of the best-selling and most iconic semi-automatic pistols ever—yes, most Glocks. They are also after, with some temporary success, any other semi-automatic pistols they can accuse of being “machine-gun convertible.” A few states have now enacted bans on so-called “machine gun convertible pistols,” a term primarily referring to semi-automatic handguns that can theoretically be illegally modified by criminals into machine guns via—again, illegal—devices like “switches” or auto sears. Federally, these “switches” and similar devices are classified as machine guns under the National Firearms Act (NFA), making their possession, manufacture and transfer illegal…
The Aimpoint ACRO made the closed emitter famous. The Steiner MPS followed with a similar construction and aesthetic. Some people love the “mailbox” design, some hate it. If you’re one of the latter, there is a sleeker option. We now have a closed emitter, rugged, extremely compact optic with a ubiquitous RMS-C footprint. This optic exhibits clear glass, shake-awake technology, a large viewing window, no “tunnel vision” and it’s not made in China! The new Steiner MPS-C is here, and it is one of my favorite new drops from SHOT Show 2026. I mounted one to my Smith & Wesson…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods 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 Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: What is going on? Welcome to Wired to Hunt. This is Jake Hoefer and building off of the theme for the month of June talking about failures and shortcomings and mistakes that all hunters likely make somewhere along their journey. How do I address them now and fix them or identify them for…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: That afternoon, we had one pounds back, two seventy fives and three fifty, so we did a mock pack out where they had to get to the pin with this day, we kind of would help them, you know, like when they would start to kind of either make a mistake or you know, forget about something, we would kind of, hey, look at it from this perspective. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: Maybe you know, mess with your topos. 00:00:19 Speaker 1: If you can’t read topo, use the three D, which is huge from Onyx. 00:00:24 Speaker…
A few months after I was born in 1981, the late gun writer Gene Hill had a story titled “Why You Don’t Always Hit What You Shoot At—(Me Too!)” published in Gun Dog magazine. It was one of the first columns I recall reading when I decided to improve my shotgun skills as an adult. Hill was Harvard-educated but had an uncanny ability to connect with the common hunter, which is why his writing and instruction are so helpful to folks like you and me.Many of us don’t understand why we are good shots one day and bad the next.…
Taking a page from his own public land sale playbook, Mike Lee introduced an amendment late Tuesday night, June 9, to the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2025 (S.140) that will nullify the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and prohibit the implementation of a similar rule in the future.On Wednesday morning, the Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee voted 11-9 to adopt the amendment and to advance the bill. The bill will now proceed to the Senate for a full vote.The “Roadless Rule,” as it’s informally called, prohibits new road construction and development on nearly 59 million acres of Forest Service lands…
On June 2, Joelseph “Joe” Frank Jenkins, 48, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced to two years behind bars and received a lifetime hunting ban after he pleaded guilty to two felonies and two misdemeanors. The felony charges included possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and unlawfully killing or possessing wildlife, while the two misdemeanors were illegally baiting black bears and guiding without a license.Jenkins’s sentencing comes after years of undercover work from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, which started in 2022. Apparently, Jenkins was conducting illegal baiting and guiding for black bears in Idaho’s Unit 67. During…
A Montana man was recently sentenced for poaching a unique whitetail after attempting to claim it as a legitimate archery kill. According to a Facebook post by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), game wardens began investigating 23-year-old Tony Zimbleman in 2025 after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.At first, Zimbelman denied wrongdoing, claiming to have shot the trophy whitetail with archery gear during archery season in Pondera County, which is in north-central Montana. Eventually, though, he admitted to having actually shot the deer with a rifle one day before archery season opened.Zimbelman’s case is particularly notable because of…