Almost every outdoor activity has its own upper tier. A black belt level test that outdoorsfolk take up to challenge themselves in hopes of finding out how far they can push their passion. For hikers, it can be a particularly rough or long trail. For hunters, it can be pursuing a difficult species like Dall sheep or harvesting a trophy-sized specimen of their favorite species.Anglers try to master challenging fishing methods like Spey casting or pursue rare or difficult-to-catch species like permit. In fact, it seems like almost every outdoor pursuit has its own boss level, but there’s probably none…

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Long-known for making affordable guns, Hi-Point Firearms has branched out this year to make affordable suppressors. The company is starting with two models—the Hi-Point Hush-Point 22 and Hush-Point 45/9. Hi-Point is jumping into the suppressor market with two new designs, including the Hush-Point 22 pictured. Introduced in late 2025, the Hush-Point 22 is a suppressor rated for rimfire cartridges, including .17 Mach 2, .17 HMR, .17 WSM, .22 LR and .22 WMR. It is a symmetrical, four-piece design that is user-serviceable. The suppressor uses 7075 aluminum for its body, monolithic baffle and muzzle cap. It is a direct mount design,…

 Micro-compact 9 mm pistols are really popular right now, and have been popular for several years. Typically, they’re polymer-frame and striker-fired. In 2022, Smith & Wesson took a little bit of a different tack with that design concept with the original CSX. Well, now, Smith & Wesson has upgraded that platform with what it calls its E-Series. The E in that stands for “enhanced.” And there are definitely some enhancements here that we want to talk about. First off, what we’re looking at here on the table is a CSX that is sized pretty much like the original one. It…

Can you knock down a moose with a .22? The answer is “yes”—but it takes about 15 bullets. Just ask Shawn Tuffnell, of Stoughton, Saskatchewan.On January 22, Shawn was going about his morning after having spent the night at his mother’s house when he heard her screams coming from outside. Angie had ventured out to warm up her vehicle and encountered a moose tucked against the house’s dryer vent for reprieve from the numbing -40 wind chill.Shawn sprinted outside and found the moose standing overtop his screaming mother. From a picture on Facebook (warning: it’s graphic), the animal appears to…

00:00:14 Speaker 1: My name is Clay Nukeleman. 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, presented by f h F Gear, American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear that’s designed to be as rugged as the place. As we explore, this is a great debate what to do right now. We do we stay in the heated conversation, very interesting conversation we were having, but we would have to inform the listeners what we’re talking…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we’re joined by Steve Giannis, Randall, Brody, Seth, and Cory. This is episode two of the fourth annual Mediater Trivia Championship. This competition will span three episodes. Whoever has the most points after thirty questions will be declared the newest Meet Eater Trivia Champion. Now, there will be spoilers from last week’s episode, so if you haven’t listened to that one yet, then pause this show and go back to listen to…

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Imagine that you were a weakling who kept his cash under his mattress, and you lived in a bad neighborhood that was dominated by the Mafia.  Every year or two, Mafia thugs would come by and threaten to beat you to death, and demand: “Half for us and half for you.”  That is a bit like what it is like to live in an era of mass inflation. But with inflation, the cash extractions are gradual, and almost invisible. No thugs. Just melting purchasing power. Perhaps I chose a poor analogy, but bear with me, while I explain: As a…

February 18, 1678: John Bunyan‘s Christian novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress” was published in London by Nathaniel Ponder.  Pictured is John Bunyan’s Tomb, at Bunhill Field, London. — Today is also the birthday of astronaut Theodore Cordy “Ted” Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964.) Ted Freeman and his wife Faith were friends of my mother and father.  Both my father and Ted Freeman were stationed at Bryan Air Force base in the early 1950s, and they rented houses three blocks apart, in College Station, Texas. (My father was a T-33 instructor pilot.) About ten years later, while training as…