NRA’s Great American Outdoor Show (GAOS) opens Feb. 7 and runs until Feb. 15 in Harrisburg, Pa. It’s the place to be if you’re aching to see many of the new guns and gear unveiled last month at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT) in Las Vegas, Nev. The family-friendly event is much more, though. It’s the world’s largest annual gathering of outdoor enthusiasts, with manufacturers, retailers and companies that cater to virtually every pursuit, passion and activity—even those capable of being enjoyed indoors. More than 1,000 exhibitors will be at this year’s GAOS, which will occupy 650,000…

Founded in 1958, Bersa is an Argentinean gunmaker that is best known among American shooting sports enthusiasts for its affordably priced defensive pistols. Among the most popular options has been the Thunder .380 ACP, which is based on the Walther PPK. In more recent years, the company’s catalog has expanded to include AR-pattern rifles and pistols; polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols; and a selection of 1911s. This pistol ships in a handy MFT TCP range bag. In October 2022, the company established its Bersa USA division with 45,500-square-foot manufacturing facilities located in Kennesaw and Cartersville, Ga. By 2025, the U.S. team was…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I’m gonna force your hand a little bit. We’re gonna do a hunting camp pre like hunt prep camp. 00:00:05 Speaker 2: Gonna force my hand and we’re I mean, we’re doing it all right. 00:00:07 Speaker 1: We’re gonna put it out sometime. Yeah. Yeah, we’re gonna We’re gonna do it because I’ve been wanting to do it. We’re gonna do something in Colorado. Uh, super limited fun hangout, get guys ready for the mountains in September. Get a little jump start on your training sometime in June, so be ready, be on the lookout. It’ll…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week, on the show, I’m joined by Ben Dedimanti, also known as shed Crazy on the Internet, to discuss all things shed hunting from east coast to west. All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, we are talking shed hunting, all things shed hunting from east to west, north to south. We are going to talk shed hunting tactics, philosophies, strategies, habitat, planning trips, and how to do all of this no matter where you live in the country, no matter…

(Continued from  Part 1.) A typical Trucker’s dual-mount CB antenna has 2 coaxes down to one connection to the radio.  We want the signal from both antennas, unified exactly for a nice strong signal / in phase voltage pulse, into the radio. Because the antennas are on the sides, like mirror mounts, the strongest, best signal (in phase), will come from the front and rear of the truck, while signals from either side, will Cancel each other out (a little bit). The same thing happens with our Vertical antennas, 2-3-4-5-6-7-8 of them.  We want to get rid of the noise…

On February 5, 1736 British Methodist ministers John Wesley (pictured) and Charles Wesley arrived in Savannah, Georgia. — Today is the birthday of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916). He was an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first truly automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim also held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim claimed to invented the lightbulb. He was the father of Hiram Percy Maxim, who founded the ARRL. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round…

A concerning bill is moving through the Florida legislature that would make it legally and financially jeopardizing to publicly criticize agricultural products and practices. While it may seem, on the surface, like an attempt to protect farmers from defamation, this provision could serve more as a tool to silence the public from speaking out about environmental concerns.Hunters, anglers, and conservationists have relied on raising their unified voices for years to protect public lands, wildlife, and waterways. This legislation threatens our ability to do so.Libel LegalityBuried deep inside a farm bill omnibus package in SB 290/HB 433 is a provision that…

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The Franklin Armory story is a familiar one in the firearms industry: A small company that started out making innovative components grew and expanded into making complete firearms. In Franklin Armory’s case, it began with binary trigger systems and grew into boundary-pushing guns, like the Reformation. That pattern continues with the Prevail, an innovative bolt-action design that introduces the company’s Total Round Control system. The Franklin Armory Prevail is a new and innovative bolt-action rifle from a company that is known for thinking outside the box. “Total Round Control” means that the Prevail combines the elements of both a push-feed…