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MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab Breaks Ground on New Bozeman Facility
MTNTOUGH, a Bozeman, Montana–based fitness company, just announced that it’s breaking ground on a new, bigger, and better facility — but no worries, they're staying in Bozeman. The company’s new space will ramp up productivity and meet several ...
S&W’s New M&P 9 Metal: Flagship Pistol Gets Aluminum Frame
M&P 9 M2.0 Metal 9mm LugerStriker Fired T6 Aluminum Frame M2.0 Flat-Face Trigger Enhanced Sear 17+1 capacity, uses regular M&P 9 mags Fits standard M&P 9 holsters MSRP: $899 Smith and Wesson just ...
Vampires, Night-Ops, and Adrenaline: Hog Hunting in Texas
It was simply too fucking hot. We were in Santa Monica, Texas, for a media hunt, and 110-degree temps meant no animals were moving during the day. So we went vampire mode. We slept in our air-conditioned windowless barndominium rooms all ...
Springfield Armory Prodigy: New Double-Stack 1911 with a 26-Round Mag
Model: Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy AOSChambered in 9mmUp to 26-round capacityPolymer grip module Cerakote finishOptics readyBushingless bull barrelMSRP for base model: $1,499 An internet leak gave people an early look at the new ...
Elk Hunting Gear: A Complete Guide to Quality Kit
As the days get shorter and evening temperatures cool, it's hard to think about anything but elk. September is my favorite time of year for many reasons: new gear to test, new adventures to share with friends, but most importantly, I get to live a ...
Hunting Forecast 2022: Extreme Weather Could Be Bad For Hunting
Sweltering heat waves, devastating droughts, extreme flooding, and destructive wildfires throughout the country could point to a brutal hunting forecast this fall. Mule deer, elk, wild turkey, and waterfowl hunters specifically could feel the impact ...
Bear Crashes Wedding, Kills Moose During Vows
“Till death do us part” took on a new meaning when a wedding was interrupted by a grizzly bear killing a young moose behind the bride and groom. The happy couple and their guests were enjoying the picturesque backdrop of Two Medicine Lake in ...
Rifles Allowed for Illinois Deer Hunting, With a Catch
After decades of limiting Illinois whitetail hunters to shotguns and muzzleloaders, the state is finally catching up with the rest of the country, save for a handful of other states. Well, sort of. Single-shot rifles will now be allowed for Illinois ...
California Effectively Shuts Down Youth Shooting
In a video filled with political theatrics, California Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of cartoon skulls and holds an AR-15. At the same time, he accuses members of the US Supreme Court and “right-wing Republicans” of lacking “common decency and ...
SOF Medic on Wilderness Medicine Planning
Hunters spend hours e-scouting the backcountry in an effort to create a best-case scenario — a successful hunt. It’s high time they put an equal amount of time and effort into emergency planning and wilderness medicine training. According to ...
A Big Buck Expert On Deer Hunting in the Rain
It was the second Saturday of the Minnesota archery deer season, September 2019, and I was settled into my hunting saddle long before first light on a piece of public land. This property receives plenty of archery and duck hunting pressure, and for ...
Major Mountain Lion Hunting and Trapping Fight Boils in Texas
The future of mountain lion hunting and trapping is under debate in Texas after an animal-rights group petitioned to change regulations within the state. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (TPW) directed staff to form a mountain lion working ...
The Best Home Defense Gun: Shotgun, Carbine, and Handgun Guide
Beretta 1301 TacticalBeretta M9A4CMMG Banshee MkGsColt Python 3-InchMossberg 940 Pro TacticalGLOCK G20SIG Sauer MPX KSIG Sauer P320 Criminals are getting bolder and more violent every passing day. This volatile combination, coupled with a rise in ...
FBI Going After Missouri Concealed Carry Permit Holder Info?
There’s some strangeness afoot down in Missouri over concealed carry permit records, and it’s pitting local and state-level politicians against the FBI. The feds say their request to audit the computers where CCW records are kept is to ensure ...
Chene Gear: Great Waders and Giving Back With Free Duck Stamps
Chene Gear is a young waterfowling gear company out of Memphis, Tennessee, that began with waders: the base of every hardcore waterfowler’s gear list. This summer, the company is celebrating its one-year anniversary. As part of that ...
Atlatls, Pits, and Persistence: How Early Hunters Killed Big Game
Imagine heading into an endless expanse of prairie before dawn with a group of people all armed with a stone-tipped throwing spear or even just a sharp stick and possibly carrying painfully empty bellies. Imagine knowing that the lives of your ...
Be Ready to Strike During the Whitetail Deer Rut
I love the rut. If you're a whitetail fanatic, how can you not? North winds blow, and heavy antlers abuse trees. Pawed earth can be found under licking branches, and leaves stained yellow, red, orange, and purple cling desperately to every ...
ATV Accident: How Rescuers Saved a Hunter Who Drove Off a Cliff
Los Padres National Forest sprawls across coastal California, with nearly 2 million acres of chaparral, Jeffrey pine, and white fir running up peaks that turn silver with sun or snow, but in the dark, it’s pretty black, which is probably why a hunter ...
The Best Tourniquets: Experts Discuss the Trauma Kit Essential
Tourniquets are the most important piece of equipment in your EDC or backcountry first aid kit, no matter which style you choose to carry. Period. But if you get two or more people from the SOF community talking about which is best — a ...
Behind on Utah Child Support? No Fishing or Hunting License
If you want to hunt or fish in Utah, you need to pay your child support. If hunters and anglers fall far enough behind in their payments, the state will revoke their hunting and fishing privileges. Period. The Utah law implementing this rule went ...
Field Dressing a Deer: A Step-By-Step Guide for New Hunters
Before we get started, allow me to preempt any comments about how I don’t know what I’m doing by saying there’s more than one way to skin a cat (or in this case field dressing a deer). The method I describe here is one of many ways you can field ...
10 Pieces of Must-Have Survival Gear You Can’t Live Without
How do you pick the right survival gear? It comes down to the Rule of Three. Of course, you know the average person can survive up to three weeks without food, but only three days without water and only three hours outside of their core ...
Gatorz Marauder: SOF’s Favorite Shades Get a New Look
MilSpec ballistic protectionCustom-fit aluminum frameCerakote finishPolarized (optional) glare reductionAnti-fog and scratch-resistant coatingsUV protectionHigh-contrast lensesReduced weightMSRP: $160 – $250 Gatorz has been a respected maker of ...
Alaska Hunting Guide Gets Prison Time for ‘Wildlife Crime Spree’
Stephen Jeremy Hicks is a former Alaskan hunting guide with a penchant for playing fast and loose with game laws. He first had his license put on probation in 2016 for not providing clients with contracts and failing to maintain safe field ...
State Responses to Bruen: New York Gun Laws Got Worse
It has been nearly two months since the Supreme Court handed down a decision that will force nine states to alter their current concealed-carry permitting laws. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen struck down a requirement in ...
The Essential Gear List for Bowhunting Pronghorn Antelope
Hunting the prince of the plains with a bow is no easy task. They inhabit wide-open spaces where they can use their large, powerful eyes and nearly 320-degree field of vision to detect predators up to four miles away — plus, they can reach speeds of ...
Field Test: Armasight Contractor 320 Thermal Optic vs. Texas Hogs
When you hear the terms infrared scope or thermal optic, if you’re of a certain age, you probably think of Predator, which is the first time most people saw an approximation of what “heat vision” could look like: green, yellow, orange, red, and ...
Smith & Wesson Introduces New 350 Legend Revolver for Hunters
S&W Model 350Chambered in .350 LegendDouble Action/Single Action7 round capacity using moon clips (included)Stainless steel frame, fluted cylinder, 7.5-inch ported barrelRed ramp front sight, adjustable rear sightOverall Length: 13.5 ...
Watch: Brown Bear Cub Trips Balls After Eating ‘Mad Honey’
It’s a scourge on our wildlife, a menace to bear youth everywhere — the cubs call it by a lot of different names: the “Sticky Trippy,” “Mad Honey,” or simply, “Doing Pooh.” But it’s all the same drug menace plaguing our forests, and it must be ...
