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You’re three days into a backcountry trip, your filter cartridge just split, and the only water source is a stagnant pond that smells like a wet bag of ass. Or maybe it’s not a trip at all — the tap ran dry after a storm took out the water treatment plant and you’re standing over a 5-gallon bucket of questionable creek water wondering what you actually know how to do about it.Iodine tablets are the answer everybody memorizes and almost nobody actually carries when it counts. They’re slow, they taste like a swimming pool had a baby with a penny,…
In today’s article, Ryan Domke reviews the Savior Specialist Range Bag. This is the author’s personally owned gear bag, and he offers his thoughts on how well it performs. I’ve owned more than my fair share of range bags over the years. Some were bargain-bin finds that barely lasted a season, others held up decently but lacked proper organization features, and some were so floppy you might as well use a plastic grocery bag. The Savior Specialist’s semi-rigid frame and well-planned organization keep shooting gear sorted and within reach when it counts. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed Savior…
The triple-barreled Luftwaffe Drilling is proof that the German air force took its survival guns very seriously.Beginning in World War I, there was a serious debate over how to arm aircrews. Many pilots carried a sidearm before planes were even armed, and the apocryphal story concerning the beginning of aerial combat is that the first “dogfight” was with pistols from passing pilots. This then quickly evolved into rifles—rifles with extended magazines, multiple pistols and then finally (and thankfully) machineguns being usefully mounted on aircraft.As aerial warfare evolved, aircraft were armed with an array of machineguns, cannon, rockets, bombs and eventually…
We certainly don’t choose the cream of the crop when looking for candidates for this column, but every now and then you find something interesting for the right price and people will inquire about carrying it as a woods or backup gun. So, on a visit to the local Cabela’s gun library, a trade came in that wasn’t exactly on our wish list: a single-action M1895 Nagant revolver made in 1902 in Imperial Russia. With a finish in about 80 percent condition and with no pitting, it looked quite a few steps up from the later Commie revolvers made after…
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Merriam-Webster defines ergonomics as “an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely.” That’s a lot of words to say that a device should be designed to fit the user, not the other way around. For a pistol, that would encapsulate how you interact with the gun, and the biggest aspect of that is how the gun fits your hands. Ergonomics aren’t as important if you have no time constraints and only need to get a single accurate shot off; just align the sights and don’t move…
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The Caldwell ClayCopter Hand-Held Thrower is putting a new spin on the age-old pastime of clay shooting.Several years ago, against the base of a mountain north of Spokane, friends and I escaped from our service-industry jobs to shoulder shotguns, sling clays and let fly strings of lead, watching as the discs turned to dust and showering pines and dirt in bursts of orange. It was cheap fun—gas was likely more expensive than the $10 for 90 clays and the other $10 for the handheld disc thrower we forgot back at home.Crushing clays was fun, but I also really enjoyed rearing…
The very first time I hit a target at 1 mile was 2018. I was running a JJROCK custom rifle chambered in .375 CheyTac with a Nightforce 7-35x scope. All-in, the rig was nearly $15,000 worth of hardware, firing bullets that cost $6 per round at the time — at time of writing, it’s closer to $14 per round. While the thrill of reaching so far and hitting my mark with relative ease was undeniable, I was only fortunate enough to experience it on borrowed equipment for research purposes. For many years, the precision manufacturing required to produce rifle capable…
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Bill was a happy, jovial man. He was a patient of mine for many years. He always came to the clinic in the company of his sweet wife, who clearly adored him. Bill looked like a professional grandfather. He was also my friend. Bill was a gifted woodworker. He loved football, golf, and dancing with his wife. Within 15 minutes of meeting him, you knew where he stood with Jesus. Bill was a man of powerful faith. He loved people, and people loved him. In sum, Bill was as American as it gets. A soldier with the U.S. Seventh Army…
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With regard to home or personal defense, everyone knows the line: “When seconds matter, help is minutes away.” Such logic is the reason many of us carry daily or keep a firearm bedside. But what about those moments outside the home, perhaps in a remote location? We are indeed our first responder but it remains important to understand the term “first responder” applies to more than just those personnel carrying a sidearm. A critical situation — when emergency medical services are necessary — can happen anywhere, and it may occur when no threat is present. It could be a rural…
DownloadDate: 2026-04-14; Brand: Federal; ProductUOM: Each; SKUs: FHGCCTAN; PGs: Federal Premium Suppressor CaseCans get hot, but Federal’s new Suppressor Case helps remove and store them.If you shoot a lot of suppressed firearms, you’ve almost certainly spent time at the end of a range session sitting around waiting for one to cool down enough to transport. We all have things to get to, so that can get annoying, quick. Thankfully, the new Federal Suppressor Case is here to solve that.This durable case features a heat-resistant internal lining with side-pinch pockets that allow you to easily remove your suppressor from your firearm…
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