Spring means gobbling turkeys, pleasant temps, and more daylight. It’s also the start of a long offseason of whitetail scouting that spans the summer months and into fall openers. Unfortunately, it’s also the time that insects, spiders, snakes, and a host of other critters resurface.Depending on what part of the…

The .50 BMG wasn’t born out of a desire for subtlety. When John Moses Browning developed it in the late 1910s, it was to meet the U.S. military’s need for a heavy machine gun cartridge, capable of defeating aircraft, light armor, and hardened targets at extended ranges. As such, it was…

A deal to increase production of the Air Force’s B-21 bomber could be reached by March, Northrop Grumman’s CEO said. But a looming government shutdown could hinder talks, as one did last fall.Kathy Warden said no agreement has been reached about the $4.5 billion in reconciliation funding approved last year…

Update: Two federal officers discharged their weapons during the fatal encounter that culminated in the death of an American citizen Saturday in Minneapolis, several news outlets, including the Associated Press, reported Tuesday. Bystander videos collected during the confrontation suggested as much, but the detail was formally submitted in accordance with…

President Donald Trump was dead wrong to say our foreign allies “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan.In 2014, I was an infantry platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division, deployed to Kandahar, the hometown of the Taliban. Every Tuesday night, I would make a…

Chiappa Firearms is starting out the new year by introducing a new L-Frame Rhino chambered in .44 Magnum, the new Chiappa 60 DS series. This product expansion represents the brand exploring larger-bore revolvers in its unique bottom-barrel, low-bore-axis revolver designs. Built around the Rhino’s trademark bottom-chamber-firing geometry, the new .44…

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