Wilson Combat just rolled out its new Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR), a purpose-built .223 Wylde built for shooters who want precision without dragging around a boat anchor. This isn’t a generic “slap a longer barrel on it and call it a DMR” build. The rifle starts with a perfectly matched billet upper and lower receiver set for rigidity and clean alignment. Translation: consistency shot to shot. Up front, you get an 18-inch fluted Recon match-grade barrel with a 1:8 twist. That’s a sweet spot for running a wide range of .223/5.56 bullet weights while keeping heat manageable during longer strings.…

It is the time of year when trade shows and conventions dominate the shooting and hunting industry, and new products are showcased for the coming year. Just a little over a week after the SHOT Show was took place in Las Vegas, the annual Safari Club International (SCI) Convention was being hosted in Nashville, Tennessee. The event draws thousands of hunters, conservationists, outfitters, and industry professionals from across the globe for a combination trade show, educational forum, social gathering, and fundraising event that helps fund the promotion of worldwide hunting and wildlife conservation. SCI consistently provides a platform for manufacturers to showcase…

There’s exactly one way to guarantee an untracked powder run on a busy resort like Vail. You’ve got to get to the top under your own power, before the lifts open or after they close. With powder days few and far between this season, I clicked into my touring bindings and started striding uphill into the morning darkness. After an aerobic 90 minutes of climbing, I ripped skins, snapped my La Sportiva Sender boots into ski mode, and pointed it down the fall line. Fast, loose, and powerfully, I slashed down my favorite powder-coated glade, not a track in sight…

After New Mexico Democrats failed to pass a bill that would have banned virtually every semi-automatic centerfire rifle on the market and imposed a wide variety of new and expensive mandates on federally licensed firearm dealers in the state, the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety issued a statement “condemning” the House of Representatives for “its shameful refusal to advance SB 17… despite overwhelming public support.”  Support for the bill was hardly overwhelming during public testimony on SB 17, where opponents easily outnumbered supporters. In fact, the biggest state-level gun control group in New…

Rain enveloped me as I stepped out my back door, hands laden with fishing rods. I hurried over to my boat, with gooey muck splattering all over my Strike Bigeye Boots and rain bibs. In a flash, everything was soaked. The rainy season had arrived, bringing excellent fishing but also awful conditions for getting out on the water. I loaded the rods in my rod box (at least I had the foresight to rig up indoors) and crouched in the mud hole that is my backyard to hitch the boat to the truck. I made quick work of the task…

Sometimes, we get a little ahead of ourselves when it comes to seeing anti-gun monsters in the closet. Some groups overblow the impact of some proposals to make them scarier, a trick we learned from the anti-gunners. The difference is that we don’t have a mainstream media to run cover for our nonsense, and it backfires. Other times, we don’t realize just how bad a proposal will be.In Pennsylvania, a simple budget proposal has some major problems built in that Gun Owners of America is very concerned about, and this is a case of, if…