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Gun sales have been good in 2016. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released the numbers on its March 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Back Ground Check Systems (NICS) tracking. March produced a figure of 1,297,275, an increase of 9.2 percent compared to March 2015.

Watches made for sporting/fitness purposes are one of the hottest items in the outdoor industry. Whether you're simply tracking how many steps in a day or intend to make full use of the miniature GPS on your wrist, they can be darn handy devices to have along. Garmin makes some of the finest GPS watches in the business, and Digital Managing Editor Shawn Skipper recently had the opportunity to test out their new fenix 5X during a Colorado elk hunt. Here are five things you need to know.

Weighing just 24 ounces, the EL Range 32 features new a single bridge design, along with familiar EL Range features such as HD optics, magnesium housing, ballistic readout of rifle scope click corrections in MOA or MRAD, scan mode and Tracking Assistant to help narrow down the area where you took your last shot.

The firearms industry isn’t really known for being small—walk into any gun shop and you’re going to find product offerings from any one of hundreds of companies from around the globe. So, sometimes, hunters and shooters never cross paths with certain products—even products from companies that are well worth tracking down. Among those companies is Mexico’s Aguila Ammunition.

GPS tracking collars are revealing how bucks change their patterns when the hunting season starts.

Humans have used dogs to hunt for thousands of years. More recently, technology (specifically GPS tracking collars) has made the partnership that much more dependable. The Dogtra Pathfinder collar marries the genius of GPS location with an easy-to-use smartphone interface.

There are breeds that specialize in just about every task, but almost any dog can learn to blood-trail wounded game.

Moultrie Mobile has announced the release of the Delta cellular trail camera, boasting all-season reliability.

Everybody makes a bad shot once in a while. If you haven't, you probably haven't been hunting a long time. When you do make a bum shot on a game animal, you have a responsibility to track that animal down and finish it.