How To Choose A Handgun Optic Lead

How to Choose a Handgun Optic

Handgun optics have become smaller and more reliable than ever. Whether it’s a scope, a red-dot, a micro red-dot or an enclosed microdot there is an option for every possible use. Learn why here.

Review: GAIM Virtual Reality Shooting Simulator

Ever want to improve your hunting and shooting skills when you can't quite make it to the range or field? Check out the GAIM unit from Aimpoint. In this thorough review, contributor Brad Fenson breaks down this unit's features and intricacies.

How to Select New Sights for Old Rifles

Presbyopia is the loss of the eye’s ability to focus on close objects and it affects just about everyone over 40. When it happens to riflemen they usually retire their favorite classic rifles with open sights that should never wear scopes. But they needn’t do so.

Hardware: 5 Red Dot Sights

Today there are four basic types of red dot sights, including contained reflex sights, mini reflex sights, prismatic and holographic red dot sights. Here are five—at least one of each style—that make precise aiming of your rifle, shotgun or handgun faster, easier and more accurate in most lighting conditions.

Top 5 Optics for Turkey Guns

Beads are for jewelry. Get with the times and add an optic to your cherished turkey gun.

Review: Hornady Subsonic .30-30 Winchester Ammo

Quiet, lethal and suppressor-friendly, there’s a lot to love about Hornady’s new Subsonic .30-30 load. It’s great for game species of every size at close ranges and features a Sub-X bullet that delivers reliable expansion and solid bullet construction.

Review: Savage Arms Model 220 Turkey

The new bolt-action Model 220 Turkey shotgun features a blued, 22-inch carbon steel barrel, Savage’s AccuFit adjustable stock system, a user-adjustable trigger pull weight and a detachable two-round box magazine.

Hardware: Aimpoint Micro S-1

The Micro S-1’s features enable both speed and precision with a tight-choked shotgun; the sight will help you swing on a charging coyote as well as smash the beak of a longbeard.

Turkey Guns: 5 Tips for Extending Your Effective Range

Transitioning your ho-hum shotgun into an envy-worthy strut stopper isn’t difficult. Here’s what you need to do to extend your scattergun’s reach.

Big Bears: Why They're on Every Hunter's Bucket List

Taking a truly big bear—be it in Alaska, Canada, Russia or elsewhere—is so special that just one can be enough in a hunter’s lifetime.

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