Venture Out

Observation, whether while hunting, shooting, or surveillance, is an important skill to hone. It helps you be a better hunter and shooter. Unfortunately, quality spotting scopes can be expensive. More importantly, it’s not just the optic, it’s also the tripod, a carrying case, and sometimes diff…

The National Rifle Association Annual Meetings, or NRAAM, has become a SHOT Show lite, if you will. While SHOT Show is exclusive to those in the industry, NRAAM is open to any NRA member. This means it is more of a consumer show than an industry trade show. This coupled with its date on the calen…

(What I love about writing is the freedom it gives you to go back and reflect on previous work. The constant tinkering to create something near-perfect is a driving force for the literary profession. If we don’t reflect, how do we morph into something better? Something better in this case is wri…

At this point, Vortex Optics is a household name in the outdoor space. Vortex is conquering the sports optics industry from riflescopes and rangefinders to binoculars and spotting scopes. They’ve even added a golf line to their portfolio in the form of golf-specific rangefinders and apparel. Eve…

Trends hit the gun world hard. Once something starts and gains momentum, everyone tries to jump on for the ride. In the sports world, we refer to this as “bandwagoning”—tagging along just because it is the mainstream thing to do. For manufacturers that do this, it’s usually a cash grab—they are…