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Buck 420HC, and Practical Steels for Hunting Knives

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • April 29, 2025
Perhaps ten or fifteen years ago, I recall that one of the hottest things in the knife world were boutique steels with weird names. Ultra-tough, ultra-durable. CruWear. Elmax, Maxamet. S110V.…
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The Tyto 1.1 Scalpel, from Tyto Knives

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • April 15, 2025
The Tyto 1.1 Scalpel, from Tyto Knives
I had been skeptical of the scalpel-bladed hunting knives since, approximately, I first heard about them. I’m a skeptical guy in general — leery of marketing verbiage, and usually of…
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The Faithful Servant, The Wingmaster

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • April 10, 2025
Remington 870, The Wingmaster
Back in the good old days, perhaps around ten years ago, you could walk around any gun show in America and have your pick of Remington 870 Wingmasters for around…
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Caldwell Stinger Shooting Rest

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • April 3, 2025
Caldwell Stinger Shooting Rest
The Caldwell Stinger is, perhaps, the ultimate solution for the problems hunters (and those others who use their rifles in a similar manner, i.e. not F-class shooting) face both at…
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Ballistol – I Put That S*** On Everything

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • April 1, 2025
Ballistol
I suspect an entire generation of firearms aficionados and enthusiasts around my age grew up in front of a computer monitor, listening to a personable old codger from Tennessee smoke…
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DNZ Game Reaper Scope Mounts

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • March 20, 2025
DNZ Game Reaper Scope Mount (Scope Base)
Five years ago, I was setting up a new-to-me Model 70 chambered in 7mm Remington Magnum, and needed a new set of scope rings. I stumbled upon the DNZ Game…
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.38 Super Ballistics – The Thinking Man’s 9mm

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • March 18, 2025
.38 Super
It is one of the great sadnesses of my life that I was not around in time in order to stop the mass adoptation of some little European cartridge as…
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Leatherman Raptor Rescue Shears

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • March 11, 2025
Photo: Matthew Shane Brown
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are going to die one day. Even worse than that, I’m going to die, too. Ideally, this will not…
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The Boyt Harness H-Series Case

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • March 4, 2025
Boyt Harness H-Series Case
Like most here, I spend almost the entirety of the months of September through February puttering around the wilds with guns clattering around in the back of my truck. So…
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The 1911 Is Still Alive And Well

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • February 27, 2025
1911
It is the year 2025. I am not a math wiz, but that means it’s been at least 114 years since the inception of what many would say is John…
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