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Guns
Where’s All the Damn Ammo? Federal Premium’s President Has Some Answers
Are ammunition companies hoarding their supplies? Have they stopped making ammo altogether? In short, no. Here’s what’s really going on
By Alex RobinsonJanuary 22, 2021

Hunting
Where Do We Draw the Line on New Hunting Technology?
By Tyler Freel
Survival
10 Uses for Animal Fat in the Wild
TIM MACWELCH
Survival
How to Keep Your Hunting Truck Running This Winter (and Stay Safe During Cold Weather Travel)
By Tyler Freel

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VIDEOS

New Cartridge: The 6.8 Western is a Versatile Hunting Round from Browning and Winchester

If you want to introduce a successful new big-game cartridge these days, it’s got to be the fastest, hottest, hardest-hitting, new load ever created, right? Well, actually, no. Browning and Winchester’s new 6.8 Western works off the concept that if you take a long, sleek, heavy bullet and fire it at a reasonable velocity, you’ll get just as good (or better) down-range performance as ultra-fast bullets that are less streamlined.

Field Test of the Savage Impulse Straight-Pull Rifle

There’s a lot to unpack with the new rifle from @savagearms—13 pending patents worth in fact—but the keystone is that the Impulse is the first American-made straight-pull rifle and includes a unique feature set, locking mechanism, and price-point. Savage’s goal with this effort is, unsurprisingly, to make straight-pull rifles popular in the U.S. market.