Hanging around the Outdoorsmans headquarters for the last seven years, I’ve had my fair share of time behind some truly exceptional glass. Over those years, it’s quite obvious that there are 4-5 major players when it comes to top-tier glass, so anytime we catch wind of someone creeping their way into the majors, all ears perk up.

My dad drew an early rifle mule deer tag for Arizona’s famed Kaibab Plateau. With a wall-hanger muley being one […]

I’ve been sleeping in the Born Outdoor Badger Bed on a bunch of trips this year–everything from mountain biking weekends […]

Brody just got back from Alaska, where he spent a bunch of time testing the Argali Outdoors Rincon 2P Pro […]

I was born and raised in northern California and started shooting a bow in 1974 when I was five years old after I found an old wood recurve under a neighbor’s house. I grew up in a hippie family of artists of various mediums. My mother was a vegetarian, but I’d acquired a taste for meat early on, and this only fanned the flames of my interest in hunting I’d somehow discovered my love for woodworking and building things started out about the same time.

Working with the Outdoorsmans optics trade-in program for the past couple of years, I have seen high-end binoculars in every kind of shape imaginable. I loved cutting open a box to see a dusty pair of Swarovskis that had turned a whole new shade of green from some dude’s hand grease. I always knew those binos had some soul, they had probably seen some cool stuff, and there was plenty of life left in them.

Eberlestock’s tried and true Mainframe set the bar. The new Modframe takes it further. It’s leaner in weight, stronger in […]

Chris shares the reasons for choosing the various models of Kenetrek boots that he, Nate, and Mark swear by when […]

In 1992, Leica invented the world’s first laser rangefinding binocular. It was a large, blocky optic with no hinge to […]

You can tell a lot about a knife before it ever makes a cut. First with the ocular pat down […]

Zpacks Sleeping Bag  This is not a sexy piece of equipment; it’s a couple of pieces of .51 oz/sq yd […]

Why Hearing Protection Matters (Unless You Want to Spend the Rest of Your Life Saying “Huh?”) When it comes to […]