I've spent the last decade hiking with packs that pinched my shoulders, rode up on my iliac crest, and generally made long miles miserable. The best backpacks for tall torsos share one trait: a torso-length range that actually matches the distance from your C7 vertebra to your iliac crest, not your height on a tape […]

I'm 5'2" with a 14-inch torso, and I have lost count of how many packs pulled backward off my shoulders before I found one that actually fit. Finding the best backpacks for short torsos means looking past the standard sizing and chasing women's-specific harnesses, XS frames, and hipbelts narrow enough to wrap a smaller pelvis. […]

When we packed our first family backpacking trip three summers ago, my youngest ended up carrying a regular school backpack cinched down with bungee cords. By mile two she was crying, my wife was carrying her pack, and I was rethinking the entire idea of backpacking with kids. That disaster pushed our team to spend […]

I've spent the last three months running these best red dot sights through their paces on AR-15s, Glocks, 12-gauge shotguns, and an AK-47 with mixed results that surprised even me. Over that stretch, my team and I logged more than 18,000 rounds across 12 different optics, dropping a few onto concrete, soaking them in creek […]

After 90 days of hauling eight different shooting benches across desert ranges, gravel pits, and backyard setups, I can tell you the best shooting benches solve a problem most shooters don't realize they have: wobbly, inconsistent rifle support ruins group accuracy long before shooter skill maxes out. I've watched benchrest competitors drop groups from 1.5 […]

I've spent more weekends at the bench than I care to admit chasing that first shot on paper, and I'll tell you straight: a good bore sighter is the cheapest ammo saver in my range bag. After testing 8 of the most popular laser and optical bore sighters across rifles, pistols, and shotguns, these are […]

I have spent the last three years testing 75 liter backpacks on everything from week-long Sierra traverses to Denali base camp carries, and I can tell you the difference between a pack that disappears under a 50 lb load and one that slowly wrecks your knees over seven days is enormous. After putting 18 different […]

I have spent more weekends than I can count at the bench behind a rifle, and I have learned one hard truth: a good shooting rest is something other than your buddy holding your rifle. After 30 days of testing 10 of the most popular models on the market, from carbon fiber hunting tripods to […]

When I started testing binocular harnesses, I expected all of them to do roughly the same job — hold your binos, save your neck, keep your hands free. After 90 days of wearing 10 different models on everything from dawn bird walks to mid-day elk glassing in Colorado, I learned how wrong that assumption was. […]

I spent 4 months glassing ridges and shooting prone with 10 different hunting tripods across New Mexico and Montana to find the best tripods for hunting optics in . On day three of an elk hunt, I watched a bull feed into a saddle at 1,400 yards through a spotting scope that wouldn't stop shaking […]