When building a rifle, everyone always likes to focus on the major components. Action, stock, scope and rings, barrel, trigger and muzzle device. If you’re buying a factory rifle, seeing which rifle off-the-shelf that meets your needs, is typically already set up with a barreled action in a chassis or stock. However, most shooters tend to miss these few items that play an important role into maximizing you and your rifle’s capability, making you a well rounded precision rifleman. Here are 5 accessories that will make shooting a precision rifle a better experience for you. Not only a better s ..read more

One more post on this trip guys, and I’ll leave you alone about it….  My good friend Mike Lilly asked me to do a detailed gear breakdown on what was in my pack for this trip, so here it is Mike.  I’m kind of a gear whore.  Well, in full disclosure, those that know me and who’ve seen my shop would say “kind of gear whore” is a gross understatement of my current mental and emotional state of affairs when it comes to gear.  If there were ever a 12-step program for gear addicts, I’d most likely be the first attendee.  I like to see what works, what fits best, what’s the mo ..read more

Ok, so the 2018 Washington High Buck Hunt is done, over with, and I was successful.  Six years ago I was introduced to this hunt by my friend Chris Camren, who told me it was going to be a legit mountain hunt, and hard as shit.  Well, I guess that means I can’t turn it down, right?  So, we head into the Glacier Peak Wilderness to have our shot at the first rifle hunt of the season for Washington.  Bucks are still way up high in the alpine country, beating the summer heat and leaving the mozzies to the timber bottoms.  They’re easy to spot with light grey bodies agains ..read more

It’s getting to be that time of year again when my brain is struggling to stay focused on the tasks at hand that directly make me money.  My mind is drifting to the sights, sounds and smells of the backcountry in September where the mule deer live. As of late, like the last couple years, it’s been a challenge to get into the mountains to hunt, and have a full season of doing so.  A couple years ago I got word that I was gonna jump out of a helicopter and share the sky with the tallest mountains on the planet. That trip just happened to be almost the full month of November, and the pr ..read more

The 2018 Mountain States Tactical Officer’s Association (MSTOA) conducted their annual meetings at Fort Harrison, which is on the west end of Helena, Montana.  I was invited to come instruct at this event by a friend of mine whom I met last summer while he attended our Backcountry Hunting Course. Colton Bagnoli is an officer with the City of Kalispell, and a new member of their sniper team.  I’ll always jump at a chance to be in Montana, any time of the year, so I hopped in my truck and made the day-long drive from eastern Washington over the continental divide, which is a spectacula ..read more