Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. Surefire silencers are the most battle tested suppressors on earth — no other brand has seen as much combat. The company makes no bones about their primary focus being on our warfighters and law enforcement personnel, and their approach to product development reflects this. Their newest line of suppressors, announced earlier this month, is a fourth-gen iteration and currently consists of the SOCOM556-RC4, SOCOM556-MINI4, and the SOCOM6-MINI4. Prior to their launch, I spent a week running them at Hat Creek Training in Idaho, which…

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The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive that the West African’s overstretched military has struggled with for years.U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that the “powerful and deadly” strikes in the state of Sokoto were carried out against IS gunmen who were “targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” Residents and security analysts have said Nigeria’s security crisis affects both Christians, predominant in the south, and Muslims, who are the majority in the north.Nigeria, which is battling multiple armed groups, said the U.S.…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Christmas Hasenpfeffer,” originally ran in the December 1963 issue of Outdoor Life. Some mornings are made for hound-dog music and this one in late December was as perfect for it as any I can remember. Snow covered the central Ohio countryside so that it resembled a wintry scene straight out of Currier & Ives. And it was cold enough to make a man appreciate his insulated boots and fur-lined mittens. But the scene, the cold, and the snow were…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  President Trump telegraphed the move last month, warning that US military intervention in West Africa was certainly on the table after what he described as the mass killing of Christians by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. Now, the president says the US military forces carried out powerful strikes against ISIS targets, framing the operation as a direct response to militants “viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have…

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.In a Christmas evening post on his social media site, Trump did not provide details or mention the extent of the damage caused by the strikes. But U.S. Africa Command said on X that strikes had been conducted “at the request of Nigerian authorities in Soboto State” and had killed “multiple ISIS terrorists.”“Tonight, at my direction as Commander…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. Patrick F. McManus, OL’s longtime back-page columnist and beloved outdoor humor writer, came out of retirement to write this final story for the Dec. 2013/Jan. 2014 issue of Outdoor Life magazine. He died in 2018. Lately I’ve been regretting that I didn’t snap photos of certain expressions on the faces of my friends over our many years of camping, hunting, and fishing together. I’d like to put those photos on Christmas cards to mail to them. Oh, what a kick they would get out of those…

This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at The Mises Institute.  Our plane landed at JFK at 10:30 p.m. after a nine-hour flight from Istanbul. Our day had begun in Riga, Latvia, where my wife, me, and our adopted Latvian daughter had been visiting, the Latvia trip being her high school graduation present. Trans-Atlantic flights, especially when one travels in coach, are always an ordeal, but our ordeal really began after we had landed and were herded into the passport line. With a heavily-tattooed official barking commands at us, we dutifully lined up to try to enter our…

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