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Imagine being a Federal Law Enforcement Officer and not being able to do your job completely. You have leads you can’t follow up on, when you are allowed to, you aren’t given enough resources to do it correctly, and finally, you’re left with nothing to show for your efforts. In the Government Agency office building […]
If you’re the kind of rider who doesn’t ask for directions and thinks a “weekend trip” involves crossing a state line or two, Viking Motorcycle Bags should be on your shortlist. These guys don’t mess around with dainty saddlebags or fashion-first gear. They build storage solutions for riders who treat weather forecasts like a suggestion […]
Introduction: A Gun That Helped Settle the Dust and the Score Before there were red dots, polymer frames, or tacticool rail systems, there was the click-clack of a lever-action rifle, and in the American wild, that sound usually meant business. Enter the Winchester .30-30, the rifle your granddad probably used to drop whitetails and bad […]
Every rifle makes a snap when fired, but some rifles make history with the same action. The M24 does both, but mostly the latter. In a world gone mad with high-rate-of-fire platforms and tactical gear that looks better on Instagram than it performs in the field, the M24 bolt-action rifle remains a stoic monument to […]
In the closing weeks of World War I, a former conscientious objector from the hills of Tennessee changed history in a French forest. Armed with nothing but a bolt-action rifle, a .45 Colt, and conviction forged by faith, Sergeant Alvin C. York killed 25 enemy fighters, and captured 132 more, all in one firefight. With […]
Preparedness isn’t paranoia, it’s patriotism. The Modern Militiaman: Why Your Loadout Starts With a Rifle, and Armor From Lexington Green, to the rooftops of Koreatown, Americans have always answered chaos not with helplessness, but with resolve. Back then, they called them minutemen. Today, we call it being squared away. In 2025, the symbol of that […]
If you’ve ever dragged a blood-soaked game bag a mile through mesquite and mud, you already know—real hunters need horsepower. Get yourself an ATV.
The Civivi Mini-Praxis doesn’t say much, until you flip it open and suddenly it’s slicing through everything from Amazon boxes to rogue threads on your cargo pants like a scalpel in a combat medic’s hands. It’s not trying to be flashy, but it is trying to earn a permanent slot in your everyday carry rotation. […]
The Škorpion freakin’ ROCKS (and rolls)!!!Those of y’all dear readers who remember 5 May 2025 article titled “Firing the Full-Auto Steyr AUG” will recall that I kvetched about that rifle having “that frickin’ progressive trigger made the Steyr *THE* most difficult of the bunch to keep my shots on target, even at a measly 7 […]
Here at LoadOut, we all love talking knives. There’s just so many of them, that have so many different functions. There are knives that hang on belts, some knives that open Amazon boxes, knives that go into the glovebox for an emergency. And then there are knives quite literally born in blood, trained in darkness, […]
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