Short answer: buy a screw-in mount if you are on private land and want a camera that stays aimed for months, a ratchet strap if you need something that will not slip or loosen and you cannot drill into a tree, and an articulating strap-and-hardware bracket if you plan to move the camera between trees … Read more
If you want a single answer before you read anything else, the Vortex Crossfire HD 1400 is the best rangefinder for long range shooting for most people. It weighs 4.8 ounces, ranges to 1,400 yards on reflective targets, and carries an unlimited lifetime warranty that is unusual at any tier. A laser rangefinder does one … Read more
The Vortex Crossfire HD 1400 is the best rangefinder for bow hunting overall. It reads 750 yards to live game, carries an illuminated red display you can actually see at 5:30 in the morning, weighs 4.8 ounces, and comes with a warranty that transfers to whoever owns it next. A bowhunting rangefinder is a compact … Read more
Most trail cameras that die on a long deployment never fail because of a bad sensor. They fail because the batteries ran out in February and nobody walked in for another six weeks. Solar changes that equation, and it is the reason we built this guide around the best solar trail cameras for long-term use … Read more
The best trail camera under 100 dollars right now is the WOSPORTS G600-4K. It shoots 64MP stills and 4K video, triggers in 0.2 seconds across a 120-degree detection arc, and uses 32 invisible 940nm infrared LEDs that give it an 80 foot night range without the red glow that spooks wary deer. A 16GB card … Read more
The best cellular trail cameras for deer hunting are the Moultrie Edge 2, the VOOPEAK TC32B-2P and the VOOPEAK TC32 two-pack. The Edge 2 leads on resolution, detection range and app reliability, the TC32B-2P wins on solar endurance and pan coverage, and the TC32 pack holds the highest average rating of any camera I recommend … Read more
Trail cameras are good for home security, but only the right kind. A standard trail camera fires an invisible infrared flash, wakes on a passive infrared sensor, and records whoever walks through the frame, then either saves to a memory card or sends the clip to your phone. That makes the best trail cameras for … Read more
A monocular is the better hiking optic than binoculars for one simple reason: you can raise it, focus it, and lower it with one hand while the other hand holds a trekking pole. Every monocular in this roundup is roughly half the bulk and weight of the binocular set it replaces, slips into a hip-belt … Read more
Boat roll turns everything above 7x into soup. That is the whole problem in one sentence, and it is why image stabilized binoculars for boating exist at all: a gyro or a variable prism inside the body keeps the image still while your hands and the deck are doing something entirely different. Our picks below … Read more
The Vortex Crossfire HD 1400 is the best rangefinder for most hunters to carry alongside their glass, pairing a 5x lens with a laser that reads game out to 750 yards in a body that weighs under five ounces. If you want one optic that both looks and ranges, the Vortex Fury HD 5000 10×42 … Read more