Editor's Picks
Featured Reviews.
In-depth, hands-on reviews with detailed photography and real-world testing. The products we've spent the most time with.
Browse
By brand.
New · The Hunt & Live Virtual World
A whole valley you can walk into.
Two log cabins, a lake and a mountain with cougars on it. Named country that tells you where you are, what to hunt there and how dangerous it is. Take the crossing from a camo blind, call coyotes, paddle the lake, split wood, shoot the range — and pick up the gear we've reviewed and actually use it.
Enter the 3D world →
Featured Review · 5.11 Tactical · Packs
5.11 RUSH12 Survival Starter Bundle Review — A 24-Litre Kit That Arrives Already Sorted
4.6 / 5 · US$193.98 for the bundle
Bundles are usually a way of moving stock. A brand takes its best seller, straps three things to it that nobody asked for, knocks a few percent off the total and calls it a kit.
Read full review
Featured Review · Ameristep · Ground Blinds
Ameristep Doghouse Ground Blind Review — Start Hunting in Under a Minute!
4.5 / 5 · US$139.99 MSRP
A ground blind earns its money in the first sixty seconds and the last thirty. Everything in between — the sitting, the waiting, the shot — is the same in any blind worth owning. What separates them …
Read full review
Featured Review · Helikon-Tex · Camp Furniture
Helikon-Tex Traveler Lightweight Chair Review — A Comfortable Light Hunting Chair Option
4.6 / 5 · $169.99 USD MSRP
Most of the hunting you actually do is waiting. A coyote stand is fifteen to forty-five minutes of holding still on ground that was not chosen for comfort; a range session is a couple of hours between …
Read full review
Featured Review · New View Hunting · Hunting Clothing
New View Kids Camo Hunting Jacket & Pants Review — Real Hunting Clothing, Built at Kid Size
4.5 / 5 · $129.98 USD for the set
Every hunting family runs into the same wall. You can outfit yourself from a hundred different catalogues, and then you go looking for the same thing in a size that fits an eleven-year-old and the …
Read full review
Featured Review · Stoeger Airguns · Air Guns
Stoeger RX5 TAC Air Rifle Review — The Rifle That Grows With the Shooter
4.5 / 5 · About C$249.00
Most air rifles are sized for an adult and handed to a child anyway. The stock is too long, the kid cranes forward to reach the scope, their cheek never lands in the same place twice, and the groups …
Read full review
Featured Review · BLUETTI · Solar Panels
BLUETTI SORA 130 Solar Panel Review — 123 Watts Into the Battery From a 130-Watt Panel
4.6 / 5 · Direct from BLUETTI Canada — code HAL5off takes 5% off the series
Solar panel specifications are the least trustworthy numbers in the off-grid category. Every folding panel on the market is rated at its laboratory figure — full sun, perfect incidence, 25 °C cell …
Read full review
Featured Review · Buck · Knives
Buck 284 Bantam BBW Review — The 1.5-Ounce American Lockback That Costs Less Than a Box of Ammunition
4.3 / 5 · $31.00 MSRP (street ~$21)
Almost every knife we have reviewed has been a considered purchase — the 663 Alpha Guide at $229, the Kershaw Deschutes Combo at C$219.99, the 110 Folding Hunter at $105. Those are knives you save for …
Read full review
Featured Review · CRKT · Knife Kits
CRKT Nathan's Knife Kit Lockback Review — The $17 Wooden Folder That Teaches a Kid How a Lockback Actually Works
4.6 / 5 · $17.00 USD
Every knife review on this site eventually runs into the same problem: at some point a young person is going to be handed a real one. The Buck 284 Bantam ships with a card from CJ Buck that opens …
Read full review
Featured Review · VEVOR · Tents
VEVOR YT-02 Hot Tent Review — A C$130 Stove-Ready Tipi, and What That Price Actually Buys
4.1 / 5 · C$129.90 CAD
A hot tent — a shelter with a sealed port in the wall for a wood stove chimney — has historically been a serious purchase. The established makers charge several hundred dollars and up, and for good …
Read full review
Featured Review · Winnerwell · Tent Stoves
Winnerwell Nomad PLUS Double View External Air Review — The Stove That Stops Breathing Your Tent
4.8 / 5 · A$799.95 (L size) · A$699.95 (M size)
There is a problem at the heart of hot tenting that most stove reviews never name. A wood fire needs oxygen, and in a sealed tent the only oxygen available is the oxygen the occupants are breathing. …
Read full review
Featured Review · Hults Bruk · Hunting Axe
Hults Bruk Dvärdala Hunting Forest Axe + 180/600 Grinding Stone Review — 328 Years of Swedish Forge-Work in a Single Hunter's Tool
4.8 / 5 · Axe: ~$199 USD MSRP — Stone: ~$45 USD MSRP — Paired kit: ~$244 USD
Hults Bruk Dvärdala Hunting & Forest Axe — head buried in a weathered hardwood stump, 17-inch curved American hickory handle extending up and to the right. This is the axe that's been hand-forged at …
Read full review
Featured Review · Kershaw · Hunting Knife
Kershaw Deschutes Combo Review — The Two-Knife Blaze-Orange Field Game-Processing Kit Every Serious Hunter Should Carry
4.7 / 5 · C$219.99 CAD (Limited Edition)
Kershaw Deschutes Combo — the 1883 drop-point gutting and skinning knife at top, and the smaller 1882 clip-point detail / caping knife below. Both knives are full-tang D2 steel, hand-finished to HRC …
Read full review
Featured Review · Tucktec · Folding Kayak
Tucktec Pro Folding Kayak Review — The Origami Hard-Shell That Tucks Behind Your Truck Seat and Still Paddles Like a Real Kayak
4.5 / 5 · $380 USD
Tucktec Pro Folding Kayak — the boat we just unfolded out of a flat package small enough to ride behind the back seat of a sedan, on the water and tracking straight in under five minutes from "open …
Read full review
Featured Review · Daisy · BB Rifles
Daisy Buck Model 105 Review — The 8-Year-Old's First Rifle, Cocked Easily, Shot Freehand, and Genuinely the Right Way to Start
4.7 / 5 · C$79.99 CAD
The single image that explains why we bought the Daisy Buck 105 — an 8-year-old, fully on his own, shouldering the rifle and shooting free-hand at a paper target across the clearing. No rest. No …
Read full review
Featured Review · Riton · Binoculars
Riton 5 Primal 10x42 ED Review — The $699 ED-Glass Binocular That Lands in the Hunting-Optic Value Sweet Spot
4.6 / 5 · $699.99 USD MSRP
Editor's note — this is a v1 publication. We're publishing this first-look review now while the binocular is freshly out of the box and through its first month of bench-test and casual glassing. A v2 …
Read full review
Featured Review · BLUETTI · Portable Power Stations
BLUETTI Elite 30 V2 Review — The 288 Wh, 600 W LiFePO₄ Compact That Earns Its Place in the Truck, the Cabin, and the Go-Bag
4.7 / 5 · C$279.00 CAD (sale, regularly C$299.00)
BLUETTI Elite 30 V2 on the bench during initial charge testing — colour display showing 91% state of charge, 187 W input from AC, dual 120 V AC outlets ready, USB-C 140 W and 100 W ports below the …
Read full review
Featured Review · Separett · Survival Sanitation
Separett Rescue Camping 25 Review — The Swedish Waterless Toilet That Could Be the Difference Between Health and Cholera After an EMP
4.7 / 5 · C$179.99 CAD
Separett Rescue Camping 25 — the deployment-ready posture. Foldable powder-coated steel frame, urine-diverting seat with lid, yellow vinyl liquid-diversion hose routed to a user-supplied container, …
Read full review
Featured Review · XTU · Trail Cameras
XTU SV-TCQSW 4K Solar Trail Camera Review — The 64MP WiFi/Bluetooth Trail Cam That Caught a Bunny on Frame One
4.5 / 5 · $79.99 USD ($99.99 MSRP, on sale)
XTU SV-TCQSW 4K Solar Trail Camera — first deployment, mounted on a property edge. The trail cam that earned its place in the first 24 hours We pulled the XTU SV-TCQSW 4K Solar Trail Camera out of …
Read full review
Featured Review · Civivi · Knives
Civivi MDRN Hunter C23078-2 Review — The Kyle Lamb Fixed-Blade Hunter That Brings a VTAC Combat Pedigree to Game Prep
4.5 / 5 · $86.25 USD
Every fixed-blade hunting knife eventually has to answer the same question. Did the designer ever actually skin an animal? You can read the blade geometry, the grind, the finger-guard radius, the …
Read full review
Featured Review · Victorinox · Multi-Tools
Victorinox SwissChamp & Swiss Tool MX Clip Review — The Heritage Benchmark and Its Modern Companion, Reviewed Honestly
4.9 / 5 · $146.00
Every premium-tier multi-tool buyer ends up at the same crossroads. Do you want the vintage red Swiss Army Knife — the Victorinox SwissChamp, the 33-function red-Cellidor pocket classic that’s …
Read full review
Featured Review · Briden Solutions · Food Storage
GAMMA Seal Lid Review — The Twist-On Bucket Lid That Turns a $20 Pail Into a Decade of Sealed Dry-Goods Storage
4.8 / 5 · $15.95
The GAMMA Seal Lid is one of those objects you don’t appreciate until the third time you try to pry the flat lid off a 5-gallon bucket of rice with a screwdriver and finally throw the whole …
Read full review
Featured Review · HAVEN Lantern · Lighting
HAVEN 10000 3-in-1 Solar Lantern Review — The Collapsible Off-Grid Light That Doubles as a Power Bank When the Grid Is Gone
4.6 / 5 · $79.95
The HAVEN 10000 is the kind of object you don’t fully appreciate until the power goes out. It folds down to the size of a coffee saucer, weighs less than a litre of water, and runs three …
Read full review
Featured Review · Le Creuset · Kitchen
Le Creuset Classic Whistling Kettle Review — The Stainless Steel Stovetop Kettle You Buy Once for the Homestead Kitchen
4.7 / 5 · $200.00
The Le Creuset Classic Whistling Kettle is the kind of object that quietly tells you something about how the household around it is set up. People who buy a $200 kettle have already decided …
Read full review
Featured Review · Ruger · Rifles
Ruger American Ranch Review (.223 / 5.56 NATO) — The Budget Bolt Gun That Punches Far Above Its Price
4.7 / 5 · $549.00
The Ruger American Ranch is the rifle you buy when you want a bolt gun that simply works — and when you’ve decided you’d rather spend your money on glass, ammo, and range time than on the …
Read full review
Featured Review · Buck · Knives
Buck 110 Folding Hunter Review — The Knife That Made the Lockback Famous
4.9 / 5 · $104.99
The Buck 110 Folding Hunter isn’t a knife you review the way you review most knives. It’s a knife you measure other folding knives against. Since 1964 it has done one job, one way, in one …
Read full review
Featured Review · Buck · Knives
Buck 663 Alpha Guide Review — The S35VN Survival Knife That Earns the Hype
4.8 / 5 · $229.00
The Buck 663 Alpha Guide is the knife you buy when you want one fixed blade to do everything — and when you’ve decided you’d rather pay once than buy three knives in a row. Buck has been …
Read full review