Top Rated NRA Guns and Gold returns for Season 2 on Sportsman

We have a special announcement for fans of the Outdoor Channel and last year's hit show NRA's Guns and Gold!

They're back for Season 2 with even more from Jim, Phil and the guns to enjoy.

Fairfax, Virginia - The National Rifle Association is proud to announce the second season of NRA’s Guns and Gold presented by Brownells. The show’s season premiere is January 7, 2013 and will air every Monday night at 9pm ET/PT on Sportsman Channel.

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New AR fore-ends work just as well Geissele Automatics' triggers

If you haven't been following Shooting Illustrated's latest work, then you've probably missed Steve Adelmann's review of the Geissele Automatics’s Super Modular Rail. Here's a taste of what you've missed:

Geissele Automatics Super Modular Rails
Geissele Automatics now offers freefloat fore-ends for AR-pattern rifles that are every bit as superlative as the company's legendary triggers.

The AR aftermarket offers of a mind-boggling array of component options. Many of these add-ons do a great job of helping us transform the basic black rifle into an ergonomic, accurate and practical firearm. Unfortunately, more than a few shoddy components likewise proliferate the parts world, complicating the lives of shooters and gunsmiths alike. Freefloat tubes are a prime example, and a number of cheap and expensive models have caused me enough trouble that I routinely avoid them at all costs.

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Fairfax, Virginia - Earlier this week, we told you about the return of NRA's Guns & Gold to the Sportsman Channel. And if memory serves, we also said something about a sizzle reel.

What's a sizzle reel?

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Goosebump Guns and $100,000 gems on NRA's Guns & Gold

Fairfax, Virginia - From the pages of Guns & Ammo magazine we bring you NRA's Guns & Gold — Season 2 ...

Jim Supica and Phil Schreier oversee one of the world's truly amazing gun collections at the NRA National Firearms Museum, which includes guns dating back to the 14th century. They've seen it all, but as hosts of NRA's Guns & Gold, they keep looking. Because you never know what's going to fall out of someone's closet.

How did you become interested in historic firearms and their value?

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Insider tips and tricks for guns, the outdoors and survival

Received an interesting package in the mail the other day.

A collection of books from Weldon Owen Publishing that fit our membership pretty darn good. The three, which I'm still savagely combing through, are titled The Total Outdoorsman Manual, The Ultimate Survival Manual, and The Total Gun Manual. Put together with the editors from Outdoor Life and Field & Stream, these books contain more then 1,000 tricks, tips and insight on each of the subject listed above.

Like what? How about:

• Pipe water from a spring to a camp.
• Split a log with a knife.
• Outrun a croc on land.
• Seal your home during a chemical spill.
• Load up for Cape Buffalo.
• Shoot quail like a gentleman.

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Video Rewind back in Supica's Safe and a M-100 Calico long rifle

What's inside NRA National Firearms Museum Director Jim Supica's Safe? Two years ago, there was a M-100 Calico .22 Semi Automatic Long Rifle pistol and a 9mm carbine. Catch a look of those Calicos again today.

Gun collection gets even bigger with a World War II era oversized Browning Automatic training rifle

That was all Senior Curator Doug Wicklund had to say. Something big. I had no idea it would be something so humongously big.

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Sharing history by way of a Family's Hawken Rifle on NRAblog Rewind

Back in 2010, right around Thanksgiving, the Dieckmann family of Kansas presented the curators of the National Firearms Museum with one of their heirlooms ... an 1850s era Hawken Plains Rifle.

Here's what happened:

Fairfax, Virginia - A rare Hawken rifle is joining a display at the NRA's National Firearms Museum. Inside the The Prospering New Republic gallery, the rifle will find it's place inside the case that depicts a scene in the Hawken family's famed frontier gunshop.

Even among these galleries of historic firearms, this new addition stands out. The gun is a family heirloom dating back generations to when it was purchased by Florenz Dieckmann from the Hawken gunmakers in 1850s St. Louis. Dieckmann went on to fight in the Civil War for the Union forces, and lived in Union, Missouri. The gun was passed down from father to son, time and again, all the way to his great-great-grandson David Dieckmann.

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Vote for your favorite guns as the top eight count down to #1

Fairfax, Virginia - Like a wise man once said, the firearm is like a vehicle — there's always a right one for the job.

But when put to the test, when it's one or the other, which one will you choose. That's just the question they're asking on the National Rifle Association's main Facebook page.

Now you'll probably be able to figure out which firearm is going up against which, but just in case — here's the rundown:

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