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ECHO Solo

Christine Ly·July 11, 2013

Filling the need for a travel rod suitable for the beginning caster, the solo is a medium/fast rod with quality components on a gloss brown blank. A carbon fiber and aluminum seat hold the reel while hard chrome single foot snake guides control the line. Line weights from #4 to...

Bushnell X-8 Trail Camera

BC Outdoors Magazine Team·July 12, 2013

The Bushnell X-8 Trail Camera offers 6 MP full-color resolution for photos or video with 36 low-glow infrared night vision LEDs, allowing you to record game activity day or night. Utilizing night vision technology, it’s invisible to game and captures game up to 60-feet away. Trigger speed is less than...

Lowrance Elite-4 Gold

BC Outdoors Magazine Team·May 1, 2013

The Elite-4 Gold by Lowrance, a compact chartplotter/fishfinder designed to meet both the performance standards and the value demands of consumers, comes with a custom 2GB Navionics Gold micro SD that covers coastal waters and over 124 Canadian lakes, has the brightes LED backlit display and the exclusive TrackBack feature.

Kowa SV Series Binoculars

BC Outdoors Magazine Team·July 12, 2013

Kowa has introduced their SV lines of binocular that are good optics with great value for the price. They are fully waterproof, nitrogen filled, with prism lenses that are phase-coated for great light transmission and clarity for seeing sharp images. The 50 mm weighs just 740 grams and the 42 mm weighs...

Double Up With Beretta’s New Waterfowler

Mark Hoffman·August 18, 2020

Perhaps it was Beretta’s intent to garner my interest when they sent me the latest edition to their prestigious world...

Nautilus FWX

BC Outdoors Magazine Team·July 11, 2013

Billed as the lightest machined aluminum disc drag reel on the market, the FWX also features their Giga arbor spool design which allows for fast line pick up and backing drying. A stainless steel one-way clutch in the TORQ-X clutch drive ensures instant drag engagement with no slack. Easily switched...

Segway Reticle Leveler

Christine Ly·June 14, 2013

If you have ever mounted your own rifle scope you know the difficultly in keeping it aligned so the crosshair lies parallel to the horizontal plane. The Segway Reticle Leveler will ensure you mount the scope so it isn’t canted to one side. The vertical crosshair should point down through...

Product Review: Simrad NSS Evo3S Series

Tom Davis·June 8, 2021

Simrad is part of the Navico family of marine navigational and fish-finding products. This Norwegian-based company, whose origins go back...

ACUrope

Christine Ly·June 12, 2013

If preparing your crossbow for the hunt feels like a chore for you, you’ll want to check out TenPoint Crossbow Technologies’ new ACUrope, which is a portable and fully retractable rope crossbow cocking mechanism. The ACUrope cocks a crossbow like any other device of its type but when the shooter...