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June 24, 2025

The Bersa is about the same size as the Glock, but has a slimmer profile and deeper grip, making it much easier to hide and shoot. It costs half as much, but the .380 Auto is not nearly as much of a self-defense cartridge as the 9mm Parabellum. The Bersa has proven to be a dependable and accurate handgun in the author’s tests.

Don’t underestimate Bersa .380s

Small, flat-sided semiautomatic pistols have long been popular with law-enforcement officers as hide-away or backup guns to supplement their duty weapons. […]

Automotive GPS units show you which road you are on, and once you are moving, they give you the time and distance to your next turn.

GPS makes traveling so much easier

Allan Tarvid

Why would the driver of a car spend hundreds of dollars for a GPS navigation device just to do something that nearly anybody can do with a $10 road atlas? […]

Big rainbow trout such as this one caught at the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County are fairly common in hatchery-supported waters.

Things to know about trout

Robert Satterwhite

Here’s a compilation of trivia, information and tips about trout and trout fishing you probably won’t find anywhere else. Some of it might even be useful. […]

A small king or a large Spanish mackerel? That’s the problem many anglers have in identifying these fish of this size, but the king limit is three per angler while the Spanish daily creel is 15 fish. (See end of Jerry Dilsaver’s column to find this fish’s identify.)

Know your macks after attacks

Jerry Dilsaver

One of the mistakes too many anglers continue to make is confusing Spanish mackerel and small king mackerel. […]

June can be a good month for bass anglers because the fish are moving, traveling creek channels back toward the main lake.

It is no secret to anyone who is familiar with my name or reputation that I love to fish crankbaits. Most of the money I’ve won as a pro bass fisherman has been with a diving bait tied onto the business end of a fishing rod. […]

Lexington’s Chris Brown (pictured) and Linwood’s Todd Shoaf won the March 31 NBC Yadkin Sport Series tournament at Tuckertown Lake with 20.48 pounds and had the big fish of the day, a 6.47-pound bass.

Pope, Webber top Kerr Lake event

Tony Garitta

Roger Pope of Statesville and Nathan Webber of Boone won the April 14 Ranger Owners Championship Series event at Kerr Lake. […]

Backlashes

The pogie battle is enjoined again

Craig Holt

With the passage of the Coastal Recreational Fishing License into law last year, only a few needed changes remain to be made in North Carolina’s saltwater management strategies — if the state is going to continue to allow a relatively few commercial netters to take a large portion of our citizens’ public resources for profit. […]