Affiliate disclosure

The statement

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

In practice: when you click a “Check price on Amazon” button on Strut & Slate and then buy something on Amazon, Amazon may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing extra. The price you pay is Amazon's price, the same as if you had found the product yourself.

Which links earn

Buy buttons and product links that go to Amazon. They pass through a short redirect on our own domain (the address starts with /go/), which adds our Amazon Associates tracking and then sends you on to Amazon. Those links are marked as sponsored in the page code, and an “#ad” note with a link to this page sits under every buy button, including the ones that simply read “Check price on Amazon.”

Amazon is currently the only retailer we earn from. Links to a maker's own site, a spec sheet, a manual, a state wildlife agency or any other source are plain reference links, and they earn nothing. The same goes for the occasional product that isn't sold on Amazon: its link goes to the maker or seller as a plain, non-earning reference. If we ever start earning from another retailer, this page will say so first.

Guns and ammunition

Shotguns and ammunition aren't sold through this site, and Amazon doesn't sell them. When a page discusses a gun or a turkey load, it does so editorially, with no buy button and no commission. Picks on gun and load pages are chokes, red dots, slings and pattern targets.

Why the buttons don't show a price

Prices come from Amazon, and Amazon changes them often. We never print a price we can't verify, so every button reads “Check price on Amazon” and the price you see on Amazon is the one that counts. A live price feed may be added later. If it is, a price will appear inside the button with an “as of” time, and it will disappear automatically once it's more than 48 hours old. Availability is set by Amazon too, and it can change after a page is written.

What commissions don't change

The picks and the scores. Every score is a weighted mean of published rubric metrics, fixed before any product is scored and laid out in full on how we pick. A product's commission is not one of the metrics, and no brand can pay for placement. When a cheaper or easier-to-learn pick scores close to the winner, the page says so, even though that can mean a smaller commission. Full detail is in the editorial policy.

FTC

This disclosure follows the Federal Trade Commission's guidance on endorsements and affiliate relationships: where we have a financial relationship with a link, we tell you, near the link and on this page. Strut & Slate is published by Iron Mako Media. Questions go to contact@strutandslate.com or the contact page.