The 7mm-08 Rem. Bests The .308 Win.

The 7mm-08 Rem. Bests The .308 Win.

A popular and knowledgeable gun writer online recently published a weak embrace of the .308 Winchester as his choice for an all-round, do-everything rifle cartridge. Like the groom at a shotgun wedding, he said, “I do” more out of a sense of self-preservation than...

Sabatti’s Saphire Rifle

Sabatti’s Saphire Rifle

Quick. Name an Italian hunting rifle… See? That’s the problem. While the Italians are famous for hot cars, hot women and fine shotguns (which can also get pretty hot on an Argentine dove hunt), they seem to have taken a terminal lunch break at the rifle factory. For...

Perplexed By Parallax

Perplexed By Parallax

Q:  I started hunting with a scope on my rifle about 40 years ago, initially a fixed 4x Weaver and then a 3-9x Redfield with duplex crosshairs.  It’s interesting how hunting optics have changed since that time.  Today, many scopes have as special side knob for...

More Than 150 Years Of Winchester

More Than 150 Years Of Winchester

For the past 150 years, Winchester has always found a way to create iconic firearms beloved by their owners and passed down grandfather to grandson. You don't select a Winchester rifle and say "Here. This is it. This is Winchester's magnum opus, its masterwork. This...

First Deer With An Airgun

First Deer With An Airgun

After you’ve been kicking around in the outdoors hunting and fishing as long as I have, it’s pretty exciting to partake of an entirely new outdoor experience such as deer hunting with an airgun. This past week, during the peak of the cold weather pushed down by the...