Now is the time for you hoomans to look into purchasing new shotguns! Since bird hunting seasons are closed or closing, the demand for shotguns and shotshells has decreased. I think many hoomans are now thinking of vacations on remote sandy beaches and taking a cruise...
SPONSORED CONTENT What kind of mountain rifles do you get when you combine the input from more than 50 hard-core sheep hunters and guides and then take five years to design, research and test those ideas? High-altitude hunting delivers many challenges. It’s...
Our Editorial Director, Scott E. Mayer, called me into his office to help him mount and bore-sight a scope on a Mossberg Patriot Predator 308 Win. After a few instructions on the rifle itself and its constituent parts, he handed me an envelope and a blank “Thank You”...
SPONSORED CONTENT Big game hunters around the globe demand that firearms meet two key standards—accuracy and reliability. For some hunters, “good enough” accuracy may mean three-inch groups at 100 yards and reliability only that the rifle normally chambers rounds. For...
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? We’ll never know, but I can tell you the great duck guns came after the ammunition. Certainly there were heavy, large-bore shotguns in 6, 8 and 10 gauges, but even at that their payloads of shot were modest. The 10-gauge at...
This Czech manufacturer’s take on the modern bolt-action rifle is a game-changer. Dominique led as we moved slowly through the oak forest. Two years of drought had finally come to an end and the acorn crop returned in such abundance that the crunching underfoot...
Say what you will in praise of the newest chassis rifle from, oh, say Bergara. Or the strongest big bore lever-action from Bighorn Armory. Or the lightest bolt-action from Weatherby or Barrett. All might be fine, precise, rugged, accurate. Spectacular tools, the best...
I first heard of Vermont’s hidden Gem, Dan Morgan, twelve years ago at Dave Tilden’s venue when the beavertail forend on my Philadelphia Fox BE suddenly became loose. A gunner finds many opportunities to hunt and shoot in Vermont. Waterfowlers gun both sides of...
From its sliding breech to its retractable sling, this graceful French beauty stands as an objet d’art in a world of lookalikes. Truly, one of a kind. Guns, like most tools, evolve in almost the same way as animals do. And, in the same way that we tend...
This reimagined world-renowned design for modern use has had many names in its century-long history. The Springfield Armory SA-35 gives today’s shooters a modern take on a revered design modeled on one of the most popular pistols in small arms history. With subtle but...
