Mountain Rifles Matter

Mountain Rifles Matter

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 simply...
This Is Your Rifle – True Aim

This Is Your Rifle – True Aim

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”...
A True Firearm Upgrade

A True Firearm Upgrade

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...
New CZ Model 600 Retires Previous Rifle Lines

New CZ Model 600 Retires Previous Rifle Lines

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...
AllTerra Carbon Rifle in 6.5 PRC

AllTerra Carbon Rifle in 6.5 PRC

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...
Buffalo Hunt – A Tale of Two Buffs

Buffalo Hunt – A Tale of Two Buffs

James Stejskal details two occasions across the world where he is on the buffalo hunt and just how he went about claiming his prize. The early morning fog on the river was starting to dissipate as I stood in the waist high grass surveying the terrain ahead. I was...
Hunters with Attitude

Hunters with Attitude

Hunters with an attitude. Imagine that.   Attitude isn’t everything, but it seems to add a few hundred feet per second to muzzle velocity and at least that many foot-pounds of kinetic energy to any bullet.   Evidence for that comes from dozens of hunters who respond...
Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Scope Bite

Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Scope Bite

Arguably worse than any snake bite, when the rifle scope bites, it’s only a matter of seconds until the blood and the tears start to flow. There are seven venomous snakes in my home state of Oklahoma – the copperhead, the cottonmouth and five different species of...