Americans love small-gauge guns. They’re light, trim, and easy to carry. But there are some pretty big tradeoffs to going small. First and most important is that small-bore shotguns simply can’t shoot ...

If you are an adult who likes to shoot or hunt, it’s hard to find completeness without a 22 LR rifle or two. Considered by many to be the most useful rifle in the world, a 22 rifle is perfect for ...

Over/under shotguns dominate clay target shooting. They are also the choice for many upland hunters, and you’ll even see some O/Us in dove fields, duck blinds, and the turkey woods. While many ...

Rifle cartridges are not the most effective mechanisms for producing high projectile speed. Other things work much better. The 120mm smoothbore main gun on the M-1 Abrams tank fires a depleted-uranium ...

There may be no better gun for the outdoorsman than a rimfire pistol. Rimfire pistols are guns you can easily pack around, and you can use them for plinking, training, competition, small game hunting, ...

Crankbaits typically consist of a hard body paired with treble hooks. These lures can mimic crawfish, shad, bluegill, or other prey. Crankbaits are also effective in a wide range of water depths from ...

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more I’ve taken more big-game animals with the 308 Winchester than any other cartridge. Not ...

Heretofore hardly enough gun for butterflies, the .410 has became the hot new ­gobbler-“‹getter. And the credit for that goes to Tungsten Super Shot. Tight-patterning and dense enough that No. 9 shot ...

Next to the original 5.56mm NATO/223, the 300 AAC Blackout (BLK for short) is the most popular chambering for the AR-15 platform, and, as a result, manufacturers now pump out a wide variety of 300 ...

The job of testing and choosing the best shotguns of the year is easy and fun when companies make good guns, and this year, they did. There was genuine innovation on display this year. There were guns ...

Most of the talk in the rifle world these days about bullets with high ballistic coefficients, high-magnification trajectory-compensating rifle scopes, and rifles guaranteed to deliver one-hole groups ...

It’s 1827. Jim Bowie, a frontiersman, illegal slave trader, and real-estate scammer, is in a fight to the death on an island in the Mississippi River. Several of his rivals have attacked him with cane ...