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The sable is known as “the prince of Africa” for its majestic beauty. It’s a perfect moniker too. With sweeping, ringed horns, black saddle and...

Lever loonies are rejoicing over the wonderful job Ruger is doing with the Marlin line of lever guns. Overall, these rifles are slimmer, smoother and more...

Wanna’ know what really gets my goat? It also raises my dander and just plain annoys me! It’s when someone asks the overused, cliché question — “If...

I’ve always loved Ruger guns. Who doesn’t? Imagine my surprise when I heard Ruger purchased Marlin, my second-favorite gun brand! Now I’d have the...

Hearing the name Kobus, pronounced “Qwi-biss,” grabbed my attention. Anyone having such a colorful name surely lived an adventurous life. I was in South...

Nothing is “funner” than a day shooting a carbine lever gun. Doing so brings back the excitement and enthusiasm you had as a kid from watching John...

You never know who you’re going to bump into at the Whittington Center outside Raton, NM. Imagine my surprise and eagerness when I spotted Phil Shoemaker....

Who says lever guns have lost their usefulness in today’s world of semi-auto shooters? Not Me! Especially when fitted with accessories from Skinner Sights...

In Africa, a savannah is a large grassy plain interspersed with acacia trees and shrubs. A savannah attracts and holds “plains” game because of the...

We all live through our guns in one way, or another — and there’s nothing wrong with that. Heck, it’s even fun. Guns have the power of making us...

Nothing is more important than sighting in your guns for the hunt of a lifetime. Heck, even local hunts require sighting-in for success. We owe it to the...

Watching the wide, heavy antlered buck antelope was amusing as he was keeping his harem of roughly a dozen in a tight pack. If one ventured too far, he’d...

The .45 Colt is my favorite cartridge. It has everything as far as I’m concerned, including versatility, history and performance.

Telling my Ruger American rifles apart by merely glancing at them would be a bonus. I was accumulating Ruger Americans faster than a crazy cat lady. Did I...

Being introduced to all kinds of cool products, part of the event — and my favorite — included using the Scrambler and Military Crest shooting trails...

Bill Noody of Northern Precision has been thinking big these days, caliber-wise. He’s had requests for 0.500"-sized bullets and Bill delivered.

The man is Tim Sundles, owner of Buffalo Bore Ammunition. You may have heard of it. If not, you’re missing out on some of the finest custom ammunition on...

One thing sixgunners agree on is the value of a good .357 Magnum revolver so it's no surprise it's the most popular of all the Magnums.

Being a cop provides you with a front row seat to the greatest show on earth.

How Ruger’s engineers designed a basic entry-level-priced rifle capable of shooting as good, if not better, than rifles costing five times the price of...

Deep within the belly of social media, amongst tiered special-interest groups, you’ll find “bullet casters” at the bottom of the heap.

When it comes to casting bullets and handloading, versatility is my favorite word.

The .405 Winchester was designed in 1904 for the Winchester 1895 lever gun.

If the eyes are the windows of our very soul, the gun we carry is an extension of our defensive cognition.