MISC. RIFLES

Growing up back east, two things caught my imagination early on — guns and horses, both of which were not plentiful there. So, as soon as I was able, the...

The Bug-A-Salt looks like a toy, but it is so much more. For starters, the thing is fairly heavy, much heavier than the kiddy toys it apes. These guns are...

The great days of cheap surplus ammo were the 1950s and ’60s. I thought corrosive primers were in the past, but not so. Large quantities of such...

During my writing career, I obsessed over a genre of firearm to the point my editors became frustrated. It was because I studied those rifles so deeply,...

Always fascinated by the buffalo hunters of the 19th century, I read as much about them as possible as a kid. Their rifles of choice were big bore,...

Big game rifles have evolved continuously with the introduction of new models, new cartridges, new manufacturing methods, changing hunting conditions and...

As buffalo landed just below lion on Jack’s list, he’d secured a suitable rifle in .450 Watts. Winchester had yet to unveil its .458, so this was a...

My all-time favorite hunting rifle has been a 1952 vintage Winchester Model 70 Featherweight chambered for a cartridge introduced that same year — the...

The recent gun and accessory shortages have created the perfect environment for those seeking to part us from our hard-earned money. We are desperate to...

Acquiring “good enough” skill with a rifle, at least adequate for big-game hunting at moderate ranges, is actually not terribly hard.

Ethiopian Emperor Melenik II is credited with fighting back European colonial incursions at the turn of the 19th century and preserving Ethiopian independence.

Cry Havoc Tactical has built their business around designing the perfect takedown gear to transform your favorite black rifle into something half as long...

Our sermon of the month is simple: Know when to stop hanging crap off your gun!

Before you can zero a scope, you’ll have attached it — another topic. Bore-sighting comes next. A collimator slipped into the muzzle puts a screen in...

Some rifles are so obscure and so out of reach, they haunt you for a lifetime — the Jacob has haunted me for a lifetime. Lyman’s 1958 release of their...

In my entire career I don’t remember writing about a firearm with which I had only a few moments’ experience. But what an experience!The gun was the...

Maybe our two-year nightmare is drawing to an end. Travel abroad for hunting may once again become routine. We are blessed with wonderful hunting...

While factors such as weight, accuracy, ammunition availability and cost all factor into the selection of a defensive firearm, reliability is always a prime...

From the No. 1’s debut in 1879 until William Lyman’s death in 1896, he would patent 17 rifle, handgun and shotgun sights.

GUNS Magazine editor Brent T. Wheat shares why the Elite Tactical Systems Universal Speedloader is the best speedloader he's ever tried.

There doesn’t seem to be agreement on what the term “truck gun” means. I guess there can’t be a consensus since people live different lifestyles and...

Combining rifle-grade power with handgun-sized portability, these testosterone-laden pistols are either the best or worst of both worlds.

Rifling is the key to precision and in recent years there has been considerable interest in faster twists.

It’s all over now, but for 50 years the machine gun shoots held at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Ky., were wildly popular with full-auto enthusiasts...

Triggers on most current bolt-action hunting rifles are single stage. To fire the rifle, the trigger finger applies continually increasing pressure on the...

If you travel much, it’s no big secret flying with guns and ammo is no longer fun.

The FA556-212 is a paltry 6" long and weighs an even pound. It was designed specifically to complement the 10" barreled HK 416. SureFire doesn’t make this...

A scope should deliver a big, bright, sharp image as soon as you cheek the rifle. It’s painfully true any hunter whose sight picture doesn’t measure up...

These nifty little rifles were first built in Accokeek, Md., in 1967. Those early examples bore neither markings nor serial numbers and sported an MSRP of...

Adolphe Uberti’s release of a proper stalking rifle, called “The Courteney,” is designed in traditional British guise to honor one of the most famous...

If ever a cartridge were worthy of Magna Cum Laude status, the 500 S&W Magnum would hold those prestigious honors!

Shots Fired in Anger (1947) was written by Major (later Lt. Colonel) John B. George.

The M20 from Vigilance Rifles is what would happen if a Browning M1919 light machinegun had a baby with a pressure washer. Rugged, simple, reliable and...

Whether it’s the insolent, amber gaze of a lion supremely confident in his lethality, or the wicked hooked horns of a Cape buffalo, the hunters —...

The canteen likely does more to sustain a soldier’s life in combat but a soldier’s individual weapon is his most cherished possession.

In pre-dawn fog and under snow-heavy conifers, I’d dogged the track to a thoroughfare muddied by prints.

From the advent of metallic cartridge ammunition unto this day, .50 caliber rifles have won the hearts and minds of American riflemen.

The bull had dropped right away. The sharp image of crosswire on rib had yielded to the brief but violent blur of recoil.

If President Biden gets his way, there's a good chance the federal government will make AR ownership difficult, if not impossible. If such a thing happens,...

Popular among muzzleloaders for over a decade, CVA has continued to advance their ACCURA series of rifles with the addition of the X-TREME Series, featuring...

In 60 years of big-game hunting, the equipment I use and the skills I practice have evolved.

The great strength of the AR is its modularity: By simply pushing two pins, the upper receiver comes off the lower and can be quickly replaced with another...

In 1861 Dr. Richard J. Gatling built his namesake invention, the Gatling Gun. The good doctor rationalized if he created a weapon with firepower equal to...

One evening almost 50 years ago while working as a dude wrangler in Yellowstone National Park, two friends and I were driving over Dunraven Pass in my pickup.

Out with the old and in with the new, Henry Repeating Arms is launching 29 new rifle and shotgun models for 2021 — the largest product announcement in...

The Human Genome Project is the largest collaborative biological research effort in human history.

The view was instantly brighter, details sharper. In hand, it was lighter than any binocular I’d yet carried afield. And it was less expensive! A field...

Have you impulse-bought any rifles recently? I like to think I plan such purchases sensibly and rationally, determining needs,

The 1873 Winchester may be “The gun that won the West” but the Model 1892 is the Western levergun that won America’s heart.

When hunting in the brushy areas of western Washington the .44 Magnum revolver tends to be my first choice,

Have you been loading handgun cartridges but not bottleneck rifle cartridges because they seem more complex and require more equipment?

Naturally we clearly remember the “firsts” in our lives — first gun, first car, first date, etc.

Big-case .22 centerfires have fallen out of favor in recent years. My subjective definition of a big-case .22 is those with water capacity starting at...

Just hearing the word Safari conjures visions of deepest, darkest Africa in all her splendor.

“That can’t be right,” thought I, but another count yielded the same sums. Just the first 18 years of this century have coughed up 50 new centerfire...

The metric system (or “SI” for those who wear a man bun) may be the standard throughout most of the world but it hasn’t made much inroad in the U.S.

5R rifling has been around 40-plus years now but judging from the questions I’ve heard there seems to be little information on it.

By the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the concept of military submachine guns was well established in Europe if not so much in America.

The late Patrick F. McManus, who died in 2018 at age 84, wrote many great stories about hunting, fishing and outdoor living.

California AR owners are all too familiar with the ever-shifting Byzantine requirements necessary to ensure “compliance” in this deepest of Deep Blue...

In March, 1919, the nascent O.F. Mossberg and Sons Company was hanging on a thread. Harold Mossberg was the only employee in the rented loft on State Street...

A leader in mounting solutions for firearm accessories, American Defense Manufacturing has launched a precision rifle chassis for Remington 700 short...

If readers are as old as I, they probably remember those fantastic ads in the back of American Rifleman in the 1960s. They were from an outfit called “Ye...

It’s tough to quantify the Ruger PC Charger as it defies ready characterization. The government just calls it a pistol. If it had a happy switch and a...

Looking at the studs used to attach men’s collars to the neckbands of the shirts of the era, it’s easy to see where John Barlow's inspiration came from...

John Dillinger was an inveterate career criminal who likely did more to promote the Federal Bureau of Investigation than any other single personality save...

“If you could only own one gun” is a hardy perennial in firearms literature. For firearms enthusiasts the question is ludicrous — many of us carry...

In the July issue of GUNS, we’re celebrating one of the most unique things about the United States of America — our right to keep and bear arms!

My fingers twitched nervously above my laptop. My breath came in furtive spurts. The intrinsic import of the moment threatened to cloud my vision.

If I were to pick one class of long guns as my favorite, it would have to be lever-action rifles. They can be chambered in everything from .22 Long Rifle up...

Back when I wore the uniform, our weapons were the end result of laborious and protracted selection processes.

Nostalgia is all very well. Looking back, we tend to forget the bad and remember the good maybe a little better than it really was.

Like racing tires and blue-ribbon taxidermy, a costly scope avails you to nothing if stupidly attached.

When I first heard Benelli was introducing a new firearm, I automatically assumed it was a semi-auto shotgun of sorts as the name Benelli is synonymous with...

Thus begins what is, in my opinion, history’s greatest piece of literature.

Almost simultaneous with the appearance of metallic cartridges there came a firearms genre popular to this day — the pistol cartridge carbine.

Whether natural disaster, economic collapse or worldwide pandemic, you never know when you may need to leave home. And there's perhaps no single better...

“That’s the stuff dreams are made of,” John Wayne whispered softly inside my cranium.

Host Brent T. Wheat speaks with Savage Arms CEO & President Al Kasper about going private, its implications on the future of the brand, his take on the...

Colonel Jeff Cooper is probably most remembered for the development of the Modern Technique of the Pistol along with the American Pistol Institute, now...

Shooters sift rifle scopes by price, power, dials, reticles, lens diameter — but what about length?

I have been reloading for over 45 years and casting my own bullets for almost as long. The main reason I got into loading and casting, like many others, was...

In Part I last month I explained change is inevitable and as we grow older, things we do not necessarily desire are forced upon us.