** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** If things aren’t going well, first ...

A funny thing happened on the shooting range Saturday. I reduced my loads in a troublesome rifle and solved its accuracy problem without losing velocity. The rifle is a new Ruger Model 77 Hawkeye ...

Leave it to Reggie Jackson to describe what Greg Bird brings to the Yankees when the first baseman is healthy and at his best. “Barrel accuracy,’’ is how the Hall of Famer slugger explained it. There ...

Every reloader learns fast—there’s a fine line between precision and punishment. Push a load too far, choose the wrong powder, or chase velocity over accuracy, and you’ll start eating into barrel life ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Most hunters consider traditional ...

Some calibers are known to wander, open up, or flat-out lose consistency once you start putting real rounds through them. It’s not always the rifle’s fault—some cartridges simply run hot, foul fast, ...

When a good friend of mine drew a once-in-a-generation ­Oregon elk tag, he wanted to hunt with the rifle his father gave him when he was in his early teens. The only problem, which is quite common ...

We set up some simple tests to see if a shorter barrel is all it's cracked up to be on the AR-15 We tested carbine lengths from 7.5 to 16 inches, supplied by Franklin Armory of Morgan Hill, Calif. The ...

More than 65 years ago two of the largest rifle and ammunition manufacturers unveiled two nearly identical cartridges that were instantly engaged in a titanic struggle for supremacy. Within just a few ...

The business end of sending a slug through a shotgun barrel has seen serious upgrading since scatter-gunners first loaded a single chunk of lead into a shotgun shell. At the middle of the last century ...