OL's former shooting editor maintains you don't have to pick a single favorite rifle for hunting deer. Here are his top picks, and the stories behind each The post Jim Carmichel’s ‘Favorite’ Deer Rifles appeared first on Outdoor Life.
The breakaway Confederate forces had a big problem at the start of the American Civil War—they needed guns. Many of the South’s top soldiers came out of the federal military and would spend the next years fighting their former comrades, now in the Union forces. The Confederates also s...
More than eleven million Remington 870s have left the factory since 1950, and by Remington’s own count the number now stands above thirteen million. That output makes the 870 the best-selling shotgun of any type in history, a title it earned by doing what a working pump gun is supposed to d...
I’ve been shooting rimfire long enough to see more than a handful of rimfire ammo types go the way of the dodo. Today’s is a particular shame, simply because of how consistent and clean the original formula was. I’m of course talking about Remington’s now-discontinued Stan...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a revolver that most Remington reference books do not even bother to list. Remington and Sons went into receivership in 1886. In 1888 Marcellus Hartley of Hartley and Graham teamed up with Thomas Bennett of Winchester to take control, and t...
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . This week we have another one of Collin’s Creations. This one is an adaptation of the Ruger American into an SBR f...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Colt’s big bore double action in its handiest form, built in 1882 and chambered in 44-40. The Model 1878 was Colt’s answer to a market that wanted a double action revolver in a serious caliber. It sold in decent numbers and it w...
The Palmetto State Armory Jakl is a well-known commodity within gun culture at this point. The long-stroke piston rifle built around the AR15 is no stranger to love and hate; thus, the same is true with bullpups. This article looks to cause a ruckus and bring together two paradoxical and controve...
Just picture it for a second. It’s 1910. You walk into Abercrombie & Fitch, arguably the premiere outfitter for American sportsman of the day. As you get to the gun counter you see something different; it’s not the typical wheelgun dominating the American market. You’re taken in by the ...
The ballistic math never made sense, but that didn't stop American hunters from buying new big-bore rifles The post Here’s Why Big-Bore Rifles Got So Popular in the Late 90s appeared first on Outdoor Life.