The average gunner is still sold on the ancient myth — the longer the barrel the “harder” a gun shoots The post Jack O’Connor Explains Why Bird Hunters Got Shotgun Selection and Barrel Length All Wrong appeared first on Outdoor Life.
I like to actually use my guns, and I typically don’t try to “baby” them. While most of the time I don’t go out of my way to outright mistreat them, they’re tools after all; I am far from the type to have any safe queens, let alone firearms that don’t get rotat...
There was a time when "Made in the USA" meant elegantly-styled field guns. These are our former shooting editor's top picks The post The Classic American Shotguns You Should Definitely Recognize appeared first on Outdoor Life.
CINCINNATI, OH — Four of the biggest names in Second Amendment advocacy just asked a federal appeals court to do something no circuit has done: hold that the National Firearms Act’s registration scheme for short-barreled rifles violates the Constitution. The National Rifle Association, Fi...
In 1969 the .22/250 Remington was just about the hottest thing in the field of varmint cartridges. OL's legendary shooting editor explains why The post Jack O’Connor Explains the Rise of the .22-250 Remington and the Fall of the .220 Swift appeared first on Outdoor Life.
I recently had a great opportunity to try out Zeiss’ new V3 Lineup of Rifle Scopes on a beautiful ranch in Oklahoma. While I had always known about the scopes that Zeiss makes, I honestly think of them as a photo and video lens company first, given my background as a photographer and videog...
Three federal lawsuits argue that Congress’s zeroed-out suppressor and SBR tax leaves ATF’s registration system without a leg to stand on.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a pistol built for one of the most patient, fiddly corners of the shooting world. This is the Peregrine Silverthorne Model 33, a single-shot falling-block pistol made in small numbers in Silverthorne, Colorado in the 1980s. The falling-block...
At the end of the 1890s, John Moses Browning was in a weird place. He’d had a hand in designing many classic lever-action rifles (and even shotguns!) over the past years, but he realized that without some big changes to the design, lever-actions would lose a lot of market share to bolt acti...
When I was a kid, I always watched the credits of action movies until the end. I was waiting for one credit in particular - the movie armorer. The existence of such a job seemed too good to be true, since it encompassed all of my favorite hobbies: guns and movies.