This story, “Classic Deer Rifles,” first appeared in the September 1997 issue of Outdoor Life. What is classic? Mainly it’s a description we apply to just about anything we happen to like. Which is ...

In this 2-gun match, shooters ran stages using the M1 Garand and the Soviet SVT-40, offering a rare head-to-head look at two ...

Boiled down to the essentials, a proper deer camp requires only a few things: a source of fire for cooking and warmth; coffee in the morning and sipping ­liquor in the evening to enjoy around said ...

With modern optics, elderly rifles can shoot well. I learned this Wednesday during a sighting-in session at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's shooting range at Mayflower. The rifle was a 1950s ...

For almost all my life I could walk into a gun store and find a new Marlin Model 336 rifle on the rack. It was comforting to know that no matter what, a good rifle was always available. But between ...

Many traditional hunters grew up with a .22 LR rimfire rifle in their hands. They were turned loose into the squirrel woods by their mothers and fathers to pursue foxtails and grays amongst stands of ...

It was 1964 when I walked into the small sporting-goods store and inspected the new rifles neatly lined up in the gun racks. I was looking for a deer rifle, which was to be a college graduation gift, ...

Key Point: With a .308 semi-automatic rifle, you can do long distance target shooting, go big game hunting, and defend your home and property against several attackers in an emergency or in a grid ...

Key Point: In fact, some in the military want to bring back a modernized version. World War I is often called “the machine gun war” because of the devastating use of automatic weapons such as the ...