The week Barack Obama was elected president, the amount of criminal background checks related to the purchase of firearms jumped 49 percent over the previous year, FBI statistics show. It’s a trend that hasn’t ceased to stop, as background checks for firearm purchases have continued to increase in the months following the November election, when […]

It is quite likely that nearly every shooting sportsman you know, guns with a Remington. Almost every American sportsman has at least one Remington rifle or shotgun in his gunroom. America’s oldest gun maker began in rural Ithaca, N.Y., when young Eliphalet Remington made his own musket from the metals found on his father’s […]

Ian Pratt is left-handed, a main reason the Marshallville, Ohio, craftsman became a noted builder of muzzle-loading rifles. “I’ve always enjoyed shooting and hunting with muzzle-loading rifles, but my passion for creating rifles began because I’m left-handed,” said Pratt, who was teaching a small group of students to make flintlock rifles on a recent Saturday […]

For a $10 bill or a bit more, you can be a better deer hunter when next fall rolls around. Sounds like a bargain? Or a gimmick? It’s more in the category of common sense. Buy a half box of cartridges for your deer rifle. Buy a box of .22 long rifle cartridges. Then use […]

If ever there was a misunderstood firearm, it is the predator rifle. Though the “varmint” designation, at least to me, connotes a heavy-barreled, target-type rifle intended for extended, long-range shooting on prairie dogs, many shooters use the term to describe predator rifles as well. But the long, heavy rigs favored by varmint shooters aren’t even […]