Straight-wall deer rifles aren’t new, but recent regulation changes have created booming demand for them. For decades, if you were a Midwest or East Coast deer hunter living in a densely populated ...

The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...

For generations, a lot of states have allowed deer hunters to use only shotguns with slugs or maybe a muzzleloader during gun season. Then somebody figured out that straight-walled rifle cartridges ...

Over the years, my idea of the perfect deer rifle has evolved. When I was young, I had two whitetail rifles that, to me, were perfect. One was my Marlin 336 in .35 Remington, and the other was my ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) After posting the best opening day in more than a decade, Ohio hunters have had the best weeklong deer gun season in more ...

Every deer camp has a rifle or two that people love to grumble about—guns that struggled in their early years, wore the wrong optics, or got dragged through a few rough seasons without proper care.

The .30-30 Winchester has been putting venison in freezers for more than a century, and it’s still one of the most practical deer cartridges ever created. You won’t win any long-range matches with it, ...

Big woods rifles are brute in performance and ballerina in design. The best rifles will fit like a shotgun so that you can shoot fast, using instinct as much as the sights. They are light and fit the ...

Each year we review the best new rifles of the year and highlight some remarkable (and expensive) new guns. We spend a lot of ink on the most accurate and most innovative rifles because, well, they’re ...

Three days before the opening of modern gun deer season, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Fiocchi shooting range at Mayflower was busy. Hunters were there to make sure their rifles were on ...

Hunters registered 182,084 white-tailed deer during the 2025 Wisconsin nine-day gun deer season, according to a preliminary ...