Mossberg’s sole hunting shotgun introduction at 2025 SHOT Shot was a bit of a surprise in this age of straightwall deer rifles. The company announced a trio of Model 500 Slugsters, including a ...

At my gun club’s range the other day, one of the other members let me shoot a couple of his straight-wall deer rifles . He told me that before he found the right bullets, he had lost a couple of ...

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 ...

There’s no denying the Midwest is the top whitetail deer hunting region of the country. States like Kansas, Iowa, and Wisconsin have led the way in producing giant bucks for a long time. Other states, ...

If you are new to Iowa shotgun deer hunting, you probably have a lot of questions about choice of slugs, sabots, loads, effective ranges and so on. Let's try to answer some of them. Probably foremost ...

The .223 Remington is one of the most popular centerfire cartridges in history and has seen renewed attention as a big-game round in recent years. The truth, however, is that it’s been a topic of ...

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The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...