The most powerful, far-reaching rifle is perfectly safe when fired by an ethical, responsible hunter — while the smallest single-shot .22 rifle or .410 shotgun can be deadly in reckless hands.

Not far from my boyhood home in the green valleys of East Tennessee there once lived a man who fancied himself as something of a deer hunt­er. By all accounts, he was a rather ordinary man and much ...

Choosing between a shotgun and a rifle for whitetail hunting usually comes down to where you hunt, but the more you look at their real-world performance, the more you realize each tool brings an ...

Sometimes switching from large game—like elk or deer—to hitting a moving squirrel with a .22 or .17 rimfire will tell on you ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in Wisconsin. Steven Loomans of Madison shot the buck on the final day of the metro ...