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SOME GUNS are instant successes. Others require years for their wonderfulness to percolate down to the shooting public. And so it has been with the scout rifle, the brainchild of [...]

Q: I'd like your opinion on Lubalox coating on bullets. Does it negatively affect accuracy like the old moly coatings? Is it hard to clean out of the bore? --JOHN [...]

THIS IS THE TROPHY ISSUE. The words hunting, fishing, and trophy are inextricably intertwined. We all dream about coming home with fish the size of a human leg or deer [...]

Prepare yourselves for hypervelocity, rifles and scopes designed as a unit, and other wonders. Much of this issue is about what hunting is going to be like in the foreseeable [...]

For the first time, a major bulletmaker and a major ammo company have decided to slug it out together. sym*bi*o*sis n. The living together of two kinds of organisms, esp. [...]

F&S surveyed dozens of top deer guides to pick their brains on late-season buck behavior, top tactics, favorite gear, and more. "Unless you are getting a consistent pattern during the morning hours from a particular buck, you'll probably do more harm than good by hunting the morning, because you're apt to bump deer. Hunt scrapes just ahead of the second rut, then try intercepting a buck on the downwind edge of prime doe bedding areas." "A head-up doe decoy will spook does, but a head-down doe decoy in a feeding position - in a corn- or bean field, say - can help bring bucks out a little sooner.". [Extracted from the article]

During the course of the year, I get to use some fine equipment that doesn't get reported on for one reason or another. So here it is, just in time [...]

Smart hunters never forget that time and tide wait for no man, and neither do the critters with antlers on their heads. SO THERE I WAS IN THE THEATER, WATCHING [...]

For many years, 300 yards has been the maximum range at which a good rifleman with standard equipment could reliably hit big game. A highly skilled marksman can stretch the [...]

Our newest shotgun sport is thriving, but it may be getting too far from its roots and too tough for hunters who simply want to improve. Let's say you're a [...]

Here are some of the most commonly asked questions on the most important piece of hunting equipment you use. Q. Please explain, in terms a human being can understand, the [...]

Ever since the first mammoth steaks, we've known that there are few things more useful than a really heavy-duty hewer and hacker. Here's a razor-sharp trio that will cut with [...]

In 1956, the year I bought my first firearm, hunters who were interested in a deer rifle had seventeen guns to choose from. There were eleven cartridges that could be [...]

'It was a sad place. One of the letters had fallen out of the factory sign and no one bothered to put it back up. It was a place where [...]

DOUBLE DIPPING WITH A DRAWL The swamps, dense undergrowth, and farmland of southern South Carolina support an enormous whitetail herd, as well as quail and wild pigs. It 's tree-stand [...]

Laser is an acronym that stands for 'light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.' It is a beam of light so highly concentrated that it can be projected many thousands [...]

THIS MONTH, THERE WILL be none of the creative writing that has made my byline a byword from Sucking Bog, South Carolina, to Skunk's Despair, Washington. There is much wonderful [...]

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND years ago moving at the rate of a few inches a year, a wall of ice well over 15,000 feet high crushed its way across what is now [...]

THIS MONTH, AS THE INTELLECTUAL torpor of spring metamorphoses into the stupor of summer, I will answer the two questions that I am asked most often, firearms-wise. Q. How does [...]

Five centuries before the advent of the slam dunk and bottled doe urine, some some-blackened marksman sent a series of shots at a barn door and said, 'By ye sinless [...]

Gunmaker Melvin Forbes (who heads up Ultra Light Arms in Granville, West Virginia) and I frequently compare notes on our respective professional difficulties. I describe to him the perfidy of [...]

EVERY YEAR, PROVIDED MY HEART IS STILL beating, I hunt whitetail deer in South Carolina. It's completely different from anything else I get to do. And there is a bonus. [...]

ON THIS, the best of all possible worlds, you can spend very little money and get a very good rifle in the bargain. It will be accurate, function reliably, and [...]

Rifles that promise half-MOA groups or better are wonderful on paper. But don't expect them to help you in the field. BACK IN THE early 1960s when I got seriously [...]

LET'S BEGIN WITH the really important stuff: XPR doesn't officially stand for anything. I checked. The people at Winchester needed a name for their new rifle and rather than 'Ralph' [...]

Don't let the high price of hunting ammo keep you off the practice range. Use cheap military rounds to stay sharp AFTER MANY decades of practicing their dark art in [...]

EVERYONE MISSES. I can tell you, in excruciating detail, about every one of my agonizing whiffs, even though some go back nearly 50 years. The hits, except for a very [...]

Q: Which would you choose for mule deer, pronghorns, and elk: the .280 Rem., .257 Why. Mag., 26 Nosler, or 28 Nosler? --CODY ROCCA, SACHSE, TEXAS A: Unless you're planning [...]

David E. Petzal answers your questions about guns, shooting, hunting, and life Q: Between you and your great colleague, Phil Bourjaily, who is more skilled at the other's shooting discipline? [...]

DIAMONDBLADE KNIVES HERITAGE $395 * diamondbladeknives.com This small, drop-point knife is almost too pretty to use--courtesy of its mosaic handle pins, stag-handle scales, and tooled-leather safety sheath. The blade is [...]

BERGARA B-14 HMR $1,150 * bergarausa.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The HMR (Hunting & Match Rifle) is portable enough for big game and accurate enough for competition. Chambered in .308 and 6.5 [...]