More and more slug-gun states in the Midwest and East have legalized the use of straight-wall rifles during deer season in recent years. Straight-wall cartridges, like the .350 Legend and .45/70, give ...

I grew up in the heyday of slug gun hunting. Whitetail populations began to explode in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in suburban areas, like in my home state of Ohio. Since centerfire rifles were ...

One advantage rifles still hold is how predictably they create exit wounds. With bonded or controlled-expansion bullets, you ...

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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 ...

You can use rifles for deer hunting now down in Steuben County. I don’t know that anyone in our camp will, at least this season. This is probably because most of us were opposed to the use of rifles ...

Browning Ammunition has new polymer-tipped sabot slugs for rifled-barreled shotguns capable of lethal performance beyond 150 yards, according to Browning officials. Browning’s new BSX slugs come in a ...

Several Coastal N.C. hunting areas do not allow centerfire rifles for hunting deer. As I hunted in pouring rain at one of them, Bladen Lakes Game Land, I pondered whether my muzzleloading rifle would ...

Call them "sabeaus" (the French version) or "sabots" (rhymes with "grab its"), shotgun sabot slug technology has developed in the past 10 years, much like rifle design developed between the Civil War ...

The shotgun has played an important role throughout the history of firearms. From matchlock and flintlock “fowlers” to today’s wide array, shotguns can be considered multitask tools because they can ...