RELOADING – 24HOURCAMPFIRE

Whittaker Guns is a large enough enterprise to order “special runs” of new guns, like this Ruger American .22-250 with a 1-8 twist.

GUN SHOPS

A fascination with firearms appears to be innate in some people, though it may also be enhanced by …

This free-range New Zealand red deer was not only killed with the boring old .30-06, but with a “target” bullet. Shot across a canyon while bedded down, the stag never moved from its bed.

THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION

One of the many defining characteristics of the subspecies of the humans often called “rifle loonies” is the constant pursuit of perfection. This is …

A flat trajectory often matters more on varmints, because they're smaller targets.

THE REALITIES OF BALLISTIC COEFFICIENT

Before compact, affordable laser rangefinders became available to in the late 1990’s, the primary …

Re-chambered to .30 Gibbs, this Springfield 03A3 can deliver the ballistic muscle of the .300 H&H.

ROCKY GIBBS AND HIS WILDCATS

Hot-rodding the .30-06, this Idaho wildcatter claimed speeds that sent handloaders to their presses and challenged P.O. Ackley’s Improved dynasty!

I like to go hunting with friends like my buddy Pete Jackson. We met on a Canadian caribou hunt in 1993, and Pete eventually came to Montana to supposedly hunt mule deer, but could not pass up this whitetail!

LESSONS LEARNED FROM GUN WRITING

Like many gun writers I got into the profession during mid-life, after establishing a freelance career writing about other stuff from fly-fishing to Western history. It wasn’t until …

Deer don’t always stand with their ribs to you. A-Frame and Scirocco bullets drive deep to the vitals.

SWIFT, WITH AMMUNITION

When, 30 years ago, a small Kansas shop came up with a new bullet, no one could have predicted this!