Given his gravity toward fine rifles that often cost as much as the average house payment, we thought it would be fun to put our man to the test: If you had only $600 to spend on a new rifle, with a new scope and mounts, how would you allocate it? Read on, and prepare to reach into your wallet.
Learn more about Leupold's new VX-Freedom line of riflescopes, designed specifically for the hunter seeking elite optical performance at a budget-friendly price.
Sorry pet shelters: This new video from HumaneWatch.org shows how the HSUS would rather spend chunks of its $140 million budget to try and label American hunters as murderers and ban hunting ammunition in efforts to shut down hunting.
For 2019, Leupold introduces its new Freedom RDS, an innovative red-dot sight designed for the hunter seeking rugged reliability and elite performance at a budget-friendly price.
Self-branded as "The Value Experts," TriStar is home to an array of respectable shotguns and handguns, which are often available at a budget-conscious price point. The company has, for years, rolled out a variety of fine-shooting scatterguns. One thing that's long eluded it, however, is a 3½-inch autoloader for the more dedicated waterfowl hunters among us. That changed at SHOT Show 2017, however, when TriStar announced its new Viper Max.
We recently covered one of 2016's best values in the budget-friendly Stoeger P3000, which impressed our reviewer. It impressed consumers, too, because for 2017 Stoeger has announced the P3500—the same gun, essentially, just chambered for those big ol' 3½-inch shells.