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NRA Gun of the Week: Ruger AR-556

So, you don’t have $2,000 to spend on a switch-barrel, piston-driven Ruger SR-556? No problem, as Ruger’s AR-556 is a direct-gas impingement carbine that offers most of the features AR buyers are looking for at a little more than a third of the price.

Thompson/Center Dimension

The Dimension sports a switch-barrel versatility that's backed by Thompson/Center's sterling reputation for accuracy.

Dimension Africa

Thompson/Center's switch-barrel Dimension is affordable and versatile, but it needed to pass a rigorous field test to prove itself: Africa. NRA's John Zent had a chance to handle the Dimension while in Africa's Stormberg Mountains and brought back some photographic evidence of its success.

Hardware: Merkel RX Helix Explorer

European switch-barrel guns are engineering works of art, and are extremely well-designed and precisely executed. They are wonderful additions to any gun safe. One good example is the Merkel RX Helix.

CVA Apex

Whether you're hunting warthogs or groundhogs, the CVA Apex delivers.

2022 Rifle of the Year: Savage Impulse

Meet our 2022 Rifle of the Year, the Savage Impulse. 

Which Cartridge Has Taken the Most Deer?

The Maybe it is a Myth Statement: “More deer have been taken with the .30-30 Winchester cartridge than any other.”

Hardware: LHR Redemption

Until the economy tanked, there were several muzzleloaders on the market, but nowadays there are only a handful hunters can count on to outfit themselves for it. LHR Sporting Arms now offers one.

Hardware: E.R. Shaw Mark VII Rifle

E.R. Shaw is a company in Pennsylvania that makes a huge number of rifle barrels in just about every configuration imaginable, including a lot of barrels for OEM use by some big-name gun makers. Odds are if you have a few rifles, you have one of Shaw’s barrels. What a lot of hunters don’t know is the company also builds rifles based on its Mark VII action to customers’ specifications.

Sauer 202 TD Hatari

With the Sauer 202's in-line design, cartridges feed smoothly and reliably, a virtue that cannot be overstated in a dangerous-game rifle.

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