“rifled barrel”

The Trophy Copper slug's plastic sabot features an aluminum plate at its base that helps it engage the rifling, promoting accuracy.

Browning's new AB3 bolt-action is value-priced and will be available in four calibers.

Savage Arms has announced a bargain that's geared toward young hunters in the Model 11 Trophy Hunter XP Youth Muddy Girl scoped-rifle package.

It's never a bad time to buy a new firearm. With that in mind, we came up with a list of four rifles, all available in an optics-included package, which will have you hunting whitetail this fall nearly right out of the box.

Here are four hot new offerings from key slug manufacturers that should help you seal the deal downrange this whitetail season.

The hip and happening trend with bolt-action hunting rifles right now is to go cheap, but still go big on performance. It seems like every manufacturer has a low-end price-point rifle, and they all seem to shoot pretty well. Browning's hat in this ring is the new AB3 Composite Stalker.

Savage offers a wide selection of "package" rifles that come out of the box with a riflescope already mounted and bore-sighted. Essentially, all you have to do is finalize the zero with your load and go hunting.