“double barrel”

Pursuit of any number of Western bird species just may lead to the buck or bull of your dreams.

Digital Managing Editor Shawn Skipper discusses the Barrett Sovereign Rutherford, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

Barrett, a manufacturer long known primarily for its .50-cal tactical rifles, branched into a whole new market in 2016 with the addition of the Sovereign line of double-barrel shotguns, and the Tennessee-based company has done it again this year with the introduction of the Fieldcraft, a lightweight, bolt-action hunting rifle.

America’s oldest gunmaker celebrates its 200th Birthday.

It was 150 years ago that the name “Winchester” was first stamped on a rifle. But Winchester’s narrative began well before that, and it is a tale tied to the American West, to the wars of the 20th century, to big personalities such as John Browning and John Olin, and to the manufacture of billions of cartridges and millions of rifles and shotguns beloved by generations of Americans.

Canada, Alaska, the Rockies, Africa, Europe and Australia—there is an entire world out there to be explored and hunted. Doing so is not as easy as hunting in your home state; it requires an extra measure of research and planning.

Winchester's Model 24 double-barrel shotgun was introduced in 1939, just prior to the U.S. entering World War II, when most minds were not on sporting guns. Only about 116,000 of them were manufactured before it was discontinued from the Winchester catalog in the late 1950s.

Contributor Philip Massaro discusses the gear you'll need to take down a bull elephant.

There are a variety of waterfowl shotguns available today that are plenty good, but it's hard to describe any as "perfect." Just what would be required to earn such a superlative? We investigate.