“g2 contender”

Thompson/Center Arms has announced its new "More Bucks in Your Pocket" promotion, which will offer up to a $75 mail-in rebate on select firearms purchased between July 15 and Dec. 31, 2017.

Thompson/Center's Contender series is back for 2016, in the form of the G2 Rifle and G2 Pistol. Here are five things you need to know.

Thompson/Center has made a habit of pushing interchangeable firearms platforms in recent years, and now they're making the idea more appealing than even with the reintroduction of the G2 Contender—which hunters will be able to purchase in either rifle or pistol form.

Do something long enough, and the basics become so much a part of your being that it’s easy to forget that others may not be so enlightened.

I’m just guessing, mind you, but I believe the first American deer rifle was the Model 94 Winchester. To be sure, a lot of deer fell to Model 73s, Marlins, Trapdoor Springfields and flintlocks, but the first sporting deer rifle was the 94. Since that iconic rifle there have been a whole lot more.

If you want to spice up your next varmint hunt, try going after them with a belt gun.

CCI gets the lead out of some of its rimfire hunting ammunition.