“switch-barrel”

Shooting Illustrated Editor-in-Chief Ed Friedman crosses the pond to witness the magic behind the Sauer 505 Synchro XT's construction firsthand.

The Rossi LWC is a compact single-shot rifle is a lightweight package designed for modern hunting at an incredibly affordable price—so low, in fact, that you could easily keep one in every vehicle you own.

Get a closer look at the Beretta BRX1, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

The CZ 600 Trail proved to be a handy rifle that can down game in hard-to-find places, all without alerting everything with fur that you have moved into the woods. Its lighter chamberings make it easy for recoil-shy shooters to field and makes it ideal for target work, too.

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

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.

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.

The truth about the glamorous life of a gun and hunting writer.

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.