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Melvin Forbes, founder of New Ultralight Arms, has teamed with Montgomery Community College to offer the Melvin Forbes Next Generation Scholarship for gunsmithing students who attend the institution.

Those who venture into the backcountry—and especially those who hunt the mountains with all their gear on their back—appreciate a lightweight rifle. Here’s a look at seven top-notch options.

Your hunting rifle doesn’t need to produce painful recoil to get the job done. Here are six centerfire hunting cartridges that are easy on the shoulder yet effective on big game.

Nebraska’s Platte River flows through mule deer country among a smatter of crop fields—exactly the kind of landscape patient hunters can exploit to find big-racked bucks.

Weighing in at 5.5 pounds, the ultralight Sauer 101 Highland XTC is a well-balanced, all-around rifle, featuring a hand-laid carbon fiber stock, fluted and factory threaded barrel, fluted bolt and all the standard S101 features that guarantee reliability and accuracy.

The Fieldcraft is a sweet little rifle for a mountain hunt for sheep, goats or elk, where sometimes even your boot laces are too heavy.

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

Like all New Ultra Light Rifles, the Model 28 is built on a hand-lapped, push-feed action of Melvin Forbes' own design.

Here are five rifles that absolutely bleed red, white and blue.