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How Do You Break In Your Barrels, and Should You Bother?

How do you break in your barrels? Is it even worth it? The BullShooters investigate.

Barrel Break-In

It's not an exact science, but figure on shooting several boxes of ammo and running through dozens of cleaning patches to break in a new rifle barrel.

When Housetraining Goes Awry

Please pardon my grammar if it's even more off than normal today, but I'm a tad frazzled. For the past 48 hours, I've been engaged in an activity that's both joyous and scream-into-a-pillow frustrating: housebreaking a dog. And I bought not one, but two springer pups. As if I thought one would be just too easy.

5 Knives, Field to Freezer

Knives are great Christmas gifts for hunters, but don’t fall for looks over function when making out your wish list.

Firearm Background Checks Break Records Amid COVID-19 Concerns

March saw 3.7 million background checks conducted, the most since the system was created in 1998, fully eclipsing the previous record of 3.3 million set in December 2015.

NSSF Announces 2021 SHOT Show Cancellation

Due to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases throughout the world, the NSSF has announced the cancellation of the 2021 SHOT Show.

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