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Here's another way to enjoy your fall harvest.

It’s time to take inventory and prepare for next year’s hunt.

Think you’re good with a thumb-buster? Try shooting fast.

For those of us born in the middle of the last century there is a romantic connection to the lever-action rifle.

It’s happened again. A hunter accidentally shot and killed his guide on a brown bear hunt in Alaska.

Missing Can Make You a Better Shot

I have always had an admiration for what I call redneck ingenuity—basically the ability to make do or get by with something on the ultimate cheap.

I just received one of those e-mails you hate to get. Brandon Forrest Eggleston, the only son of Alisa Moody—who used to be one of my graphic designers at the NRA and now manages my website—was killed last night in Afghanistan by an IED.

I sat down to my reloading bench this morning to put together some .45 Colt ammo for my new Ruger Flattop. It got me to thinking: The .45 Colt just might be the best—or at least the most versatile—handgun cartridge of all time. Of course, that only holds true if you consider the role of a handgun in its traditional sense—a reactive tool for stopping threatening or edible creatures at close range.