Every deer camp has a rifle or two that people love to grumble about—guns that struggled in their early years, wore the wrong optics, or got dragged through a few rough seasons without proper care.

New deer rifles are expensive, but you can often buy old store-brand rifles for almost nothing. You'll find them at estate sales and pawn shops. They are homely and basic. They might have checkering ...

Modern gun deer season starts Nov. 11, and many first-time deer hunters are looking to buy their first deer rifle. This is a great time to be a first-time gun buyer because rifles are more accurate ...

We’ve made it easy for you by a picking a dozen great deer cartridges for recoil-averse hunters—rounds which, when used with rifles of reasonable heft, produce recoil below the 15 foot-pounds/15 ...

Straight-wall deer rifles aren’t new, but recent regulation changes have created booming demand for them. For decades, if you were a Midwest or East Coast deer hunter living in a densely populated ...

The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...

Just start a conversation about deer rifles and state emphatically that your opinion on which caliber and which make is the best. Other hunters will willingly oblige you. Most everyone who reads this ...

One of the things I like best about deer hunting is that you can use just about any rifle you want. For half a century, a 30-30 lever-action was the definition of a deer gun. Pumps and semi-autos had ...

It was a Monday morning in mid-November and my plan was to sneak in a quick hunt before work. I’d been watching a ten-pointer since late summer when he made his first midnight appearance on one of my ...