The best ranch rifle of 2026 is the one that rides behind the truck seat for years, gets dragged out for a coyote at 200 yards or a hog in the feed pen at 40, and never asks for anything in return. It is not a benchrest gun and it is not a safe queen. [...]

The best rangefinders of 2026 fix the most common reason hunters miss, and it is not the rifle. It is the guess. Most people are terrible at judging distance, especially across open country, canyons, or water. A deer that looks like 300 yards is 420, and a bull across a basin that looks like a [...]

The best FN rifles come from the company that builds machine guns and service rifles for the U.S. military, and you can feel it. FN makes the SCAR, the FN 15 family of AR-15s and a semi-auto version of the M249 SAW, and its civilian rifles carry the same hard use DNA. Our testers have [...]

The best MP5 clones put the most famous submachine gun of the last fifty years in civilian hands as a semi-auto pistol, braced pistol, or registered short-barreled rifle. Heckler & Koch’s MP5 earned its reputation with counter-terrorism units around the world, and the reason is its roller-delayed blowback action. The rollers hold the bolt closed [...]

The best .22 Magnum guns give you a real step up from the .22 LR without jumping to centerfire recoil, noise, or ammo prices. The .22 WMR throws a 30 to 40 grain bullet much faster than a .22 LR, which turns a plinker into a capable varmint gun out to 100 yards and more, [...]

A holographic sight is the optic you buy after a cheap red dot dies on you at the worst possible moment. Or after you finally look through one with both eyes open and realize the window is the size of a small TV. Either way, the best holographic sights of 2026 come down to a [...]

The best AK-47 rifle of 2026 is not the cheapest one on the rack, and it is not always the one with the coolest furniture. It is the one built right where it counts: a properly headspaced barrel, a forged or machined trunnion, straight sights, and rivets that are actually tight. Get those things right [...]

The best Taurus handguns have shaken off the brand’s old reputation. Taurus still sells some of the cheapest reliable pistols on the market, but it now also builds an optics-ready duty gun that ran 1,000 rounds with two stoppages, a .22 competition pistol, a budget carry gun that put four shots in one hole, and [...]

The best Kel-Tec guns are some of the strangest and most useful firearms you can buy. The Florida company, now styled KelTec, builds folding carbines, bullpup rifles and shotguns, high capacity rimfire pistols, a 50-round 5.7 that folds in half, and one of the lightest pocket pistols ever made. Few brands take more design risks, [...]