The best survival rifles of 2026 are not the biggest or the most powerful guns in the safe. They are the ones you actually bring along: light, compact, simple, and able to feed you or protect you after something goes wrong. That idea goes back to World War II aircrew survival guns, and our writers [...]

The main holster types are inside the waistband (IWB), appendix inside the waistband (AIWB), outside the waistband (OWB), pocket, ankle, shoulder, chest and off-body holsters. For most people who carry concealed every day, an IWB holster worn at appendix or strong-side hip is the best starting point, and OWB is the most comfortable and fastest [...]

The best Benelli guns include some of the most trusted shotguns ever built, from the M4 that the Marines picked as a joint service shotgun to the Super Black Eagle that waterfowlers have carried into the marsh for decades. Benelli now builds a bolt action rifle too, the Lupo, and it has become one of [...]

The .45-70 is older than the Model T, and it still flattens anything in North America inside 200 yards. The best .45-70 rifles take a cartridge the U.S. Army adopted in 1873 and put it in handy, modern rifles. The .45-70 Government throws big, heavy bullets, typically 300 to 405 grains and up to 430 [...]

The best Beretta pistols go well beyond the 92. The world’s oldest gun maker also builds modern striker-fired APX pistols, the PX4 Storm, a revived Cheetah in .380, and tip-up pocket guns in .22 LR and .32 ACP. Some are bargains, some are classics, and a few are better left to collectors. We will tell [...]

The best over under shotguns of 2026 do one thing better than any pump or semi-auto ever built: they give you two instant shots with two different chokes, from a gun you can break open and prove empty at a glance. That is why the stack-barrel double owns the sporting clays course, the trap line, [...]

The best military surplus rifles carry more than history on their stocks. They are battle proven designs built by nations that could not afford failure, and most of them still shoot well enough to embarrass a modern sporter at 100 yards. Surplus is also a moving target. Our Enfield writer declared the $200 Enfield over [...]

The best Bergara rifles prove that a barrel maker can build a whole rifle. Bergara started out making barrels in Spain, and that obsession with bores shows up on paper: our testers have shot a 0.36 MOA group with a Premier Divide, a 0.45 inch group with a B-14 Squared Crest and a five shot [...]

Fair warning: if you still think a 2011 is a $4,000 race toy for people who iron their range belts, you are about a decade late. Duty-grade Staccatos ride in SWAT holsters. Springfield will sell you one with an Aimpoint already mounted. Kimber and Bersa jumped in. Girsan is hanging 2011-style guns out there for [...]