The best spotting scopes of 2026 do the job your binoculars cannot. A good 10x binocular finds the animal. A spotting scope tells you whether that buck is a shooter, whether that ram is legal, and whether that bullet hit the steel at 900 yards or kicked up dirt behind it. If you hunt open [...]

Every few years the industry tells you your old elk cartridge is obsolete. Usually that is marketing. The 7mm PRC is one of the rare times the pitch holds up. Hornady built it around long, heavy-for-caliber bullets, and the numbers are hard to argue with. Jeff Cramblit ran the math in his Savage review: at [...]

You can borrow a rifle. You can borrow a pack. Nobody wants to borrow your boots, and nothing ends a hunt faster than the wrong ones. Blisters do not care how far you drove or what the tag cost. One of our reviewers had a pair fail in the middle of a Dall sheep hunt. [...]

Every ounce you cut from a rifle is an ounce you do not carry up the mountain, and around mile six that math gets personal. One of our writers was told before a two-day elk-country hike to cut as much weight as he could. He showed up with a Weatherby Backcountry 2.0 Carbon that weighed [...]

The best Ruger revolvers are known for being nearly indestructible. Ruger builds double action carry guns like the LCR, SP101 and GP100, and single actions like the Blackhawk, Super Blackhawk, Vaquero and Wrangler, so there is a Ruger wheel gun for almost every job. Our reviewers at GunsAmerica Digest have shot these revolvers on the [...]

The best Weatherby rifles have always been about one thing: putting a bullet where you want it, fast and flat, from a rifle that can take a beating in the backcountry. Roy Weatherby built his name on screaming magnum cartridges, but the modern lineup runs from a Vanguard that lists at $869 MSRP in 2026 [...]

Hand a seven-year-old an adult rifle with a few inches hacked off the stock and watch what happens. The muzzle sags, the eye never finds the sights, and the kid decides shooting is hard and boring. That is how you lose a future hunting partner before the first box of ammo is gone. Ivan Loomis [...]

The best Henry rifles cover more ground than most people realize. Henry Repeating Arms built its name on rimfire lever guns, but today the lineup runs from brass framed .45-70 bear guns and a faithful copy of the 1860 Henry to an AR magazine fed lever gun, a 9mm semi auto carbine, a .410 lever [...]

The best big bore handguns throw heavy bullets hard enough to hunt deer, hogs, and even bears. Chamberings like .44 Magnum, .454 Casull, .460 S&W, and .50 AE turn a handgun into a serious hunting tool or a last-ditch defense gun in big country. We have hunted and shot them. One of our writers dropped [...]