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The SnapSafe Two-Gun Keypad Vault is a simple quick-access handgun safe with room for 2 guns, smart backup features, and an easy setup. At $140.99 MSRP, it solved a very real storage problem well enough that I’m buying another one.

The best scout rifles follow a simple idea from Jeff Cooper: one light, short, handy bolt action rifle that can do almost anything a lone rifleman needs. Cooper’s recipe called for a .308, a barrel of 19 inches or less, an overall length of 39 inches or less, a forward mounted low power scope, reserve [...]

A wood stock is beautiful right up until it swells in the rain and your zero walks off. A cheap plastic stock flexes every time you load a bipod. Neither one cares how much you paid for the barrel. That is why so many serious bolt guns end up in an aluminum chassis. The action [...]

The .357 Magnum is 91 years old and still the cartridge people pick when they want one revolver to do a little of everything. That should tell you something. It shoots .38 Special for cheap practice and soft house loads. It shoots full-house Magnums when the target is a hog, a coyote or something worse [...]

The best Vortex scopes cover just about every job a rifle or pistol can do, from a budget deer scope to an LPVO that costs more than most of the rifles it rides on. That range is the reason Vortex is the brand so many shooters start with, and the reason it is so easy [...]

The 6.5 Creedmoor started life in 2008 as a match cartridge and turned into the most popular all-around rifle round in America. It shoots flat, it bucks wind better than a .308 with less recoil, and long, high-BC bullets carry plenty of energy for deer. Our CMMG reviewer pointed out that it is still supersonic [...]

Picking the best turkey shotgun in 2026 is not about the loudest camo pattern on the rack or the magazine ad with the prettiest tom. It is about a gun that patterns TSS where your bead (or red dot) says it will, cycles or racks when a bird hangs up at forty yards, and still [...]

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Every few years the industry tells you your old elk cartridge is obsolete.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 [...]