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 [...]
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Best Spotting Scopes (2026): Hunting, Range & Stabilized Tested
Published: September 2, 2026 { 0 comments }Best 7mm PRC Rifles (2026): Hunting Rifles Tested
Published: September 1, 2026 { 0 comments }Every few years the industry tells you your old elk cartridge is obsolete.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 [...]
Best Pistol Lasers (2026): Laser/Light Combos, Grips & More
Published: August 31, 2026 { 5 comments }We are not too far from the time when most handguns will have lasers as integrated aiming systems. Until then, we will continue to enjoy several types of add-on laser aiming systems, each with various pros and cons.
Best Hunting Boots (2026): Mountain, Cold and Upland
Published: August 30, 2026 { 0 comments }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. [...]
Best Lightweight Hunting Rifles (2026): Mountain Rifles Tested
Published: August 28, 2026 { 0 comments }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 [...]
Best Ruger Revolvers (2026): GP100, SP101, LCR & More
Published: August 27, 2026 { 0 comments }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 [...]
Best Handguns for Left-Handed Shooters (2026)
Published: August 26, 2026 { 12 comments }These handguns aren’t just “lefty-friendly”; they’re designed to let you run the gun efficiently, confidently, and without compromise.
Best Weatherby Rifles (2026): 307, Vanguard, Mark V & More
Published: August 25, 2026 { 0 comments }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 [...]
Best Non-AK 7.62×39 Rifles (2026): ARs, Mini Thirty, SKS & Bolt Guns
Published: August 24, 2026 { 24 comments }AR-15s in calibers other than 5.56 are nothing new. Yet one big trend recently is the attempt to perfect the 7.62×39 in AR form. Is that the answer? Or can the AK be refined? That’s the question that these 5 guns from SHOT Show 2015 try to answer.
Best Youth Rifles (2026): First Rifles for Young Hunters
Published: August 22, 2026 { 0 comments }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 [...]









