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The best 17 HMR rifles turn a tiny rimfire cartridge into a flat shooting varmint tool that punches far above its size. Hornady created the .17 HMR in 2002 by necking down the .22 Magnum case to hold a 17 grain bullet, and the result moves at roughly 2,550 feet per second with about 7 [...]

We all know that different brands of ammunition and different bullet weights each have a different POI (Point Of Impact). Even when using the same POA (Point Of Aim) out of the same gun.

A typical mil-spec AR-15 trigger breaks somewhere between 5.5 and 9.5 pounds, often with grit and creep you can feel through your glove. That is fine for a rifle built to the lowest common denominator. It is not fine if you want to hit small targets. Swap the trigger and the same rifle shoots better [...]

The best hunting backpacks carry your camp in, carry your meat out and stay comfortable for days at a time. A good pack is the piece of gear you notice most on a backcountry hunt, because a bad one makes every mile feel longer. Our reviewers at GunsAmerica Digest have put these packs to work [...]

The best Walther pistols have a reputation built on two things: some of the best factory striker triggers ever made and a certain fictional British spy. Walther gave us the PPK, the P99 and the PPQ, and today its flagship is the PDP, a striker gun that takes the famous PPQ trigger and puts it [...]

We’re gun people, but if we gun people are anything, we’re also knife people. And if there’s any tool that virtually every one of us is carrying, it’s a folding knife.

A red dot is the fastest sight ever bolted to a rifle. It is also a little blind past 150 yards, and nobody at the gun counter likes to say that part out loud. That is the whole case for a magnifier. You keep the dot you already trust, park a 3X or 5X tube [...]

The best Springfield Armory pistols span almost every handgun style that matters today. Springfield sells a modular striker-fired duty gun, one of the first high capacity micro-compacts, double-stack 1911s, a modern Hi Power, and classic single stack 1911s from budget to custom grade. Few brands cover that much ground. Our writers have tested most of [...]

There is a difference between a budget gun and a cheap gun. A cheap gun saves you money right up until the moment you need it. A budget gun just costs less. Travis Pike drew that line in our greatest budget blasters roundup, and it is the right place to start. Nobody is impressed by [...]