GunsAmerica Product Reviews – Rifles

The Springfield Armory M1A Standard Issue puts nearly 70 years of M14 heritage behind every trigger pull. We shot this wood-and-steel .308 at 50 and 100 yards to see whether the old battle-rifle formula can still impress.

The Ruger No. 1 and No. 3 turn hunting into a one-shot proposition, pairing old-school falling-block simplicity with real hunting accuracy. One of these rifles even punched a 0.96-inch group at 100 yards.

The FN SCAR has grown from the 5.56 rifle reviewed here into a full family spanning fast-handling carbines and 20-inch precision rifles. For 2026, the question is no longer whether the SCAR is interesting. It is whether the 16S, 17S, or 20S makes enough sense to justify one very serious swipe of the credit card.

The Henry SPD HUSH takes the classic .30-30 lever action somewhere very different, pairing carbon fiber, M-LOK and suppressor-ready engineering with accuracy that briefly had me wondering whether the Shooting Gods had taken over.

The SIG MCX-LTAW brings the look and concept of a notable special-operations MCX configuration to the commercial market, pairing a 6.75-inch .300 Blackout barrel with a suppressor-compatible heat-shield handguard and current-generation MCX controls.

SIG is taking the CROSS in several new directions for 2026, including a 9-inch .300 Blackout, a compact .223 Wylde and carbon-fiber SAWTOOTH variants built around precision-friendly features.

I always get excited about testing Daniel Defense rifles. They built the upper for the SOPMOD kits we had back in the day (and still do for all I know), and it was a huge leap forward over the old busted M4s we had prior to that. Black Creek, GA, has always turned out tough, high-quality products, and the M4V7 Pro is no exception.

The Savage 110 Core Tactical pairs a thoroughly modernized Model 110 with the low-recoil reach of 22 ARC. Ours was shooting around three-quarter MOA with factory ammunition almost immediately, then making repeatable hits all the way to 1,024 yards.

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 [...]