GunsAmerica Product Reviews – Rifles

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 [...]

The Seekins Element Hunter M3 in 7 PRC weighs just 6 lbs, folds down for mountain travel, and printed a .264 MOA group with factory ammunition. After long-range steel, a 680-yard coyote, and plenty of miles in the mountains, this rifle has become exactly what I hoped an ultralight hunting rifle could be.

The Browning X-Bolt family has grown from an excellent hunting rifle into a sprawling X-Bolt 2 lineup covering lightweight mountain guns, long-range rigs, carbon-fiber builds, and almost everything between.

The $529 Glenfield Model A looks every inch like a budget hunting rifle, but our 6.5 Creedmoor test gun punched out .78-.92 inch groups with its favorite ammunition and went 120 for 120. Ruger’s revived Glenfield name may be cheap where it can be, but this rifle puts the important money in the right places.

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Lightweight, compact, AR-mag compatible, and wearing a 16” threaded barrel, the Ruger American Ranch 300 BLK checks nearly every box for a suppressor host. Add a 0.8″ best group and whisper-quiet subsonic potential, and this little bolt gun starts making a lot of sense.

The best semi auto hunting rifles give you something a bolt gun cannot: a fast second shot without taking your eye off the animal. A good autoloader also soaks up recoil through its gas system, so the rifle moves less and you see the hit. That matters on running hogs, on a deer that steps [...]