Hunting Guns & Ammo

There we sat, up high along the edge of red-tinted West Texas rimrock. This was the last setup of the morning and it was looking like a bust. Coyote calling expert Wyman Meinzer called down into the rocky, cedar-filled canyon for a solid 10 minutes. The one coyote we’d seen had winded us from several hundred yards out, popped out at the edge of an opening and immediately disappeared.

Don Heath from Norma Precision Ammunition shares a story and photos from a near-death experience with a charging bull elephant and the shot that saved his life.

Ground squirrels provide a superb proving ground for field testing rifles, optics and ammo under real world conditions.

I’m planning to hunt coyotes, and I need to figure out what gun I should use.

Sooner or later it will happen to you. One of these seasons you’ll be sharing camp with a fellow NAHC member who’ll carry an AR-style rifle into the field on opening day. What will your reaction be?

Everyone should think about home defense—not just hunters—but as sportsmen and sportswomen we’re different than non-gun owners in this country. Because we already have firearms in our homes, we have the choice of relying on our own hunting rifles or shotguns for protection, or buying a gun specifically for home defense.

With the right bullets and proper shot placement, the .223 Rem. can be a freezer-filling cartridge for deer hunters.

With six totally new or completely redesigned core components, the Beretta A400 Xplor Unico got “rock star” fan fair at its unveiling in Italy last year.

I have psoriatic arthritis that has drastically affected my entire hands, and especially my fingers. Are there any other gun options out there for me?

Appropriate firepower for my western pronghorn trip needed to be completely different from what I was used to in the Midwest. For help, I leaned on some experts.