Once upon a time, a young deer hunter named Jack traded his old bird dog for some magic clover seeds from Georgia. He carefully sowed the magic clover on a log landing on his deer lease called the ...

Eye relief is the distance from the rear lens your eye requires to see a full picture. The industry average for a fixed-power scope is about 3 1/2 inches. For most variables, you’ll start out about ...

This effect is even worse with a sporter-weight rifle chambered for a so-called dual-purpose varmint/deer cartridge like the .243. The .243 is a fine coyote rifle, and even pretty good for shooting ...

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If your barrel is in good shape, you can increase accuracy by tweaking the bullet seating depth. Most bullets shoot most accurately when seated to within .035 inch to .015 inch of touching the lands.

RACK Magazine is where the stories behind the world’s biggest white-tailed bucks are told by the hunters themselves! With 15 or more articles in each issue, including a mix of other big game species, ...

The philosophy of Buckmasters’ Full-Credit Scoring System is to measure and record white-tailed deer antlers without forcing them to conform to a criterion of perfect symmetry. This Full-Credit ...

Mossberg’s 695, a rifled barrel version of its older Maverick 95 bolt gun, was described as a retail home run soon after its introduction in 1995. Marlin’s 512, similarly evolved from the company’s ...

It took a long time for gun makers to come around to the notion they needed to build rifles for kids. Maybe this is because when the generation that is now in charge was growing up, there were few ...

The BTR scoring system is based on the method of evaluating white-tailed deer antlers developed by Russell Thornberry, who recognized that other scoring systems' symmetry-based formulas often were ...

The truth is, no one caliber can do it all across the whitetail’s vast range: open prairies, hardwood swamps, mountains, dense thickets, etc. Rather than relying on a single caliber, I have several ...

Many of us, however, become curious, sometimes fascinated by ballistics. We are no longer satisfied to know we must buy .270 Winchester, not .270 Weatherby, ammo to work in our rifle. We want to know ...