At my gun club’s range the other day, one of the other members let me shoot a couple of his straight-wall deer rifles . He told me that before he found the right bullets, he had lost a couple of ...

I grew up in the heyday of slug gun hunting. Whitetail populations began to explode in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in suburban areas, like in my home state of Ohio. Since centerfire rifles were ...

Welcome to 2024! I had a question for a reader who had moved to Nebraska recently. He asked if slugs were allowed and effective for hunting deer. It did not say in his note where he was from, but ...

If you are new to Iowa shotgun deer hunting, you probably have a lot of questions about choice of slugs, sabots, loads, effective ranges and so on. Let's try to answer some of them. Probably foremost ...

Why?” said a deer hunter I was talking to from Missouri a few years ago, as he was baffled by an Ohio deer hunting regulation. “Why would they do such a thing?” he asked.

Jun. 14—ROCHESTER — Deer hunters in southern Minnesota can start grabbing their rifles, leaving the shotgun in the gun cabinet, during the 2026 firearms deer season. State Sen. Steve Drazkowski, ...

Choosing between a shotgun and a rifle for whitetail hunting usually comes down to where you hunt, but the more you look at their real-world performance, the more you realize each tool brings an ...