Gun Reviews

Accuracy, particularly with over-the-counter rifles, often is worse than the buyer expects, or hopes it will be. Remington, however made a gun with a guaranteed level of performance - less than one-half MOA in some calibers! Here's a full report, from Gun Digest 1968, on a workout of Remington's hot 40-XB.

The October 25, 2010 issue of Gun Digest the Magazine includes features on varmint rifles, handloading pointed bullets for the .30-30, field gun review of the Ruger 10/22 and making your first shot count. Plus the extensive gun show, gun auction and gun classifieds section.

Surrounded as we are with thieves, scoundrels, rogues, knaves, scalawags, prowlers and the light-fingered in this modern civilized era, the collector would do well to take safeguards to protect his valuable guns.

Firearms collecting is a rewarding hobby. Firearms are part of our nation's history and represent an opportunity to learn more about their role in that American experience. If done skillfully, firearms collecting can be a profitable hobby as well.

Gun Digest the Magazine October 11, 2010, features a story about how a machine shop was rescued by the AR-15, a gun review of Midwest Tactical's AK-47, field gun review of a Thompson/Center Hawken sidelock, trends of value for rifles, shotguns and handguns, and the extensive gun show, gun auction and classifieds section.

With the run on ammunition and threats from elsewhere, it pays to store your ammo right.

Weighing powder charges requires as much care as throwing the charge. Your powder measuring technique, no matter how careful, will be useless if you can't weigh the charge accurately. These tips will give you a head start on accurate powder weighing and save you from many of the tough lessons I learned the hard way.

Dave Morelli, our Precision Marksmanship columnist, describes how to select powder to achieve the best accuracy for your loads in this exclusive video.

Modern reloading powders are divided into three basic types on the basis of their use. These are pistol, shotgun, and rifle powders. But for the beginning reloader, these are but a starting point in selecting the right powder for the desired load.

One hears about several types of shotshell pressure, but for handloading there is only one pressure that you truly need to understand, service pressure.

An upbeat SHOT Show can trigger irrational exuberance and the marketing of products with no real utility. Alas, such items appear even in somber times. In this report Wayne Van Zwoll winnows that chaff and separates the worthy from the merely recent in the world of optics.