For 2026, Winchester Ammunition took a big step forward in its ammo offerings with Supreme Long Range. Unlike previous offerings from the company, this purpose-built long-range hunting and shooting line required the company to invest in an entirely new bullet design, as well as a completely new production process. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature above to hear the story behind Winchester Supreme Long Range. “We’re really excited about this one,” said Nathan Robinson, marketing manager for Winchester Ammunition. “So, for 2026, we have the Supreme Long Range. And the name kind of says it all. This is the best…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Hunters and anglers have a superpower. I have it, You probably have it. I think just about any outdoorsman or woman out there who has fallen in love with the pursuit of turkeys or trout, walleye or white tails. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: Probably has it too. 00:00:19 Speaker 1: And that superpower, that incredible gift, is optimism. Despite all the failed casts, the skunked outings, the seasons that just don’t go your way, we keep returning to the field, into the water, believing that it’s all gonna be different this time, Today is going to be the…

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases challenging bans on popular semi-automatic rifles that local governments have defined in different ways as being “assault weapons.” Grant v. Higgins is a challenge to Connecticut’s ban on its definition of “assault weapons” and Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois is a challenge to Cook County’s ban on what it deems to be “assault-weapons.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld Connecticut’s ban in August 2025, while the Seventh Circuit upheld Cook County’s ban in June 2025. The Supreme Court will hear these cases together in the next term.…

Montana’s Hunting District 380 is one of the most difficult units to draw a bull elk tag. The success rate in 2023 was well under one percent. According to court records, multiple people bypassed the draw system entirely, illegally killing multiple bulls as well as several deer over a two-month period that ended in multiple convictions.The case centered on Tylor Castona and Alisha Byrd of East Helena, who illegally shot three six-point bull elk with rifles during archery season in the Elkhorn Mountains. They also took three whitetail bucks, including one deer left where it fell after a landowner heard…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: What John Wesley Powell accomplished first in the eighteen seventies. Float the length of the Grand Canyon. You can do today and it’s still the Western wild lands experience of a lifetime. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West, down the West’s grandest Canyon. Our personal motives for experiences in the American West have always been many. Some of us move west or relocate within the West for a new start in life. Some come to seek wealth and become rich. Some of us are lured westward because everything from scenery to wild animals is…

I had two major surprises as I reviewed the Columbia River Knife and Tool (CRKT) Drifter Liner Lock Folding Knife: one positive and one negative. The positive surprise was the durability of the gray titanium nitride finish on the blade. It showed absolutely no signs of wear after more than a month of regular use. I was very impressed. The negative surprise was the country of origin. I ordered the knife because a knife-seller’s website indicated that it was “made in Taiwan”. When the knife arrived, the words “Made in China” were clearly printed on the box. The actual CRKT…

Mild steel, construction plate, an old shovel blade… these dent, crater, and pit. And a dented, cratered, pitted surface is exactly what sends fragments flying back in directions nobody planned for. Here’s a quick true story from an outdoor gun club years ago. Somebody was shooting, unknown to the rest of us at the time, a square steel plate about a hundred yards downrange. After the incident, when we looked at the thing, it was exceptionally thick and heavy steel. It just wasn’t hard enough because it was old scrap. Anyway, to make a long story short, amongst the scattered…

This Independence Day, you’ll probably hear fireworks from every direction. If you’re fortunate, you may also hear something else — a crisp three-volley salute or the measured boom of ceremonial artillery marking the nation’s birthday. The post The Mysterious 21-Gun Salute appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

Armed Citizen® Today On June 15, a woman in Winfield, Tenn., reportedly trespassed onto a property, assaulted a woman there and then began forcing her way into the home. An armed citizen there shot her. Police airlifted her to the hospital, but the next day, she was released from the hospital and taken into custody. She faces charges of especially aggravating burglary, prohibited weapons, aggravated assault, vandalism and interference with emergency communications. (wate.com; Knoxville, Tenn.; 6/16/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1987 A man breaking into a Fernandina Beach, Fla., home was met by gunfire from an elderly…

Handguns chambered in full-size rifle cartridges have gone from a niche to commonplace. On the bolt-action end of things, what were once specialized guns for competition and hunting have now become powerful and precise, yet compact, everyday packages. Springfield Armory is jumping into this category, using its 2020 series of bolt-action rifles as the basis for the company’s new-for-2026 Heatseeker pistol. Springfield is using its 2020 bolt-action as the basis for the new Heatseeker pistol. Like the rifle version, the Heatseeker pistol takes Springfield’s 2020 bolt action and places it in a Sharps Bros. 1913 Heatseeker chassis. The chassis is…