Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t weigh you down after a few miles of easing along ridgelines and creek bottoms.

Boiled down to the essentials, a proper deer camp requires only a few things: a source of fire for cooking and warmth; coffee in the morning and sipping ­liquor in the evening to enjoy around said ...

The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...

The .30-30 Winchester has been putting venison in freezers for more than a century, and it’s still one of the most practical deer cartridges ever created. You won’t win any long-range matches with it, ...

The .223 Remington is one of the most popular centerfire cartridges in history and has seen renewed attention as a big-game round in recent years. The truth, however, is that it’s been a topic of ...

Over the years, my idea of the perfect deer rifle has evolved. When I was young, I had two whitetail rifles that, to me, were perfect. One was my Marlin 336 in .35 Remington, and the other was my ...