Rifle Shooter

1 week ago | rifleshootermag.com | Layne Simpson

Slide-action rifles have put meat in the pots of American families for a long time. Colt beat the competition to the punch in 1885 with its Lightning magazine rifle in three action lengths: short for the .22 Short and .22 Long rimfire cartridges; medium for the .32-20 Win., .38-40 Win. and .44-40 Win.; and long for cartridges ranging in power from the .38-56 Win. to the .50-95 Express. Lightning production ended at Colt around 1904.

2 weeks ago | rifleshootermag.com | Keith Wood

Christensen Arms has been at the leading edge of rifle design since it developed the industry’s first carbon-fiber-wrapped barrel three decades ago. The innovation ultimately led the company into the business of building complete rifles—rifles that have seen significant use the world over. That said, the firm’s products have always leaned toward the premium end of the price spectrum and were financially out of reach of many shooters and hunters.

1 month ago | rifleshootermag.com | Craig Boddington

My son-in-law Brad Jannenga has a battered, still shootable, 1873 Springfield cavalry carbine. We don’t know who it was issued to or what stories it could tell. By serial number, it was assigned to the 7th US Cavalry in the spring of 1876. I get goosebumps thinking this rifle might have been present at the Little Big Horn. I get almost the same feeling when I handle a modern .45-70, bemused that this relic of the Old West is still one of our most popular rifle cartridges.

2 months ago | rifleshootermag.com | J Rupp

With all due respect to Winchester and Marlin, the Savage 99 was the best lever-action rifle of all time. Arthur W. Savage’s internal-hammer design was strong, accurate and damn good-looking. Sadly, the 99 is no longer with us—it ceased production in the late 1990s—and we will probably never see its like again. But Savage Arms is back in the lever-action game with the Revel takedown, a tube-fed rimfire available in Classic and DLX versions.

2 months ago | rifleshootermag.com | Brad Fitzpatrick

I consider myself a traditionalist, so it’s easy to understand why I like the new CZ 600 American bolt-action rifle. The gun is an example of what was once commonly called a sporter, a term that referred to “sporterizing” military surplus bolt-action rifles to make them lighter, sleeker and more appropriate for hunting. These guns generally had wooden stocks, and on this side of the Atlantic sporters typically had straight-comb stocks instead of the hogbacks popular in Europe.