The .30/30 Winchester, it is often claimed, has hung more venison from meat poles than any other cartridge in history. But does that mean the .30/30 lever-action is the best deer rifle ever created?

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It’s hard to imagine the .45-70 Government as a brand-new round, untested and unproven either on big game or in battle. But that was the situation back in 1873, when it was introduced. That was a long ...

Lever-action rifles are turning up by the scores in used-gun racks, their wooden stocks battered and once-blued steel worn silver. The grandfathers who used them are afield in happier hunting grounds, ...

The Winchester rifle was hailed by its manufacturer as “the gun that won the West.” But there’s a lot more to the story than that. The rifle that became the Winchester had a long, tortuous development ...