“This is nearly perfect,” he said in that rolling Tennessee manner of his. I turned the bolt-action rifle over in my hands. It was chambered in .30-’06 Sprg., and its wood had so much ...

The BSA M20 was one of the most successful models produced by the British brand, being used also by the British Army throughout World War II. It had, at its heart, an air-cooled, four-stroke ...

Lever-action rifles took us from the era of the muzzleloader to the modern bolt-gun. Nor have we forgotten that. There is still no shortage of people to whom “deer rifle” means “lever-action ...

30-30 Winchester, lever-action rifles pop to mind. The cartridge did, after all, get its start with the Winchester 1894. But .30-30 has also occasionally been offered in bolt-action and single ...

BSA ended up contributing efforts to World War I shortly thereafter, though it did so largely by providing weaponry, including a reported 1.5 million rifles and 145 Lewis machine guns. BSA ...

The 1949 BSA B31 has at its heart an air-cooled, four-stroke, 348cc, single cylinder powerhouse mated to a four-speed manual transmission that can produce a claimed 22 horsepower at 6000 rpm.

Ruger’s original and well-regarded American Rifle line has been joined by a second-generation family that takes the bolt-action platform to new levels through a series of practical, attractive ...

Rifle scope designs follow trends in the rifles that they’ll be paired with. The 3-9×42 scope, one of the best all-around hunting optics mounted on generations of bolt-action rifles, held sway until ...

I’ve often said that the best deer rifle is the one you already own. That rifle, if not an actual treasure, has one quality that no other firearm can match — the experiences and memories it helped ...

On paper, BSA’s new Gold Star is a worthy adversary for the class-leading Royal Enfield Interceptor 650. They have similar stats for weight, power, price, capacity and both borrow heavily from a ...

The lever-action rifles are almost always considered leftovers from the Wild West. In modern times, their functionality has ...