Mossberg’s sole hunting shotgun introduction at 2025 SHOT Shot was a bit of a surprise in this age of straightwall deer rifles. The company announced a trio of Model 500 Slugsters, including a ...
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The best rifles for still-hunting whitetail

Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t ...
Welcome to 2024! I had a question for a reader who had moved to Nebraska recently. He asked if slugs were allowed and effective for hunting deer. It did not say in his note where he was from, but ...
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The best deer rifles chambered in .30-30

The .30-30 Winchester has been putting venison in freezers for more than a century, and it’s still one of... The post The ...
There’s no denying the Midwest is the top whitetail deer hunting region of the country. States like Kansas, Iowa, and Wisconsin have led the way in producing giant bucks for a long time. Other states, ...
If you are new to Iowa shotgun deer hunting, you probably have a lot of questions about choice of slugs, sabots, loads, effective ranges and so on. Let's try to answer some of them. Probably foremost ...
Pennsylvania's rifle deer season opens Nov. 29, 2025, and here's a look at the answers to many questions hunters may have.