At my gun club’s range the other day, one of the other members let me shoot a couple of his straight-wall deer rifles. He told me that before he found the right bullets, he had lost a couple of ...

Lancaster County deer hunters who use firearms hunt in Chester County for the same reason Lancaster County archery hunters hunt in Chester County: big bucks. Chester County has long been regulated as ...

The shotgun has played an important role throughout the history of firearms. From matchlock and flintlock “fowlers” to today’s wide array, shotguns can be considered multitask tools because they can ...

Lead ammunition is used by many deer hunters around the Quad-Cities area, but it may be worth re-thinking that choice. When deer are field dressed, fragments of lead can remain in gut piles or when a ...

Outdoors columnist Tom Lounsbury is pleased to see the recent change for firearm deer hunting starting in the fall of 2026.