You always remember your first. Your first kiss, first deer, first love, and your first gun. Mine was a Marlin rifle, of course. My dad bribed me into a year of trumpet lessons, with the rifle as a ...

When I was a kid, there were three reasons I wanted a lever action rifle. First, they were cool. Second, because I grew up just outside New Haven, Conn., the historic home to Marlin and Winchester, ...

Lever-action rifles have earned their place in hunting history by offering speed, reliability, and precision when it counts. Whether you’re chasing deer in thick timber, tracking hogs in the brush, or ...

Choosing a bullet for a lever-action rifle cartridge has long been no more complicated than selecting one toward the lighter end of the weight range for deer or one of greater weight when more ...

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, ...

Most of the talk in the rifle world these days about bullets with high ballistic coefficients, high-magnification trajectory-compensating rifle scopes, and rifles guaranteed to deliver one-hole groups ...