Recent GunHunter Features
My Savage 99
By John Haviland
Although retired for almost 30 years, this classic lever action remains one of the best deer guns of all time. A few springs ago, my wife and I walked into a sporting goods store intending to buy some fishing hooks. I walked out with a Sav... READ MORE
A Wild Hog Sledgehammer
By J. Wayne Fears
The stout .45-70 cartridge is bad medicine for big pigs. Photo: Winchester recently reintroduced the modern .45-70 Model 1886. It’s a dandy. Few calibers available to the wild hog hunter have a more colorful history than the .45-70 Go... READ MORE
Winterize Your Big Game Rifle
By Clair Rees
Don’t let gun or gear malfunctions spoil a hunt in seriously cold weather.
Our bush plane landed on a tiny ice-rimmed lake a dozen miles from Gravina Bay, Alaska. It was early November. Randy Brooks and I were there to hunt the big b... READ MORE