There’s nothing sexy about the 308 Winchester. It’s as old as dirt and as common as bad breath, and yet the cartridge’s popularity is surging with today’s hunters—so much so that it has replaced the ...

308 they have used for years rather than try to get a big magnum. You don’t need it. Even a .30/06, in confident hands, is a perfectly capable hunting rifle for big coastal brown bears. When ...

A reader submitted a question to our weekly On The Gun newsletter (which you can sign up for here) about how to cope with recoil and cartridge selection. He described how he’s become recoil shy when ...