Firearms (13)

A man aims a firearm, understanding sight picture concept.

Hitting Your Target: What is the Sight Picture?

Accuracy is everything in hunting. The difference between a clean, ethical kill and a wounded animal often comes down to the sight picture. Part of shooting accurately is understanding different aspects of the shooting process and connecting your shooting action to your firearm. One important…

Close-up of a hunter loading a shell into a shotgun, parts of a shotgun concept.

Shotgun Know-How: The Parts of a Shotgun

When hunting, the shotgun should be an extension of your body for the best potential of being an accurate shooter. Understanding your shotgun and how it works can help make lifting and shooting at your intended target a more seamless action. Whether pursuing small game, upland…

A hunter wears blaze orange and carries a rifle while walking through a field, TABK concept.

TABK: The Trick to Remembering Firearm Safety Rules

It doesn't matter how long you've been hunting – complacency can cause accidents. That's why firearm safety rules apply to every hunter, young and old. One of the easiest ways to remember these rules is the TABK method. So, what is it? Let's look and…

A set of ammunition in focus with a rifle blurred in the background, what are the basic parts of ammunition.

What Are the Basic Parts of Ammunition?

(Safely) grab a gun, any gun. Somewhere on that gun is a stamping for its cartridge or gauge (more on the differences later). This stamping designates what ammunition that gun is meant to shoot. This stamping is arguably the most important and defining characteristic of…

A shotgun laying next to chokes, what is a shotstring concept.

Shotgun Know-How: What is a Shotstring?

For anyone passionate about shotgun hunting, figuring out the concept of a shotstring is part of the learning process. Knowing how it works improves your shooting accuracy and makes it easier to hunt a wide variety of game with a shotgun. Today we answer the question,…