Wayne van Zwoll Articles

A custom rifle often is the path to pretty. But if you want more than looks, build a rifle that fits and shoots accurately.

Is breaking-in a rifle barrel necessary, given today's improvements in components, manufacturing and ammunition?

Tiny bullets fly chalk-line straight to drill dime-size groups at Mach 4 from nimble rifles that don’t kick. What’s not to like?

Accurate rifles and laser-flat loads bring game to bag only if you can keep your sight on target. Find out if the prone shooting position is the best way to do that.

Long-distance shooting and long-range rifles have fascinated riflemen for more than a century, beginning with the legendary Hawken muzzleloader.

The bridge engineer showed courage. Still, the beasts of Tsavo would have had him. Credit extraordinary luck.

A coyote is just as big running as standing still. But he’ll be in a new place when your bullet arrives.

Once a rifle, it became a short rifle. But it’s not quite that either. Cavalry used it. Why not you?

Do you have a favorite predator hunting article from the past year? Here is our list of editors’ picks for the top 10 Predator Xtreme stories of 2019.

The 6mm Creedmoor was born to privilege, is cosmetically perfect and claims PRS championships at distance. But it hasn’t yet trumped the .243 afield!

Whitetails west of the Mississippi River and beyond have all the wiles of eastern deer — and the bonus of big antlers.

Remington's Super Seven? It’s all you need, most of what you want, with none of what you won’t miss. And now even better!

Like plastic bottles, synthetic stocks are indestructible. That said, wood is durable enough for rifle stocks — and beautiful.

Instead of dozing on your rifle awaiting long-range pokes, try hunting summer predators in plum thickets!

A goshawk doesn’t catch its prey like a fox. So why would you hunt whitetails from a tree with ground artillery?

Putting sport back into shooting and predator hunting may mean a trip back in time!

How you choose and equip a predator hunting rifle affects where its bullets go and whether you can tap the rifle's potential when you're in the field.

Bullets never travel straight, even in still air, but the inconsistency of wind creates a harder task to overcome. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

It’s not the wind or spin-drift, the rifle, the optic or the bullet. It’s not voodoo, either. If you're missing shots on predators, what’s left?

You fire your shot. The deer doesn't fall. Here’s why, what to do next and how to make your next hit lethal.

Quality shows in a scope’s images, adjustments and durability, which is why discriminating hunters opt for the best optics they can afford.

Whether you're hunting predators or big game, a riflescope is an aiming device and not an observation optic.

Fast missiles fly flat and resist wind deflection except when they slow down. With the best predator bullets you want speed, power and accuracy at distance.

Radar shows bullets change shape when they fly far and fast, but Hornady fortunately has a fix.

Food plots in the South, cornfields in the Midwest — lots of deer hunters are used to hunting over food and crops. But you can find big deer out on the wide-open prairie, if you know how to hunt it.