Jordan Sillars

Everything was going according to plan when Devin Simpson shot a doe on opening day of this year’s rifle season in Arkansas. Two deer had walked into the shooting lane as he and his wife, Daelyn, sat in the tree stand. Daelyn advised him to take the larger one on the left, which he dropped with a...

Like your computer or phone, all firearms have what gun nerds call an “operating system.” But instead of running Microsoft Word or Roller Coaster Tycoon, a gun’s operating system performs the eight functions needed to fire a bullet: feeding, chambering, locking, firing, unlocking, extracting...

It’s not “weights in fish,” but it’s pretty close. A 27-year-old Arkansas man named Andrew Riels has been cited by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) for poaching a buck and then entering it into a big buck contest. Louisiana officials first got a tip from the Arkansas Game...

The .30-30 Winchester is perhaps the most famous lever-action cartridge of all time, but that hasn’t stopped cartridge designers from trying to improve upon its legendary deer-killing performance. Ken Waters was one such designer. A gun writer whose 50-year career included four books and hundreds of...