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 ...

Elk are big. Elk are tough as hell. And elk live in the great wide open of the West. Those three things alone should give you a pretty good idea of what you need in a good elk cartridge. It should be ...

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 ...

After years of work to conserve the elk, the population has reached a high enough number for lawmakers to consider lifting ...