IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It was the opening day of deer hunting season, and Ronald Hansen says he loaded his rifle the same way he had countless times before, aimed at a target and fired a shot. This ...

A Dorchester County company that designs and manufactures gun barrels and other high-precision machined parts plans to add 63 jobs and invest $9.5 million in its operations. It's the second expansion ...

Every now and then I publish figures on the average life of barrels. I get most of this information from gunsmiths who change barrels a lot, and give their best guess. But they are guesses, and that’s ...

The opinions I offer in these posts are almost always formed out of personal experience that stretches back nearly to the invention of firearms. Not in this case. I’ve had some experience with ...

Maybe I’ve become jaded, but the term “custom rifle” doesn’t excite me the way it once did. Anymore, custom rifles resemble Legos, with gun makers buying actions from one place, barrels from another, ...