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Guides to rifles, shotguns, handguns, ammunition, optics and archery, plus hunting know-how by species for the United States and Canada. Every page lists the sources behind it.
Guide · Rifles
A bullpup rifle places the action, firing mechanism or magazine behind the trigger, usually in the buttstock area. That layout can shorten overall length for a given barrel length, but it also changes balance, controls, trigger linkage and ejection placement.
Comparison · Hunting Guides
Color and size are unreliable for bear identification. Use several clues together: shoulder shape, rump height, face profile, ears, claws, tracks and local range.
Guide · Handguns
A pistol magazine is the spring-fed part that holds cartridges and presents them for feeding into the chamber. This guide explains the basic parts, how cartridges move through a magazine, and what single-stack, double-stack and staggered-column terms mean.
Guide · Outdoor and Hunting Gear
Topographic maps use contour lines, scale, symbols and colors to show terrain, water and human made features. Learning the basic patterns helps hunters, hikers and new outdoorspeople plan routes and prepare for field use, but it does not replace practice with a map, compass and GPS.
Guide · Shotguns
Shotgun shell length markings such as 2¾, 3 and 3½ inches refer to the shell length used with the shotgun’s chamber marking. Match the gauge and shell length on the ammunition box to the markings on the shotgun, and never use a shell longer than the chamber marking.
Guide · Shotguns
A break-action shotgun opens at the breech so the chambers are directly exposed for loading and unloading. The main forms are single-shot, over-under and side-by-side designs, which differ mainly in barrel count, barrel arrangement, triggers and extractor or ejector systems.
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