Rifles

Say “bonjour” to an upgraded French rifle! PGM Précision's Ludis arrives as a deliberate bet on a specific shooter profile: the long-range competitor or sport shooter who doesn't need a magazine, doesn't need semiauto capability, and doesn't need the feature set of the Ultima Ratio platform. What they need is interchangeable barrels, match-grade precision, modularity, and the build quality that justifies the PGM name without the operational overhead or cost of a full professional rifle. The upgrades include a new chassis with an integrated ARCA rail along the entire length of the handguard, as well as a new fixed stock that offers the new adjustment options.

Some rifles are built to disappear into the field. The CDX-30 X-LITE Gold FX Edition is built to be noticed, then shoot holes in your expectations anyway. Quebec-based Cadex Defence has long paired uncompromising precision engineering with distinctive aesthetics, and this custom shop offering in Cerakote FX Gold with a battle-worn treatment might be the most visually arresting expression of that philosophy yet.

When Winchester gutted its product line in 1964, buyers and gun writers were appalled—but they shouldn’t have been. They should have seen it coming, because for decades, Winchester had been making iffy business moves that should have prophesied the future.

The iconic American rifle of World War 1 is the 1903 Springfield, but most of the Doughboys were issued a different gun. The US Rifle, Model of 1917, also known as the Enfield or P17, thanks to the vagaries of history, was the most prevalent US rifle by far. Over two million were made in a two-year span. So how does it stack up today?

The Cascade SR is built with a threaded muzzle, so shooters can easily screw on a suppressor to reduce their rifle’s decibel level. And because a suppressor will add length at the end of your barrel, the Cascade SR has been shortened so you’re not awkwardly banging it off trees and bushes in the woods. As their PR says: “This suppressor ready rifle is built for hunters who need a compact, maneuverable rifle that doesn't sacrifice performance. Whether you're weaving through tight hardwoods, setting up in a blind, or looking for the ideal suppressor host, the Cascade SR delivers.”

Weatherby's new 250th Anniversary Mark V isn't just another limited-edition rifle timed to capitalize on patriotic sentiment. It's a deliberate declaration, built on a frame that's been holding American hunters' ambitions since 1957, honoring 250 years of the freedom that let Roy Weatherby walk into a California storefront with nothing but an idea. That same freedom built this company into a Wyoming dynasty. That same freedom built a nation. This rifle is where those stories intersect.

Photo Of The Day, and we find ourselves on the wrong side of the M7 Next Generation Squad Weapon. Transition to a new service rifle means more than issue and familiarization, particularly for units committed to near-peer readiness. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment "Battle" are putting the M7 through its paces at Schofield Barracks, moving through the deliberate progression required for operational confidence.

At the end of the 1890s, John Moses Browning was in a weird place. He’d had a hand in designing many classic lever-action rifles (and even shotguns!) over the past years, but he realized that without some big changes to the design, lever-actions would lose a lot of market share to bolt actions. Tube mag lever guns were not suited for pointed spitzer-style bullets, which European bolt action rifles could easily handle with their box magazines.

Henry Repeating Arms has joined forces with Big Woods Bucks (BWB) to create a pragmatic, simple, and extremely useful new lever-action rifle for all of us that should be perfect for whitetail deer hunting and other medium-sized game: the new H14 Long Ranger Big Woods Carbine in .308 Win/7.62x51 NATO.

Some rifle builds come together as a sum of parts. Others arrive as a statement. This one leans toward the latter. The foundation is a Tikka TAC A1 in 6.5 Creedmoor, a platform that has quietly earned a serious reputation among precision shooters who want chassis-rifle capability without the chassis-rifle price tag. It sits in a category where the round does a lot of the work, and 6.5 Creedmoor continues to prove itself the sensible choice for anyone shooting at distance who hasn't already committed to something more exotic. Everything else just works.

Henry's Lever Action Supreme Rifle was already a strong argument that the lever gun still has a place in modern shooting. This version, offered through CNC Firearms as a limited edition build, takes that argument a step further with an integrally suppressed 19-inch barrel that transforms the H23 into one of the quietest .300 Blackout platforms on the market.

When we talk about rimfires today, we mostly think of .22LR, .22 Short or maybe .22 Magnum. In the past few years, we’ve seen .17 HMR and .21 Sharp come on the scene, and the .17 HM2 come and go. All these cartridges have their advantages and disadvantages, but they’re all small-bore rounds. But this wasn’t always the case.

The new SIG Sauer Cross Bronze gives the platform its most visually distinctive treatment yet. Chambered in .308 Win, the Bronze Cerakote-finished Cross pairs the same field-tested engineering with a finish that's hard to miss on the rack and harder to ignore at the range.

Introduced in 2021, the CZ 600 bolt-action rifle replaced the entire fleet of legendary CZ 500-series rifles in the company’s catalog. In 2025, the design of this bolt gun was upgraded, and a “+” was added to the model name. Over the years, CZ has been continuously expanding the 600-series of firearms and the latest rifle in this line is the CZ 600+ Carbine, a light and compact mini action gun.

The new BLK bolt-action from European American Armory (EAA) is kinda like the old “You want a Remington 700? We have a Remington 700 at home” joke. But it does offer American hunters a 700-pattern action at an affordable price, in your favorite deer caliber—as long as your favorite deer caliber is .308 or .30-06 (and there’s a good chance that it is).

The launch edition Gunwerks GOAT rifle will be available chambered in 6.5 PRC or 7 PRC. The carbon fiber wrapped 18” barrels are made of 416 stainless steel, have a C20 contour (.750” at the muzzle) and are fitted with Gunwerks Directional Muzzle Brakes. The rifle is built on the Gunwerks GLR Ti action with pinned 20-MOA Picatinny rail sections on the receiver rings for optics mounting. The ClymR carbon fiber stock has a standard length of pull of 13.5” with 12.75" - 14.5" LOP available optionally. The forearm comes with a forward 1913 rail for attaching bipods, and a mid ARCA rail will also be offered as an option. The bottom metal has a hinged floorplate design. The pull weight of the TriggerTech Primary trigger, which this rifle comes equipped with, is two pounds. The overall length of the rifle is 38.5”. The custom Cerakote camouflage on the buttstock is also launch-edition-specific.

Derya Arms is no stranger to taking an established platform and pushing it further than buyers expect at a certain price point, and the new RAN and RAN-X series might be the clearest expression of that philosophy yet. The Turkish-American manufacturer has launched three lever-action models built around a straightforward premise: stop making buyers spend hundreds of dollars on aftermarket modifications to get where they want to be. Everything enthusiasts have historically sourced separately, threaded barrels, M-LOK forends, Picatinny rails, and adjustable furniture, comes standard from the factory.

For 25 years, Daniel Defense has built a reputation on the kind of hardware that ends up in special operations kits. To mark that milestone, the company is reaching back to one of its rarest chapters, a handguard so obscure it borders on myth. The GL/SSC, short for Grenade Launcher/Sound Suppressor Capable, was a slightly shortened version of the legendary RIS II rail, purpose-built for 12.5-inch barrel setups while retaining full M203 grenade launcher mounting capability.

WOOX, the Italian-American maker of precision gunstocks, axes, and knives, has announced the Bravado Grey Laminate, a new line of stocks engineered for Henry and Marlin lever-action rifles. The Grey Laminate joins the existing Bravado family and extends WOOX's design philosophy into layered hardwood construction with a distinctly modern visual character.

Q has a well-earned reputation for building rifles that feel like they emerged from an engineering thought experiment, specifically: what's the minimum amount of rifle you need to accomplish the maximum amount of work? The Mini Fix in 6mm ARC is the latest answer to that question.

I have never really been a huge piston-driven AR-15 fan. The extra weight, complexity, and lack of real benefit for me as a fairly low-volume civilian shooter left me convinced that a well-built direct impingement rifle still offered the best balance for people like me. So when Franklin Armory offered to send out one of their OPS-16 rifles, I figured it’d be another chance to reaffirm my somewhat anti-piston-AR stance. This fairly new rifle is intended to be used with Franklin’s Binary system, but I’ve decided to abscond with the BFS and instead review the standard, 16-inch 5.56 rifle configuration, which uses a low-profile, self-regulating Osprey Defense piston system that aims for cleaner operation and suppressor compatibility without the usual adjustments or swapping out of other components.

I was at my “local” gun store a few days back (my local gun store is actually 1.5 hours’ drive away, more if you take the logging roads, which I generally do this time of year) and took a good long look around their racks of used firearms. Lo and behold, amidst the usual lineup of free-floated synthetic stocks and detachable mags, I noted some old-school iron in a corner, with classy, slim wood stock and a blind mag. I looked closer. They had not one, not two, not three, but four Husqvarna 1640 rifles stashed there, all in .30-06 and all priced under $500. It was a great deal that most buyers would miss, not even knowing that Husqvarna was a gun brand to watch out for. So, here’s a very quick look at these Huskies that you might be able to pick up at your LGS, guns that other buyers will miss due to a lack of awareness.

Accuracy International, renowned UK-based precision rifle manufacturer, is set to become part of the FN Browning Group. Responsible for iconic designs such as the Arctic Warfare, AWM, and AXMC, the company was founded in 1978. The acquisition will see Accuracy International continue to operate under its own brand within FN Browning Group and it comes at an interesting time, as the British military seeks to overhaul its small arms inventory with procurements of new service rifles, machine guns and precision rifles planned into the 2030s.

Mad Pig Customs has been doing the lever-action modernization thing in the custom shop for years. Now that work comes out of the box with a Marlin roll mark on the receiver. Ruger and Marlin announced the Mad Pig Customs Model 1894, a factory collaboration with Mad Pig Customs that brings purpose-built tactical lever upgrades to production guns for the first time. Developed alongside Midwest Industries, the rifle packages a complete suite of custom-grade components into a single, ready-to-run platform rather than sending buyers down the usual path of piecemeal parts sourcing and gunsmith time.

PSA's retro brand Harrington & Richardson is now shipping one of the new models we saw at SHOT Show 2026. The Model 606 is a faithful recreation of one of the first M16-based squad automatic weapons. It also seems like an ideal candidate for a forced reset trigger.

When I reviewed the Rossi R95 .45-70 Triple Black Pistol, I called it basically unusable, as is, for the average shooter. I meant it. But the platform was too good to leave alone. I saw the potential. So I filed a Form 1, waited it out, and SBR'd it.

One of the true gems of the surplus world is the Swedish Mauser. These rifles combine old-world craftsmanship with modern ballistics. I bought this one during the COVID lockdowns of 2020, and in the years since, I have shot it for fun on the range, in competition, and taken it hunting. Here are all the many reasons why you should buy one.

The .450 Bushmaster chambering is a direct answer to the straight-wall cartridge regulations across the Midwest. Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, and parts of Michigan all restrict rifle hunting to straight-walled cartridges, and .450 Bushmaster is one of the most capable options in that category for deer, bear, and hogs at typical hunting distances. Putting it inside the LASR's action means a hunter in those states gets the smooth cycling of the quad-bar linkage, a 10-round DuraMag Stainless Steel detachable magazine that's compatible with MSR-style magazines for easy resupply, and a threaded 18-inch free-floated barrel at 5/8x24 for suppressor use. The whole package weighs in at 6.4 pounds.

As TFB readers may be aware, Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta of Italy holds the title of world’s oldest firearm manufacturer, dating its roots as early as the year 1526. The current year is therefore the 500th anniversary of the birth of the company, a milestone that Beretta is celebrating in style. Besides the rather expected limited edition shotguns, the Italian company is debuting an intriguing Modern Sporting Rifle.

Back at SHOT Show, Howa announced its new Fence Line series of rifles, but as with a lot of stuff from SHOT Show, we’ve had to wait a while for these rifles to actually make their way to buyers in the U.S. market. Now, the Howa Fence Line rifles are shipping across the States, including short-action, long-action, magnum and even mini action choices.