When the editors of Outdoor Life asked me to write something instructive about the best shooting rests, my brain went into a spin cycle considering all the options. This topic could easily fill a book ...

I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

Hunters are free to join bench-rest shooting competitions just like anyone else, of course. But that’s not what we are talking about here. For us, shooting from a bench usually means that we are ...