There are many types of air guns, but the most popular and most reliable are break-barrel rifles. These have a hinged junction where the shooter cracks the barrel in half, which cocks the gun and in ...

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"Is it necessary to break in a new rifle barrel? If so, how is it done? It seems confusing; is it important to follow the procedure exactly? Can doing it incorrectly ruin a new rifle? Help me, I'm so ...

For the LET June/July Firearms Tactics column, I tested a North American Arms (NAA) Ranger Break Top II in .22 magnum. The Ranger II is different than other NAA Mini Revolver models. Instead of having ...

I suspected it for years, and evidence strongly suggests that the need to break in a new rifle barrel is a myth. A rifle's accuracy depends solely on the quality of the barrel. If it's a high-quality ...

Which break-barrel air rifles are best? Movies like “A Christmas Story” may have portrayed air rifles as children’s toys, but the high-powered models available on the market these days are anything ...