The gun recovered by authorities in the assassination of Charlie Kirk was a bolt-action rifle — a common hunting weapon valued for its reliability but limited to a single shot before reloading. Utah ...

The author tests the new X-Bolt 2 Hunter for precision from a bench rest. (Photo/Richard Mann) The X-Bolt 2 Hunter is a traditionally styled, bolt-action hunting rifle that weighs less than 7 pounds ...

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Bolt-action rifles have largely been supplanted by semi-automatic rifles in professional circles. Bolt-action repeaters have not been standard issue in the U.S. military since the World War I era, ...

Most people today gravitate to semi-automatic guns when picking out a new rifle, never thinking about a bolt-action rifle. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that. To be fair, there are a ton of ...