If you’re into starting ugly debates online, go to a shotgun forum and ask which barrel length is best. Of all the contentious topics in the world of firearms, this elicits some of the most ferocious ...

Early in my career, I asked Warren Page if he’d hunt with a 26-inch-barreled rifle. “I gave up pole vaulting in high school,” he snarled, and since that was the same as the Word of God, whenever I got ...