Rigby for Rifles
From its Dublin origins, London base and forays to California, plus a traditional client base in Africa, John Rigby & Co. represent an important component of the ever-deepening connectivity that defines the modern world.
Holland & Holland’s Aim for the Future
Holland & Holland, long respected for producing firearms of the highest quality, was acquired in 2021 by the Beretta Holding Group from the French perfume company, Chanel. For three decades, the French company tried to redefine and reinvent the venerable old gun...
A Rifle to Palm
Power and accuracy make a rifle lethal. A waist that welcomes your hand makes it useful.
The 45-70 Isn’t Old Yet!
It arrived 150 years ago in a panic. Hickok and Custer had three years to live. It still gets rave reviews!
The Savage Model 99
Here’s a gun that carries better than some considerable few others of no greater efficiency. And a man carries a gun a blame sight more than he shoots it.
Griffin & Howe’s All American Rifle
It can be argued that a rich and storied history may well be a company’s most valuable asset. No matter how great the legacy, though, like any inheritance, it can easily be squandered. Some outfits, for example, simply sit back on their haunches hoping that the glow...
Timeless Precision: A 64-Year-Old Model 70
Finding which brand of modern ammo a vintage .257 Roberts prefers.
Pig Medicine
Turning a .300 H&H Magnum on Texas’s feral hogs.
The Evolution of Adventure Rifles
Sheep hunters often get obsessed. Not just with rams, horns and mountains, but backpacks, boots, optics and rifles. Especially rifles. Just as backpackers cut the handles off toothbrushes and labels off shirts, so do sheep hunters shave superfluous ounces from...
Planning a Custom 260 Remington
Remington Custom Shop manager Carlos Martinez and I put our heads together in an attempt to buck the trend, to create something different, functional, beautiful. Personal. The rifle you see here is the result. Notice the stock is not hand-laid carbon or even...