10 Reasons to Shoot a .22 Rimfire

10 Reasons to Shoot a .22 Rimfire

The .22 rimfire, like the small game hunting that inspired it, is rapidly becoming a historical artifact. And it’s up to us to stop that. You remember it like yesterday. A .22 rimfire. Your first real firearm. Oh, the possibilities. The adventures. The anticipation....

Hunting with the Historic Burnside

Hunting with the Historic Burnside

To get a historic gun firing again is a special joy. To have it fulfill its purpose once again, after a lapse of perhaps a century, makes the joy that much greater. I was beginning to identify with Ahab, though instead of a white whale, I was seeking a whitetail....

Return to the Mighty Seven 

Return to the Mighty Seven 

It was the 6.5 Creedmoor of the 1960s. Flying off the shelves. Everyone was chambering it. Everyone who didn’t shoot it wanted to. Or they pretended they didn’t.    Remington’s 7mm magnum blew Winchester’s 264 magnum right off the plains and into early retirement....

Collecting Guns

Collecting Guns

A simple but effective technique has proven workable to many gun collectors. And it’s almost as classic. One of the finer points of gun collecting, if not the finest, is the ability of concealing from your wife: (1) the fact that you have actually purchased a new gun...

My Mid-life Crisis Gun

My Mid-life Crisis Gun

The gun salesman had that look on his face of a trout fisherman that just set the hook in a nice brown. He knew he had me. In the fall of 2009 while on vacation I mentioned to the wife that when we got back home, I was going looking for a Marlin 1895 Guide Gun– a...