by Ron Spomer | Jul 19, 2019
From Ron Spomer Outdoors Comparing the 45-70 and 7×57 cartridges will raise eyebrows. Might even turn the air blue on some social media sites (apples to oranges!) I’ll be called everything from a dumb #$&*%! to an ignorant #+=$^@*. But we shall know the truth, and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 18, 2019
Jul/Aug 2019 Optics Review The latest and greatest in riflescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and other premium optics. Aimpoint Fully enclosed and sealed, the Acro P-1 is the only sight in its size category fully tested for shock, vibration, temperature span and...
by Michael Sabbeth | Jul 18, 2019
A few years ago I experienced a moment that is now seared into my memory. The moment began inconspicuously. I and some of my Rocky Mountain Vintagers pals were ambling from station to station at Jerry William’s superb Quail Run Sporting Clays Club in Kiowa, Colorado....
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 16, 2019
August is almost here — otherwise known as “National Shooting Sports Month,” designated three years ago by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). Whether through target shooting at a favorite range, plinking in a backyard with friends and family, competing in...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 11, 2019
Savage Arms, the well-known “still made in the USA” brand founded 125 years ago, was purchased by ATK in 2013. ATK’s outdoors brands that also include Federal Premium, CCI Ammunition, Bushnell and others, were housed under a spinoff — Vista Outdoor — in 2015....
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 9, 2019
Mountain hunters are a special breed. Every item they pack on a hunt has a purpose. Because gear means ounces and ounces add up to pounds. And pounds… they eventually equal pain. From cutting the handle off of toothbrushes to scraping the rubber armor off a spotting...
by Michael Sabbeth | Jul 8, 2019
Castelnuovo I was stunned. Pleasantly stunned. Roberto Ferrata uncased his new titanium Fabbri 12 gauge shotgun and handed it to me. “I want you to use my gun today.” I received the magnificent firearm and held it as gently as if it were a newborn baby. Bringing it to...
by Levi Monday | Jul 5, 2019
If you’ve ever seen a carpenter pick up a hammer, then you know what it’s like to watch Rachel Carrie pick up her shotgun. It’s hard to describe exactly, but there is a familiarity and nonchalance with tools that only comes from a lifetime of work. Like greeting an...
by Ron Spomer | Jul 5, 2019
From Ron Spomer Outdoors A cape buffalo safari can lead to an expensive addiction. Thomas Wolfe famously wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again.” But he didn’t say you couldn’t go on a cape buffalo safari again. And after the first, you’ll want another. And another… But it...
by Phil Yearout | Jul 2, 2019
They looked out of place in the rack – that pair of side-by-side shotgun barrels there amidst those belonging to single-barreled pumps and autoloaders, a bolt-action rifle or two, and a few “black guns” that I couldn’t identify. I had been in this little shop only a...
