by Wayne van Zwoll | Sep 13, 2024
Power and accuracy make a rifle lethal. A waist that welcomes your hand makes it useful.
by J. E. Fender | Sep 13, 2024
Although there has been some debate about whether the eponymous gunmaking firm of James Purdey began operations in 1814 or 1816, 1814 is the date chosen by Purdey leadership to mark the firm’s beginnings, making 2014 the bicentennial of J. Purdey & Sons, or more...
by Jim Casada | Sep 9, 2024
One doesn’t have to dig deeply into the career of the “little man with the big Stetson,” Elmer Keith, before realizing that he was a fascinating character in a universe—that of hunting and shooting writers—generously populated by highly unusual individuals. Outdoor...
by Doug Tate | Aug 30, 2024
Since its 1985 renaissance, every Greener, whether G gun or sidelock, has been special built with an eye for aesthetics and a perfect understanding of balance and handling.
by Wayne van Zwoll | Aug 28, 2024
It arrived 150 years ago in a panic. Hickok and Custer had three years to live. It still gets rave reviews!
by Wirt Gerrare | Aug 26, 2024
Firearms, of a sort, are supposed to have been used before gunpowder was invented; but the history of sporting guns is not concerned with the prototypes of these early weapons, and they need not be specified. Nor do the early cannon devised for military purposes call...
by Joe Coogan | Aug 23, 2024
In 1985, big game hunter and gun enthusiast, William Feldstein, walked into 33 Bruton St., London with a check in hand to cover the cost of a large gun order. Feldstein wanted Holland & Holland to build him a set of five bespoke large-bore nitro express double...
by Wayne van Zwoll | Aug 23, 2024
The Model T, Coolidge, then Depression defined the 1920s. Winchester added the 270. It alone endures. Night’s chill lies late in Spoon Creek. I slipped into cold wool and left the tent before dawn was a pale smudge. Breath white, I climbed through the timber to a bald...
by Robert Matthews | Aug 21, 2024
I’ve always had a healthy respect for the .410 as long as it was restricted to small birds at short range.
by C. L. Gilman | Aug 14, 2024
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.