by Ron Spomer | Nov 13, 2020
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....
by Scott Crawford | Sep 28, 2020
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...
by Stan Morgan | Aug 14, 2020
With rising anticipation, I have just received the long box from Springfield Arms. A new M1A Standard Issue rifle. I am as excited as a kid at Christmas. As I ride back to the office to open this prize, the memories of 52 years passed are coming to the surface. The...
by Keith Wood | Aug 11, 2020
It’s not about training snipers or preparing to shoot game animals at such distances, it is about the pure challenge and joy of marksmanship. America loves its riflemen. Whether the subject is frontiersman Davy Crockett, buffalo hunter Billy Dixon or the...
by Emma McCracken | May 12, 2020
Today I went hunting for the very first time and it’s safe to say I’m hooked. Instead of beginning our day in the classroom, we rode out to one of the ranges to practice shooting in different positions. Our instructor, Dave, spent some time showing us how...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 17, 2020
London gunmaker John Rigby & Co. has announced a new series of limited edition rifles, called the “Tsavo,” modeled on the firm’s phenomenally successful bolt-action Big Game. Following hot on the heels of the exceptionally popular “Mopani” special edition series –...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Mar 18, 2020
A popular old saw suggests that a lady known as Good Fortune has the power to change someone’s life with but a well-directed smile. Taking that for true, she didn’t just show some teeth to a young Kenyan formally monikered John Henry Selby. Nope....
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 19, 2020
Clients of London gunmaker, John Rigby & Co., can now ensure that their Big Game rifles benefit from the best protection when in transit from one intrepid adventure to the next. All those purchasing a rifle from Rigby’s acclaimed Big Game range will have the...
by Ron Spomer | Jan 9, 2020
Quick. Name an Italian hunting rifle… See? That’s the problem. While the Italians are famous for hot cars, hot women and fine shotguns (which can also get pretty hot on an Argentine dove hunt), they seem to have taken a terminal lunch break at the rifle factory. For...
by Ron Spomer | Dec 12, 2019
Mossberg, a familiar, all-American brand among blue-collar hunters since 1919, recently raised the bar with its newly designed, classic, walnut-and-blued Patriot Revere bolt-action rifle. With its nicely figured, straight-comb stock, cheekpiece, rosewood tip and light...
