Unbreakable? Not Quite: Common AK Failure Points

The AK rifle has earned a reputation as one of the most widely produced and reliable firearms ever made. Designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the years following World War II, the platform has served military forces, law enforcement agencies, and civilian shooters across the globe for decades. Its ...

By Lynndon Schooler

Fudd Friday: A Winchester 1895 Too Nice For The Job It Was Made For

At the end of the 1890s, John Moses Browning was in a weird place. He’d had a hand in designing many classic lever-action rifles (and even shotguns!) over the past years, but he realized that without some big changes to the design, lever-actions would lose a lot of market share to bolt acti...

By Zac K

Big Woods Bucks x Henry Repeating Arms Long Ranger Big Woods Carbine

Henry Repeating Arms  has joined forces with Big Woods Bucks (BWB)  to create a pragmatic, simple, and extremely useful new lever-action rifle for all of us that should be perfect for whitetail deer hunting and other medium-sized game: the new H14 Long Ranger Big Woods Carbine  in ...

By Adam Scepaniak

AllOutdoor Review – Athlon Rangecraft Velocity Pro Radar Chronograph

Chronographs are an interesting piece of technology. Either shooters use them religiously for developing reloads, collecting data to create D.O.P.E. cards (data on previous engagement), or they avoid them entirely thinking it is too much work for what they are worth. I might be an outlier in that...

By Adam Scepaniak

POTD: The Winchester-Hotchkiss 1879 – Winchester Goes Bolt Action

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester doing the last thing you’d expect Winchester to do. This is the Winchester-Hotchkiss 1879 First Model, a bolt-action rifle from the company that owned the lever-action world. The Army wanted single-shots and never warmed to ...

By Sam.S

Collectors’ Quirks – The Little Things That Matter

One of the things I love most about the world of firearms is the collectors. The guys who dig into the most niche things and export the information to the world. These in-depth dudes might have undiagnosed autism, but we all benefit from it. Over my years in the wider gun world, I’ve come acros...

By Travis Pike
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