Earlier this summer, CCI and Henry Repeating Arms teamed up to come out with a special limited-edition run of 36-grain .22 LR ammo said to be “optimized” for cycling within the Golden Boy rifle - which I happen to have handy, as I’m sure many of you out there also do. CCI is no ...
The breakaway Confederate forces had a big problem at the start of the American Civil War—they needed guns. Many of the South’s top soldiers came out of the federal military and would spend the next years fighting their former comrades, now in the Union forces. The Confederates also s...
Buying a lever gun and then figuring out optics is its own project. Smith & Wesson decided to skip that step for you. The company has rolled out factory scoped combos of the Model 1854, each one mounted with a Vortex Crossfire HD 2-7×32 and ready to hunt the day it leaves the counter. Th...
Between 1870 and 1900, railroads and repeating rifles opened the West to ordinary hunters — and pushed its game to the brink The post The Golden Age of Big-Game Hunting in America appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a little brass box that solves a problem nobody thinks about anymore. Kittredge and Co. of Cincinnati made these during the Civil War, originally to go along with the Frank Wesson rifles they were selling. The design belongs to Augustus Ben...
The Lee-Metford’s service life was comparatively brief, but its fast bolt action, detachable magazine, and .303 British chambering established the foundation for the Lee-Enfield rifle family.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a full size Single Action Army with a seven and a half inch barrel chambered in 22 rimfire. I know how that sounds. There is a real reason for it. Back in the mid 1870s Colt built a small run of Peacemakers in 44 Rimfire. On […] The p...
We’re still waiting to see how all the fallout lands after the Supreme Court ended the National Firearms Act’s registration and approval requirements for short-barreled rifles and suppressors. However, some hunters are going to be very keen to take advantage of what appears to be a ma...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt hand picked by the most famous man the company ever put in front of the public. John Henry Fitzgerald, Fitz to everybody who knew him, was Colt’s roving expert from the early 1920s until he died in 1945. He ran the exhibition sh...
Lever guns are having a moment, and the modern ones are getting the aftermarket treatment that ARs have enjoyed for years. WOOX leaned into that on July 17 with the Bravado Henry Supreme stock, an Italian-American piece of furniture engineered for the Henry Supreme and compatible Marlin lever-act...