POTD: The Winchester 1 of 1,000 – Won the West and the Movies

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have one of the true holy grails of American gun collecting. This is a Winchester Model 1876 “One of One Thousand,” a rifle that sits in the same rarefied air as a Colt Walker. Here’s what the grade meant. Winchester test-fired ...

By Sam.S

MG5 - Germany’s Modern Machine Gun

Previously, I wrote about the HK43 and how it eventually evolved into the MG4. From there, the design continued, leading to the HK121, better known today as the MG5. That’s where this picks up. The Heckler & Koch MG5 is Germany’s modern general-purpose machine gun, developed to re...

By Lynndon Schooler

Wheelgun Wednesday: Why We Love Revolvers

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday . Last week, we took a look at the Manuhin MR88's return, so if you missed that article, be sure to click the link here  to check it out. This week, I want to look at why we love revolvers despite their limitations in capacity and ov...

By Matt E

Canada Launches Defence Drone Initiative

Earlier this week the Government of Canada launched the Defence Drone Initiative (DDI) to accelerate the development, testing, adaptation, and production of uncrewed and autonomous systems for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). Led collaboratively by the Departmen...

By Eric G

AllOutdoor Review – XKG Sonora Air Shirt

You will find Kings Camo/XKG in Lindon, Utah and they are a hunting apparel brand that has been around since 2002. The two brothers who put the company on the map back then were the ones to debut their terrain-specific camo patterns. A change of guard came in 2013 with Ryan Foutz, Jed Nelson and ...

By Patrik Orcutt

Tucked-Shirt Carry Tactics

For most people, their EDC is carried in an inside-the-waistband holster. The problem with that is that you have to wear your shirts untucked. For some, this really isn’t an option for various reasons, and they need their shirt tucked in.  Why Carry Tucked Various reasons for wearing a tuc...

By Friedrich Seiltgen

POTD: The SWD M11/Nine – The Everyman’s Machine Gun, in a Briefcase

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a true piece of Cold War Americana, packaged for a spy movie. This is an SWD M11/Nine, a 9mm submachine gun, and it comes tucked into a working “briefcase gun” rig. The lineage runs back to Gordon Ingram and the famous MAC-10 of ...

By Sam.S
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