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 ...
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Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Cobray/SWD Terminator single shot open bolt shotgun manufactured 1986 to 1988, marked for both 20 and 12 gauge with 2.75-inch chambers and cylinder choke. The open bolt design is the main thing here. The bolt sits rearward until you pull the...
Two new short cartridges based on the .308 give OL's former shooting editor plenty to think about The post Jack O’Connor’s Predictions for the .243 and .358 Cartridges appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Brown Manufacturing Company Ballard Patent single shot sporting rifle manufactured 1869 to 1873 out of Newburyport, Massachusetts, with at least 500 produced according to Flayderman’s Guide. Brown Manufacturing was one of several small...
How our former shooting editor made history in benchrest competition The post ‘I Finally Shot a Good Group.’ The Story of Jim Carmichel’s Benchrest World Record appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Sheridan Knockabout single shot pistol manufactured 1953 to 1960, chambered in .22 S/L/LR. Sheridan is mostly remembered for air guns and that’s fair, but they made this thing too. The Knockabout was about as simple as a pistol gets. S...
A Rolling Stone profile of 3D gun maker YZY_PRINTS shows how far DIY firearms have come. What started as an underground experiment is now a growing movement built on self-reliance, open-source design, and resistance to gun control.
Before World War II, and especially before World War I, the rifles of the whitetail-hunting world looked a lot different from today. Lever-actions ruled supreme, and they were often chambered for rounds that have fallen from favor. These include .33 Winchester, .303 Savage and even .44-40. But to...
These advertisements for iconic shotguns, rifles, and pistols document decades of firearms history as they appeared in the pages of Outdoor Life The post 27 Vintage Gun Ads That Introduced Some of America’s Most Iconic Firearms appeared first on Outdoor Life.