Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a prototype Remington Model 7180 trench gun that died because the Army ran out of old bayonets. Remington started working on military shotguns in the early 1960s, and this one dates to roughly 1963 through 1965. It is a Model 1100 with a 20...
Federal's Peak Alloy lead engineer and its rifle product line manager explain where the Peak Alloy came from, the challenges with the 7mm Backcountry introduction, and why 80,000 psi doesn’t mean more recoil or a burned-out barrel The post They Built a Rifle Cartridge That Could Change Hunting ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have an American submachine gun that looks like a Thompson and thinks like a PPSh. Gerry Fox drew this up in 1974 in Meriden, Connecticut, after a fire ended Meriden Firearms and its M3 Grease Gun knockoff. He built it as the Fox Carbine under T...
The first rifle I ever really shot was a plain old Ruger 10/22, and the ammo feeding it came out of a brown box that looked like it belonged in my grandfather's tackle shed. Peters . Forty grains of lead, high velocity, round nose, and in my memory it never once let me or my 10/22 down at th...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Chinese pistol carrying the greatest slide marking I have ever seen. It reads MADE IN AMMERIGAN, NEW YOEB LTD. That is somebody in a Chinese workshop copying “Made in America, New York Ltd” letter by letter off a gun or an adv...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a shotgun that was built to be photographed. Syracuse Arms of Syracuse, New York was incorporated in 1893 to build doubles on Frank Hollenbeck’s patents, which got sold on having fewer parts than anything else going. Hollenbeck walked...
So if you’ve ever fished saltwater, there is a very small chance that you aren’t familiar with PENN Reels. One of the oldest brands in fishing, PENN has been around since the 1930s. I grew up on them, fishing for snapper on old 4/0 PENN Senators 113s. These were and are tanks, simple ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester trying to invent the youth shooting market and packing it in a suitcase. Winchester came out of World War One with an enormous factory and not enough to build in it. The answer was to sell everything. By 1919 there were Wincheste...
I have worked with Dr. Will Dabbs for much of my career as an editor and consider him to be both an exceptional contributor and a good friend. No matter the deadline or the assignment, I always know that I can count on him to deliver a well-rounded, thoroughly researched and — most importantly ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Dakota Model 10 falling block, and the real story is what is stamped on the barrel. Don Allen founded Dakota Arms in Sturgis, South Dakota in 1986 building high end custom rifles, and in 1992 he rolled out a family of house cartridges. He...