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POTD: The Lindsay Two-Shot – One Barrel, Two Charges
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have one of the stranger muskets of the Civil War, with a sad story behind it. This is the Lindsay Model 1863, usually called the Lindsay Two-Shot. John P. Lindsay, a former Springfield Armory man, built it on an old and troublesome idea, the sup...
US Virgin Islands AG Slammed by Judge in Gun Control Lawsuit
POTD: The Ithaca NID – The Underrated American Double
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a high-grade trap gun from a company that built its name on giving the working man more gun than he paid for. This is an Ithaca New Ithaca Double, the NID, in Grade 5. Ithaca got started in 1880 in a water-powered shop on a […] The pos...
POTD: The ARA Mag-2C – The Flashlight That Isn’t
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a .22 silencer wearing a disguise. This is the ARA Mag-2C, built by Applied Research Associates around an aluminum tube that’s basically a Maglite flashlight body. The name gives it away: “Mag” for Maglite, “2C”...
POTD: The Detonics Pocket 9 – The Last Gun from the Explosives Guys
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a small 9mm with an outsized backstory. This is the Detonics Pocket 9, and to get it you have to get Detonics. The company was founded in Seattle around 1976 by a couple of explosives engineers, Pat Yates and Sid Woodcock, with money man Chu...
POTD: Peregrine Silverthorne Model 33 – Benchrest for the Obsessed
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a pistol built for one of the most patient, fiddly corners of the shooting world. This is the Peregrine Silverthorne Model 33, a single-shot falling-block pistol made in small numbers in Silverthorne, Colorado in the 1980s. The falling-block...
20 Wolves Charged Glenn Villeneuve in Arctic Alaska—His .30-06 Stopped the Pack
A pack of roughly 20 wolves twice chased Glenn Villeneuve toward his Arctic Alaska cabin. On their third approach, he was waiting with a .30-06 and extra ammunition.
POTD: The Colt Flattop Target – A Target Gun with an Outlaw Legend
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt Single Action Army built for the target line, carrying a story that’s pure Old West. This is a Colt Flattop Target model, one of the rarer factory variations of the 1873 Peacemaker. Colt made only around 925 of them between 1888...
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...