The U.S. Small Caliber High Velocity concept started in 1950 with a study, then evolved into testing and evaluation. By the late 1950s, they discussed a .22 caliber rifle with respectable accuracy at 300 yards. The Army Infantry Board brought Armalite’s Eugene Stoner, designer of the AR-10,...
Custom & Collectible Firearms isn’t in the business of making their own firearms—they take other manufacturers’ designs and embellish and otherwise improve them. In this case, they’ve gotten their hands on a Colt Python and given it a makeover.
Nearly 40 years ago, The Walt Disney Company first introduced its “I’m going to Disney World” ad campaign to promote its famed theme park. It was an effective marketing ploy that highlighted the family fun that could be had, but it failed to mention the long lines, the crowds, the summer he...
Kent Cartridge has recalled specific 12- and 20-gauge shotshells because they may produce excessive chamber pressure when fired. Kent warns that the pressure could damage a shotgun, leave it inoperable, and seriously injure the shooter or bystanders. If you have Kent hunting ammunition on the she...
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Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a slide action shotgun from a company most people have never heard of. This is a factory engraved Union Fire Arms Model 24 in 12 gauge, built in Toledo, Ohio, in the early 1900s. The backstory starts with Sears. Sears wanted its own cheap pu...
Every army has a few soldiers whose job is to hit what the rest of the squad cannot. Colt Canada has built a rifle around that job. The new C25 Sharpshooter is a semi-automatic modular 5.56mm NATO rifle, billed as "compact with maximum accuracy," and it is the first look at what the C25...
You are lying prone behind a rifle, the clock is running, and you need the wind, the range and your drop. So you lift your head, look at the Kestrel in your hand, read the numbers, lose your sight picture and start again. I have done that more times than I care to count, on the range, in matches ...
John Moses Browning never saw this one coming. His 1935 design, finished after his death, has now picked up a Coyote Brown Cerakote coat that would look right at home on a dusty ridge in a spaghetti western, with Morricone whistling somewhere in the background.
Swordfish have always been a fish I’ve only read about or seen a few steaks of behind the glass at the fish counter growing up. Something that I thought was only attainable through commercial means, or with long-range offshore trips that required great effort and some luck. Then in the 2000...