I presume the naysayers’ idea was that hipsters are urbanized young adults who reject mainstream culture and like niche equipment to pursue their interests—fixie bikes, old record players, and so on. I think naysayers also believe hipsters don’t have the physique to handle highe...
Jim Carmichel considered the 6.5 to be the "ultimate caliber" The post Well Before the Creedmoor, Our Legendary Shooting Editor Created the 6.5 Panther appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Last year, when I was working on my book about Zastava AKs , me and fellow TFB writer Lynndon Schooler visited Zastava factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Since then, Lynndon has published several comprehensive articles about new Zastava weapons, but there is one more firearm we saw that certainly des...
Founded in the early 20th century, Manufacture de Machines du Haut-Rhin, aka Manurhin, has done a lot of things. They made food processing machinery and scooters. But after World War II, like much of reindustrializing Europe, they were keen to try new things, so they started making semi-auto pist...
Jim Carmichel details his favorite wildcat cartridges and explains what makes each one interesting The post The Greatest (and Oddest) Wildcat Cartridges, According to a Legendary Gun Writer appeared first on Outdoor Life.
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...
Headstamp Publishing has launched pre-orders their latest book "The Real Schmeissers: From the M.P. 18.I to the M.P. 41," a 678-page book covering the complete history of Hugo Schmeisser's submachine gun designs from World War I through World War II.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have where it all started for one of the biggest names in guns. This is the Heckler & Koch HK4, the very first pistol H&K ever built. By the early 1960s they’d made their name turning the roller-locked CETME into the G3 battle rifle...
This week for Fudd Friday, I need your help. I drew a deer tag for Utah’s “restricted rifle” hunt. The rules are simple: the rifle must be manually operated and only equipped with iron sights. If you were going on a mule deer hunt out west and had to take an irons-only setup, wh...
When it comes to picking your favorite firearms, explains our former long-time shooting editor, you don't have to be entirely reasonable The post Jim Carmichel Picks His Favorite Hunting Rifles appeared first on Outdoor Life.