The lesson in this story concerns deer behavior, and it is one you can put to work on your own ground. Archibald Rutledge held that an old buck keeps a home range he loves, and that even after being run out, shot at, or wounded, he returns to that home within a week or ten […] The post How ...
A New Orleans homeowner shot and killed a 29-year-old man trying to break into his house before 7 a.m. Friday. NOPD says no charges. Read the original story: New Orleans Homeowner Shoots and Kills 29-Year-Old Trying to Break Into His House Before 7 A.M., and NOPD Says He Will Not Be Charged
Rebuilt from the scuttled hull of the USS Merrimack, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads and changed naval warfare forever. Tom Laemlein details how this armored Civil War ram sank the USS Cumberland, destroyed the USS Congress, and spread panic through Washington D.C...
When I plucked the September-October issue of Smithsonian magazine out of my P.O. Box, the first article I turned to was “The Secret Life of Cormac McCarthy” by Richard Grant. As I skimmed it, a pull-quote leaped out at me: “He never left the house without a book. He never left the house wi...
The Harrington & Richardson T48—the U.S. FAL that faced the M14 in the 1950s trials—is $3,299 at PSA. Limited run, 100% U.S.-made components, new U.S.-made walnut, chrome-lined 21" barrel. In stock. They won’t last long.
How many remember Rutger Hauer in “ The Hitcher ” nowadays? Fewer and fewer, I’d presume, but everyone knows the SPAS-12 he used. It’s the shotgun that defined tactical shotguns for an entire generation, dominating everything from real special operations to the silver...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have an AR that looks like it wandered in from 1890. Doug Turnbull built his name up in Bloomfield, New York, doing bone charcoal color case hardening and period correct restoration work on Colts, Winchesters, Parkers and Foxes. The TAR-40 is wh...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Parker in the gauge everybody wants and almost nobody ordered. This is a DH grade 28 gauge, built in 1910 on the small 0 frame with 28 inch barrels. Parker built something like 242,000 guns over the life of the company. Well under 2,000 [&...
Once you find a well-fitting pistol that is accurate and reliable, you run with it. So it goes with this SA-35.
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...