Most people have heard of a sidelock action and a boxlock action for a double barrel rifle or shotgun: but not everyone has heard of a droplock action. The droplock action was created and patented by British gunmaker Westley Richards back in 1897 and it is arguably the one genuinely viable alternative to the sidelock. ...
Sporting rifles need to have a degree of specialization for the type of shooting that the hunter will be engaging in. For example, for long range hunting where shots may need to be taken out beyond 300meters, a properly set up bolt-action rifle with telescopic sights tends to be the most sensible choice, and with ...
Depending on your hunting experience, many will not really see the point in a powerful handgun cartridge. For me the changeover point came whilst pig shooting where we had a mob of pigs retreat into really heavy cover: cover so thick you needed your hands to move brush aside just to get through it. At ...
The Lee-Enfield rifle was made in a number of calibers other than the .303 British with which most of us are familiar. One of the better ones for a hunting rifle was the .375 2½" Nitro Express. The .375 2½" Nitro Express is not to be confused with the .375 Holland & Holland Flanged Magnum ...
Although it is often thought that a double-rifle is such an expensive item that it's not possible for the vast majority of shooters to own one, there is a good selection of double-rifles available from a number of makers that are both affordable and excellent: and when we say excellent we mean that their functionality ...
If you are one of those blessed souls who is in the market for a stopping double-rifle then you are no doubt thinking about what caliber to have it built in. Nowadays there is an elegant sufficiency of readily available ammunition for rifles that will prove effective on the likes of elephant, hippo, and buffalo, ...
The gun-smithing firm of Daniel Fraser had a short but impressive history that lasted 24 years: and that was brought to an end when Daniel Fraser contracted a chill whilst out grouse shooting in 1902 and passed away in August of that year at the age of 57 years. Daniel Fraser spent his early gun-smithing ...
The Winchester Model 1873 is often called "The gun that won the West". The Model 1873 appeared during the formative post Civil War years and became one of the most predominant rifles of the frontier. Because of the timing of its manufacture it also features as the rifle of some of the people who helped ...
If you are thinking about a top grade bolt-action magazine rifle, perhaps toying with the idea of a Rigby from London for example, there is an all American option available to you that might just be preferable. That option is Dakota Arms who make rifles in the same class as the Rigby. The Dakota Model ...
The .375 Holland & Holland Magnum was the second attempt by Holland & Holland to create a belted big game rifle cartridge suitable for magazine rifles to be used on African and Asian dangerous game. Their first attempt had been the 400/375 Belted Nitro Express (otherwise known as the .375 Veloplex) and it was made ...