A double rifle does not need to be in a dangerous game stopping caliber nor are double rifles solely for use in Africa. Two categories of double rifle are “stalking double rifle” and “stopping double rifle”, the…
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was a creative genius who made his mark in the world of automotive design from the earliest stage of his working career. His doctoral degree was honorary but Ferdinand Porsche was a self…
I regularly shoot with a “Big Game Rifle” club which has some fabulously fun shooting events such as the “Harley’s Hop” as shot by the Zimbabwe Professional Hunter’s and Guides Association, and the Howdah Pistol event…
The Mauser 98 rifle action is probably the most revered hunting rifle action known to man and rifle’s built on commercial Mauser actions are much prized, (the only exceptions perhaps being the Browning rifles that were…
I suspect that it is the secret desire of almost every gun enthusiast to have the opportunity to fire a Thompson sub-machine gun. Winston Churchill was one who was given that opportunity, but there are a…
The Bugatti Type 57 Atalante was the offspring of the Aérolithe coupé. The Aérolithe led to the limited production Type 57 Atlantic which in turn led Jean Bugatti to further evolve the design into the Atalante which…
The name of W.W. Greener is one of the best known in English gunmaking. William Wellington Greener was the son of William Greener who was a famous gunmaker and inventor who made guns for Prince Albert,…
The Ariel SF31 was introduced in 1931 as Ariel’s offering in the then popular 500cc class of motorcycle. The engine was quite different to the other Ariel offerings being an OHV single with the cylinder laid…
The Chevrolet Corvette became the iconic Chevrolet of the seventies and one of the most instantly recognized cars around the world both then and now. The third generation Corvette was a re-design of the second whose…
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato Coupé was one of the fastest automobiles of its day and will still put most other cars on the road to shame. It is a wonderful product of an Anglo-Italian…