Introduction: The All in One Gun A double rifle can be a very flexible hunting arm, especially if it comes with additional shotgun barrels and/or combination rifle/shotgun barrels: and the Valmet 412 series were one of the best of the affordable combination guns on the market. There is a limit to what one can expect from an ...
The United Defense M42 sub-machine gun has a moderately complicated history, a history rather more convoluted than its original creators, High Standard, had intended. The M42 was originally created as a replacement for the Thompson sub-machine gun. The gun was designed by Carl Swebilius, working for High Standard and so, as it was being designed ...
Nowadays we tend to take the over and under shotgun pretty much for granted, but this was not the case back in the early 1900's when the side by side reigned supreme and British gunmakers had not yet created what they considered a good action design. The first to get a good design created and ...
When I think of a "Tahr Hunt" my mind conjures up images of a plane trip to "The land of the long white cloud" (New Zealand) and a journey into the "Lord of the Rings" country to hunt Himalayan Tahr. So when I first came across the guns from TarHunt I initially wondered if that ...
British gunmaker Westley Richards is one of the most highly respected, not only in Britain but in the world. Westley Richards guns tend to be treasured by those who own them, and their web magazine "The Explora" is well worth a regular visit if you are interested in the best of classic sporting arms. Westley ...
Wilhelm Brenneke (1865-1951) was a German cartridge designer who's contribution to the development of sophisticated rifle and shotgun cartridges is largely overlooked outside his native Europe. In the United States shooters are most often only acquainted with his shotgun slugs, but unfamiliar with his rifle cartridges and the unique TIG and TUG bullets loaded in ...
I don't know about you but I'd much rather go shooting than fishing, primarily because shooting involves guns and fishing normally doesn't: at least it doesn't unless you're going big-game fishing with a Greener Harpoon Gun, in which case the fishing becomes a whole lot more interesting. A well used Greener Martini Harpoon Gun. This ...
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 ...
In not so sunny England the land from the high tide line to the sea has traditionally been crown land and thus available for recreational shooters to go hunting on. Although that might not initially sound greatly promising there are parts of England where the area of land down from the high tide mark can ...
The story of the Parker brothers begins well before the American Civil War. Charles Parker was involved in manufacturing by the 1830's and opened his first factory in 1834. At that stage they were not yet making firearms however but small utility items that included waffle irons, door knockers and coffee grinders. The company progressively ...
