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…
Darne guns and rifles are made with a unique sliding breech mechanism operated by a “T” lever at the top of the breech. Lifting the “T” lever slides the wedge shaped breech block to the rear…
Those of us with grey hair likely still remember that the number “486” was used for an Intel CPU chip that preceded the Pentium. For the Beretta 486 Parallelo however this does not mean that the…
I for one am a shooter and hunter who really likes nice quality walnut rifle stocks matched with polished and blued steel, preferably on a top grade bolt action rifle with a controlled feed action, or…
Sometimes people do things that seem OK at the time but discover later on that the action produces long term consequences that were not envisaged and that cause major problems. This was the case for Winchester…
John and Tom Wilkes closed their shop located just off London’s busy Regent’s Street, at 79 Beak Street, in 2003. The shop later became an art gallery appropriately called “The Riflemaker” for John Wilkes was both…
