John M. Browning didn't get the design of his automatic pistol right on the first few attempts but when he did perfect it he created the automatic pistol that would be the model for a plethora of handguns that would use very similar designs. It had not been Browning's idea to build a pistol around ...
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 which requires a "Howdah pistol of a minimum caliber of .375" that may be single or double barrel, firing ...
Back in the days when I was involved in competitive pistol shooting I was shooting with a Walther OSP for the Olympic Rapid Fire match, a Walther GSP for the Standard Pistol Match, and a Vostock for the Olympic Free Pistol match. All three of these pistols position the shooter's hand high. The Russian Vostock ...
The Luger P04 Navy pistol is one of the more rare variants of the Luger and is one of the best. There are two main variants of the German Navy Luger, the P04 and the P14. The two are almost identical but the P04 has a grip safety catch whereas the P14 does not. The ...
Around the turn of the twentieth century the British Military just like the American Military were not particularly enthusiastic about automatic pistols. When John M. Browning first submitted his earlier designs to the US Military there was objection to the small caliber size of the cartridge - it was chambered for the .38ACP (which was ...
Although I had done some shooting before I joined a pistol club I think I really learned to shoot properly in the pistol club. The first club I joined was in a small mining town in Australia and the range was about as primitive as it gets. The targets were on steel frames fifty meters ...
On Beretta's 490th Anniversary we celebrate almost five hundred years of Beretta firearms. Beretta have used that four hundred and ninety years to establish a reputation for quality and imaginative designs, yet Beretta's designs are kept simple and reliable. With the Beretta M92 established as the US Army's main pistol in this post we will ...
To handle a heavy caliber revolver you need to work up to it and you need to keep that practice up. The old adage "Use it or lose it" certainly applies to shooting and especially to shooting a handgun. Police practices around the world vary enormously down to jurisdictions where police only live fire with ...
Designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher who is famous for his work with Otto Schönauer in creating the Mannlicher-Schönauer rifle, the Mannlicher automatic pistols of 1901 and 1905 were designed and manufactured at the same time Georg Luger was working on his designs and John Moses Browning was creating the series of pistols that culminated ...
Hodgdon has been supplying shooters and reloaders with top quality powder since the end of the Second World War. They are a company that has earned the respect and trust of people involved in the shooting sports and in the firearms industry. When faced with a choice of powder many reloaders will opt for the ...
