One Size Does Not Fit All The Colt Lightning rifle was created as Colt's answer to Winchester and Marlin's lever action rifles and it seems odd that it was not more successful than it was, although the medium and small frame Lightning rifles certainly racked up decent sales numbers. But if you think about it, the ...
A "Manstopper" Revolver Cartridge British Army officers of the Victorian Era were required to do active service in the far flung reaches of the British Empire which included significant chunks of Africa, India, and such places as the Sudan and Afghanistan. These were all places where a British officer's adversary would be likely to be physically ...
A Hearse as a Multi-Purpose Vehicle with Character The car's of the 1930's just ooze character and one of the more outstanding American cars of that era was the LaSalle. So what do you get when you have a 1930's LaSalle that's fitted out as a hearse? You get character on steroids. The sort of character ...
The Ultimate Citroën "Grandes Routières" One of the greatest, if not the greatest of the post-war French luxury performance cars was the Facel Vega. It was a car that became legendary racing driver Sir Stirling Moss's favorite and for good reason. It provided a combination of V8 performance with decent handling and an interior decor that ...
Carroll Shelby and a "James Bond Car" If ever there was a car that looked like it should be a James Bond car this was it. Not only that but the Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk III was a car that embodied the names Aston Martin and David Brown, and as if that were not enough, under ...
Revivaler was created back in 2014 as a site that would be a haven for people who love guns, classic cars, motorcycles, planes and trains and all those sorts of things. We made it to be a site where we focus on the most interesting stuff we can find to make the reading just plain ...
BRNO, a First Rifle The name BRNO is one that most Americans will never have heard of, but when I was a young man living and working in the Western Australian Goldfields the first rifle I ever purchased with one of my first paychecks was a BRNO Model 2 .22lr rimfire. In that part of Australia ...
On his YouTube Channel American shooting video maker "hickock45" ends every video with the exortation "Life is good": and we make life good by making good choices. Just like most of us who have shooting and hunting as our hobby do it for the enjoyment we get out of it, so when we are wanting ...
The Search for a Self-contained Cartridge The story of America's iconic lever action rifle began with the efforts to invent a practical self contained cartridge. This was a relatively slow developmental process and while today we think of the self-contained metallic cartridge as being a simple idea it was by no means a self-evident concept to ...
One of the Last "Real Cars" Ever Made For a diehard classic MG enthusiast the MG SA might be described as one of the last "real cars" made. Let me elucidate with a short story of love, family and democracy. Back in the late 1960's one of my friends was a classic car aficionado who owned ...
