Some guns are made to be fun. They may be able to be used for a serious purpose, but they are really made to be enjoyed, and the black powder double barrel muzzle-loading “Howdah” pistols from…
“Howdah” Style Pistols from American Gun Craft
“The Last Ivory Hunter” Wally Johnson’s Winchester Model 70
A Rifle, A Story, and the Legacy of a Lifetime Wally Johnson began his big game hunting career at the tender age of 14 years back in 1928. What was to become his favorite rifle, his…
The Bristol Brabazon – The First Wide Bodied Airliner
A Transatlantic Airliner for the Post-war World The first wide-bodied airliner was not the Boeing 747, in fact it had a longer wingspan than a 747. It was an aircraft whose specifications were decided by a…
Zastava Arms AK Sporting Rifles
The Semi-Automatic as a Sporting Rifle I didn’t use to think that a semi-automatic was a particularly desirable choice for a hunting rifle. I’d had a semi-automatic shotgun and spent some time using a Ruger .44…
The Austin A90 Atlantic
To Build a Car Americans Would Love The Austin A90 Atlantic was Britain’s plan for a car for America. This was to be the car that would take the United States by storm and become a…
BMW-Volkswagen 1500 “Fikobike”
If you suspect that the name “Fikobike” sounds a bit like “psycho-bike” then you understand the thinking behind oil man Lee Fikes decision to take his perfectly good 1967 BMW R60 and rebuild it into his…
