America’s Service Pistol Could Have Been the Luger The turn of the twentieth century was a time when self-loading pistols were first appearing and looked to be the way of the future. This was also the…
A Pair of “Barn Find” Rifles The Winchester Model 70 has long been called “The Rifleman’s Rifle” since they hit the gun racks in gun dealers and hardware stores back in 1937. The Model 70 was,…
Mickey Thompson was born in the “Roaring Twenties” and developed a passion for speed early on. Working as a “pressman” for the Los Angles Times he accumulated enough money to get into drag racing and is…
The Battle of Campeche The story of the Colt Model 1851 “Navy” begins at the Battle of Campeche fought on April 30th, and on May 16th of 1843. Mexico won the Battle of the Alamo of…
Background: the Heym SR20 and the Heym SR21 I’ve owned just one F.W. Heym rifle over the years, and that was an SR20N chambered for the .308 Winchester: It was a great rifle and became a…
Ford made trucks based on the Model T passenger car in order to begin to provide for the needs of American farmers and industry. Beginning in 1917 the Ford TT 1 ton truck was put in…
