The Rocket Ball and Volition Rifle The quest that would lead to the development of the lever action rifle began with a man from New York named Walter Hunt who reasoned that before he could design a practical repeating rifle he needed to create a self contained cartridge that it could do its repeating with. Walter ...
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 ...
Annie Oakley's Early Life Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Mosey on August 13, 1860, less than a year before the American Civil War began. Her father was Jacob Mosey and her mother Susan Wise and Annie was the sixth of their nine children. The family were Quaker Christians and lived in a log cabin in ...
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, back then, considered an upgrade of Winchester's first bolt action offering, the Model 54, but it established for itself an ...
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 favorite. I purchased it in the early 1980's and only parted with it in the mid-1990's when I was going ...
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 Winchester Model 70 serial number 13997 chambered for the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum cartridge was made in December 1938 ...
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 Magnum semi-automatic carbine, but finally settled on bolt action rifles and a side-by-side double barrel shotgun, although I did also ...
Whether or not we choose an "off the shelf" production rifle or have a custom one made for us in part depends on our budget but even more importantly depends on the gunsmith whom you'll be having build the custom rifle for you. If you have access to a suitable rifle-maker then you may be ...
Introduction: A .500 Nitro Express for Bolt Action Magazine Rifles The cartridge that we know today as the .500 Jeffery almost certainly began life back in the mid 1920's in the gunshop of German gunsmith August Schuler and was originally called the .500 Schuler. August Schuler's was a highly respected name in German sporting rifle circles ...
Introduction When the world entered into the First World War it was said that the Americans went to war with a target rifle, the Springfield 1903, the Germans went to war with a hunting rifle, the Mauser M1898, and the British went to war with a combat rifle, the Lee-Enfield. There is an element of truth ...
