“Out of Africa” with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford is one of my favourite movies. Director Sydney Pollack’s blending of John Barry’s music with Africa’s landscape, people and wildlife is fabulous, and as the icing on…
The Winchester Model 1876 is associated with Teddy Roosevelt and with the wild west era. It is a rifle that was iconic even before Steve McQueen immortalized it in his classic movie Tom Horn, a movie…
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What one considers to be drop dead gorgeous – although a bit quirky – another will describe as “butt ugly”. We see this with cars such as the…
Desperate people tend to resort to desperate measures. So it was in 1916 as German troops faced the menace of the new allied tanks that they were driven to try to find a counter measure and…
In Europe combination guns and double rifles are relatively popular, partly because of their practicality, but also in part because of restrictions on firearms ownership in certain countries. In Europe there can also be a certain…
In times gone by, when I was a schoolboy in post war Britain, the map of the world was quite filled with the various outposts of the British Empire. That empire which included large chunks of…
