The BRNO Super 575 Double Rifle
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…
Model T Ford Custom Fun Car
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…
Smith & Wesson and New Haven Arms Lever Action Pistols
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…
MG SA Saloon
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…
Humber Heavy Utility
Introduction In the lead up to both the first and second world wars the British Government and the British press seem to have been reluctant to accept the fairly obvious circumstances that pointed to the inevitability…
Pierce Arrow Four Motorcycle
It Began With a Gilded Cage and the Bicycle Craze You’ve no doubt heard of the song “Only a bird in a guilded cage…” and the manufacture of delicate guilded cages was the way the Heinz,…
Brough Superior Mark 1
The Brough Superior and the Brough “Inferior” George Brough’s father, William Edward Brough, was a motorcycle aficionado and was a knowledgeable and respected maker of motorcycles, so young George Brough grew up involved in his father’s…
Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45V
The Rarest Toyota Land Cruisers The Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45V is one of the rarest of the various Land Cruiser J40 models. Its a four wheel drive that I’ve long wanted to own but sadly that…
Annie Oakley’s Golden M1897 Marlin Rifle
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…
DWM Model 1902 American Eagle Cartridge Counter Luger Pistol
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…