POTD: Before Winchester – Volcanic Lever Action Pistol-Carbine

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the missing link between a pistol and a Winchester. This is a Volcanic Repeating Arms Company lever action pistol-carbine in 41 Volcanic with its detachable shoulder stock. The Volcanic story is short and it ends in failure, but everything W...

By Sam.S •

Walther PDP Pro-E Ledger: Vortex Sight, Desert Camo, 300 Only

Custom & Collectable Firearms built “The Ledger” around a practical premise, then let aesthetics follow function. The result is a limited-run PDP Pro-E Compact. Only 300 will be built, each sequentially numbered, each wearing a desert camouflage Cerakote finish paired with Walther...

By Eric B •

Upgrading My Camera Bag: Pelican 1510 Next Generation Protector Case

For the better part of a decade, my camera case was a no-name FDE hard shell I bought from a local Tractor Supply Co. store, the kind of thing that looks like a Pelican from ten feet away and functions like one until you actually open it up. There was no interior organization to speak […] T...

By Luke Cuenco •

POTD: The A.H. Fox Sterlingworth – The Gun Fox Wouldn’t Sign

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the working man’s version of “the finest gun in the world.” This is an A.H. Fox Sterlingworth, and the story behind it says a lot about its maker. Ansley Herman Fox was a champion trap shooter, an inventor with a patent at ...

By Sam.S •

War Stories: Five Shermans Shot Out From Under Him

I used to love working at the VA hospital. Just like everything Uncle Sam does, the Veterans Administration is bloated, inefficient, and frustrating. However, back when I worked there as a physician we still had a proper crop of World War II veterans who needed inpatient care. That was Candyland ...

By Will Dabbs, MD •

POTD: Flat Top Frontier – Colt New Frontier SAA in .38 Special

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Single Action Army that ditched the cowboy sights for something you can aim with. This is a second-generation Colt New Frontier in .38 Special. Colt dropped the Single Action Army in 1941 and figured that was the end of it. Then television...

By Sam.S •

Concealed Carry Corner: Realities of Self-Defense

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner . Last week, we talked about navigating unwelcoming areas. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here  to check it out. This week, I wanted to look at some of the realities of self-defense and how it starts t...

By Matt E •

POTD: The Winchester 1 of 1,000 – Won the West and the Movies

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have one of the true holy grails of American gun collecting. This is a Winchester Model 1876 “One of One Thousand,” a rifle that sits in the same rarefied air as a Colt Walker. Here’s what the grade meant. Winchester test-fired ...

By Sam.S •
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