20 Wolves Charged Glenn Villeneuve in Arctic Alaska—His .30-06 Stopped the Pack
A pack of roughly 20 wolves twice chased Glenn Villeneuve toward his Arctic Alaska cabin. On their third approach, he was waiting with a .30-06 and extra ammunition.
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POTD: The Colt Flattop Target – A Target Gun with an Outlaw Legend
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt Single Action Army built for the target line, carrying a story that’s pure Old West. This is a Colt Flattop Target model, one of the rarer factory variations of the 1873 Peacemaker. Colt made only around 925 of them between 1888...
POTD: The Winchester-Hotchkiss 1879 – Winchester Goes Bolt Action
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester doing the last thing you’d expect Winchester to do. This is the Winchester-Hotchkiss 1879 First Model, a bolt-action rifle from the company that owned the lever-action world. The Army wanted single-shots and never warmed to ...
POTD: The Kodiak Model 260 – The First of Its Kind
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a quality little rifle from a company that barely existed. This is the Kodiak Model 260, built up in North Haven, Connecticut by an outfit that was only in business from about 1963 to 1966 (and went by “Jefferson” before that). S...
Curious Relics #136: By the Numbers – The Colt 1862 Police Part III
Welcome, if you are a newcomer to this fun bi-weekly segment of AllOutdoor.com! We are three parts deep into the Colt 1862 Police now. Part I covered the history, design philosophy, and the story of Samuel Colt’s final years. Part II tackled variations, early versus late production identi...
POTD: The Universal Vulcan 440 – A Pump-Action M1 Carbine
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a hunting rifle built on a very familiar skeleton. This is the Universal Firearms Vulcan 440, made down in Hialeah, Florida in the mid-1960s. Universal earned its keep building commercial copies of the M1 Carbine from surplus and new parts, ...
POTD: The Winchester Model 88 – A Bolt Action with a Lever
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the most unusual lever gun Winchester ever built, and one a lot of folks have never handled. This is the Winchester Model 88, introduced in 1955, the first all-new lever-action Winchester had designed in roughly 60 years, and it threw out al...
POTD: The Benelli B77 – When the Shotgun Guys Tried Pistols
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rare miss from a company that doesn’t miss much. This is the Benelli B77, the .32 ACP member of Benelli’s short-lived run at the handgun market in the late 1970s and 80s. You know Benelli for shotguns, and there’s a reaso...
POTD: The Heckler & Koch USP Match – A Brick on the Rail
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have H&K answering a question nobody at the factory had planned for. This is the USP Match in .45 ACP. The base USP showed up in the mid-90s as H&K’s big polymer service pistol, built mostly with the American market in mind and shar...
POTD: The Heckler & Koch HK4 – Four Guns in One
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have where it all started for one of the biggest names in guns. This is the Heckler & Koch HK4, the very first pistol H&K ever built. By the early 1960s they’d made their name turning the roller-locked CETME into the G3 battle rifle...