In today’s review, Richard Johnson takes a look at the X3 Driver gunsmithing set from Real Avid. This kit offers the gunsmith or home hobbyist 57 different pieces: bits along with a ratchet and T-handle screwdriver. But is this a quality set or no better than the cheap junk sold by some online ...
The Lee-Metford’s service life was comparatively brief, but its fast bolt action, detachable magazine, and .303 British chambering established the foundation for the Lee-Enfield rifle family.
The PSA M4A1 brings back the quad rail, fixed front sight and compact handling of the classic military carbine. We put this semi-auto M4 clone through qualification drills and tested it with iron sights out to 200 yards.
George lived about a block from where I grew up. A Vietnam veteran and avid hunter, he came back from the war and opened a gunsmith shop attached to his home. Every morning, he simply walked from his kitchen out onto his driveway and into his shop. He spent his days working on customer’s firear...
Few firearms have had as colorful a history as that of the iconic “Tommy Gun.” It was developed for the trenches of the First World War. But, as it arrived too late, the Thompson submachine gun was marketed to civilians, and later was carried by Allied soldiers in World War II. It could be ar...
Springfield Armory's Echelon crossover has landed. The 4.0FC is a compact slide on a full-sized frame that provides both speed and control.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a seven shot revolver you wear on your finger. This is a 2mm pinfire ring gun with CONFEDERATE DEFENDER engraved on the German silver band. Start with that marking, because it is nonsense. There is no Confederate connection here. These littl...
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 ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the forgotten sibling of a famous family, reborn for a cartridge almost nobody asked for. This is the Smith & Wesson Model 16-4, chambered in .32 H&R Magnum. Back up a step. S&W’s classic K-frame target trio was the K-22 (M...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun that got famous twenty years after it died. This is the Ruger PC4, and if it looks familiar, that’s because Ruger’s wildly popular takedown PC Carbine of recent years is the second act. Almost nobody remembers there was a f...