Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Colt’s first swing at a double action revolver. This is an 1877 “Thunderer” in 41 Long Colt with the 6 inch ejectorless Sheriff’s Model barrel, shipped in November 1877 to B. Kittredge in Cincinnati. Start with the na...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Single Action Army that never went west, it went to a movie set. This is a Taylor’s & Co. Uberti Model 1873 Cattleman in 45 Colt, documented as the hero gun Tim Blake Nelson carried as Buster Scruggs in the Coen Brothers’ 2...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week's editorial is on what separates field training programs that produce street-ready officers from those that produce paper compliance. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going every week.
Anybody running live sonar knows the problem of trying to read and adjust a screen without setting down a rod. Millennium Marine brought a fix to ICAST earlier this month with a new line of Monitor Mounts, offered in single and double configurations for anglers stacking multiple displays. Both ve...
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 a bayonet built for a rifle chambered in 22 Short. This is the bayonet for the Remington No. 4-S American Boy Scout rifle. The story needs one correction up front. This was not a Boy Scouts of America product. In 1913 there were competing sc...
KelTec teased a new little pistol last week, and if you know anything about my taste in firearms, you should know I love KelTec. I love weird guns, and KelTec knows how to make stuff weird. Keeping with their weird tradition, they’ve released the SUB-SDP, aka the Nub Sub. It’s a braced pistol...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rolling block that did not come out of Ilion. This is a Whitney-Laidley Style I military rifle in 43 Spanish. The rolling block was the export success of the 1870s. Remington moved them by the hundreds of thousands to governments all over ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rifle from a maker most people have never heard of. This is a C.B. Holden falling block single shot, the pattern usually called his long range or Creedmoor rifle, in 46 centerfire. Cyrus B. Holden of Worcester, Massachusetts learned the tr...
After 45 years of boning beef, I prefer a flexible blade. The Buck PakLite Processor Pro is surprisingly stiff—but its clean cuts, light weight, and secure sheath make it a serious backcountry hunting knife.