Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a full size Single Action Army with a seven and a half inch barrel chambered in 22 rimfire. I know how that sounds. There is a real reason for it. Back in the mid 1870s Colt built a small run of Peacemakers in 44 Rimfire. On […] The p...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Colt’s first long gun and one of the more alarming ideas Hartford ever put into production. The Colt Model 1855 sporting rifle is a scaled up Root revolver. Side hammer, solid frame with a top strap, creeping loading lever and an oile...
Spend enough time around gun counters or internet forums and you’ll eventually hear someone grumble about “video game guns.” Usually it’s from shooters who grew up watching westerns, war movies, or cop shows instead. The reality is every generation has had something that s...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Model 1841 that somebody went after with a saw during the Civil War. The 1841 picked up its Mississippi Rifle nickname from Jefferson Davis and the 1st Mississippi at Buena Vista in 1847, and it was a good gun. 54 caliber, brass mounted, p...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a working cop gun that somebody put in a tuxedo. The Detective Special showed up in 1927 when Colt cut the Police Positive Special down to a two inch barrel. That was the whole idea. Six rounds of 38 that would ride under a coat all […...
What do you get if you cross a garden tool with a cleaver, and add a wooden handle like those found on a chef’s knife? The answer is CRKT’s Mah-chete (CRKT.com), and you’ll surely get on board fast with its unconventional survival knife attributes. This camp knife boasts an unyielding blade...
We’re still waiting to see how all the fallout lands after the Supreme Court ended the National Firearms Act’s registration and approval requirements for short-barreled rifles and suppressors. However, some hunters are going to be very keen to take advantage of what appears to be a ma...
The new Taurus GX4 Carry T.O.R.O. packs 15+1 rounds into a soft-shooting, optics-ready .380. Its capacity and ergonomics impressed us, is it ready for everyday carry?
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt hand picked by the most famous man the company ever put in front of the public. John Henry Fitzgerald, Fitz to everybody who knew him, was Colt’s roving expert from the early 1920s until he died in 1945. He ran the exhibition sh...
Facial recognition, RFID, and fingerprints are all common biometric access tools. But for a rapid-access safe, the key is within your hands themselves The post Hornady’s Night Guard Biometric Safe Unlocks Using the Veins in Your Hand appeared first on Outdoor Life.