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Battle-sight boar: Hunting non-sporter style with a vintage Mauser K98k.
In my day most shooters started with military surplus rifles. For thousands of early Baby Boomers like me, the hot ticket was a 1903 Springfield. A good one cost forty bucks in 1960. In those innocent days before the 1968 Gun Control Act magazines like this carried full-page ads from which we could order a wonderful array of Springfields, Enfields, Mausers, and so many more. Some of us shot them as is, but in those days sporterizing was “in,” so we restocked and ...
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Dead-Stock In my day most shooters started with military surplus rifles. For thousands of early Baby Boomers like me, ... Read More
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Maynard's Masterpiece Being an old ordnance officer myself, I can image the frustration of my Civil War-period cohorts in trying to keep ... Read More
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The Portuguese Vergueiro Although one of the smaller European countries, a series of dynamic seafaring explorations beginning in the 14th ... Read More
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The Snuffbox Rifle With the exception of the American Civil War, it would be difficult to find a conflict in which so many different ... Read More
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Browse AllIdentification And Values- Nov 2009
MOSIN-NAGANT Q: I recently purchased a Mosin-Nagant model 91/30, serial number EP30XX. I paid a little over a $130 for it. All parts have matching ... Read More
The Answer
Before there can be an answer, there must be a question. In this case, the question was directed to Wayne Novak. As the designer of perhaps the most-used ... Read More
- Remington Core-Lokts the .357 In the area of handgun hunting, the .357 Magnum has never really been taken seriously as a viable cartridge for ... Read More
- Service Short/Service Long Somehow, Marines invariably recognize each other. I was waiting for a table at a restaurant when I struck up a ... Read More
- The Red Grasshopper Had they seen it, many would have considered it outrageous. Fact is, it's just another example of the bygone ways ... Read More
- The Finishing Touch You can take any brand-new rifle to the range, punch the grease out of the bore and start shooting. Provided you don't ... Read More
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Browse AllThe Ultimate Enfield
There is little doubt that during World War II the British fielded the best general-issue sniper rifle of the conflict, the No. 4 (T) Lee-Enfield. Granted, ... Read More
The M1 Carbine
Black guns and laser sights aside, if I had to pick two guns for urban survival, they would be the 1911 Government .45 and the M1 Carbine. Forget that the ... Read More
- Maynard's Masterpiece Being an old ordnance officer myself, I can image the frustration of my Civil War-period cohorts in trying to keep logistics straight when there were literally ... Read More
- Dead-Stock In my day most shooters started with military surplus rifles. For thousands of early Baby Boomers like me, the hot ticket was a 1903 Springfield. A ... Read More
- The Portuguese Vergueiro Although one of the smaller European countries, a series of dynamic seafaring explorations beginning in the 14th century bequeathed Portugal numerous colonies ... Read More
- Uberti Lightning Back in the early 1880s, Winchester had the repeating-rifle market pretty well sewn up. On the other hand, the Colt Single Action Army Revolver was probably ... Read More
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