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While I haven't shot one, I have seen one in person at the first New England Blogshoot many moons ago.  It's pretty cool. Well, if y...

Wilson Combat shipped a very nice firearm via UPS.   Said firearm went missing . The droids that work at UPS seem not to understand just h...

(bang, bang) (shoot, shoot) It was fun to have a range weekend with co-blogger and Brother-From-Another-Mother ASM826.  We shot a lot of o...

They're going to bury him in mud for a week, then dig him up and put him back to work. From Andrew via email. UPDATE 12/16/2013 22:3...

I knew that the UK made something like 19 Million Lee-Enfield rifles, so they were found everywhere.  I also knew that there was a terrible ...

No, this isn't a confession about my uber posts, it's about a rifle.  A Two-bore, to be precise.  Via the magic of the Intarwebz and...

Andrea emails to point our a gallery of strange firearms designs, like this revolver designed for hand to hand fighting : The Buddha migh...

OK, Borepatchians, here a trivia question for you: Sherlock Holmes' companion Dr. Watson was an officer in the British army in Afghanist...

Warning - you'll lose a lot of time here . Breda PG 1935 .

Like His Newtness, I think big. 76mm HEAT M4 Sherman main battery (with tank as gun platform).  The 76mm was a big improvement over the or...

( Image source ) The repeating action on this is unique.  A sliding cone over the muzzle was driven forward by the muzzle blast.  A long...

( Image source ) The early days of self-loading pistols give us some marvelous failed designs, as inventors tried different approaches to...

Watch this scene from 1975's The Wind And The Lion , and you'll see Brian Keith as Teddy Roosevelt looped up for target practice. ...

( Image source ) A design from the early days of semi-automatic pistols is the Japanese Hino-Komura pistol of 1907.  The Russo-Japanese W...

I may start a new meme here.  In researching my recent posts using scenes from the film Tombstone , I ran across an odd and wonderful old ri...