The Model 1886 Winchester was the first John Browning-designed repeating rifle to be manufactured by Winchester. The classic lines and...

I was just a big kid, horseback near the Nueces River, the first time I got a really close look at javalinas. I rounded a bend in the...

Back in 1930 this country was in one of the periodic messes that Americans like to stir up. They’d decided to hold the Great Depression...

The country where I live in far West Texas has the only mountains in the state. They run from the Big Bend of the Rio Grande all the way...

The morning air was crisp in the high desert as we unloaded my side by side from the trailer at dawn. Right after the sun breaks the...

If we could anticipate, or predict, when we would be the target of a violent attack we wouldn’t carry a handgun at all. A shotgun or...

Well friends, once again the SHOT Show has flown by! What starts out as “an entire week” is gone in the blink of an eye. The best part is...

Any way you’d want to look at it, Rafael “Red” Lopez was a bad dude. Border legend has it that he was from the Mexican state of Coahuila...

In the 1950s, all should have been well with the world if for no other reason than that blasted world war was over. But such was not the...

Hunting camps and the folks we share them with are as important as the wildlife we see and hunt, oftentimes they are the most important...

A few years ago I had the pleasure of making two trips to Australia to participate in a buffalo management project. I was hunting with...

Jack Taylor spotted them the minute he left his shop and started down towards the Post Office. Years ago, Captain Wright had told him to...

After a couple days hunting the vast Manketti Reserve with Quagga Safaris Professional Hunters (PHs) Eon Kok and Tyron Fletcher it became...

In the summer of 1954, a Swedish-born industrialist sat down with a veteran gunfighter and created revolver history. The gunfighter had...

The grand 41 Magnum turned 60 years old this year. Originally it was designed to bridge the gap between the 357 and 44 Magnums, and...

Instead of El Paso, this story actually starts in southeast New Mexico near a town called Eddy, now known as Carlsbad. And the central...

My first centerfire handgun was a used 4-inch Colt Official Police in .38 Special. And, already having some idea of the proper way to do...

Folks can talk all they want about how tough the old west towns of Dodge City, Tombstone, and others were, my pick for the toughest...

Smith & Wesson’s Model 28 Highway Patrolman is a no-nonsense, stout sixgun. The matt-blued Model 28 was designed to be a working...

For me, the greater kudu is one of the most impressive and beautiful of all the antelope species found on the continent of Africa...