In 1917, Gee McMeans was much better known than Frank Hamer. McMeans had been a Texas Ranger, the elected sheriff of Ector County, Texas...

Blue wildebeest, eland, gemsbok, greater kudu, impala, lechwe, springbok, white-tailed deer, and zebra. Right off the top of my head...

At the end of World War II, with their government contracts filled, the firearms companies got back to making guns for the civilian...

John Taffin passed away on March 10, 2025. He was 85 years old. John invited me to the Shootist Holiday in the early 1990s...It must have..

There was a time when every detective worth his salt carried some sort of snub-nosed revolver. And, naturally, a lot of citizens who felt...

Studying the gunfighters, lawmen, and outlaws of the Old West one encounters some shootouts that were unavoidable. Some were justified...

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...