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Some Old Bastard
He pulled the old ranch truck with the stock trailer holding his buckskin gelding over to the side of the county road, not far from where all the squad cars were sitting. With his spur rowels jingling softly, he walked up to a young highway patrolman and asked what was going on...
May 2


Salute to the Old Single Action
Dan Westbrook had been a veteran of World War I. When he got home from that little fuss he went to work as a theft investigator for one...
Apr 5


Colt Trooper: The Python Understudy
At the end of World War II, with their government contracts filled, the firearms companies got back to making guns for the civilian...
Mar 16


Smith And Wesson's Heavy Duty
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...
Feb 15


Adios, Red
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...
Jan 25


Bad Guys and Buckshot
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...
Jan 10


The Smith & Wesson Combat Magnum
In the summer of 1954, a Swedish-born industrialist sat down with a veteran gunfighter and created revolver history. The gunfighter had...
Dec 30, 2024


Six Decades with the 41 Remington Magnum
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...
Dec 24, 2024


Hell Paso: The M'Rose Incident
Instead of El Paso, this story actually starts in southeast New Mexico near a town called Eddy, now known as Carlsbad. And the central...
Dec 22, 2024
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