Tag: Mike Nesbitt

Shooting Sharps

[su_heading size=”30″]The gun that made it safe for the Winchester to win the West.[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”light”]C[/su_dropcap]hristian Sharps already had some limited experience with breechloaders when he patented his fallingblock action in 1848. He’d worked at...

Hawking The Hawken

[su_heading size=”30″]In the 1820s, Samuel Hawken joined his brother Jacob at his St. Louis shop, and together they made rifles that helped make history.[/su_heading] Story And Photos By Mike Nesbitt   [su_dropcap size=”5″]W[/su_dropcap]hen Jacob Hawken first began making his “mountain” rifles,...

Goin’ Slow

[su_heading size=”30″]If you are starting out with black powder cartridge shooting, the .45-70 is a great place to begin.[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”flat”]M[/su_dropcap]ost of what we’ve heard or read about black powder cartridge shooting seems to focus...

Crackerjack Barrels

[su_heading size=”30″]Flintlock Construction Inc. offers quality muzzleloading barrels in a variety of calibers, lengths, twists and tapers.[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”light” size=”5″]I [/su_dropcap]recently purchased a .52-caliber barrel from Charles Burton of Flintlock Construction Inc. (FCI) in northeast Kentucky,...

A Tang Sight Better

[su_heading size=”30″]Lyman has reintroduced their popular #2 for the Uberti 1873 and other lever-actions.[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”flat” size=”5″]T[/su_dropcap]he current sustained popularity of the guns of the Old West convinced Lyman to reintroduce some of the fine...

Worth The Wait

[su_heading size=”30″]Dixie Gun Works offers Uberti’s ‘new’ Cattleman Flat-Top single action in .44/40[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”flat” size=”5″]B[/su_dropcap]ack in 1961, Colt allowed some announcements to leak out about a new target-sighted single action they’d soon release. At...

When West Meets East

[su_heading size=”30″].44 Russian A Stubby, But Accurate Load[/su_heading] STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE NESBITT [su_dropcap style=”light” size=”5″]T[/su_dropcap]he .44 Smith & Wesson Russian is a rather stubby little cartridge. It has an overall cartridge length that is just a bit shorter than...