Guns of our Fathers: The Winchester Self-Loading Model 1910, The Ford Edsel of Winchester Rifles
Do you have a story like this to contribute to Western Shooting Journal? Each issue we run a Guns of our Fathers story in the print magazine. Submit your story to ralexander@media-inc.com. By Cecil Beal The Winchester self-loading rifles came into existence just as our nation was moving into a new, fast-paced century. The […]
My Memory of 9/11
On 9/11/2001 I did not wake up to this when terrorists flew jet liners into the twin towers. My day had already begun at 0500 hour while serving in the USAF undergoing advanced SRT training at Ft. Leonardwood. By 0615 hour, we were prepped ready to rehearse in taking down a building. This morning exercise […]
Guns of our Fathers: The Remington
Our featured Guns of our Fathers story from the September issue of Western Shooting Journal. Some of our readers think this is the best part of the magazine! Share your story with us of how you inherited your gun. Email the editor at ralexander@media-inc.com. By Brian Lull I met this gun in 1984, the first […]
Guns of our Fathers: The Remington
Note: Guns of our Fathers is a regular monthly feature in the print edition of Western Shooting Journal. If you have a story you’d like to share about a gun you inherited, please email it to ralexander@media-inc.com. By Brian Lull I met this gun in 1984, the first year I was licensed to hunt deer. […]
Happy 4th of July from Western Shooting Journal! Why not celebrate it with a howitzer and some mortars?
From our July issue The Cannon That Grant County Built Community Teams up to Make One Man’s Dream of Owning a Civil War-Era Mountain Howitzer This story could really be titled, “The folly of saying ‘I think it would be fun to (fill in the blank)’ in an off-hand comment to one’s wife.” According to […]
Can a Rifle Accuracy be more Consistent at Long Range than it is at Short Range?
The Summary I’ve heard more than one rifleman say that its possible for a rifle to be more accurate at long range than it is at short range. On first hearing this, I assumed they were talking about MOA, rather than actual group size. For example, I thought it might be possible that a rifle […]
Blind Veteran Gets his Utah Elk
The Sovereign Sportsman and Camp Patriot, a non-profit organization, got together and helped a blind veteran shoot an elk, Matt Slaton, an Air Force EOD technician who was injured while deployed to Iraq. In this video, Micah Clark with Camp Patriot helps Matt hunt elk in Utah. Camp Patriot is an organization that creates an […]
Light Recoil: If you need to Rethink Hard-Kicking Guns
Recoil isn’t a big deal, until it is. During the 2013 Shot Show I began seeing a lot of “junk” floating in my left eye. An ophthalmologist found two horseshoe-shaped tears in the retina. Emergency and follow-up laser treatment isolated the tears, greatly reducing risk of a detached retina. All the docs said I was very lucky […]
NRA Life of Duty Memorial Day Tribute: Honoring the Fallen
Today, we honor the countless heroes who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to answer our country’s call to arms. Please take a few minutes to watch our Memorial Day Tribute featuring Norman St. Germain – Seaman First Class, USS Gambier Bay who spent 47 hours in the shark-infested waters of Leyte Gulf after his ship […]
I Built This AK-47 It's Legal and Totally Untraceable
The wooden and steel parts I need to build my untraceable AK-47 ?t within a slender, 15-by-12-inch cardboard box. I first lay eyes on them one Saturday morning in the garage of an eggshell-white industrial complex near Los Angeles. Foldout tables ring the edges of the room, surrounding two orange shop presses. The walls, dusty […]