The .44 Magnum is one of my all-time favorite cartridges. But it hasn’t always been that way. We didn’t really get together until I got some firearms education and got enough nerve to do some experimentation...

You just never know what you’ll see at a small-town gun show. A few years ago, I walked into our show that’s held each Labor Day weekend at Sul Ross State University in Alpine and sauntered up...

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...

Smith & Wesson introduced the .44 Special cartridge in 1907, in that classic revolver that is called the Triple Lock.  Although the...

Perched in an old quad-pod near a windmill in remote Pecos County, Texas is one of my favorite places to be each fall. For reasons...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...