“Tag: wwi”

This modern 590A1 tactical shotgun from Mossberg is dressed up with the features of a World War I-era combat pump-action.

For the first time ever, we learn how retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mills, decorated Vietnam veteran, found himself with orders to close the doors on this iconic institution.

This is not just a 1911 story. It is a treasure story, just as much a mystery, and there is definitely magic involved.

ARTV heads to Wilsonville, Ore., to check in on Crimson Trace, the company that revolutionized the laser sight industry.

The Model 1895 Austro-Hungarian straight-pull infantry rifle was something of an anomaly. In the usual order of things, an ordnance board was more inclined to first develop an arm for its foot troops and then one for the mounted service.

John Hutchins’ book is the definitive treatise on the machine gun as used by British forces from 1870-2015.

While reading this book, I found myself at about every third or fourth page exclaiming—“I never knew that!”

The notion of a magnifying optical sight goes back centuries. Experiments as early as the 18th century attempted to mount a telescope on a rifle as a sighting aid.

From the American Rifleman archives we learn about the No. 4 Mk I, which was developed when Britain had a limited budget and war was on the horizon.