Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 71, Issue 25 i Firearms News

Most of us have been in a steakhouse or bar where old guns were part of the décor. The most common comment is usually, “Boy, if that old shoot-in’ iron could talk…” There’s a café in Mariposa, Calif., with scores of firearms to dazzle any gun enthusiasts who go there. The security system is better than most banks. Another fine display is the toast of Pine Top, Ariz., an ancient steakhouse where each booth is blessed with an epic veteran of the Old West (including a Winchester-Hotchkiss sporter). Over the years, I’ve picked up three rifles that all lived on the walls of Western bars and finally found ammunition for all of them. Do they work? Type 99 Arisaka; Beatty Club, Beatty, Nev. Yes, tiny Beatty is where you have…

Since the first announcement of the availability of a monstrous, 2 bore rifle in the 2010 Gun Digest, British Best Quality gun maker Giles Whittome has been turning out a steady stream of them as fast as he can make them. Some of these have gone to Russia. The Russians can be very secretive. We know they have been trying to clone the wooly mammoth. Kinda makes you wonder just what HAVE they brought back. The latest rifle is a high art piece with green-gold inlays of Tyrannosaurus Rex for a repeat customer. This certainly is a proper size rifle for a Tyrannosaurus Rex to use if he were to go gunning for Brontosaurus. The maximum load is a 3,500-grain lead slug backed by 24 drams of #6 black powder.…

My shooting buddy, Chris Kelly, was practicing for an upcoming rifle match when I joined him on my shooting tower. I was carrying a couple of boxes when he looked up from loading a magazine. While he watched, I unboxed a new model from LaRue Tactical chambered in 6.5mm Grendel. Next, I pulled out the 1.5-6x42mm Burris scope, which had shipped separately. I snapped this onto the rifle, and then pulled out my old LaRue Tactical TranQuilo suppressor. After mounting this, I went prone, and while inserting the magazine, asked him if he’d mind spotting. “What load is it zeroed for?” he asked, as I settled in behind the rifle. “Dunno, I just took it out of the box,” I replied. “Want to check it at 100 yards first?” “Naw,…

In Part I of this report, we discussed the creation of the post-WWI Polish Army and the establishment of a native firearms industry to equip them. While Poland had a well-equipped and motivated army, the 1939 invasion by both Nazi Germany and the USSR forced them to fight a two-front war, for which they were ill-prepared. While their army had been defeated, the Polish government never surrendered, but instead fled the country, first to France and later Great Britain where they established the Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie (Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile). France & Great Britain Thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians escaped their conquered homeland. Many traveled through the Balkans to French-controlled Syria, where the French army organized about 4,000 into the Polish Independent Carpathian…