Collected here are several pages describing what has become my passion in collecting and shooting firearms: the vintage sporting arms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as contemporary interpretations of those classics. While the rest of the shooting and hunting world chases after the latest camouflage synthetic stocked, fluted heavy barrel pseudo-tactical "modern sporting rifle" innovation chambered in the current ultra short magnum flavor of the month or yet another variation on the 5.56 x 45 mm, I will savor the marvels of yesteryear.
Table of Contents
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- The Ultimate Custom Classic .256 Mannlicher Model 1895 Sporting Rifle -- My brother rebuilds a mutilated clunker into a fine sporting rifle -- Updated 21 January 2012
- Shooting the Westley Richards 1869 Model .450 Number 1 Carbine Sporting Rifle -- I conduct an exhaustive investigation of nitro-for-black loads for this obscure and venerable light rifle-cartridge combination
- Shooting the Webley Mk VI .45 Auto Rim Revolver -- I develop loads for this post-war American import that are both safe and duplicate the original Webley ammunition
Pages In Progress
- Retro-Vintage: Re-Making the Ruger M77 Mk II Magnum Express Rifle .416 Rigby -- A custom rifle building project wherein a stock Ruger Magnum is transformed into a more traditional and functional classic big-bore
- The Classic Cartridges Test -- An investigation in the actual performance of the famous and infamous cartridges from the dawn of smokeless powder
- Restoring and Shooting the W. W. Greener .303 Lee-Speed -- My brother restores a vintage 1895 sporting rifle and I wrestle with making it shoot again
- Restoring and Shooting the Westley Richards .577/.450 Martini-Henry Sporting Rifle -- An involved project to breathe new life into a well used African rifle and the quest to find a modern recipe for ancient and arcane ammunition
- Recreating a 1910 Mannlicher-Schoenauer 9.5 x 57 mm Sporting Rifle -- The most obscure (and interesting) of the original Mannlicher rifles is reborn
Future Project Pages
- Retro-Vintage: A Modern .450 Stalking Rifle - Shooting the .45-70 Ruger No. 1 -- I pursue the romance of the classic British stalking rifle with modern loads in a limited edition Ruger
- Retro-Vintage: Classic Northwoods Rifle - Shooting the Browning Model 71 in .348 Winchester -- An examination of the grandest lever action of all time
- Restoring and Shooting the Thomas Bland Double Rifle: .577/.500 Number 2 Express -- An ongoing project in the painstaking restoration and load development for a mainstay of 19th century British big game hunters
- The Classic Model 1898 Mauser Sporting Rifle Project -- I enlist the skills of my brother and renowned gunsmiths to create my vision of the quintessential British Mauser sporter
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