If you spend any time at all around AR-15 enthusiasts you learn at least one thing; these guys like to hang all sorts of things on their firearms. Equipped with multiple Picatinny and/or Weaver rails, their rifles sprout everything from computer enhanced tactical night sighting systems to big screen home […]

If there was ever a gun that cried out to be left alone it would be the Marlin Model 1895G. If it could speak, and not that I would admit to listening, it would probably explain that for over a hundred years it has been suitable for real hunters, trappers […]

In Maine we refer to this as a clearing and, frequently, a long shot opportunity. So when I hunt locally, the .257 Weatherby Magnum remains in the rack, while the Marlin Guide Gun gets a routine work out. Rugged, durable and accurate, for many hunters, the Marlin has become the […]

While I wasn’t present at the moment of design inception, it is my impression that the original intent of a full length stock was to protect a gun’s barrel when pressed into service within a harsh environment… like war, as exemplified by any number of pre-Vietnam era design military firearms. […]

I know, pretty spiffy motto for the post office, but actually a paraphrase of Herodotus describing the Persian method of swift message delivery circa 480 BC. Herodotus wrote, “It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that […]

It got to thinking, while I was making some heavily seasoned mushroom spaghetti sauce, that I was a lousy shot with a revolver, but getting near GI Joe proficient with an autoloader. About the time the garlic in the bottom of the pot caught fire, I realized almost all of […]

My first centerfire rifle was a Marlin Model 336 in .30-30 WCF, a gun that is still in active use today. But the Marlin I own that gets the most use is a Model 1895 Guide Gun. Chambered for the .45-70 Gov’t., it is used for hunting, recreational target shooting […]

The GP100 is a classic representation of a revolver. A sturdy, accurate and reliable shooter, it comes straight from the factory ready to defend, punch holes in paper targets or hunt. Since I purchased one, I find myself shooting much more frequently. With a few hundred rounds of wad cutters […]

My wife tells me I need to get out and shop more. She feels such a brush with reality might get me beyond my 1970’s “cost of things” frame of reference. In Joe Land, I can still buy a luxury car for $5,000, a house for $50,000 and a good […]

Early yesterday evening, just about dusk, my wife motioned me over to the sliding doors that lead out to the porch to show me the buck that was feeding in the back yard. Big animal, eight points. She loves all of the wild life that cruises through the yard and […]