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** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** A few years ago, I had the ...

On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squadron of 16 heavily modified B-25 Mitchell bombers off the deck of the USS Hornet to conduct a strike on the Japanese mainland. The Doolittle Raid ...

My dad was a professor at the University of Virginia but instead of going to college like my parents had planned for me, I decided to attend gunsmithing school at the Colorado School of Trades. That ...

There’s a point every rifle shooter reaches where you start wondering whether a factory gun can ever match what the custom builders turn out. Barrel quality, trigger work, bedding, and smooth ...

A loom fixer for an Amsterdam carpet mill set up shop as a gunsmith in 1948 and then made his living building custom rifles and repairing firearms until his death in 1960. Raymond Overbaugh, born in ...

In recent years, a significant portion of the hunting rifle market has turned toward high-end, semi-custom rifles, and the CT Rival from Fierce Firearms is an interesting new contender in this ...