Historical – Page 33 – Scattered Shots

Mitchell Arms Alpha – The Ill-Fated Jim Boland Factory Widebody

Today, we have the Jim Boland-designed Mitchell Arms Alpha widebody pistol. If certain price-guides can be believed, this was cataloged from 1995 to 1997. However, any escaped from the factory for retail sales it would be news to me. The Alpha had a weird set of design features. It could be user configured as eitherContinue reading “Mitchell Arms Alpha – The Ill-Fated Jim Boland Factory Widebody”

Mickey Fowler’s Custom Pistol from Hoag, Plaxco, and Boland

Mickey Fowler gives Ichiro Nagata a look at the custom pistol he used to place second at the first Steel Challenge in 1981, and fourth at the 1982 match.

1920s Vintage Repeating Double Barrel Shotgun

I’ve been intrigued by this design ever since I saw it on the cover of a 1977 issue of American Rifleman. In the 1920s, French inventor Charles Auguste Théodore Levé began patenting designs for magazine-fed variants of the Darne sliding breech side-by-side. One even held four shells in reserve, two for each barrel. Belgian gunmakerContinue reading “1920s Vintage Repeating Double Barrel Shotgun”

Happy Birthday To Eugene Stoner…Father of the AR-15

Happy Birthday Eugene Stoner!

When Marketing Departments Attack…1988

Back in the day, Smith & Wesson went toe to toe with Ruger in full-page magazine attack ads without having to call out their legal departments. Compare and contrast with the current lawfare going on between Springfield Inc. and EAA over their competing ads for their Hi-Power clones.

The Colt AR15 Resource Youtube Channel

Brent, who also writes here on the site has a new youtube channel up for his website, the Colt AR15 Resource. Go sub to him and watch a few of his excellent videos. https://youtube.com/channel/UCyp1pJtv9PdgzJDjYB_EVSw

Colonel William S. Brophy & Sniping In The Korean War

As the Korea war raged in 1952, A captain in IX Corps Ordnance and veteran of infantry combat during WW2 in the Pacific , William S. Brophy recognized a total lack of US Army sniping equipment and marksmanship compared to its current and future needs. In an effort to reverse some of this and educateContinue reading “Colonel William S. Brophy & Sniping In The Korean War”