|
|
REVIEWS
The Ever-Evolving Icon
The Warlord: Thompson/Center’s first-ever bolt action has now reached a peak of accuracy and tactical sophistication.
Only four years have passed since the unveiling of Thompson/Center’s first bolt action, the Icon. After a century and a quarter of development, there is very little genuinely new about a turnbolt action. Certainly, that applies to the Icon, but T/C was able to utilize its expertise in close-tolerance machining to create a rigid, accuracy-enhancing action, and T/C was able to tap into, if not 125 years of development, at least recent developments in determining the features shooters were ...
The Ever-Evolving IconRecent Articles
Browse All|
|
-
The Ever-Evolving Icon Only four years have passed since the unveiling of Thompson/Center’s first bolt action, the Icon. After a ... Read More
-
Death By (Quarter) Inches As an unabashed and unapologetic lover of all—repeat, all—25-caliber rifle cartridges, it pains me ... Read More
-
Tactical Hunter McMillan has taken its 30 years of experience building tactical rifles for elite military and law enforcement ... Read More
-
CZ-USA VZ 58 Look closely—it is not an AK-47. This gem of a combat rifle was designed and built behind the Iron Curtain ... Read More
G&A Recommends
Browse AllShoulder Arms
The role of the infantryman, for the most part, has pretty much been the same through the ages, and if you read some period accounts it becomes obvious that ... Read More
The .30 Shrinks Again
In 1903, the United States military adopted a rimless bottleneck cartridge for use in the new 1903 Springfield rifle. It featured a 220-grain round-nose bullet ... Read More
- Single-Action Self-Defense It's not often enough that my friend Pete Kellen calls, but when he does the conversation is always notable . Pete is ... Read More
- Tipped And Bonded Original expanding bullets were simply a cup-and-core--the cup of jacket material drawn to shape, with a lead core ... Read More
- November 2006 S&W Model 547 Q: I have a Smith & Wesson 9mm revolver Model 547. I've shot it a lot over the years, and it's ... Read More
- Para's Power Package Over the past few centuries or so, one of the main goals of gun makers has been to try to pack as much power in as ... Read More
Popular Content
Browse AllFire For Effect!
I will never forget how sad I was to surrender the heavy—but accurate and hard-hitting—M14 in favor of a strange-looking toy rifle we called an M16 ... Read More
Use (Just) Enough Gun
For decades, African hunters have quoted Robert “Use Enough Gun” Ruark. And with good reason. New hunters trying for heavy or dangerous game have a ... Read More
- Dead-Stock In my day most shooters started with military surplus rifles. For thousands of early Baby Boomers like me, the hot ticket was a 1903 Springfield. A ... Read More
- Two No. 1 Resurrections Since 1967 the Ruger No. 1 has played a continuing role in bringing back old but great cartridges that, for one reason or another, have fallen into ... Read More
- Uberti Lightning Back in the early 1880s, Winchester had the repeating-rifle market pretty well sewn up. On the other hand, the Colt Single Action Army Revolver was probably ... Read More
- SIG's 556 SWAT SIG's line of 556 carbines created quite a buzz at the 2006 SHOT Show, as evidenced by the long line at the SIG booth and a lengthy backorder list. ... Read More
© 2009 Intermedia Outdoors. All rights reserved.
