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1 week ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
; . “You gotta get one of these.” He held up a squarish, palm-size device. “You’ll never set another chronograph screen. This has Doppler magic, like a radar gun.” He set it down.
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1 month ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
May 21st, 2025
10 minute read
While Black Hills Ammunition today is ubiquitous within the firearms community, like so many other American success stories, it had very humble beginnings.
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1 month ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
; . The German company of J.P. Sauer & Son began life in Suhl, an old town in the iron-rich region just southwest of the Thuringian Forest.
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1 month ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
; . “We’re mighty proud of it,” said Mark Gurney.
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1 month ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
; . Scopes are bigger and heavier now because we demand more of them.
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2 months ago | 
shoot-on.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
by Wayne van ZwollIn 1873, Winchester announced its first centerfire cartridge, the .44 W.C.F. (.44-40) and a lever-action repeating rifle to fire it. The U.S. Army issued its first .45-70 rifles. And Samuel Colt trotted out his Single Action Army revolver. In Africa, explorer and missionary David Livingstone died at 32. Hunters were already killing buffalo for market on our western frontier, and elephants for their ivory in Africa. Elephants would outlast buffalo.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
gunsmagazine.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
; . My first hunting scope, a 2-½x Bushnell that cost $39.50, proved a wondrous aid. While Williams open sights on my .303 SMLE had helped me shoot deer, the scope didn’t obscure half the target.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
thearmorylife.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
February 19th, 2025
8 minute read
In today’s article, a review of Hornady Backcountry Defense 10mm Auto ammunition, Wayne van Zwoll examines the load from the perspective of a outdoorsman with a need for bear-stopping power. How well does it perform? The author goes hands-on with the ammo to find out.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
shotbusiness.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
By Wayne van ZwollThe role of revolvers in our Frontier West has much to do with their enduring appeal. Hollywood has spiced history with romance, forging new and memorable personalities for people on both sides of the law. Later, as hard-bitten cops upstaged cowboy heroes, double-action revolvers replaced single actions. Sales of Smith & Wesson’s Model 29 jumped after Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry used the big .44 to dispense justice.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
shoot-on.com | Wayne Van Zwoll
by Wayne van ZwollIt was a shorter shot than expected. In fact, if I’d had my druthers, it would have been longer. We’d been on the track a couple of hours. “We” was really “they.” Trailing a leopard is graduate-level work. I was a rookie compared to the Namibians. From the dead calf, the spoor wound through light bush toward thickets crowning rocky kopjes. The pair of small dogs seemed to lose interest as steel-wool wait-a-bit closed about them.
