The BL-22 is a quintessential plinking machine.

If you follow these steps you can put together a vintage build that even the most particular of your gun buddies will be jealous of.

The old rimfires are some of the most fun to own, the most fun to shoot, but mostly, they carry with them the most memories.

No other scope topped more rifles during that period.  It was the most popular and is still the most famous hunting scope ever made.

The optics and mounts that graced the pre-war Savage model 99’s are definitely beautiful in their own vintage right, but functionally crude in comparison to those that came after the war.

This spring I decided to make myself a nice, compact bear gun that could go with me anywhere, all spring.

At just under 3,000 turkeys killed, I understand that I’ve been responsible for more turkeys meeting their demise than any human since those records have been kept. 

….in my dreams I would have owned this set up.  Flat out flat.  Flat out beautiful.

I don’t always fall in love with anniversary or commemorative edition rifles, but when I do, they look like this.

When Winchester necked down the Savage 250-3000 in 1935, they created the fastest commercially available cartridge of its day

That’s how it worked back then. My how times have changed.

This one is almost sure to be the prettiest shotgun in your neck of the woods this fall.  It’s glamorous look will make it seem like you broke the bank, even though you didn’t.

In the 1950's very few hunters carried large calibers.  In fact, a .300 was almost unheard of in normal hunting circles, making a .300 H&H a rare find in a Remington 721.  This month we built a period-correct combination…

During WWII companies like Remington and Weaver had increased their workforce as much as 20-fold to help save the free world.  Yes, the same one that would hate them for some reason a few decades later.

If you owned this combination back in the day, you probably thought you were the bomb of long range hunting...and you probably were.

In 1948 Remington introduced its bolt action 721.  This rifle would come to define hunting accuracy for decades.  In the post-WWII era scopes were still hard to afford yet hunters and shooters were looking for more accuracy and adjustment than iron sights offered.

In the late 1970's when coyote pelt prices were at an all time high and prairie dogs made great off-season practice, this is the setup I would have dreamed about....

When scopes were blued to match their rifles, the combinations always looked like they made sense.  This month we matched a combination that really makes sense, whether you planned to coyote hunt, or shoot a match.

In 1991 I was looking for a gun that could hunt as hard as I hunted.  No bluing to rust, no wood to scratch or warp, and then Ruger came out with their awful looking Zytel (boat paddle) stocked M77 Mark II.  It was beautiful ugliness that I immediately fell in love with.