My first exposure to the Remington 870 was not at a shooting range or in the woods pursuing wild game. It came when I was 10 years old, sitting on the couch at a buddy’s house watching an R-rated movie I shouldn’t have been. Point Break (1991) ...
Bullpup Shotgun: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In the early 1900s, Thorneycroft Carbine developed the first bullpup rifle design, which placed the action to the rear of the trigger and shortened the overall length of British military rifles. It was an inventive piece of engineering, but the guns ...
Beretta 1301 Tactical: The Must-Have Semi-Auto Shotty
In the five centuries that Beretta has been in existence, the Italian gunmaker has dabbled in just about every type of shooting platform there is. But the shotgun is where Beretta has carved out its largest niche, and the semi-automatic Beretta 1301 ...
What Makes a Tactical Shotgun ‘Tactical’?
You see it all the time — shotguns from various manufacturers, big and small, billed as as tactical shotgun. They're usually all black with a full-length mag tube, but other than that, what makes a "tactical" model different from a field or target ...
Military Shotguns: The History of Scatterguns Issued by the U.S.
Winchester’s Model 1897 was one of the first modern U.S. military shotguns to be used in the World Wars. Called a “trench gun,” the Model 97 was a critical weapon American soldiers used to clear trenches during combat. The fighting was at close ...
