British Motorcycle Gear

Guns

The .30-30 Model 336 Marlin

I’ve been a huge fan of the .30-30 since the mid-1970s, which is when I first owned a Marlin 336.…

6 years ago

A bad influence?

I may be that kid your mother always warned you about. You know, the bad influence. The one who might…

6 years ago

A Tale of Two No. 1s

...and those two would be Ruger No. 1 single-shot rifles, arguably the classiest rifles on the planet. I smile when…

6 years ago

A quick update…

Wow, we sure are generating a lot of interest, a lot of hits, and a lot of comments here on…

6 years ago

The Rimfire Series: A 200th Year Ruger .22

The story goes something like this: William Batterman Ruger (we all knew him as Bill) was a government engineer in…

6 years ago

A Ducati story, and more…

I get four motorcycle magazines:  Motorcycle Classics, RoadRUNNER, American Iron, and Motorcyclist.  Every  once in a while, a story comes…

6 years ago

Sniper!

I’ve written before about the Mosin-Nagant rifle, and I thought I would return to that topic to tell you a…

6 years ago

A tale of three Garands…

This is a tale of three Garand-style rifles, told from my laptop while waiting to make a connection in Taipei. …

6 years ago

Aging like a fine wine: My Model 59

Dial back the clock a cool 46 years (which would put us in 1972), and Smith and Wesson had only…

6 years ago

The Atlantic Highlands…

New Jersey may not be a place you would ordinarily think of for a motorcycle ride, but I grew up…

6 years ago