FIREARM: Fusil d’infanterie modèle 1777 corrigé an IXMANUFACTURER: Manufacture Imperial de TulleCALIBER: 17.5 mm (.69)MANUFACTURED: c. 1805CONDITION: Fine (NRA Antique Gun Standards)VALUE: $2,750 By the early 1700s, small arms began to take on increasingly uniform aspects. Circa 1727, the British introduced what would be the precursor to a line of fine flintlock infantry arms that, somewhere along the way, picked up the nickname “Brown Bess.” France, in 1717, fielded a standardized musket of its own, the progeny of which would later generically be referred to as “Charlevilles.” Origins of the cognomen of the British family of muskets are still unsettled,…

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In 2025, Federal Ammunition introduced one of the most innovative new cartridges in recent memory: the 7 mm Backcountry. Unlike other recent cartridge launches, the key to the 7 mm Backcountry wasn’t just in the design of the cartridge but also the type of material used in its case construction. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of this new rifle round. “Well, new cartridges in big-game hunting don’t come along very often, so when they do, it’s fairly big news. And this one, the 7 mm Backcountry by Federal is particularly interesting,” American…

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00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we’re joined by Brody Nate, John, Marge Logan and am I missing anyone? Maxwell? 00:00:22 Speaker 3: Maxwell? I’m here. 00:00:23 Speaker 2: This is a ten round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater’s four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. All right, we have a couple of mailbag questions…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Within a few hours, nineteen men found one leopard. They all blasted away, but a state trooper who was using a submachine gun he got credit for the kill. At dawn the next morning, a local lumberjack stalked the other leopard with a little mongrel pup called Tony and a deerhound. Tony spotted the leopard and bravely charged it. He was instantly killed. Fair stunned the beast with three quick shots, then clubbed it to death with his rifle. By the week’s end, one black bear and one monkey had surrendered meekly, but the other animals were…

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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Understand that applications are on you Appleseed events are threading a needle. They need to say that they are not fomenting rebellion or any illegal use of force. They have to say this because they are pointing to our American heritage of marksmanship…without which our rebellion against the brits would have failed. You don’t need to be a lawyer to see the tension. The only way you can survive that tension is by erring on the side of liability protection. They are not teaching hunting. They are not teaching self defense. They…

On April 22, 1056 Supernova Crab (the Crab Nebula) was last seen by the naked eye. Pictured is a mosaic image assembled from Hubble Space Telescope imagery.  Now, nearly a thousand years later, the supenova remnant is still a spectacular sight for astronomers. — At noon, on April 22, 1889, by Federal decree, white settlers were allowed into Indian Territory, sparking a land rush involving tens of thousands in what became Oklahoma Territory. — We are running a two-week-long sale on all of our pre-1899 antique shotguns at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday,…