welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a pistol built for one of the most patient, fickle corners of the shooting world. This is the Peregrine Silverthorne Model 33, a single-shot falling-block pistol made in small numbers in Silverthorne, Colorado in the 1980s. The falling-block action is the whole point, it gives
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt Single Action Army built for Target Line that carries the story of pure Old West. This is a Colt Flattop Target Model, one of the rare factory variations of the 1873 Peacemaker. Colt only made around 925 of them between 1888 and 1896,
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester doing the last thing you’d expect him to do. This is the Winchester-Hotchkiss 1879 First Model, a bolt-action rifle from the company that owned the lever-action world. The Army wanted single-shot and Winchester’s lever guns were never warmed up for service, so Winchester chose
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a quality little rifle from a company that barely existed. This is a Kodiak Model 260, built in North Haven, Connecticut by an outfit that was only in business from 1963 to 1966 (and went by “Jefferson” before that). Even though they were short-lived, they
welcome to today photo of the Day! Here we have a hunting rifle built on a very familiar skeleton. This is the Universal Firearms Vulcan 440, made in Hialeah, Florida in the mid-1960s. Universal continued to make commercial copies of the M1 carbine from surplus and new parts, and Vulcan was trying to do something
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have the most unusual lever gun ever produced by Winchester, and one that many people have never handled. This is the Winchester Model 88, introduced in 1955, it was the first all-new lever-action Winchester designed in nearly 60 years, and it eliminated almost everything that
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have the rare sight of a company that doesn’t forget a lot. This is the Benelli B77, a .32 ACP member of Benelli’s short-lived foray into the handgun market in the late 1970s and ’80s. You know Benelli for guns, and there’s a reason: the
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have H&K answering a question that no one at the factory had planned for. This is the USP Match in .45 ACP. The base USP appeared in the mid-90s as H&K’s larger polymer service pistol, aimed mostly at the US market and sharing some DNA
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have where it all started for one of the biggest names in guns. This is the Heckler & Koch HK4, the first pistol H&K ever produced. They had made a name for themselves in the early 1960s by transforming the roller-lock CETME into the G3
Welcome to today’s program photo of the Day! Here we have a unique thing coming out of Italy in the 1980s. This is the Sights Specter HC, a semi-auto pistol version of the Specter M4 submachine gun manufactured in Turin. The Full-Auto Original was built for close range work, VIP protection, counter-terrorism, jobs where you