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A cutting-edge enterprise takes on the lightweight-hunting-rifle market with models that defy expectations—all without ...

Every time that Parish Davis steps into his workshop to build a custom rifle, he's somewhere within a process that takes up to nine months from beginning to end. Much of what he does is rooted in his ...

David Miller of Tucson, Az., has turned a longtime love of hunting into a custom rifle-making business recognized by enthusiasts around the world. The gunsmith, 72, is completely self-taught. He ...

My dad was a professor at the University of Virginia but instead of going to college like my parents had planned for me, I decided to attend gunsmithing school at the Colorado School of Trades. That ...

On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squadron of 16 heavily modified B-25 Mitchell bombers off the deck of the USS Hornet to conduct a strike on the Japanese mainland. The Doolittle Raid ...

There’s a strange moment when you realize your custom rifle doesn’t shoot as well as the stock one it replaced. You spent more, waited longer, handpicked every piece—and now it’s stringing groups or ...

A loom fixer for an Amsterdam carpet mill set up shop as a gunsmith in 1948 and then made his living building custom rifles and repairing firearms until his death in 1960. Raymond Overbaugh, born in ...