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The article offers information regarding firearms in the U.S. It lists several rifles including Savage Model 111 FNS.30/06. Nosler Model 48 Trophy Grade .300 and Model 48 Custom Sporter. It highlights the gun nut code which declares that a gun nut measures one's past life through the hunting season one has been, a gun nut misses the departed dog than the departed loved ones and that children are safer with guns. INSETS: THREE MEAN GUN WRITERS;THE SINGLE BEST GUN GAME EVER;THE SINGLE WORST GUN GAME EVER;THREE FAMOUS FEMALE SHOTS

This article focuses on the the Kentucky Rifle of the United States. It was first made as the jaeger rifle, but it evolved into the graceful Kentucky, and its accuracy helped shape the country's destiny. It was perfected in Pennsylvania. The Kentucky rifle was not the original product of American genius. Its direct ancestor was the European hunting rifle called jaeger rifle, the first firearm that could be aimed at a distant target and hit it. The jaeger was created by Central European gunsmiths. Its features were a flintlock with a heavy, octagonal, rifled barrel of .60 to .75 caliber; a set double trigger; and a walnut wood stock equipped with a distinctive trap in the side that was covered by a sliding plate. Its design was crude, an open rear V and a front blade, but it could shoot accurately.

Reports the affordability of short, fat cartridges (SFC) in the United States. Length of SFC; Advantages of SFC; Offer of ammunition maker John Lazzeroni with a Savage-made rifle; Estimate cost of the Winchester and Browning model.

The article features the evolution of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Model 70 rifle in the U.S. It states that in 1936, the company, Winchester Repeating Arms, had manufactured the Model 70 that was nearly a masterpiece. Although the rifle boasted the best trigger, reliability and accuracy, it was a complex gun to make. It cites that at the end of the World War II, the production and quality of the rifle declined, which prompted Winchester to manufacture an improved Model 70 in 1964.

The author reflects on the use of black rifles such as ARs and AKs in hunting in the U.S. He comments on the criticism by outdoor author Jim Zumbo of black rifles as terrorist weapon. He sees the criticism by Zumbo of using black rifles in hunting as a blunder that would only work in the favor of gun-control lobby. He also reflects on a gun bill which is tabled on the floor of the U.S. House for amendment.

Kimber has traveled a rocky road. The original business was called Kimber of Oregon, which operated from 1980 to 1991. It produced beautiful but flawed rifles that were plagued by malfunctions and lack of accuracy. In 1997, a new company called Kimber Manufacturing Inc. was started in Yonkers, New York, by entirely different management, and there is nothing flawed about what they're building. The new Kimber is based out of what has been described as the most modern firearms plant in the world, and benefits from the talents of a gifted Israeli gun designer named Nehemia Sirkis. Kimber chose to first produce Government Model 1911, style .45 automatic pistols, and those have been a raging success. INSET: What Is Kevlar?.

This article focuses on the death of rifle maker Don Allen in South Dakota on May 17, 2003 after a struggle with cancer. Allen was a military and commercial pilot and a dealer in fine stock wood but he will be remembered as founder of Dakota Arms in Sturgis, South Dakota in 1986.