This column, “Rebirth of the .45/70,” appeared in the September 1972 issue of Outdoor Life. The life span of rifle cartridges is hard to predict because shooters have the fickle habit of tossing them ...

Two of the most popular lever-action cartridges are the .44 Remington Magnum and .45/70 Gov’t. Despite their size difference, they have much in common. Both are proven hunting rounds and there are a ...

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Hundreds of pages of information, speculation, and myth have appeared on Winchester’s premium bolt-action centerfires. By access to factory records this three-part series attempts to tell just when ...

Firearms bearing the Winchester label have been part of American culture since 1866. It was then that Oliver Winchester bought control of the New Haven Arms company and changed its name to the ...

Most hunters today are focused on what might be called fast-twist centerfire rifle cartridges—essentially new takes on older cartridges, designed with high ballistic coefficient bullets in mind. This ...

The staying power of lever-action rifles and the .45-70 Gov’t cartridge is nothing short of remarkable given all that’s transpired since they were introduced. Once again, Marlin has combined these two ...

“A .45-70 lever gun with a suppressor? Now we’re talking.” That’s the sort of reaction Smith & Wesson seems to be courting with its latest addition to the Model 1854 lineup the Stealth Hunter variant ...

The life span of rifle cartridges is hard to predict because shooters have the fickle habit of tossing them asunder at one stage and then voting for a resurrection decades or even generations later.