enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Winchester rifle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_rifle

    Theodore Roosevelt used a Model 1895 in .405 on African safaris and called it his "medicine gun" for lions. [39] In 1908, the 1895 Winchester became the first commercially produced sporting rifle chambered in .30-06 (then called ".30 Gov't 06").

  3. Forgotten Winchester - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Winchester

    The gun was manufactured in 1882, but nothing is known of its abandonment. The bottom of its stock was buried in 4–5 inches (10–13 cm) of accumulated soil and vegetation, and a round of ammunition stored in its buttstock dated between 1887 and 1911, indicating that it had been resting there for many years. A post about the rifle on the park ...

  4. The Gun That Won the West - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gun_That_Won_the_West

    Colonel Carrington (Roy Gordon) and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sioux Indian territory of Wyoming during the 1880s. The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building.

  5. Category:Guns of the American West - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Guns_of_the...

    Pages in category "Guns of the American West" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.

  6. American frontier - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier

    The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...

  7. List of most-produced firearms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-produced_firearms

    Submachine gun France: 700,000 Colt Woodsman: Semi-automatic pistol United States: 690,000+ [154] Lorenz rifle: Rifle-musket Austrian Empire: 688,000 Werndl–Holub rifle: Single-shot rifle Austria-Hungary: 686,000 Model 1816 Musket: Musket United States: 675,000 [155] M3 submachine gun: Submachine gun 655,363 [156] SA80: Assault rifle United ...

  8. Hawken rifle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawken_rifle

    The Hawken rifle is a muzzle-loading rifle that was widely used on the prairies and in the Rocky Mountains of the United States during the early frontier days. Developed in the 1820s, it became synonymous with the "plains rifle", the buffalo gun, and a trade rifle for fur trappers, traders, clerks, and hunters.

  9. Daniel Leavitt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Leavitt

    Daniel Leavitt (November 16, 1813 – July 27, 1859) [a] was an early American inventor who, with his partner Edwin Wesson, patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, [2] and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols. [3]