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On June 1, 1923 Griffin & Howe opened its doors and built rifles out of a New York City loft. [2] The partnership was short-lived, for Howe left the firm in September of that year to work for Hoffman Arms Company of Cleveland, Ohio; but Howe's name remained on the hundreds of M1903 Springfield and Gewehr 98 rifle actions converted through the ...
Griffin & Howe, the great New York custom gun-making firm, soon followed suit, making custom rifles chambered in their own slightly-modified version of the wildcat cartridge. The .25 Griffin & Howe differed from the .25 Roberts only with respect to the New York company, skipping one step and opting for a slightly longer cartridge by leaving the ...
The 35 Whelen was designed by James Howe, of Griffin and Howe, partially in response to letters from Leslie Simpson and Stewart Edward White, suggesting that a good all-round rifle for African use would be one of 333 to 350 caliber, with a bullet of 250- to 300 grains (ideally 275 at 2500 fps.
He also praised the Springfield 1903 and Mauser 98 actions, and had rifles customized by other renowned gunsmith of the time such as Alvin Linden, who restocked his first model 70 rifle, W.A. Sukalle, and Griffin & Howe. His last rifle was a Ruger M77 customized by Al Biesen, chambered in the .280 Remington cartridge to the following ...
Elmer Merrifield Keith (March 8, 1899 – February 14, 1984) [2] was an American rancher, firearms enthusiast, and author. Keith was instrumental in the development of the first magnum revolver cartridge, the .357 Magnum (1935), as well as the later .44 Magnum (1956) and .41 Magnum (1964) cartridges, credited by Roy G. Jinks as "the father of big bore handgunning."
Griffin & Howe chambered custom-built rifles for this cartridge; and using neck resizing with cases carefully fire formed to the chamber in which the loaded cartridges were to be used, these rifles were reportedly very effective for killing elk, moose, and bear at ranges up to 400 yards (370 m).
Townsend Whelen (March 6, 1877 – December 23, 1961), called "Townie" by his friends, [1] was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman.. Whelen was a colonel in the United States Army, [2] and a prolific writer on guns and hunting, writing over two thousand magazine articles in his career.
The 5.6×61mm SE, an abbreviated form of its full designation, the 5.6×61mm [Vom Hofe] Super Express, is a rifle cartridge introduced in Germany in 1937. [1] It is based on the 6.5×55mm Swedish cartridge.