Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

Throwback: The Gun Rack at the Navajo Lodge, 1940

by Chris Eger

Eighty years ago, a photographer captured a New Mexico lodge in time, and many of the guns on hand were classics both then and now.

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by David LaPell

There is a trend these past few decades of new rifles without any vestige of an open sight, making the only choice to mount an optic.

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by Chris Eger

Hickok45 breaks out a beautiful Pedersoli rolling-block Remington clone in .45-70 Government and lets the steel ring.

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