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The 1897 Winchester Trench Gun: An old broom knows all the corners

As we all know well, Americans have always embraced shotguns, so much so that we've brought these "point, click, destroy" weapons to just about every engagement we've fought in. And perhaps the gold standard of these combat shotguns was built in 1897 by Winchester.

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Short But Sweet: Life and times of the Springfield Krag-Jorgensen

Krags housed the military’s first smokeless powder repeating rifle round and will forever be known as one of the most collectible, easily recognized and sweetest shooting rifles to pass through Army hands. Yet this gun of foreign design, with the shortest service life of any U.S. military arm, barely gains mention in a sweeping history of American military firearms. What gives?

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