Here's a Throwback Thursday for you: The National Parks Service announced yesterday that a team of archaeologists conducting surveys in Nevada's Great Basin National Park last November discovered a 132-year-old Winchester rifle.
Winchester's Model 24 double-barrel shotgun was introduced in 1939, just prior to the U.S. entering World War II, when most minds were not on sporting guns. Only about 116,000 of them were manufactured before it was discontinued from the Winchester catalog in the late 1950s.
Quick thinking and good instincts helped an 11-year-old boy save himself and his family from a charging brown bear on June 18, according to a report from the Juneau Empire.
A Washington state family had a close call last Thursday Nov. 30, when their three-year-old daughter was attacked by a coyote on the front porch of their home.
America’s oldest active hunter, 104-year-old Virginia resident Clyde Roberts took his third deer of the season on Dec. 5—a feat only 6 percent of the state’s hunters accomplish.