Sarah Lockwood Pardee was born in 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut. At the age of 23, she married William Wirt Winchester, the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, a once prominent American ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m exploring the world, one bite at a time. Staircases to nowhere. Doors that open into nothing. Rooms with no exit. Sarah ...

Katherine is a Horror Features author for Collider, but loves movies in (almost) all shapes and genres. She went to school in Virginia for English and Film Studies before heading out to Las Vegas. She ...

In his latest work, Simon Winchester devotes his anecdotal powers to why, how and how often we know what we do. By Peter Sagal KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom ...

A new shoot is an exciting yet daunting experience; home advantage seems lost and although the pheasants are still pheasants, it feels like a completely different game. Late this season I found myself ...

The Winchester rifle was hailed by its manufacturer as “the gun that won the West.” But there’s a lot more to the story than that. The rifle that became the Winchester had a long, tortuous development ...

Back in June, Luke Combs posted a photo to Instagram of himself wearing a T-shirt for the band 49 Winchester. It was a mark of validation for the Castlewood, Virginia, group, a sign that their brand ...

I admit that I have always had a fascination with repeating shotguns. The semi-automatic is the most practical and versatile shotgun design available. It has been the shotgun of choice for the ...

Editor’s note: As hunters and anglers, we don’t agree on everything. We’ve even been known to argue on occasion. That’s why this week is all about figuring out who’s right and who’s just plain wrong.

Duck hunting is an expensive pursuit. Just finding a place to hunt can be costly if you don’t have access to good hunting on public land. You also need all kinds of gear—a truck, boat, trailer, decoys ...

The story is so famous most locals can recite it by heart: An eccentric widow, heir to an American rifle fortune, is tortured by the horrors wrought by the weapon. She becomes convinced only building ...

In a perfect world, I’d start this post by writing, “In my experience with the 17 Model 94s and 11 model 336s I’ve owned….” But ours is not a perfect world. In 60-plus years of owning and shooting ...