I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

I’m not sure at what age I first acquired a BB-gun, but I used it to learn how to shoot iron sights at a young age. I went through BB’s by the carton, and this practice as a child certainly helped my ...