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0003-083X. American Rifleman is a United States-based monthly shooting and firearms interest publication, owned by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA). It is the 33rd-most-widely-distributed consumer magazine and the NRA's primary magazine. [2] The magazine has its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.
An American rifleman who was an officer of Forsyth's command came under a flag of truce to British lines to conduct diplomacy. The British commander J. Ritter of the British sixth light infantry presented a roll of carpet to the American officer as a gift to an American official whose carpeting was destroyed in his home by a previous British raid.
Rifleman. Green jacketed British Army rifleman aiming a Baker rifle, c. 1803. A rifleman is an infantry soldier armed with a rifled long gun. Although the rifleman role had its origin with 16th century hand cannoneers and 17th century musketeers, the term originated in the 18th century with the introduction of the rifled musket.
The Rifleman is an American Western television series that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain.The series was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory and was filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time.
The Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment, most commonly known as Rawlings' Regiment in period documents, was organized in June 1776 as a specialized light infantry unit of riflemen in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The American rifle units complemented the predominant, musket -equipped, line infantry forces of the ...
Ned H. Roberts. Major Ned H. Roberts (1866 Goffstown, N.H. -- 1948), was an American hunter, competition target shooter, gun writer & editor, ballistician and firearms experimenter. Roberts was a prolific contributor to sporting publications, including Outdoor Life, Outers, Arms and the Man (later renamed as American Rifleman, [1] and to ...
According to articles from American Rifleman Magazine and the U.S. Navy's Firing Regulations for Small Arms from the early 1900s, the U.S. Navy use to award a Navy Expert Team Rifleman Badge to U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel who qualified as expert rifleman numerous times and excelled in official rifle marksmanship competitions. The ...
Townsend Whelen (March 6, 1877 – December 23, 1961), called "Townie" by his friends, [1] was an American hunter, soldier, writer, outdoorsman and rifleman.. Whelen was a colonel in the United States Army, [2] and a prolific writer on guns and hunting, writing over two thousand magazine articles in his career.