The Jeff Cooper’s Birthday Sale at Elk Creek Company begins today (May 10th, 2021), and ends on May 21st. This is the time to round out your collection of pre-1899 Federally-exempt guns! I’ve reduced the prices on more than half of my pre-1899 gun inventory, and all of my replica percussion-fired revolvers.
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May 10th is the birthday of the late Col. Jeff Cooper (born 1920, died September 25, 2006).
On May 10, 1972. Top Gun Graduate Randall “Duke” Cunningham and his backseater Wally “Irish” Driscoll shot down three MiGs in a dogfight and became the first Ace of the Vietnam War. He later commanded the Top Gun school when they came to make the first Tom Cruise movie. His Vice Commander? John McCain.
May 10th is also the birthday of the late Janis Pinups (born 1925, died 15 June 2007). He was one of the last of the Forest Brothers anti-communist resistance fighters. He came out of hiding, after five decades, to obtain a Latvian passport in 1994, after the collapse of eastern European communism. (He was never issued any communist government identity papers and by necessity lived as a nonexistent ghost during the entire Soviet occupation of Latvia.) The history of the Forest Brothers movement certainly deserves more recognition.
And May 10th is the 152nd anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
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Today we present a review written by our Field Gear Editor, Pat Cascio.