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Daily Blog: 12/6/20 (Melvin Forbes)

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December 6, 2020
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Today I’m working on an article for Gun Digest about my friend Melvin Forbes from New Ultra Light Arms. I’ve written a similar story multiple times and I can never seem to capture the magnificence of it all. Of course,…

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HUNTING SHOOTING

The Magic Rifle

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November 10, 2017
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A few years back Melvin Forbes – the man behind New Ultra Light Arms – spent an evening at my deer camp talking about his rifle. I was smart enough – sometimes I have moments of greatness – to get…

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HUNTING Uncategorized

Guess and Win !

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October 29, 2017
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Here are my four New Ultra Light Arms rifles. I sold my fifth – a 35 Whelen – to my best friend in Alaska because he needed it more than me. The point of this post/photo is not to brag,…

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EDITORIAL HUNTING SHOOTING Uncategorized

Rifle School and the Professor

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July 14, 2017
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Rifle school. I’m not talking about a rifle school where you learn to shoot; I’m talking about a school where you learn how a rifle works. I’m not sure a school like this actually exists but because I have a…

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EDITORIAL HUNTING SHOOTING

I Have This Rifle

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February 27, 2017
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There are five rifles from New Ultra Light Arms (NULA) that live in my house. I could not bring myself to part with any of them. My NULA 22 LR is a single shot. It has potted a lot of squirrels…

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HUNTING SHOOTING

Varmint Blackout

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June 29, 2016
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I’ve been working on a neat project for the .300 Blackout. Varmint loads. This gave me an opportunity to put my new Hornady Iron Press to work too. Using a New Ultra Light Arms Model 20 Short, topped off with Leupold’s…

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DEFENSE HUNTING SHOOTING

Rifle Triggers and Rifle Safeties

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June 6, 2016
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  “The most important characteristic of any rifle is its trigger action. It is better to have an inaccurate rifle with a good trigger than the other way around.” The Art of the Rifle Jeff Cooper In the early 1980s…

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EDITORIAL HUNTING Uncategorized

The Lion Scout’s Half Brother

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May 17, 2016
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While researching Cooper’s various scout rifles it come to my attention that Super Scout IV was assembled by Melvin Forbes of New Ultra Light Arms. This rifle would come to be known as “Lion Scout” and was – as best…

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DEFENSE EDITORIAL HUNTING SHOOTING Uncategorized

Scout Rifle Shangri-La – Happy Birthday Jeff Cooper

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May 10, 2016
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It is only fitting this post happen today. You see, today is Jeff Cooper’s birthday. In the late 60s Cooper began experimenting with lightweight bolt-action carbines. Greatly influenced by the life and writings of Frederick Russell Burnham, Cooper envisioned this…

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HUNTING SHOOTING

Sig Red Dots and Viking Solutions

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March 31, 2016
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Yesterday I mounted a SIG Romeo 4 red dot sight to my New Ultra Light Arms rifle in .308 Winchester. This is an amazingly compact and versatile sight. It weighs about three ounces. It has two reticles. It can also…

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About Empty Cases

Empty Cases is the on-line portal to the works of Richard Mann.

Born and raised in West Virginia, Richard has hunted from the Montana mountains to the green hills of Africa. He has a military, law enforcement, firearms instructing, and competitive shooting background, and is the author of Rifle Bullets for the Hunter, Handgun Training for Personal Protection, Shooter’s Guide to the AR, 13th Edition of Cartridges of the World, Under Orion, and The Scout Rifle Study.

Richard is a Field Editor for Field & Stream magazine, and currently contributes to a variety of other gun and hunting periodicals. In 2019 Richard worked as the Executive Producer and host of the Amazon Prime reality hunting drama, WILDCraft: South Africa.

A hillbilly at heart, Richard lives on Shadowland – his shooting range in West Virginia – with the most understanding wife in the world, their three kids, and a very protective Rhodesian Ridgeback.

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