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The .243 Winchester (6×52mm) is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Developed as a versatile short action cartridge to hunt both medium game and small game alike, it "took whitetail hunting by storm" [2] when introduced in 1955, and remains one of the most popular whitetail deer cartridges.
Henry Lucas was born the youngest of nine children on August 23, 1936, in a one-room log cabin in Blacksburg, Virginia to parents Nellie Viola Lucas (1888–1960) and Anderson Lucas (1901–1951), a double amputee. [3] Lucas's father earned the nickname "No Legs" after losing both of his legs in a freight train accident. "My daddy didn't do ...
Henry Repeating Arms employs over 800 people and operates three manufacturing facilities totaling more than 350,000 square feet. [2] The company headquarters is located in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and the other factories are in Bayonne, New Jersey, and Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
In 1944, Henry S. Golas of Central Falls was 1st sergeant of 2nd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion. A few days before D-Day, Golas got a good news/bad news message.He had been promoted to ...
The unrelated Henry Repeating Arms produces a modernized replica of the Henry Model 1860 rifle with brass receiver and American walnut stock, but a modern steel barrel and internal components. [14] Uberti produces an almost exact copy Henry Model 1860 chambered in .44-40 Winchester or .45 Colt, rather than the original .44 Henry rimfire.
Long married firstly, Jane (or Frydeswyde), daughter of Sir John Hungerford and Margaret Blount. He married secondly, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Richard Wrottesley and Dorothy Sutton. He had several children with both his wives, including Sir Robert Long. Sir Henry Long died 8 October 1556 and is buried at Draycot in Wiltshire. His second wife ...
Tom Hanks, Henry Winkler VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images;Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Have Tom Hanks and Henry Winkler really been locked in a decades-long feud? Rumors about bad blood between the ...
Proteus arrived without problems at Lady Franklin Bay by August 11, dropped off men and provisions, and left. [5] In the following months, Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood and Sergeant David Legge Brainard achieved a new Farthest North record at 83°24′N 40°46′W / 83.400°N 40.767°W / 83.400; -40.767 , off the north coast of ...