Author: Rick Hacker

Mr. Rick Hacker began writing for Guns & Ammo in 1976 (personally recruited by the late Robert “Pete” Petersen); in 1979 began writing for American Rifleman, and wrote for Gun Digest during the tenure of Ken Warner. Today, several decades later, he still writes for those magazines and is Field Editor for American Rifleman, Shooting Illustrated, Handguns, and Rifle Shooter magazines. He also co-authors the “I Have This Old Gun” column for American Rifleman, and writes the monthly “The Classics” column for Shooting Illustrated and the bi-monthly “Rifles West” column for Rifle Shooter magazine. In addition, his feature articles for the various gun magazines listed above cover all facets of historical and practical firearms products and techniques, with an emphasis on 19th and early 20th century firearms.