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Remington's WAL-MART collectible and simpler times Walmart founder Sam Walton’s golden mug is embossed on a 2001 Remington Model 1100 Special Field, Sam Walton Limited Edition 12 gauge, at the J Gray’s shop this week. Photo by Kelly Bostian/KJBOutdoors BY KELLY BOSTIAN It’s easy to forget Walmart’s former status as a dominant force in the national firearms sales market, and even easier to forget the country-boy status of its founder. A 2001 boxed collectible that arrived this

Watch for, and enjoy, these 1960s-90s collectibl es A box of Case Stockman pocket knives with jigged bone handles, only one unwrapped since they came out of the plant in 1979. Photo by Kelly Bostian/KJBOutdoors By KELLY BOSTIAN Doomscrolling all the nifty, spiffy new knife reveals on TikTok and YouTube Reels, with all the out-the-front, push-button, and open-assist mechanisms that provide those quick-flip video-ready visuals, still can’t match the thrill of opening the treasu

Remembering Browning’s venerable A5 There's that hump we all know so well. This A5 humpback is on a nicely kept Light Twelve. Shane Bevel...

How Ruger brought the Old West into the 20th Century A pair of Ruger Colt Old Army revolvers, each a 1970s model, at J Gray’s Estate...

These reliable, powerful backups remain at the ready A representation of Colt snub-nosed revolvers at J Gray’s Estate Firearm Services,...

1860s and 1920s models packed ingenious engineering into small packages Two O.F. Mossberg & Sons Brownies of the 1920s, along with a...

Wikipedia mislabels it, but Marlin’s 39A set a hard-to-beat standard for more than a century An American Classic, this first-year...

Colt’s .38s ruled the mid-20th-century police market An American Classic, the Colt Army .38 Special of 1910, which would evolve into the...

Iconic Dan Wesson revolvers remain a prized possession Classic outlines and a deeply polished blue are characteristic of the Dan Wesson...

BY KELLY BOSTIAN While the U.S. rolled into the Roaring ‘20s and partiers thumbed their nose at Prohibition after The War to End All...

BY KELLY BOSTIAN This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of conflicts that changed the world, so it seems fitting that a pair of...

" In this country we are fortunate that we have available to us the finest double action weapons made in the world: The .357 Combat...

In 1959 everything space-aged and new was keen in the USA. “Plan 9 from Outer Space” and “First Man Into Space” hit theaters, “The...

On a chilly evening, it would have been sometime around 1905, the woman and her daughter appeared easy marks for the unsavory “gypsies”...

Imagine pedaling your Velocipede on the streets of late 1800s Paris and along comes a pack of local street-wise pooches, bent on chasing...

The word “unique” is overused when it comes to rare items, but not this time. Right now, our shop has a unique firearm that fits the true...

One hundred years ago, Winchester introduced a 9mm rimfire shotgun, often called a “garden gun,” for close-range pest control in the...

Check out these knife collections just posted to E-Bay. You’ll find vendor display cases for sale, but nothing exactly like these! These...

We have three Lugers listed for sale, two more than a century old, all in excellent condition with bright, shiny bores.

In-the-box Colt, Walther and Manurhin beauties. January brought us these three pristine handguns, all with storied histories and a feeling i