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Sweetest humpback of all time
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...
kb5947
Sep 193 min read


Cap-and-ball standard resurrected
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...
kb5947
Sep 123 min read


Legacy of the little Colts that could
These reliable, powerful backups remain at the ready A representation of Colt snub-nosed revolvers at J Gray’s Estate Firearm Services,...
kb5947
Sep 53 min read


Early pepperboxes worked with a spin
1860s and 1920s models packed ingenious engineering into small packages Two O.F. Mossberg & Sons Brownies of the 1920s, along with a...
kb5947
Aug 314 min read


Marlin 39A’s legend is secure
Wikipedia mislabels it, but Marlin’s 39A set a hard-to-beat standard for more than a century An American Classic, this first-year...
kb5947
Aug 224 min read


Meet the Colt Army Special that became a law-enforcement standard
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...
kb5947
Jul 303 min read


Sexy beasts of the 1970s-'80s
Iconic Dan Wesson revolvers remain a prized possession Classic outlines and a deeply polished blue are characteristic of the Dan Wesson...
kb5947
Jul 233 min read


Pocket guns ruled in post-WWI Europe
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...
John Gray
Jun 23 min read


WWII Commemoratives, Right On Time
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...
makenna1014
Apr 223 min read


Bill Jordan and The S&W Evolution
" In this country we are fortunate that we have available to us the finest double action weapons made in the world: The .357 Combat...
John Gray
Apr 22 min read


Space-Age Model 66 Changed The Way We See Long Guns
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...
John Gray
Mar 242 min read


Forehand 1901
On a chilly evening, it would have been sometime around 1905, the woman and her daughter appeared easy marks for the unsavory “gypsies”...
John Gray
Mar 182 min read


The Pooch Punching Velo Dog
Imagine pedaling your Velocipede on the streets of late 1800s Paris and along comes a pack of local street-wise pooches, bent on chasing...
John Gray
Mar 122 min read


German Drilling Is One Of A Kind
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...
John Gray
Mar 83 min read


‘Garden Gun’ of a By-Gone Era
One hundred years ago, Winchester introduced a 9mm rimfire shotgun, often called a “garden gun,” for close-range pest control in the...
John Gray
Feb 142 min read


Knife-Collector’s XMas Wish
Check out these knife collections just posted to E-Bay. You’ll find vendor display cases for sale, but nothing exactly like these! These...
John Gray
Feb 62 min read


Classics! Pre-WW II Lugers
We have three Lugers listed for sale, two more than a century old, all in excellent condition with bright, shiny bores.
John Gray
Feb 62 min read


A Trio Of Pristine Handguns
In-the-box Colt, Walther and Manurhin beauties.
January brought us these three pristine handguns, all with storied histories and a feeling i
John Gray
Feb 62 min read


Sweetest humpback of all time
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...
kb5947
Sep 193 min read


Cap-and-ball standard resurrected
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...
kb5947
Sep 123 min read


Legacy of the little Colts that could
These reliable, powerful backups remain at the ready A representation of Colt snub-nosed revolvers at J Gray’s Estate Firearm Services,...
kb5947
Sep 53 min read


Early pepperboxes worked with a spin
1860s and 1920s models packed ingenious engineering into small packages Two O.F. Mossberg & Sons Brownies of the 1920s, along with a...
kb5947
Aug 314 min read


Marlin 39A’s legend is secure
Wikipedia mislabels it, but Marlin’s 39A set a hard-to-beat standard for more than a century An American Classic, this first-year...
kb5947
Aug 224 min read


Meet the Colt Army Special that became a law-enforcement standard
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...
kb5947
Jul 303 min read


Sexy beasts of the 1970s-'80s
Iconic Dan Wesson revolvers remain a prized possession Classic outlines and a deeply polished blue are characteristic of the Dan Wesson...
kb5947
Jul 233 min read


Pocket guns ruled in post-WWI Europe
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...
John Gray
Jun 23 min read


WWII Commemoratives, Right On Time
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...
makenna1014
Apr 223 min read


Bill Jordan and The S&W Evolution
" In this country we are fortunate that we have available to us the finest double action weapons made in the world: The .357 Combat...
John Gray
Apr 22 min read
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