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...