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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 6, 20252 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 19, 20253 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 12, 20253 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,...
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Sep 5, 20253 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 31, 20254 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 22, 20254 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 30, 20253 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 23, 20253 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 2, 20253 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 22, 20253 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 2, 20252 min read
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