Gordy & Sons: A Museum-Like Store Filled With Superb Firearms
The idea for what is by far the most gorgeous sporting goods store I’ve ever visited began in the pages of the Sears catalog. It was while dreaming of all the firearms and fishing gear that he couldn’t afford in that annual publication that Gordy & Sons founder...
Robert K. Brown Firearms Now At Auction
Robert K. Brown, USAR (Ret.) has lived a life of incredible adventure. He served in Vietnam as a Green Beret, trained troops and fought communists alongside them in hotspots around the globe and has defended the Second Amendment via his long-held seat on the NRA Board...
Voodoo Sheriff’s Colt
We had a voodoo sheriff when I was coming up. He and Pappy were best friends. Ed McTeer turned to the black arts to extract confessions and make himself bullet-proof. It served him well one night when a desperado cut loose in some dim-lit island juke joint, five shots...
The Gun Collection
"It was over there, in old furniture stores, junk yards and other out of the way places—where they knew nothing about old guns, and cared less, just so they could sell them at most any price—that some of the real prizes turned up, such as the Sharps coffee mill...
Serial Numbers 1 and 2 Winchester Pre-’64 Model 70 Rifles Offered By Sportsman’s Legacy
Absent anything short of absolute certainty, each of these rifles stands among the world’s most important and valuable sporting arms. That they are paired presents an unequaled acquisition opportunity. Both rifles have a captivating history. According to Roger...
Morphy Blockbuster $10M Firearms Auction
Intense bidding drove many rare, historically important guns to prices well beyond pre-sale expectations on October 23rd where Morphy Auctions sold the widely acclaimed gun that fired the first shot at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill for $492,000. The company’s...
Rigby Completes First .577 Rising Bite For More Than A Century
London gunmaker John Rigby & Co. has completed its first rising bite in .577 Nitro Express for more than 100 years. The double rifle was made for a valued client, who wished it to be a tribute to Satao, the famous Tsavo tusker. It includes an exquisite floorplate...
Decorative Arms To The Heart Of A Lion At Nevada Museum
This autumn, one of the most celebrated decorative arms collections will leave the vault for a rare public exhibition. “Decorative Arms: Treasures from the Robert M. Lee Collection” features more than 130 firearms dating from as early as 1590 through the modern era....
Zane Grey & the Model 1895 Winchester
What Zane Grey termed as the “Tonto Rim” in Arizona is officially the Mogollon Rim, named for Juan Ignacio Flores de Mogollon (pronounced ‘muggy-own’) who was capitan-general of Spanish-held New Mexico back in the early 1700s. The Rim, which is now home to a...
Incredible Double Rifles
This year, the Guns & Hunting issue of Sporting Classics magazine will include information about an incredible collection of double rifles that hit the market earlier this year. The collection of almost 100 guns is remarkable because they are all British,...