Pappy’s Pistols
Black magic, junk pistols and lessons learned thereby. Pappy was county coroner 36 years; an elected position. It didn’t pay much, but he got to keep all the murder and suicide guns, and he was the only man who could arrest the sheriff, which he did when the new...
Harry Selby’s Spectacular Weatherby Rifle Becomes Available
A popular old saw suggests that a lady known as Good Fortune has the power to change someone's life with but a well-directed smile. Taking that for true, she didn't just show some teeth to a young Kenyan formally monikered John Henry Selby. Nope. She instead...
Left-Hand Conversions
Although it makes me appear a bit long-in-the-tooth, I’ve been actively participating in the firearms market for nearly 40 years. In point of fact, I clearly remember attending my first gun show in March 1982 and being captivated by the process. I jumped right in,...
George Hoenig’s Rotary Round Action Rifle
The clean lines and simplicity of all functions in George Hoenig's Rotary Round Action gun camouflage the creativity and elaborate engineering involved in its creation. Many premier side-by-side shotguns are sold as round actions, but rounded is the more accurate...
Extraordinary Makinson & Son .600 Nitro Express Available
Extraordinary Makinson & Son .600 Nitro Express, 1,100 hours of engraving by Adone Pozzobon, serial 600, 900-grain, one of the finest double rifles extant. As is sometimes the case with unique and valuable firearms, a degree of speculation and unintended...
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...