Guns as Investments
How many investments can you name that virtually guarantee a sizable return on your money and also offer the added bonus of pride of ownership?
The World’s Most Comprehensive Collection of American Firearms
With 7,000 firearms and 30,000 related artifacts on display, the Cody Firearms Museum has the world’s most comprehensive collection of American firearms. Roughhewn men walked the streets with guns. Aggressive kids plinked at cans in backyards and sharp-eyed...
Rigby Releases Limited Edition Big Game Series Commemorating Tsavo Man-Eaters
London gunmaker John Rigby & Co. has announced a new series of limited edition rifles, called the “Tsavo,” modeled on the firm’s phenomenally successful bolt-action Big Game. Following hot on the heels of the exceptionally popular “Mopani” special edition series –...
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....
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...
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...